limeyangler

Hey Phil, The fishfinder is the Lowrance X67C. An awesome little bit o gear....i use it on my boat in the summer too. You can buy it as an Ice fishing pack...but i just bought a battery and "iceducer seperately and save over $100. I just took the mounting bracket off the boat.....attached it to a short pice of wood siding i had lying about...and put it in an old soft sided cooler. It has a LCD flasher mode too if flashers are your prefered fishfinder...and despite what some peple say the screen does not freeze in minus temps......it was outside the hut today as temps started dropping below -25 C. Heres a clip of it in graph mode i made a few weeks back...great fun. <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/MVI_2316.flv"> AND I SHOULD BE GETTING PAID BY LOWRANCE AND OTTER TEAM WILD!!!!!

I need a job like that......i think i have the right qualifications....lol. Nice fish!

I took it out today for the first time, WOW....what a difference. It was -25 celcius when we arrived....although nice and sunny. But the difference between outside and inside was like two different universes, really noticed the difference...and we didn't even have a heater!!! And being mostly black it really soaked up the sun too. This is not a sled for towing by hand though...holy crappolla is it heavy!!! My snowmachine is in for a service so me and my buddy pulled it out by hand...ok going DOWN to the lake....but coming UP was a real chore....i'm a little worried now as to whether even my snowmachine will manange...time will tell. What i really loved was how easy it was to deploy and take down....litteraly 30seconds, just whip the elasticated cover off, all your gear is easy to get to and it just pulls up and clicks into place as you go.....so Run 'N'Gun style fishing will be a breeze!!! NO PROBLEM GETTING DOWN TO THE LAKE....BUT ITS A HEAVY BEAST...DEFINITELY A SNOWMOBILE OR ATV NEEDED. THE BLACK MATERIAL REALLY SOAKED UP THE SUN'S HEAT, LOL ...AND DAVE IS ALSO 6'4" AND 250lbs....SO MAKES IT LOOK SMALL!!! PLENTY OF ROOM INSIDE, AND WINDOWS ALL ROUND It kinda sucked that we only caught small perch today.....but that lake is normally pretty good

thats a freekin' crocodile!!!! nice fish

Excellent Rickster! looking forward to our earlier trip just after Xmas, i'll be working on xmas day and Boxing day, so we might wanna sort out the details before then. Cheers mate Simon.

Welcome to the board...your right...it relly is a great place to hang out! Look forward to your reports. Limey

Welcome to the board. Lots of pics please.

Had to be worth a try Irish...lol...that would have clinched it for us...lol CONGRATS TO TEAM EXTREME!!!!

Hey Dale, Your thinking exactly the same thing i was just 10 minutes ago...your way ahead of me! a weekend would be great hey...like you said more species could be covered. I was thinking of letting this recruitment/sign up thread run until start of next week, then go with how many we have then , see where the majority are located/ do a vote for species preferred/ something like that to determine how this meet up will take place etc. Of course anyone can still sign up to come along after next week, but i think by then most of the NWO Members would be signed up...there's not that many of us it seems:unsure: sound good? please wade in with all suggestions as we go though, i'm gonna need help workin this all out. Cheers Simon.

Aaaaah...gotcha too HD, was kinda wonderin' about a trip all the way for a days fishing, but yeah...an opener up here would be fun, Joey jokingly suggested it, could be one for the future me thinks.....we are on 9 acres here by the lake...so plenty of room for campers/tents!!!! Hold that thought HD!!!

Wow! Awesome Highdrifter. Would be great to ge ya ya up here. The whole thing is early days yet.....watch this space and i'll update regularly...would like to go before february though, might be a March long weekend though to accomodate those who arent local though...who knows...we'll get a few more in numbers nd go from there. Hey Dale, did i PM you...sorry if i didn't, you were definitely on the list , couldn't imagine you'd pass this up, great to have ya onboard!

Hey all, Thanks for the replies so far. The intention of this is not to be as big as lakair...or even like it actually, really wanted to meet and put faces to NWO members.....SO COME ON WHERE ARE YA!

hey TennesseeGuy, that would be cool, i'll put our order in now!

LOL....sounds like a great day out! Never a bad idea to go fishing in my book....lol...until like you you get there and the elements suggest otherwise. I went to go shore fishing last november....only to find the shore locked up with thin ice upto 30 yards out, tried casting but didn't like the line lying across the ice...hard to tell if ya had a bite...lol...so in the end my wife and i were throwing rocks out to make holes and trying to aim the cast down the holes...this lasted for 1/2 hour before we called it quits! gotta give ya 10/10 for trying:thumbsup_anim:

what a blast! On light tackle that must've been fun did ya eat it?

Hey Sinker, its a good days drive if you try and do it in one haul...but i did that once....best to do it in 2 days. I'm heading out on saturday for whities, i'll post a report. Will be doing a lot more whitie fishing after january as most of the whitie lakes are trout lakes...trout not open till Jan1st....just avoids any hassles and harm to fish out of season...as you will always get trout while fishing whities.

LOL..i dont think Glen would come...he'd have to wear at least a T-Shirt....lol

Hi Y'all. I see all these great Lakair and other similar get togethers happening but they all seem to be way south of us up here. I would really like to arrange something like that for the NWO contingent of OFC, thats not to say all are not welcome I have been in contact with around 4 members already from the area....1 definitely up for it, waiting replies from others, but if your interested please reply to this post so we can start the list and work on the where, who, when...lol why.....of it all. There are some NWO members of an ice fishing forum i frequent already interested so we could have around 10 people already once yo include family, friends and pets...lol Look forward to lots of replies hopefully, but even a few would be fun. Thanks Simon

Top stuff!!!! whats a bit of rain huh? and a feed of perch too! Nice size perch too. Congrats thanks for the report. Simon

Hey Rob....thats fantastic! I have not had my sled/shelter out yet...lol...but the hamster wheel has been turning since the drive home from the shop....and before that even. I experienced the wholeminnow thing last year a couple of times with the basic fibreglass trappers sled i used....not very good start to the day to find 3 or 4 dozen prime sucker and dace minnows frozen solid to the bottom of your sled! But as the guy stated putting the bag in the bucket always helps....but i usually have a supply at home not bagged. I cant see where the guy keeps his auger now with all the get up. But i was already thinking about installing an auger mount on my snowmobile....then i can really run 'n' gun. I already thought about installing some metal hooks on the sides near the bottom of the sled for attaching tie downs/bungee cords to snug everything down inside. Thanks for the link....it all helps! Simon

Lol Joey...i wish it was porn....but i think it was Braveheart on that afternoon....does look like "lesbians in space" DVD though....lol. Hey Drifter...that is indeed a very fine snowmobile you have there....one day i will have a fine machine also...but my new second hand will have to do for now.

LOL...uh...its 25" high...so on its side its 25" wide....last time i looked my door was at least 30" wide...should be no probs. Its just so fricken big i'm more worried whether my snowmachine will pull the beast....darn it...knew i should've bought that Bearcat!!!!

a very enjoyable 4 minutes there Rambleon. Thanks for taking the time to put it together. I'm gonna have to do one of those now, but there's still 3 weeks of 2008 left...gonna wait till then.

My buddy just called from Kenora....Saturday for whities on Shoal Lake is GO!!!! Should be good...report will follow.

Wow...really nice fish! Great report. cant believe you guys are still in boats!!!!lol.