limeyangler

Great report! Good to hear you're feeling better and back at it , those are beauty marks coming up for a sniff! Frustrating but also fun.

I agree, I had those installed when i purchased my quad, considering I have no windshield they are essential! Fish fries rule!

i'm eating the left overs as I type, not bad cold with tobasco either....lol. hey did you ask me to do a quad modification video a while back? I have not forgotten, just aint got round to it.

You should have cooked a leg of lamb then....lol.

Hi all, Got out for a couple hours yesterday and got four nice walleye. Jack wanted to make a cooking video so we did one on how we make our fish fry, fun evening.

Cabelas and Bass pro are a rip off. Cabelas seems to think it is a fashion brand name and expects you to pay likewise but on everything not just their clothing. Bass pro also sucks. I you would expect a small local retailer to be more expensive than the big box stores, I don't find they are. With the purchasing power these big stores have there should be way better pricing. The Cabelas in Winnipeg is shocking. They are very expensive and have hardly any stock either on site or online, my last visit to Winnipeg I never even bothered going.

I think its just the depth, they tend to go to the deep holes on this lake when the fall comes.

Hi all, So far we’ve had very little now this winter, so getting around by truck on the lake is a bonus. Even better when you can drive off your front lawn and not even half a mile away get into some nice crappie. Rolodex gets to come too even though he takes off visiting neighbors!?.

Thanks Joey. That last trout you got was a bruiser!

Who is that guy!?

That MUSKY! You need to learn me your tricks. You need to visit and take me fishing Bunk, show me how its done in my own backyard!

Mine is gas, ZR2s have a similar hood to the diesel.

Would make an interesting video....lol.

Hi all, Got out on Saturday twice. I headed out at sunrise by myself to try for some crappie before the family was awake. Only stayedd for an hour and caught nothing except a breathtaking sunrise. Scooted back for breakfast and then chilled till after lunch when I headed out with my son Jack to meet some friends and have a shot at some walleye. Jack spent most of the couple of hours riding around on mum's Tundra (he says we should give her the old Bravo back...LOL) and chopping trees down with his machete. He did fish for a bit and landed a 25"er. He made sure everyone knew it was the biggest of the evening. Pike and whitefish were also around and we headed back just before dark. Perfect day with spring like temps of +5C.

I got my notification a week ago, my VIN# was affected.

Yeah, they did a good job, a nice upgrade from my 2006 Colorado. I get random people coming up to me commenting on it being a nice truck. It was not cheap though, spent waaaaaaay over budget, but hey, we are here for a very short time in the grand scheme of things. WOW, 'id miss my winter adventures. saying that I'm done with winter by the end of February and there is still at least 2 months to go by then?

Hi all, Loving my new truck. Was bored yesterday evening and decided to go 'off road' on the lake.....what a blast! Will have to do a video of this, was a spur of the moment kinda thing so did not have my cameras, but got a snap with my phone as the sun set.

Hi all, The weather is crazy here, seems to be the norm nowadays. Friday was +1℃ and today is meant to be going up to +5℃, its usually around -15℃ daytime and approaching 'minus completely ridiculous℃' at night. So, with school finished and both of us gravitating towards the couch and our phones/ipads, I suggested we take advantage of the warm weather and head out on the skidoos. Jack didn't need any persuading and he got dressed for a ride while I went to fire up his Yammy Bravo which had not been started since spring. After a few pulls she fired up and cut out, one more pull on the rope and it snapped. I decided to see if jack would attempt Mum's Tundra. He got on with some nervousness and giggles and away he went. He says he loves it. He likes being able to turn the throttle round and squeeze as opposed to using his thumb. He also likes the heated grips and I swear he was looking at me like " you had me driving that other piece of #$#@ for the last 2 years?!". I like that it has an 'ECO mode' on it, that when turned on, stops it from accelerating fast. It is a tippy machine , but seems less so when a smaller person is riding. jack is learning Angles at school at the moment so he totally understood what I was talking about when I told him to go over any ridges or bumps at right angles to avoid tipping, he navigated the plowed ice road snow banks like an expert. Roloff did not make the video part of our excursion as he was toast after our first little trial run and limped back to the house, poor dog, I know how he feels.

Oh yeah, the tracks that you see in this video are mostly mine, but on this trip out there were new skidoo tracks that were not there a few days before. I work lots of weekends and I'm off during the week so have the lakes to myself a lot.

Thanks Brian, don't know why, but sometimes I paste the link and the video thumbnail shows, sometimes not.

It’s in the yard, we hardly have any snow so I am taking the quad, it’s waaaay better on gas. Also the temps have been mild and on one of the trails there is a beaver dam and stream that goes across the trail. It is usually frozen but not this year, and when it’s not frozen it is usually only a couple inches deep but it’s up to the wheel arches on the quad this year, not really wanting to go through it on the Expedition .

Hi all, Had to go back again to a spot where the 'eyes are biting. Took the drone with me again. It is only rated for safe operation at 0 celcius, but it performed well the other day in -17C. Any way, the fish did not dissapoint, and i got to give a shout out to 2 young Youtube fans of mine, they are gonna be super excited, makes me smile.

Uni to uni for me in most situations. I used to use the micro swivels, but I like the longer leader and as small as they are, they get ice build up and get stuck in the guides. The micro swivel on the shorter leader would also attract fish past my bait in some situations, especially panfish. I've had crappie more interested in the swivel than the bait, almost thought of freelining a micro swivel....lol. What I did like about the micro swivels was it helped avoid line twist. Nothing worse than trying to present a bait motionless when all the while it is doing the 'helicopter' under your feet. I got round this by using micro snap swivels at the hook end. The FG knot is AMAZING! However, given the size of line I use for ice fishing the FG not is useless as it is only effective using very mismatched line diameters, i.e. thin braid and fat fluorocarbon. I would say go with a long leader( fluorocarbon has very little stretch compared to mono) and uni to uni with or without a micro snap at the hook end. Keep some micro swivels with you and watch your fish finder, if fish are coming up but not biting change things up or take up golf.?

Hi all, got out again for an hour, actually had 3 hours to spare but it eats into fishing time taking Berty the drone out. Bite was half an hour later than last time, probably because of the clear bright conditions. Got some nice walleye and some bigger ones this time, a 25” and 22” with three just under 18” and a pike, not a bad hours fishing if you ask me.

It is definitely early ice this year, like last year, not usual at all to be on the ice road in November that's for sure.