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I aint biting, pun intended.

Its a basic white sauce Joey with some veg stock and milk, teaspoon of Hot English Mustard and chopped parsley, keep adding milk until you get the consistency you want, they say the sauce should just adhere enough to coat the back of a metal spoon for the right consistency. Hey I could do a video recipe!!!

LOL…he hates wearing sunglasses, his eyelashes are really, really, long and touch the front of the lenses. LOL…he has a pair of black gloves in the shack, but they were slimed and frozen stiff, he opted for the shovel.

The healthiest option for fried or any food is 'moderation' and exercise.

My exact words were " a bit of a healthier option than the conventional fishfry." Obviously not 'the' healthiest choice but makes me feel better knowing its at least grilled….lol.

Plenty of ice!

Hi all, Made some walleye wrapped in bacon with steamed veggies and a homemade parsley sauce with the walleye Jack caught fort us at the shack last night. Pretty darned good even if I do say so myself! YUM Never made them before but heard and seen lots of other people do it, Needless to say it will be on the menu again. a bit of a healthier option than the conventional fishfry, oven baked then finished under the grill, and only a teaspoon of butter to make the parsley sauce. Could even make the roux with margarine for even less saturated fat. Gonna try this with pike next time, should be just as good! Si.

LOL…yup plenty of ice there. It might be around for 6 weeks, not thinking I wanna be on it in 6 weeks though.

FISH PORN! Love it! Great fishing you have there. Thanks for posting.

He's been asking for a brother, I'll run it by him tonight, might be a harder sell to the wife though.

Praise indeed from one so talented

Thanks for the replies guys! Yes, it is the 154"x 20" widetrack. It has the 1200cc 4 stroke engine with HI/Lo gear shift, even reverse beeping noise…lol…a real monster of a sled. It weighs about 700lbs(dry) so you don't want to get stuck, saying that I have done standing starts in slush a foot deep and buried intentionally in 7' deep snow drifts…..still won't get stuck, it even has a neat trick for reversing in deep snow, the last rear 18" of track articulates…so it lifts up when reversing pulling you up as opposed to burrowing deeper. It is a bit heavy steering in the tight trails in the bush, but go slow and lean and she's fine, adjusting the suspension helped a lot and it steers like a dream on the groomed trails and harder packed snow. SHE CAN PULL A HOUSE BTW! Oh….and fun?….yup…with 1200cc….she is fun alright, and sounds AWESOME! Its a really good mixture of utility, trail (it has a detachable 2 up seat with heated grips) and crotch rocket…..lol. I LOVE MY SLED! Ooops, totally forgot. Not to worry though, I can't think of a year in recent memory where I have not had a 30" walleye and 40" pike in the boat, and I will have my card with me!….not long now!

Hi all, The weather has taken a drastic change here. Last week -30C this week and for the next 2 weeks day temps all in the +plus range. The ice road is going to take a beating. Will be looking to get my shack off this week. There is still plenty of ice, over 4 feet at my shack, but the road will become rutted and slushy with deep water in no time, not for the faint hearted traveller(or the smart one). I only put the shack out at the end of January but it has been a regular hang out for the whole family and a gathering place for friends too, very awesome little shack! Its great to pick Jack up from school and head straight there, especially when the fish are biting, nothing big, but enough to have got Jack excited about ice fishing, JOB DONE! My new frying pan also added to the fun, with the almighty 'Shack BLT' making its debut. THE ROAD IS GONNA MELT FAST STILL ENOUGH ICE FOR A CAR PARK JACK LANDED A PERCH BEFORE WE WERE EVEN SET UP! JACK KNOWS THE ROUTINE AND GETS STUCK IN TO SETTING UP AFTER SET UP JACK WANTED TO MARK THE SHACK ON THE GPS. HE SPELLED OUT THE DETAILS ALL BY HIMSELF, ALL THAT GEOCACHING PAID DIVIDENDS! JACK THEN PROCEEDED TO PUT ON A WALLEYE AND SAUGER CATCHING DEMONSTRATION MUM JOINED US AFTER WORK FOR A 'SHACK BLT' AND POPCORN SUPPER THEN BACK TO JACK'S FISHING CLINIC WE WILL MISS OUR COSY SHACK VIDEO I will hopefully get some video of the shack removal this week, could be interesting. Definitely be getting some footage of another removal next weekend of my buddy's shack as we try to get it off Thunder Lake. Spring has really SPRUNG here, not long before some big pike from the lawn and some crappie hunting in the boat. Tight lines! Si.

Hi all, Snapped a few pics from yesterday evening's 2 hour session. One nice one caught by yours truly and a couple small ones here and there between us. We were fairly deep, 28'FOW. Marked lots, some nice big ones too, but very difficult to get them to commit. I found they would come in and just sit there and stare. The one that did commit fell for my trick of letting the bait drop to the bottom, leave it there for a minute and snap it up quick, this often provokes strikes from lethargic walleye. Another successful tactic yesterday was to use a noisy ratlin' lipless crank to call them in. They were certainly in a funny mood, would respond to aggressive hard baits but not strike. Would sit and stare at live minnows forever, no matter what presentation it seemed. Over all I would say they preferred a moving target yesterday, but getting them to strike was tricky.

Cant believe he is gonna be 6 this weekend, they do grow quick, I always tease Jack that we aren't going to feed him anymore……"ooooooh Daaaad!" is the usual reply….lol.

Thanks Joey:) Bruce, you are the second person to tell me that today…lol….so true!

Thanks for ALL the replies folks. Hey Spin, we probably won't be, we kinda do every other year. This year my wife's dad who has the trailer at Erieau will be heading this way and then we should all be going to France. Hopefully will get to go on a short sea bass trip while we are there.

Nice red meat on those lakers JT, looked like a bright , cold day!

Hi all, Took Jack down to the shack after school yesterday, no need to ask him twice, its one of his favourite hang outs these days. Got the shack prepared before we arrived as it takes a while to clear the ice and slush out of the shack after drilling holes, a long time for a kid to wait especially without the fire going (its too close to the holes to manoeuvre without getting burned while clearing the holes.) We also took supper with us, old style bangers which we cooked on the wood stove….YUM! In between fishes we tried out some experiments with ice and salt, Jack found this really fun! We got a limit of small walleye and Jack landed all of them, including a nice pike! He tells me he loves fishing and was asking "when can we go to Lac Seul again dad?" Its gonna be a good summer me thinks! GOT SOME NICE FISHES DID SOME SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS GOT A NICE PIKE TOO

Its a totally wicked place! Even at a fastish pace takes over a couple of hours to get through, lots for kids and adults. We went last summer everyone had a blast! ……of course I took some video footage.

Awesome pics Drew, thanks.

Nooooooo! Legend! RIP.

I here ya Chris, in the summer I tend to be a walleye fisherman 90% of the time with 5% crappie and 5% lakers, but in the winter I find almost all my walleye fishing a bit tedious, whitefish and trout provide the adrenaline rush I need!

Man…sorry for your loss, thats tough Rick.