Ron

You have to do more than just your line guides. Apply bees wax to your line and to your guides. This will repel water for a fairly long time. Easy to apply, just strip your line through it in your hand. Just a FYI... Bees wax is easily found at any lumber or hardware store, even Canadian Tire. Wax setting seals for toilets is made from bees wax.

Costco ice auger On their web site it shows the Mako 43 cc.

Kewl Thanks Terry! That looks so much easier than what I did... Time for some mods...(Hun, move to the side of the bath tub... I got to try something.....)

Good to hear you boys got out. All I can do for at least another week is armchair fish! dang! Terry, can you take a picture of your transducer for me? I want to see how you got it set up. Cheers, Ron...

Gotta like it Bunk! Looks like you still had a fantastic year! Hey, my Niece is stationed up in Mose now. Well sorta, she is doing the air ambulance 7on 3 off. Any pointers for her up there?

oh you guys are way too funny! thanks for the laughs everyone... except mike of course!

now that is a fine looking bird. looking firward to seeing the rest

(banana tree hugger)

glad to hear all is better now dan. hope you, nita and the rest of the family have a great chistmas holiday season bud. cheers ron...

my ice fishing season is over even before it begins. was working on my sled trailer, walked back to the truck to get parts and wipe out.... big time. dislocated shoulder = pain!!!! 5 hrs in hospital, 6 weeks min recovery.

I will let you guys know on Christmas day after the kids and inlaws are gone how we made out. Confident to say there will be at least 5 inches of ice. They didn't get a whole lot of snow. Cheers, Ron...

Lloyd won't be back til Sat. We are hoping to get out on Sunday. I'm going out Thursday to check the ice out and hope on Sunday to have the sleds up and running to tow the huts out. I'm getting all warm and fuzzy inside now! (Must be the rum).....

Holy Crap Lew! A 52 inch! What.... you wanna see your Muskie in real size format??? ha hahaha That would make for a nice tube I bet. And with 20 ft from the screen, you could pretend you are casting to your muskie as well! (Sorry couldn't help ya on your choice, just some wise cracks, hope you see the humor). Cheers, Ron...

Very nice Lew! I am sure you and your family will enjoy that piece of heaven for many many years. Good on ya bud. I guess the trailer is up for sale now?

I was looking them too Mike. I was going to pick them up because they did look good. I opted out though to pick up the 1" minnow fry instead. They had a larger selection of colors in the minnow fry.

Man there is some very serious talent on this site and then there is TJ... Cheers, Ron...

Kewl Dan! Nice shooting. Cheers, Ron...

My nephew has a set on his quad. It will go in more places than my sled! Nice ride, he can take it up to 60 - 80 km/hr with em on. Towing his portable is a bit of an issue right now, there will be some mods done to his hitch/tow bar as when he gets into a turn and the hut starts sliding sideways, it will get hung up on the tracks. I know if they were around and reasonably priced when I bought my sled, it would have been a quad with tracks instead. Cheers, Ron...

Same here Terry! In fact I did have a conversation with the girl form Peterborough, never realized we had so much in common. She has 2 kids - 17 & 20. I got 2 kids 17 & 20. She has an excellent person husband (donkey) (dang word sensors) , I have a carp (female dog) (dang word sensors) of a wife. Her kids names are Steph and Bree. My kids names are Bree and Steph. Took my chances and agreed to meet up with her. She told me her husband was going fishing for next weekend, I told my wife I was too. It all fell into place when this broad gave me the address to meet her. It was my address! So crap, now I got a dilemma, do I go fishing or do I hang around on the weekend and meet this broad? Cheers, Ron...

AS for dangerous ice.... Don't look at the block heads doing the plunge, look at the blocks of ice behind us idiots! If that don't make you wonder how safe the ice is, look at the amount of onlookers standing around. This was on Chemong last year.

Rapala jiggin raps, forage fry jig heads - bare naked

Hey Mike, Is there anything else we can do to help out with this? I'm sure the Kawartha Chapter of MCI is interested, I know I will be interested in volunteering for the day too.

I'm with Cliff on this one. After seeing Snady and Adam's trip on the Fraser battling those enormous Sturgeon, that would be a trip of a lifetime to me!