Dara

Thats a lotta bananas

The pin came out and auger tip went down. Clockwise turn as some are counter clockwise.

Just wondering what you all think. I know bananas are bad in a boat but what about ice fishing. My buddy is bringing bananas ice fishing. Just on sleds to backwoods lakes and no hut. He isn't doing well, I'm not doing great but not bad. You think the skunk is touching without even a boat? Should I say something to him? Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Just saw a news article that was titled, Global race to develop cold weather batteries. Thats good, but. There are some northern communities but most of the worlds population is in warmer climes. So, concentrate on good batteries there and we will run off the devils fossil fuel till they figure it out. Mostly saves the world.

Gord is a tournament and TV fisherman. Does he have any scientific studies to back his opinion. Not that I disagree but science rules over opinion...generally Where I live bass are open year round because they are a nuisance predator fish for the trout and walleye we mostly target. To go with the catch and release direction they would be outlawing most tournaments which least bothers me except for kids like them at the cottage. A few lure and boat manufacturers may be perturbed. The problem is, how do you write a law to keep everybody happy.

Tournament fish are always weighed on the water. Walking distance of carrying the fish from livewell and back to water. It is illegal to transport live gamefish. Would point of capture be where it was hooked or landed. How far can you drift while taking a picture. That would be as ambiguous a rule as immediately tagging a moose and immediately informing the rest of the party that a moose was shot. No matter what, you shoot, they have a charge to lay. They need to address the ridiculous rules for baitfish zones they just came up with first

Then you have to outlaw live release tournaments. I can just imagine how the rule would be written to cover release where you caught it.

why is that

I filled out the survey and hopefully they value my opinion. They usually do. LOL

Just to be devils advocate here..lol Sounds like advances in technology cause us to use more power, causing a pollutant of some sort. When I started ice fishing we had no electronics, no power auger, no foldup huts, heck no huts at all. And we caught fish. I remember when bells on your gad was a new thing. I have a gas auger but I couldn't drill holes for all the kids any more.

Got a new BRP this year. 600 efi 2 stroker. Burns excessive oil and gas but the clean 4 strokes are expensive so.....

50 km won't get me to the lake and back. Keep working on it BRP

OK, I see 95% now, not bad, just difficult and not great for environment itself.

I would like to see some research into the poison that will be left with all these batteries we are going to use. Will we be poisoning our water instead of the air next. Possibly a carbon capture system on gas engines would do something better.

Is that what they call Green Smoke?

They are a poor choice except for making some people money. Who was it brought these in? Only to attempt humor, old news

Except for race fuel.

From what I understand a gearbox on a windmill takes 1000 gals of oil which must be changed yearly. They also cut down about 50 acres of trees for each one they built around here.

It all comes down to the government we choose to elect based on their promises and policy. I remember back around 2000 that emission standards for snowmobiles were introduced. Manufacturers were warned and developed cleaner machines. Hence the 4 stroke and super clean 2 strokes. Government can only require what is possible though and they are pushing and waiting for electric. On the same note, when they offered a good 4 stroke snowmobile I bought one. It saved me a bunch of money on oil and fuel and performed.

It's almost like they need an engine to run a generator to charge the battery.

I live and play north of Superior. Wife will likely go electric for her next car. Running around town. For me, I need a bit more than battery as it exists today to go 100km back in the woods in 20 below weather and expect to make it back after 4 or 5 days there. Show me the tech and I'm all for electric. Build a couple nuc plants though because we will need the capacity. Wait, here's one. Algoma steel is currently building 2 electric arc furnaces. They are still working on where the electricity to power these things will come from. Sault uses 1.2 meg right now, to power these we will need 3.4or something like that. Where will it come from and how

How else you gonna make a buck or even get help nowadays. PS, might show up in April, how's ice fishing then

Wish I could chill. It's 4 degrees out there where it should be minus 10 or 15. We need ice. I hate global warming. I had heard the evinrude rumor as well but until we get futuristic batteries it all seems to be wheel spinning. I thought the alumicraft was an April fools joke

Hear that limey

Most definitely does. I think about it every day. I can't see any source of power right now that will save it. We do what we can. Ontario got rid of coal for the clean natural gas, now that isn't good enough. We tapped all the little rivers we could for hydro power. We are closing nuclear powered plants because they are wore out and the anti nucers won't let us build new ones. China opens new coal fired plants every day. The world needs power and it is coming from fossil fuel until scientists figure it out or we all die. Start putting some money into dealing with warming instead of trying to stop it. And I'm not picking on you by quoting, it just kinda went that way