LX-5, you won’t regret it.

Nice going Jim!

Sorry to hear, prayers sent your way……

Way to go! Be flexible and make it happen!

Thanks AJ, I’ll be giving the panfish a try this weekend.

Prayers sent Tom. God Bless your family.

Yeah, just heard that the ice “left town”, a big sheet is heading north acros the lake. May be a while now.

From what I heard, I’d wait until the following week in regards to better ice. Also, my source says the water is fairly cloudy and fishing wasn’t that good.

That’s good to hear. I’ll be a first-time MarCum user this winter and am really looking forward to it (LX-6).

Sounds like it’s just low on fluid. I just replaced the little unit (not sure what the proper name is) on my 50 hp. Motor would go up but not down. Other motors, you can replace either but Yamaha has you replacing the entire thing for around $150 or so.

I just picked up a couple from “Brickers Custom Rods” @ (260) 615-6078. Look GREAT and can’t wait to use them. Adam Bricker posts a lot on Facebook, if you want to take a gander at his work.

ecnook ~ Makes sense, thanks.

I just pulled my new Strikemaster Honda 4-stroke out of the box and stuck it together, can’t wait to give it a whirl. Also, just curious as to why you would prefer a smaller hole? I use an 8″ for almost every application, from local panfish and walleye to Ontario lake trout and Manitoba sumo walleyes.

Keep me filled in on the first “safe” ice on Che-Bay! Gonna make it there this year, PROMISE!

I have that same knot tying tool and it works slick. However, the only time I use it is when I’m doing the spring fly fishing thing.

-5º here on the Iron Range this morning. Brrr, where’s my woolies?

Man, I wanted to head “down south” to check out some of the ice shows, etc. but spent the day cleaning out the garage, putting away the summer stuff and getting the snowmobiles out of storage, which looks to be a good call. Now all I have to do is put together my Otters and new Strikemaster Honda. Gonna be sweeet! Small lake, where I had the snowmobiles in storage, was skimmed over? Kinda surprised me. Won’t be too long now.

That pretty much makes up my mind. Now the BIG decision is do I chase deer 1 more (and last) day or slip the little boat in one of my favorite back-in-the-bush lakes and try to find some nice slabs? It’s supposed to be 45º here tomorrow.

Thanks Jesse

Hmmm, maybe I’ll pass then. Might have to deer hunt the last day up here. Thanks. I was wondering about that, it seems like an over-saturation of ice shows.

Gee, I don’t like to hear that, I was going to head down there on Sunday, as I am totally sick of deer hunting.