Nice work guys! Keeps the rest of us excited and teaches us some patience when we are on that finicky bite!
I plan on hitting the ice more this next week. Been awful busy since my sister in law and bro in law’s house burned down over the weekend. Sad deal. Check out the pics in the General Discussion Forums under topic: Family in Need.
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Jeff, PM sent. THANKS!!
OUTSTANDING! Looks like an awesome trip guys! 
Going to try to make it as well!
SA-WEEET!!! 
Nice work Brad!
(a good guide doesn’t hurt either huh?)
Jim
I would be more than happy to do that for you. Shoot me an e-mail and we can talk. Or let me know when a good time to call you would be.
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I agree Bob!! I’m sure I must have sounded like a broken record when muttering “ARE YOU KIDDING ME……..WHAT IS THIS THING….I JUST WANT TO SEE IT!!”
Yeah, and we knew it was making another run every time Chris would bust into laughter again!! 
Hey! No prob on the fix! Easy stuff! Just wish I would have thought about it Saturday morning…lol. If we wouldn’t have been in a hurry to get rolling, I would have taken a 1/2 hr and cleaned that carb before we left too. Glad ya got the bumper/hitch straightened away!
Thanks for a great time Chris. Was an absolute blast!! We will see ya next March, if not sooner! 
To even add bigger odds against landing that fish, Mitch (another guy in our party) was several yards away from Chris. While Chris was fighting this monster, Mitch also had HIS line go very very heavy for about a 20 minute fight! Yep, we thought we had 2 epic battles on our hands!! Somehow Mitch brought his jig close enough to the hole once to see his jig, but thats all he saw!! His jig! It turns out that Mitch and Chris were in the same battle with the fish and each other! The pike had run so far out that Mitch jig snagged Chris’s line and they fought against the fish and each other for almost 20 minutes…and didnt know it!! Weird enough, Mitch’s line broke and the pike was all back on Chris’s noodle rod.
It was so odd! Travis was directly between Chris and Mitch and he stayed clear of the pike’s run but he got into Mitch.
So between a noodle rod, 2 lb test, running Chris’s reel almost empty several times, getting hooked by Mitch’s jig, and an hour plus fight….the odds were not in Chris’s favor! But the pro prevailed with an awesome fish (and a really cold arm). I wish I would have learned something from that. Maybe I could have landed the monster crappie I lost at the hole! GRR!! 
A fishing story I was there for and will NEVER forget!!!!
Jim
It made me sick when they told us the guy was missing. It made me even MORE sick to know that he was…(ahem)….”fishing” somewhere other than where he said he’d be. What a terrible way to waste the money and resources that are truly NEEDED for this sort of thing. I think this guy should pay back the $20k that was spent on his search. I mean at one time, we had 4 planes circling the small bay we were in. Not to mention all of the other snowmobiles out searching. GRRR!!!! Jicky-jack slapnut!! Maybe you could put that guy to work cleaning whitefish Chris……lol
Thanks for a great time!
Jim
