I went to check out a local wma with my bow yesterday morning that isnt too far from cabelas since I had to run to cabelas anyways. I didnt realize how cold it was until I got out of the truck. This is my first year with the bow and I found out really fast that my release will only fit on lighter gloves. I also didnt take into account the aluminum frame of the bow or the metal part of my win free flight release being so cold on the grip. It just made it easier to still hunt because I had to stop and ball my fingers up in the palm of the gloves every few minutes to warm my fingertips . Im glad winter is finally here. I am going to try and get out a few more times if I can find a spot worth hunting. I would really like to get my first deer with bow and not ready to give up yet. I have to use up a couple of vacation days. It wont be too long and it will be over and I will have to revert back to fishing.

Indeed that was us.
TB and myself gave it another go last night until about 9:30. We had a total of 8 or 9 muskie follows with one of them being a monster over 50″ but we could not get them to bite. It was unbelievable. Finally when we switched to trolling the channells for eyes, TB ended up getting about a 35″ skie. No eyes were had. Mabey the skie cruising the channell had something to do with that. Wonder how the buddy would work. We are using the single sunflower and it makes a huge difference in my fishing experience.

Me and tonkaboy were out trying to troll skies on saturday morning. It was a bit brisk and we have nothing to show for our efforts. We decided casting was out since water was freezing in the rod tip and I didnt want that feeling on the hands. At least with the bigger boat we had the mr heater…yes, I am a wuss but was warm. Heading in across the main lake was a little rough, if it werent for the full windshield we would have been soaked. At least it was getting out there though. We may do the channell thing a little later this week.

I have two friends with them and they love them. Both used vex’s previously. Ill let you know next week.I just traded my fl8 and an older global map 100 for it. I am taking it up to red in a couple of hours. I was in gander yesterday. I didnt see any x67 but they have m68 for 399.

SO there is some hope. We will be up the weekend of the 28th and plan on having wheelers and a sled to be very mobile. Last june 3 of us boated over 300 eyes in 2 days. It was nuts. We also faired pretty well on the crops for the first time. Never had that good of action on the ice but Im always hopeful and mobile.

It’s a good thing I didnt have any expectations because fishing was not good for me. We managed a few eelpout out of the sleeper. I went to shore to get a lakemap saturday a.m. The crowd was so big waiting for the vikes arctic blast that I couldnt even make it around the parking lot. I Couldnt deal and backed the monster dually back around the lot and went back out on the lake. Took out the wheeler and portable and drilled about 1000 holes between father hennepin island and the pressure ridge. Found a few tiny perch in the 15-20ft range. The pressure ridge is at about 38-40ft. I did mark some smaller suspended fish along the ridge but no biters. Had quite a few lookers throughout the weekend but no biters and I threw everything I had at them. Oh well, back to some good metro fishing action for the next two weeks then up for the yearly trip to URL.

Thanks for the tips fellas. Only a few hours and counting. I am hoping the last post was referring to that website for guide services for rent and not the fishing report. I clicked on the weeks report tab to find the report was from June I think Thanks again Ill let you guys know what happens. Ill keep my eyes out for the avalanche. I think we’ll be in Red 95 dually ex cab 4×4 chev with topper. If im out exploring ill have the Frabill ranger twin.

I work for a construction chemical manuf that makes a polyurea liner. Some bedliners are polyurea and some polyurethane etc. Ours is made for chemical containment, metal protection, and concrete parking ramps…etc. I sprayed my wc12 3 years ago and it still looks like it did the day I sprayed it. I use it about 3 times a week during open water. I just sprayed my project lund 14′ 2 weekends ago and expect the same results. I would probably roll on a single component polyurethane with an aggretate broadcast and backrolled into it on the horizontal standing areas if I had to actually pay for the material and labor. In the coatings industry, prep, prep, prep,,,,, Your adhesion is only as good as the surface you are applying the coating to.

I have had a mag2000 for about 5 years. It always started right up even on the coldest days. I recently sold it and bought the 1.2hp eskimo stingray. At first I was leary due to the smaller motor but let me tell ya, I would buy another in a heartbeat. I do a lot of hole drilling and moving and the thing seems much lighter to transport. Ive drilled a couple hundred holes since I bought it a couple of weeks ago with no problem. The regular price of $199 and sale price of 179 didn’t hurt any. I raced my bud with his barracuda with turbo blades and he beat me through minnetonka by about 1 second. The stingray has 2 quantum blades. Two thumbs up from me. It will get another workout on red this weekend.

I just got rid of a 4 year old mag 2000 that worked fine and cut thousands of holes. A couple of weeks ago I picked up a eskimo stingray. I iwas leary at first. It is the small light 1.3 hp 8″ with two quantum blades. I raced my buds eskimo barracuda with brand new turbo blades and he only beat me by about a second. The nice thing is its really light. I have put about 5 tanks of gas through it in a couple of weeks and I love it as well as the $179 price. I’ve heard really good things about strikemasters customer service but never had to use it. It always ran and ran and ran. A couple of weeks ago I broke the auger part of my friends above mentioned barracuda. Its about 3 years old. I called eskimo and the customer service rep actually drove a whole new bit to st paul for me. Thats good service as well.
IF I had the $$ and had the chance at a deal like you mention, i’d say take it.

Like you I had recieved the info packets over the years but didnt take it seriously until a friend told me he was a life member and how great it was. Finally I joined. I was sent information for field testing at least 3 times and told I would be getting one thing or another to test. The coolest one was a kit so a boat could be pulled up and stored on shore on rollers. I NEVER recieved any of the test items I was told to watch the mail for. I felt like they were dangling the proverbial carrot in front of me to keep the subscription going. I liked the mag but I barely have enough time to read the mags I already get. I did get hardcover fishing books (which are great) that I didnt order that you can keep and pay for or send them back. I kept the first one but requested that they not send any more unless I ordered them. All in all I would join for the mag and great info. Its worth the price. Dont join just to be a field tester or you may or may not be dissappointed. I cancelled and stick to my mags that focus on Minnesota.
My 2 cents.