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Happy Birthday Stan

Happy Birthday Mike!!!

I agree with Muskybob, I have the Big Buddy and have never had to turn it any higher than the low setting

it's about time someone told the truth

No Brian, it's not big enough for me to mount, I lost my wall mounter about 8 years ago when it broke off with the head out of the hole and trying to hold onto it as it went back in the hole but no luck that one was in the 30# range . Mick the pike had 1 old shiner it 1 fresh gill & my shiner .

Way to go guy's

OK because of GAMBLER's comment on the wait being off i went i left the pike in the back of the truck over night and bought a scale this morning and it weighed 17.3# and that was being out of the water for 24 hours so i don't know much weight it lost but i am still very happy with the 17.3

Happy Birthday Bob hope you have a good one

Was a long day on Conesus Lake today with a buddy of mine, started drilling holes at 7:30 and fished unntill 5 we fished 9 FOW caught a 150 or more blue gill's and kept 46 good one's, as far as tip ups go we had 2 flags in the first hour but no fish they just ran a few yards and dropped it and figure they were bass, about 11:00 was the next flag which turned out to be a nice 40" pike it looked like he had been fighting from how beat up he was and i couldn't weigh it because my scale went brain dead on me but a 40" pike should be in the 13-15 # range tried it with another 10# scale but it just bottom it out, anyways just before i was able to ice the pike the second flag fired which turned out to be a Large mouth Bass about 3# which i tossed back it the hole, we never had another flag the rest of the day and from what we could see and some other guys out there could see we were the only one's to have any flags the hole day, didn't try any tip downs because the holes were freezing up and filling up with blowing snow so fast, all in all it was a fun day, here's a few pick's of the day Ok just weighed it this morning 2-9-10 and after being out of the water for 24 hours it weighed 17.3#

Happy Birthday CS,

Tim, no we did not put out any tip ups or tip downs so i can't tell ya how the pike bite is . Tom, tenderloin and horseradish mayo sandwiches on crusty bread you can fish with me anytime buddy And Brian, i think your on to something here Hmmmmm

Happy Birthday Tom Hope you have a great one

Fished Port Bay today with Hank, from 9 - 3 nothing much to report caught a bunch of dinks and a few in the 8 to 9 inch range, all in all we had a good time chatting if nothing else also had a chance to spoil Hank and let him see what it's like to fish in comfort with Heat, and Bob for some reason Hank kept measuring all the fish with his thumb, do you know anything about that

Bob Shhhhhhh your going to give away my secret

I had a 1.5 watt on my boat when i use to dock it so when the Bilge pump would run from all the rain we had that year and it always kept the batteries charged from weekend to weekend to no problem .

Hey Tim I will be fishing around there on sat myself so when ya see someone wearing a coat like the one I'm wearing in this pic it will be me, see ya out there

I will keep you and your family in my prayers

way to go guys

Great job guys sounds like a fun day except for Jeff and his truck lets hear the story

if you have a Nils and need to get it sharpen here is a site for you http://www.hotspotoutdoors.com/forum/ub ... /1219226/1

This is the kind of news no one likes to hear and i am truly sorry that it happened, My prayers go out to you and the family

They look pretty nice, and i like the fact that if the motor won't start you can just attach the hand crank instead of walking back to the truck to get the hand auger .

Thanks LB i will be out that way later this week

Thanks Joe, I'm going to try and get out later this week and will post my report on them

. Let me know what you think, Made them to span over even a 10" hole so if something big grabs it I'm not going to have to watch it get pulled down the hole before I can grab hold of it which as happened to a lot of guy's I am going to be adding some of them small plastic ice jig reels to them but but everyone seems to be sold out of them so when i can find them I will put them on, that way if a big fish grabs it I will have a much better chance of landing it. It can be turned around to fish like most of them too This is what it looks like when closed Here's a pic of 5 of them in a 6 gal pal I am making up some extra one's if anyone is interested in buying any, and with the cost and time to make them the price will be $25.00 each or 5 for $100. Just send me a PM Found some reels for them thanks to Hank (L&M) here's a new pic of them with the reel