Gander Mountain Blow-out

[Gill-T]

The store in Tonawanda took all their salmon stuff off the shelves to make room for the five people who will buy ice-fishing gear this year. All the flashers, dodgers, spoons, some flies etc. are all dumped into the bargain bin. DIG IN it's Christmas in October!

[jimski2]

The US Fish and Wildlife survey says New York has 67,001 ice fishing guys over 16 and they fish 206,215 days a year through the ice. 2006 study.

[carpedium]

was just at the rochester location... nada

and hey, i ice fish!

[ray koziatek]

hm 3.5 hrs a year each , my average day is 12hrs

[Iceman]

RK;

Took a quick look at the numbers & I come out with 7.7978033 hours per person. Must be the new math??????????? LOL have to break out my old books??????

[ray koziatek]

me bad misread days for hours , very simple mind here .

[carpedium]

Technically if you are using 24 hours in a day :

(206,215 days) * (24 hours/day) = 4949160 hours

(4949160 hours)/(67001 fisherman)= 73.8669572 hours per fisherman

12 hour fishing day: 37 hours per fisherman

8 hour fishing day: 24.6 hours per fisherman

[LongLine]

But ....there's only 37 days of hard water per year.

Actually, that's one heck of a long year if 67,001 guys can fish 206,215 days per year. Wish I could fish that many days a year.

Tom B.

(LongLine)

[Gill-T]

WTF!

[ray koziatek]

way...to...fish

[carpedium]

look what you started gill.

[LongLine]

Just imagine: If they only dumped the stuff in the bin one day out of every 206,215 days. We'd have to wait 564 yrs till another Christmas in October. :!:

Of course if there were 206,215 days in a year, then there'd be 17,185 days per month. As we're just beginning another month & most of us would start fishing in March or 5 months from now, then according to that calender, we'd only have to wait 85,923 days till we launch the boats again, (give or take a few) and try out all those new toys.

Bottom Line: Jump on the Bargin Bin, they may not do again for a long time.

Gill-T, it isn't hijacking the thread, it really is related to the original topic.

Tom B.

(LongLine)

hmm......maybe that was Lemon Scented Joy and not Lemon Juice that I used.

[Mick]

Stopped at Gander today to check it out in henrietta only to find out the store was closed because of a power problem. 1 hour plus drive one way- that sucked. Oh well I'll check out Tonawanda Tommorrow.