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Thank you rbobby & perch bate for your replies. That's it? All you have to do is post X amount of times and you can PM members? Wow! I conjured up in my mind all sorts of trials I would have to endure before becoming a full fledged member. Swallowing a live shiner biting the head off a live Perch, running through a gauntlet of Ice Shanty made members with my shirt off while being hit with fishing rods on my back. Picking my finger with a fishing hook and the blood placed on a post card of a King Salmon and burned in my hands in front of fishing rod and reel, while the Great Tuna proclaims "You live by the Rod and Reel and you will die by the Rod and Reel.” Basically the same sort of humiliating trials a pledge does in order to join a fraternity or the mob. I've join one before, The "Greek" not Italian one.
If you are going to be venturing way out into the 30-40 FOW I would be darn careful. Before the snow there was two wide open pressure cracks spanning across the width of the lake, open water around the rock island, and the springs were open along the west shore.