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Snagger, you're gonna love that Mr. Heater. I bought one and then was reluctant to even carry it, now I don't go without it. The heat, hot coffee, a warm meal, no ice build up on the line or eyelets, everything is thawed and deiced before throwing it back in the shanty tub. Get well and great pics as usual.
Cant wait to get back on Oneida Friday. May try north shore for a change. Always fish out of Lewis but I feel like exploring new holes.
Once you cross that line, you will never go back
Out on the lake now. I couldn't buy a keeper perch. Drilled holes from 12-22fow. I'm sitting on 17.Switched to perch spots & gear, still getting eyes. 1st drop this morning 22-23" hog on 24" ultralight with 4lb test, that was fun. Marked several fish before I dropped a line, thought they were perch. Was thinking small so dropped a tungsten toad with small buckeye. Smacked it right away,but didn't run or fight, just sat there until I got her up about 2'. Then she had other ideas and wanted nothing to do with the bottom of the ice.Dumped another 16-17 when line got tangled in the ducer. Couple shorts 13-14, still getting slime darts.Only 3 perch and they looked like sandy pond transplants.Slow day & weird bite. Was hoping for better since pressure is falling. But better than work.
Nice fishin with you pooch, well had strep throat and bronchitus since I walked off the ice last week, I can't win this winter I guess, so went down too whites lumber and bought one of those mr buddy heaters all you guys use, figured if I had heat in my shanty I could just as easily be sick in my shanty as here at the house... was hoping too just sit on a hole all day and grab whatever swam bye, but pins pins and more pins made me move 7 times till noon til I found a hole I could just sit on... I didn't do very well but better than law order marathons, got 19 eyes, 6 just short and only 1 keeper eye ... dumped 2, rest were pins... 5 good perch, with some dumped perch as well so it was a fun hole with atleast some action all afternoon, my friends with me did a little better than I did, but nothing crazy, all the easy fish are gone now unless you land on them, gonna work for em from here on out I think.
I bought the Mr Heater on a whim then got home and after reading the instructions/cautions - it scarred me from using it in the hut and I was going to return it. Sounds like you like it. Have any of you had any problems or suggest precautions I should take? Decent day out, all big perch in 20'ish FOW with UV jigging rap/minnow head. They seemed aggressive. Thanks!
Looked all over for a shappell fx 100 or eskimo wide 1 this weekend anybody have ideas where they may be in stock ? Thanks for your time
Yeah man on that rack Bart!!!!! Worst day this year got out late and missed the 7-9 eye bite started in 15 fowl on numbers that have produced in the past looking for the jumbos. Not a mark....... worked my way out to 27 fow not a mark..... only fish caught was a 8" perch by my daughter. Punched 12 holes 6 moves 12" to 15" ice every place. Seems like we were only ones out there today....... on the drive home looked like alot parking available at apps, Cleveland Villas, Taft bay, and the bank in Constantia. Very weird for a weekend with tons of ice on the North shore. Release stopped Filet from posting so everyone thinks he's not catching so he has single handedly reduced fishing pressure on Oneida by not posting!!! Don't worry, he's storeing it up and will blow like a volcano esp if it takes an hour and a half to serve a hamburger Come on Pres the Oneida lake chamber of commerce is asking you to start posting again!!!!! "
if you look at the rack it is made just like the front guard on the heater.