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I hear the Gills are just starting up there. Not much being said about Walleyes. I'm sure I could manage to leave a few surprises laying around for you. Are you going to be able to get the whole week off?

tzone

That looks like a lot of work. Also looks like fun but I have no talent when it comes to working on vehicles. Keep the pictures coming.

Well Rainy was fun. Fishing was kinda tough. I did manage some okay pike...a 38", a 36" and a few more over 30". Nothing I would call big. Walleyes were scarce until the last afternoon where we boated a dozen or so in an hour or so. biggest was 25.5. Nice and peaceful. Sitting on the deck overlooking Rainy was nice...I counted 8 loons singing to us at one point. then two guys decided we needed some music . Why on earth would you rather listen to some crappy music over loons yodeling on a quiet night?? Another guy and I just shook our heads.

Oh, my depthfinder (a Lowrance 332c) decided to go belly up. According to Fish Lectronics, it is now a boat anchor. I am waiting for Lowrance customer service to confirm. All my GPS points were in there too!!! Okay, back at ya after my talk with Lowrance. Does anyone need a boat anchor?

Yeah, I got the whole week off. You want to come back and fish with me for a day?

Pete, his brother, and a friend got back on Saturday from there. They fished the west side and did well on the gills. Crappies are done. Gills were in 1.5' of water. They didn't fish for walleyes. I haven't heard much on that either.

I have a bunch of pictures in the truck forum. Check it out. Not nearly the quality of work Dave does, not even in the same arena, but I'm learning a bunch, which was the purpose of this truck anyway.

The most important thing I've learned so far is, my next one will have way less rust on it when I buy it.

You won't hear from Lowrance. If you do it will go like this. "Mr. BM please send us your locator and $60 so we can find what is wrong with it." They'll then tell your it's done for and it's no longer supported by them, but "hey, here's is a coupon good for $50 towards a new Lowrance product."

Seriously, that's how it will go.

Go to Cabela's, bust out your wallet and get a H-bird 798 ci/si/di and you'll be good to go. If you want to spend more than the 1K that will run you, get the 898. You'll wonder why you didn't do it before.

I hate Lowrance, and yes, I have two of them on the damn Ranger. The front one gets the boot this winter or next spring when I get a Terrova.

Cabelas? Tzone, bite your lip and suck a raw lemon! All my fishing related purchases go through Thorne Bros! Anyway, here is how it went with Lowrance....I send them $62 and they either fix it for that or they send me a new HDS-5 for $362. either way it is better than I could do even at TB. So that is the direction I am going. the only problem is that I lose all my stored waypoints and symbols. bummer.

Thats right about the time the contractor will be putting in our new windows. I'll know more about timing in a couple of weeks. I'll try and make it up if it works out.

BM, My BIL and I rented a houseboat on Rainy in 2005. Had a great trip. Fishing was on the slow side but we had all the fish we cared to eat.

They might be able to transfer your way points.

TB is pretty proud of their stuff. Nice store though.

You gotta drop my name at TB. Ask for Pat whenever you are there. They will always beat Cabelas.

I wanna pay less, not more.

I'll haffta ask them next time I'm in. I won't be buying a locator until this winter or next spring. I'd like to get an H-bird 1198, not sure if I can. 1) it's damn big and may not fit on the council 2) $2K for a locator is a lot for me to open my wallet for. They do some crazy cool things though.

I'm fishing a tourney on Mille Lacs that TB is the sponsor of, maybe I'll win some goodies in the drawings!

They sure helped me out with my depth finder questions.

I have used one of dem der fancy Humminbirds. I was looking for a dead body. This was a couple years ago and it was impressive then.

We are only a couple of weeks away from our big trip to the boundary waters!!

Pam is getting a nice new camera so we should get some quality photos.

what kinda picher-taker is she gettin'? You folks already do a good job with pics, I can wait for them to get better!

91* here. On the way to a new daily record.

She gett'n a canon T3i DSLR and a 24-105 f4 L series lens with image stabilization.

A couple spare batteries, a new camera bag and various camera goodies to go along with it all.


It's an 18MP DSLR with a C sized image sensor (1.6x crop), it's kind of neat because it also shoots pretty decent quality video.

She's pretty excited about it.

We have a precursor to that one, a Canon 10 MP DSLR. It takes good pictures, but we need to get it repaired as it never shuts off and the batteries quicly wear out then. Udderwise, a good camera, I would recommend it.

Here is from a bit ago....HOT!

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Here's from a few minutes ago

HOTTER!

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