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Looks good Dave, did you foam the inside of the tubes too? maybe put a plate on one end to hang the outboard on for spring fishing.

Dave,
That looks like quite a nice garage/shop. What are the dimensions and how are you heating it? Attached to the house?

Detached, 30' x 60' 12 foot walls. I heat it with a cleanburn waste oil furnace.

And it's a crap hole, total mess.

It needs a serious clean up out there.

woohoo! got my other auger today, its the power head and bottom for 50 bucks!
gonna steal parts off mine and get her running tonight hopefully.

then its off to the lake!

Ryan, what's the bottom like? What kind? Size?

A friend of mine lost his drill section down the hole last Sunday.

He was using one of those new quick coupler adapters, didn't work too well for him.

its a 6", I already have one
great for crappies, might suck for LOTW though

Where you pulling your house to this weekend dave? South tip is decent i guess. I won't be able to get out till sunday but the weather sounds good for the weekend. I thought about getting that quick coupler, i think you just deterred me.

I'm not sure, I'm kind of leaning towards "straight up the middle" as in Gull/Arnesons area.

South tip might be ok too but you know how that goes with big houses.

Not sure yet.

Do you have a plan yet?

I'm thinkin of making a trip up there one of these weekends.
is the fishing good all day or should I plan for an evening run?
it will likely be me and a friend or two in a 4x8 portable

Morning till night is the normal walleye bite on LOW.

When you came up last year we started out tip up fishing for northerns & when that looked dead we scooted up to an evening walleye spot. That was sort of an odd day fishing wise.
We did ok in the end though if I remember corectly.

Sounds like the plan may be to head out torwards arnesons' or gull area as well. it is the last weekend of deer hunting too you know!! may just find a spot for my permanent out there but planning on the portable this weekend. bring the gas grill with for some johnsonvilles on the ice, don't get much better than that!!

yes sir, we did pretty good that day, and I had a blast!
I still have a couple pics floatin around here of that day.
I looked closer at that auger bottom, its a 7 inch, not sure on the make, I can snap a pic an text it to you if you like.

The road is plowed to south tip dave, but we may just hit the north side of gull sunday morning. R u getting in on the deer hunt or did you put that gun away.

just never got to revved up about the late hunt I guess.

yeah I heard about that road, that might be where we go, chain up the old plow truck & head up there to bust a little trail off the main road to put a couple of houses.

Jeremy talked to our neighbor yesterday, and him and his boy went fishing on Lake 7 on Sunday. His boy who I think is about 13 years old caught a 27 inch walleye. They put their house by ours. He got it at about 1 in the afternoon. I guess we have to fish earlier.

Heading out tomorrow to brave the cold ass temps on the ice. Some of these goof balls are heading out about 1 or 2 tomorrow AM. There isn't a lake in WI that I'm willing to get up that early to go fish in below 0 temps on.

I'll meet them up there tomorrow at 6am, catch my 3 eyeballers by 9 and drink till noon. Have lunch and go home.

make some room ot there Dave! 27" thats pretty good. i have yet to get one over 25. this winter is going to be good though i think. my 5yr old got a 26 and a 25 last year. -35 here last weekend tzone and the lake was hopping like crazy i guess. not by me though, nice and toasty at home!

I'm almost ready to flip a coin between 5 mile & south tip...

We're not getting that nasty cold you guys up there are. -35 and I'll watch fishing on TV.

If I had a shack, it would be a different story. I'm running warm clothes and choppers. I'll go hang with the boys for a while, but I'm not going to freeze my buns doing it.

27 through the hole is a nice fish. Biggest I've caught through the ice is 25".

I'm heading out to maple in an hour, maybe the crappies have started biting.

gonna fill up the belly with fresh elk first

good luck to all, stay safe!