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My personal best on Salmon is a 26# King caught on the Silitz River in Oregon. Also caught a 24 pounder that day. My son beat me though with a 36# and 26# King.

Best I've done on the great lakes was a 12# Silver.

Gary, just checked it out. Looks great. Lots of time and effort on your part. Think I'd better save up my $ and get a copy.

Thanks Bill, the price makes me cringe when i look at it, Im not making much from it, they just charge alot to make a nice book.

How much time do you have invested in putting this together Gary?

Very cool Gary!!

Thanks Dave.

Bill I have 2 years of collecting, countless hours of searching through photos, and about 20 hours into the book.

Great book and pics, Gary. Thanks for posting.

I had a great time lastnight. It was so nice to see you Dave and the family. Why is it that we always stay up so late (4 am). We just get talking and lose track of time. It was fun though, I can't believe RWS hung in there with us.

Hope to see you next weekend for the old timers run.

We'll be there. Watch for me in the old timer's snowmobile run, I'll be on this.

Dave I must tell you a story that your new sled brings from my past.

I think it was 1986 and I had only owned single cylinder sleds. I also had a three wheeler that i had punctured a tire on.

I asked a kid named Tim to give me a ride on his snow jet 440 widetrack down to Ziggys house, where we where going to fix the tire.

Tim, who was a big guy who went to state as a wrestler, let me and my tire hop on his machine. It should be known that he hadnt had the sno jet very long.

We where heading down a hill to the main street in kellly lake and he hit the throttle hard. It stuck. Wide open. Carb had got covered in frost.

We shot down the hill, across main street, into a yard. I rolled off into the snow with my tire cause he was yelling that it wouldnt stop.

Just before he hit a large rock pile he flipped the choke and killed it.

He got off cursing and swore he would never get on it again and walked home. as he left I offered him 20.00 for it and he said fine.

I hustled to ziggys to drop off the tire and ran home to get a 20 and a bottle of heat to defrost the carb. We always carried it to dump on the carb if it got frosted up.

To his house to pay him then off to my new machine. And what a machine it was. I took the crappy torn seat off and rode it sitting on the alu body. Light, low and faster than I had ever gone on a sled.

Sorry for the ramble but I could just sit on it, crack the throttle and it would spin a [bleep] from a stand still. Oh what a sled! Think it was a Yamaha 440. Thanks for the drunken flashback Dave!

Gary,
Great looking book.You have always been DA MAN as far as old photos go here on 24HR.

Stan In SC

That SnoJet sure brings back memories. My Dad and late brother sold SnoJets, so I got to ride them quite a bit.

What year is yours Dave?

Very Very cool Garry.

I like it a lot. How long did it take you to create that book.

Oh, that kind of oldtimers run.... I thought it was for old people. You know, those over 33.

Great story Grogel, it made for a good morning laugh!

Bill, I'm pretty sure it's a 72. Pam's dad bought it new & he had it out in one of his barns. We're going to run it in to the carwash this morning & spray some of the dust off the ole gal.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say it's a 440? My uncle had a Whisper Jet that had just over 100 miles on it when he quit riding it. It sat in his garage for years then he donated it to a youth organization. All it needed was a new fuel tank to get it going.

My brother and I were just talking about his sled a few weeks back and kicking ourselves for not grabbing and restoring it.

Neat old sled. Does she run?

My dad had a 72 Skidoo something or other. He bought it new and sold it a few years ago.

Silver Bullet I think it was called.

It will.

I'm going to go work on it a bit right now as a matter of fact.

Bill, engine size is 433 on this one, kawi engine, twin cylinder fan cooled.

Tank is in the belly pan up front.

That is going to be pretty cool sled when you get it all cleaned up.

I am going to place an order for Chickenbuck apparel on February 10th. So those of you interested, PM me with what you want.

OMG the Sno Jet is going again! I'm giggling. I'll have to call Dad and let him know that the kids are riding around the yard on his snowmobile.

This brings tears to my eyes but then if any of you know me well enough, you know that just about anything does.