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Windy here? Hard to believe. Edk

ERK;
Good evening to you sir, I hope the day was well behaved for you and you're keeping warm enough in the latest cool weather.

Thanks for the chuckle, I had to look up the spot you mentioned and see that it's not far from Virden where we used to have family - who moved to Winnipeg where it's never ever windy either.

Actually some of the Winnipeg family have a cabin down at Rock Lake which is just north east of you folks too if I'm not mixed up once again.

Way back in the day I was chatting with a fellow from Wyoming who gave me the impression nowhere else in the world had wind and cold like they did. While I allowed that it was prone to be brisk there, we'd been downtown Portage and Main a few times that we got frostbite going from the vehicle into the store.

Ah, prairie winters!

Best to you folks.

Dwayne

We missed the snow here but got the 20 below but only a 7 mph breeze. Toasty in my recliner. Hope the storm people do ok. Edk

Yeah, no snow here, yet either.

Brutal temps though.

-38*C here, on the way to work.

Sun's out & -22*C ambient @ 11:25am

Paul;
Morning sir, holy smoke that's cold!!

Just got back in from a lake 5 minutes from the house - Vaseux Lake - where I'd done okay for perch a week ago.

It's only -5° but really quite windy.

Drilled the hole and the ice felt punky this morning and was about 4" thinner than last week.

Tried to put up the tent and immediately one anchor point got ripped off the tent.

The anchors really, REALLY were cracking the ice too.

Since Vaseux is part of the Okanagan River system, they vary how much water comes in and out this time of year and there was some open water on top of the ice south of me.....

I give up!!

Back home, microwaved what was left of the morning coffee, built a fire in the garage woodstove and will see what it takes to repair the tent in a little bit.

All of these are First World problems to be sure.

Best to you all today my friend.

Dwayne

We got 12 walleye (3 person limit) on Saturday;



Then 20 crappie (2 person limit), 3 walleye & a perch, on Sunday;



Tempura battered crappie;

Just got back from cruising the Caribbean & Mexico !

Little cool here, lol !

Doug & a buddy, got a couple of dandies, while we were gone !!!





Little bit of wildlife, on the trail, going in;

Paul how thick is the lake ice? The lakes are open here in Iowa.

Thinking still 2+ feet Richard, haven't been out since our cruise.

Thanks Paul.

Saturday;







Sunday;







It's good to be us !

Good going Paul, do the crappie's mean you were fishing Wabigoon?

Not wabi, Wabi !!!

Noice!!! Didja get 'em on jigs?

Crappie were rattlespoons, tipped with minnow heads or wax worms.

Walleye were jig & minnows.

Interesting world, Paul is fishing trough two feet of ice, Barry is cutting grass, and killing copperheads.

Yeah, on account of you can't catch copperheads through the ice. But I hear they're great beer battered and deep fried.

We're somewhere in between in Central Ontario. We had a few warmer days with rain and the snow is almost gone because of it. But it is -3 Celsius (26 Foreignheat) and sunny outside. No one is ice fishing here.

New recipe for us !

Deb made Parmesan crusted crappie fillets, man were they good !





Cheers;

That sure looks good Paul!