Way north bass guy

Holy smokes, that’s just about as tight as you can get with a boat and garage ?

Wife likes this, I don’t mind it either. Has a green apple sort of flavour, but it’s not too strong and also not too sweet. Pretty cheap too.

Well, there’s still ice on the lakes here, but today was one of the most wonderful days of the year. The day the boat gets pulled out of hibernation at my shop and gets brought down to the house garage to start prepping for the season. Have a couple things to adjust, and gonna give the Suzuki a new impeller change, and then vacuum and clean everything and load her up! By the looks of the forecast for here, I’d say ( with fingers crossed of course), that I’m looking at about 6 more days and a wake up ?.

My boats have all been pretty clean so I’ve not had to worry about it, but I’ve read many times about putting a bar of soap in the bilge with several gallons of water, and then towing it down the road a bit to swish it all around, then Jack up the front end and rinse it out. Seems like something that might work.

Haha, I’ve never done that in the boat before but have done it a few times on the snowmobile. All you can do is just shake your head and be thankful that it didn’t cost you too much in parts or a needless mechanic visit.

Nice! Not likely gonna get you across Lake Erie, but with a bit of TLC you’ll have that sucker ready to fill with bass in no time. It’ll fill the need to float just fine until your next big boat I’m sure.

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I agree with @TnRiver46. Up here, our bass season for the most part doesn’t open until after they’ve done spawning, and we can’t fish for them in most areas when the seasons closed. Not the end of the world, cause there’s way to many other species that are open to worry about it. And no matter what the conditions are or the time of year it is, there is ALWAYS something that’s eating, somewhere in the lake.

And that’s why I work by myself. Most days are very peaceful, get to do things at my own pace, and I only have one idiot to deal with day after day ?

I’m only about 20 min away from the Mushquash river. Funny you mention me working on a logging crew, I’ve never done that, but my grandfather was a teamster working with the horses in the lumber camps back in the 40s. I heard some great stories about those days. He used to run a two horse team with a tanker sleigh that they used to flood the ice at night on the lakes, to build up the thickness to support the weight of the massive logs. He said there was several nights it was below -50C, and they had to stop working because the horses noses were freezing up and they couldn’t breath.

Sadly, I think it’s gonna be a bit longer before we see any blooms on ours.

Finished moving the last of my materials to another island job today. This time it was 480 bricks to repair a chimney once the ice goes out. Today was definitely my last day on the ice. This shove went across the entire lake, and there was only one spot about 50yds long where I could safely get across. Supposed to get quite warm starting this weekend so hopefully I’ll be boating within a couple weeks.

Thanks. I’ll try to remember to get a pic of it when I’m done, won’t likely be for another month at least though. Here’s a pic of the bottom half I built a few years ago. They’ve added an extension onto the existing wood deck, so now I have to continue the steps up the hill another 30’ or so. Luckily it’s pretty much all bare bedrock so there’s not a lot of prep work. Sorry for the sideways pic, but you get the idea of what it looks like.

My workout for the day. Delivered 4 tons of 2” thick flagstone to the landing for an island job today. Tomorrow I’m moving it all across the ice to the island cottage, where I’ll use it to build stone steps, once the ice goes and it warms up enough to mix mortar and lay stone. It’s not quite the same as an @A-Jay workout, but still gets the blood pumping ?.

That’s a cool looking fish, and a pudgy one at that.

No robins here yet, but I expect some any day now. Half our yard is grass again. We have had a bunch of red winged blackbirds at the feeder, they’re usually our first true sign of warmer days to come. Also heard some geese at the lake yesterday. Things are slowly looking up.

Get out on that lawn and start pitching to the edge of the ice. Doubt you’ll catch anything, but it’ll sure feel nice to try ( and be good practice too).

I play hockey every week, from July until the end of March when the ice comes out at the local arena. Haven’t touched my skates since exactly a year ago, when COVID shut down all hockey rinks around here. Well, today the lake behind our house was a perfect, giant natural rink. The kid and I spent a couple hours this afternoon with a couple pucks, and all the ice we could ever skate on. Boy, it sure was nice to get out for a skate again, although I did have the endurance of an 80 year old woman. According to the forecast, that’ll be the only chance we likely get to have a skate, but that’s fine by me cause the boat is coming down from storage to my garage next weekend to start prepping for open water.

Thanks. There’s two hook eyes drilled and screwed into the mortar joint between two stones, then I drilled a couple holes in the skull and wired it in place. Makes a great mitten and glove drier in the winter too ?

Thanks. Built it myself. That’s my day job, I’m a fourth generation stonemason.

Those look nice. I mounted my big guy up on the fireplace, it’s about the only place that’s in an area where someone won’t poke their eyes out ?, and it looks decent up there.

Among the hundreds of smallmouth I caught on them last summer, I also fished several areas that had a mixed bag of smallmouth/largemouth, and caught quite a few green bass as well. The flatworm does quite well for me on a drop shot around docks in clear water, especially if there isn’t a ton of heavy vegetation or brush mixed in.

Not working here too well right now. Maybe in 3 or 4 more weeks.

Extreme pre-spawn!

Good on ya for helping out a new bassboat owner ??.Tell him to get some pics once he’s got it all cleaned up and loaded the way he wants, and throw it on here so we can all see his new joy.