MN Fisher

They're close cousins and while Pike can get big, on average Muskys are bigger. State Records Northern Pike: 45# 12oz Purebred Musky: 54# 0oz All the pike I've caught or lost have been good fighters.

Budget - Onyx AM-24 Best - Mustang HIT

Yo-Zuri 3DB 110 and 110-Deep

I got a thread on it - it's 4 hours of guided fishing on Minnetonka.

You could land on it - there's 4 'seaplane' bases on the lake.

I backfill my spinning reels with this https://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/zebco-cajun-smooth-cast-low-vis-quarter-pound-spool/0000000294339 1850yds of .010" 6# test for $6.49+tax (free shipping) Then only put 60-70 yds of mainline on...that's 3 fills from a 200yd spool of InvizX $20.99+ tax for 8# InvizX - again, free shipping https://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/seaguar-invvizx-fishing-line/0000000258377?Ntt=invizx&_requestid=2974312

Ya - last season I had 8# InvizX on a President XT-30...really manageable with KVD L&L added to the mix.

Tonka's got quite a wide variety of fish in it. This is stated as a bass trip, but we might tag into some ESOX or Walleyes 2018, a guy pulled this 54" musky out of the lake. Some big northerns have also been caught And the walleye aren't bad either

Ya - while there are brown-bass in Tonka, they're few and far between.

In addition to the guided trip, the wife also added to my reel collection. This brings my arsenal additions this year to 7 new reels (5-BC, 2-Spin) and 5 new rods (4-BC, 1-Spin)

I'm planning on making sure my Vision-4 camera is working properly and filming the whole thing. External lapel mic, 256gb card, external battery good for 12 hours - long as everything is good, I should be set.

So the wife saved this one until this morning. She got me a 4-hour guided trip on Tonka for the middle of June While it IS my home lake, and I do fairly well on it - this is going to give me personalized details on when/where/how as well as some more detailed lure selections. How she scraped up the money for it, I don't know...but she did and I'm almost in shock here.

He just forgot the pay the bill again, and She got on his case...

Ya, well my March re-spooling is just the crappie rigs. Bass season doesn't open here until the middle of May, so the bass rigs don't get re-spooled until the beginning of May.

Ya - our warm-up is only going to be in the mid to upper 30s...won't even affect the ice cover as it'll just re-freeze overnight. Reels have been stripped, there'll be some maintenance later. I don't expect to re-spool until sometime in March at the earliest.

^ What RW said Or if you want to stick with mono - Sufix Siege 8#. If your reel is a 2000-2500 size, I wouldn't go above 8# test, mono gets too unwieldy because of the memory.

Send that east...

Yep - considering our present opening was on the Solstice...holiday's been over for us for 3 days now.

Is the RCMP gonna come help dig you out?

If I post remotely - it's usually from my tablet...like a phone, but a larger 'keyboard'. Most times is from my desktop or net-book (like a laptop but smaller)

Should make him detail it too..

If mine went out for long enough, I'd be digging in the camping box for my two stoves, the grill and the lantern. I'd set up those and the propane heater by the fireplace with a small battery-powered fan so the fumes go up the chimney. I've got a full 20# bottle for the heater and 8-1# bottles for the others. Can't actually have a fire - wife would suffer an asthma attack, otherwise I'd switch the propane heater for lighting up the fireplace,

Dobyns Fury 765Flip - 7'6", 1/4-2oz Daiwa CA-80 XS - 8.3:1, 35.0 IPT 50# Sufix 832

Our temps are finally in the plus column for the first time in 62 hours. +0.9 at my house right now.