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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Other than in the most sourtherly regions of the muskie range, ice seems to have locked out our hopes for the pursuit. What will YOU be doing to pass the time this winter? Personally, I'd like to drop 10lbs before March, make the Chicago Swap Meet a huge success, and maybe even stick on a USAV team. I'll probably also spend a good amount of time looking at my boat in the garage. |
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| "I'll probably also spend a good amount of time looking at my boat in the garage"
My wife would get a kick out of that comment as she always laughs at me - out in the garage with my boat, all winter:) I just like to caress her (my boat that is) and tell her I still care, it won't be long...
I will spend countless hours organizing tackle and "working" on the boat. She often comments that I love my boat as much or more than her:)
Reminds me of an email I got recently:
Letter to Mens Helpline:
Hey mate, really need your advice for a serious problem.
I have suspected for some time now that the missus has been
cheating.
The usual signs; Phone rings, if I answer the caller hangs up,
going out with the girls a lot.
I try to stay awake to look out for her when she comes home but
I usually fall asleep.
Anyway last night about midnight I hid in the shed behind the
boat, when she came home she got out of someone's car buttoning
her blouse, then she took her panties out of her purse and
slipped them on... It was at that moment, crouched behind the boat,
that I noticed a "hairline crack" in the outboard mounting
bracket. Is that something I can weld or do I need to replace
it?
Landry
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Location: Indiana | Ice fishing of course, and this winter i wanted to try making and tying my own bucktails. The rivers are still open in my area but its getting too #*^@ cold to fish. Also going to the Chicago Expo next month!
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Make some venison sausage
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Actually the winter months is time for relaxing and catchup from all the days of musky fishing and deer hunting that have consumed me since the first of May.
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Location: Barrington, Il | I'm going to ski as much as possible. Both Cross country and downhill. Probably going to make a trip to Utah to ski with friends. Let it snow!!!!!! |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Get caught up on rod building, personal tying, get my guitar finger callouses back up, DVR'd fishing shows, naps. I've already got a few early orders for next year coming in, so tying will be #1 for the next several months, but I enjoy it, so I'm not complaining. |
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Location: The desert | millsie - 12/7/2010 10:18 AM
I'm going to ski as much as possible. Both Cross country and downhill. Probably going to make a trip to Utah to ski with friends. Let it snow!!!!!!
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Ice fishing, snowmobiling and dreaming of spring. |
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| By the end of the season, my gear is usually in such disarray that I NEED a few months off. I need to go through all my gear, and sell some lures that haven't been used in years. All my reels need to be cleaned, I've got rods I don't use, lures without hooks, lures with hooks that need to be sharpened. I need to make a bunch of leaders, because I think I am down to two or three left. The biggest project? I want to lose 30 pounds this winter. Scratch that, I NEED to lose 30 pounds. You never realize until you see a picture of yourself. Holy crap, man.
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Pizza. And putting on our new Big Moss indoor putting green if it ever gets here. And making sure my daughter rehabs correctly from her upcoming wrist surgery so she's ready to hit balls by March.
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and of course looking online at new things to buy will consume alot of time and money
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Location: Rhinelander, WI | I'll be spending my winter tying flies and playing hockey. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | esoxaddict - 12/7/2010 11:42 AM
The biggest project? I want to lose 30 pounds this winter. Scratch that, I NEED to lose 30 pounds. You never realize until you see a picture of yourself. Holy crap, man.
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Location: Richfield, MN | I will be learning how to make leaders.
I really want to learn how to make baits of some sort but have no idea where to start. So I guess for now it will be leaders. Unless of coarse there is someone out there that is willing to teach a old fat guy a new trade!!!! LOL
I will also be working on my 20' Crestliner making a box for the front where the seat mounts. I am wanting to put a taller pole so that I can use a butt seat verses sitting so low to the boat. Wished Crestliner had a pole long enough to allow a person to be able to stand and lean against a seat. So this will be a something I work on in the winter@!!!! |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | happy hooker - 12/7/2010 4:12 PM
building my third 1/16th scale remote control tank with an airsoft pellet shooting gun 'lottsa fun with the neighbors cat"
That sounds cool. You should post some pictures of that.
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| kevin
not tech enough for pics but google
'creepingdeathRC'
then when in site hit ENTER
and click on arrow in the the photo window for a sample video,,, I have the tiger
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Location: Hopefully on the water | Kids wrestling season starts Thursday night and with a couple of tourneys and work it will be a busy, fast winter. Hope to hit a couple of shows this winter and a swap meet. I need to get rid of some bait but have to go through them first. Plus get a littel icefishing in here and there. |
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| It's trout season now. Time to tie flies and get the dust off the old long rods. Funny thing is, I now have a 9'3" musky rod that's longer than my fly rods. It's kind of a trip going from 80 pound to 7x tippet that rates out around 2 pound. |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | happy hooker - 12/7/2010 4:40 PM
kevin
not tech enough for pics but google
'creepingdeathRC'
then when in site hit ENTER
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Ha! That's pretty cool. I like the shooting down of the empty cans.
I know a guy from a golf website that designs flight simulation software for WWII fighters. Something along those lines. I built more than a few plastic planes and tanks when I was a kid. Some ships, too.
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Location: On the water | Landry, that was the best post I've read in a long time.
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Location: Minnesota | Chasing these guy's
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| i will be building baits as the snow flies. occasionly looking out. 30ft from my shop to the house. thats my whole world unless i am getting supplie.
cmon spring |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | adding to the ff miles i'm sure ... ughhhh
kid has his second varsity wrestling season underway so try to get to as many of those meets as humanly possible ...
as much time on the ice with family as possible
some snowshoeing
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| Rocking out in my basement. Just got some new drum mics and bought a telecaster this fall. |
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Location: Barrington, Il | Pointerpride102 - 12/7/2010 11:30 AM
millsie - 12/7/2010 10:18 AM
I'm going to ski as much as possible. Both Cross country and downhill. Probably going to make a trip to Utah to ski with friends. Let it snow!!!!!!
Already a lot of snow at some of the better resorts. Which resorts are you planning on going to?
My old college roommate lives in Paradise at the southern end of Cache Valley. I went to Utah State. We'll probably just ski Beaver Mountain, his family has a pass, and backcountry in Logan Canyon. However, Snow Basin is my favorite ski area in Utah. |
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| I could stand to loose about 15#s from my face and anouther 20 from my budda . Go threw the bait boxs make room for some new stuff , tie a few bucktails , clean my reels and start getting back in shape for volleyball. |
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| Muddy41 - 12/7/2010 2:00 PM
I will be learning how to make leaders.
I really want to learn how to make baits of some sort but have no idea where to start. So I guess for now it will be leaders. Unless of coarse there is someone out there that is willing to teach a old fat guy a new trade!!!! LOL
I will also be working on my 20' Crestliner making a box for the front where the seat mounts. I am wanting to put a taller pole so that I can use a butt seat verses sitting so low to the boat. Wished Crestliner had a pole long enough to allow a person to be able to stand and lean against a seat. So this will be a something I work on in the winter@!!!!
Check w/ Springfield. They made a "Custom" post for my father-in-law a few years back. The price was very reasonable for "custom". Hope this helps. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | msky3 - 12/8/2010 5:53 PM
3674 posts and has nothing to offer
Dude,
3674 posts and I'm impressed that He hasn't been banned !
Have ya ever heard of sarcasem before ? And have you read all of his posts?
I have seen him messing with your heads and get a good chuckle now and then ,Plus He seems to know a little bit about fish........... ya know,.... his profession.
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I have a long seat pole for the bow seat in my 18' Crestliner Serenity. It works great. Not sure if one's available for your model.....mine's 2005.....but it should be!
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Location: Richfield, MN | ErieBoy75 - 12/8/2010 7:08 PM
Muddy
I have a long seat pole for the bow seat in my 18' Crestliner Serenity. It works great. Not sure if one's available for your model.....mine's 2005.....but it should be!
ErieBoy75
I have check every where and talked to the sales rep that sold me the boat I could not find anything long enough. Everyone basically said the same thing as far as using a long pole in that the bracket that mounts to the floor and holds the rod would eventually come loose in time.
I know someone on here said something about making a box and fitting it in the front of the boat so that it is level with the front deck and then mount a bracket and pole on the box. I think they had made one for theres and the frame was made out of metal for sturdiness and covered up in marine wood.
So that is kinda the way I am leaning towards is making a box to fit and see if that will hold up my fat arse!!!!!!
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| Pointerpride102 - 12/8/2010 7:06 PM
The yahoo needs to read the title of the thread. Perhaps he might catch on.....I doubt it though.
I'm am impressed he's read all my posts. Maybe I will make him an honorary member of my fan club.
Good idea, add him to you and that will bring it up to 2, and then you can refer to it as a "group". |
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| brewcrew - 12/8/2010 7:31 PM
Playing lots of Hockey, icefishing, making leaders, modifying baits, and trying to gain 10 pounds
Heheheh.. Dude. "trying to gain ten pounds"... I remember those days!! Everybody over the age of 30 laughed at me and told me I had no idea how lucky I was. |
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| Haha, I am trying to eat little over 10,000 calories a day and the weight isn't coming easy |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Indoor Football, Indoor Baseball training, Kung Foo, and some Hockey for my Boy's. I'm just the driver and the guy who writes the checks. Working on a floor hockey rink in the basement, I'll have it completed this weekend and every kid in the neighborhood will be over. Just a few blue lines to mark and get one more net and it's done. |
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| brewcrew - 12/9/2010 6:02 PM
Haha, I am trying to eat little over 10,000 calories a day and the weight isn't coming easy
hopefully those are good calories and not coming from burger king, ice cream, cake, etc....otherwise it wont be good....very difficult to consume that many calories coming from qaulity food like chicken breast, lean red meat, protein supplements, salmon, fish, baked potato, oatmeal, etc...10k calories coming from quality food you will probably need to be eating constantly (no fast food)..hopefully your working out twice a day too. Otherwise its only a matter of time unitl you look like a humpty dumpty.
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Location: Columbus, Georgia | Repeatedly watching all of my Musky DVD's, and by mid-January I'll be checking to see which new ones have come out since last winter. |
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| Thanks for the info. It has been really hard finding food with that many calories but I eat a good breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I also have to eat a lot of things like peanut butter sandwhices, nuts, and protein bars between all these meals. During a day I normally end up with about 6-7 meals. |
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| Unfortunately, we have fed our cat a little excessively, even counting the times when he HASN'T managed to chew his way into the cat food bag and bloat himself. After spending a winter and a half rodent free, this winter had a litte batrd show up in the pantry, tearing things up and making a mess at a rapid pace. Quickly mounted the standard trap defense and the little batrd licked the peanut butter right off the pans of 3/4 traps. Tip: Dollar store traps have frightfull excessive springs in them, but mediocre triggers. If they are triggered they will nearly cut the little twerps in half, but...
Anyway, changed the bait from peanut butter to good old Kraft sliced cheese and smooshed it on the pan and smeared a little under the trigger bar. Cheese kind of hardens when on a trap, much like it hardens in your arteries, great stuff. Can't lick that off! Got the little batrd!!
Nothing beats the manlyman feeling like protecting the tribes food resources from the ravages of wild animals...
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| brewcrew - 12/12/2010 9:20 AM
Thanks for the info. It has been really hard finding food with that many calories but I eat a good breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I also have to eat a lot of things like peanut butter sandwhices, nuts, and protein bars between all these meals. During a day I normally end up with about 6-7 meals.
thats good....if u want to get real crazy....you can always set your alarm clock at around 3 or 4am to wake up and eat another meal too - then back to sleep - that works good too. |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | Making lures for both the Chicago Show and the new Michigan show in Monroe this year. Ice fishing and we have a late doe shoot with rifles from December 20th to Jan. 1st. Im in for two more deer. Its the lure making time for us though. We build over half of the lures we sell during the winter months. Mike |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Very nice FSF!!!! We're holding on to 7+ years of cat defended rodent freedom. Have seen a few outside, but none are brave enough to cross the line. I hate that dang cat, but he's done his jobs well (sleep, eat, sleep, sleep, freak mice out somehow, and stink up the litterbox). |
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Location: The desert | tuffy1 - 12/13/2010 6:29 PM
Very nice FSF!!!! We're holding on to 7+ years of cat defended rodent freedom. Have seen a few outside, but none are brave enough to cross the line. I hate that dang cat, but he's done his jobs well (sleep, eat, sleep, sleep, freak mice out somehow, and stink up the litterbox).
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Got rid of that smelly a$$ Cat and replaced it with 10 Tons of decon !
Seems to be working pretty well, and keeps the strays and cyotes from pi$$ing all over the place..
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| Top H2O - 12/13/2010 10:42 PM
Got rid of that smelly a$$ Cat and replaced it with 10 Tons of decon !
Seems to be working pretty well, and keeps the strays and cyotes from pi$$ing all over the place..
Ah yes, decon, but alas the little critters die in the walls and under the floor, and when the carcasses warm up it will stink. And it will stink baaaaaaaaad. |
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| I am going crazy I have to get my muskie fix!! Here are a couple pictures of where I use to fish when winter froze me out. The Gulf of Mexico off from alabama actually Gulf Shores Alabama. We use to catch redfish and sheephead consistantly. Now I am worried the fishery is damaged too bad for any kind of sucess.
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Location: Minnesota | brewcrew - 12/12/2010 9:20 AM
Thanks for the info. It has been really hard finding food with that many calories but I eat a good breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I also have to eat a lot of things like peanut butter sandwhices, nuts, and protein bars between all these meals. During a day I normally end up with about 6-7 meals.
Not to come off sounding like a know it all, but unless you're running a marathon every day, there's no way you're eating 10,000 cal/day and not gaining weight. Most likely, you aren't getting the amount of calories you think you're getting. How do you measure your food?
Not to sound like a d*ck, but this is something I deal with all all of the time and I work with some of the top "weight gain professionals" in the world. |
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Location: Minnesota | Trust me, I understand that. I can help you out. What is your current weight? Are you trying to dirty bulk or clean bulk?
One thing to do is to get a kitchen scale so you can measure everything you eat. Then, go to a site like www.nutritiondata.com and calculate exactly what you're eating. Keep a journal to track what you're eating and you have a base reading. You can adjust your diet accordingly. This goes for people trying to lose or gain weight.
One of my training partners is currently trying to go from 360 to 375 in the next 8 weeks to help him hit a 900 lb deadlift. In order to eat his target of 7000-8000 cal/day, he's chugging whole milk and putting olive oil on everything he eats. Those two things are key to gaining "dirty" weight.
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| Winter months -Well I actually get some work done and usually find a couple of weeks to take the fly-rods south of the border.
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Location: Alexandria, Minnesota | Jealous of those pictures IAJustin, Is that in Cabo or Mazatlan?
I just freeze my butt off here in Minnesota and watch the Vikings stick it up. |
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| Dave Williamson - 12/19/2010 12:03 PM
Jealous of those pictures IAJustin, Is that in Cabo or Mazatlan?
Its Cabo - I love to muskie fish - but if I could afford it I would never leave the ocean - if anyone ever gets down to cabo san lucas I would highly recommend "mi amigo" Grant Hartman with Baja Anglers check out some of his youtube videos on his website:
www.baja-anglers.com
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Usually break out the 6.5 Swede at least once over the winter and go with a few buddies of mine who are as fanatical about coyote hunting as all of us are about muskies. Greasing coyotes at 400 or 500 yards with a good rifle is just plain fun
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