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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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Snowshoeing
Beer
Muskyshows
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Superbowl
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A little icefishing
Beer
Make some venison sausage
Beer
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!!!!!!
Already a lot of snow at some of the better resorts. Which resorts are you planning on going to? |
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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.
Kevin
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | Fox river in Northern Illinois stays open all year so I wade around and cast about every weekend  It's a 10 min drive from my house and the musky feed all winter. Besides that school, friends and family, and working out will keep me busy. And when it's not musky fishing the smallies are fun but they don't start biting til mid-march, so I got a while.
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.
Wow |
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Location: Des Moines IA | 2 boats that I need to do some work on. Hit the Chicago Show. Finish out the Archery season. In the meantime, relax, recoup, and sort/sell excess tackle ......... |
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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: McFarland | Hopefully some of these...  |
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| building my third 1/16th scale remote control tank with an airsoft pellet shooting gun 'lottsa fun with the neighbors cat" |
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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
and click on arrow in the the photo window for a sample video,,, I have the tiger
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.
Kevin
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Location: On the water | Landry, that was the best post I've read in a long time.
I'm still laughing. Thanks Tom |
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Location: Minnesota | Chasing these guy's
While dreaming about these guy's
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| With around 15-20 inches of fresh powder for the weekend, I will be snowboarding to keep busy...with the occasional fly fishing trip...going to be an epic snowboarding season in CO this year, already great snow! BR |
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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
and 30 pounds |
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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: WI | Start skiing (cross country) soon, break out the skates and play some hockey. Maybe snowboard and snowshoe a few times. Not enough snow yet to ski where I want to. |
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Location: MN | I am back to working long hours at work and studying for a test I have next June. No more play time for me until June 5th, 2011... except for occassionally organizing and re-organzing my lures. I am slowly trying to claw my way forward in a career so I can one day I have one of those big, beatufiful, and way out of my price range Ranger 619/620s!
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