Forum: Strictly Fishing
01-26-2021, 06:32 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,535
Northwoods Outlet
Northwoods Outlet is great if you know what you're after. It's a jumbled, crowded, warehouse
with low prices. Wait til you get a look on a busy day. Multiple cash registers with lines. The
prices...
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Forum: Strictly Fishing
01-23-2021, 09:06 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 405
Going to Fla Keys
Going to Keys in March. Chum has gotten expensive. Anybody make their own and have
an economical recipe they'll share?
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Forum: Canada
11-22-2020, 09:12 AM
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Replies: 126
Views: 32,173
Odds
I was trolling on Hodenpyle Dam backwaters in Michigan using a Rapala Count Down.
Got a tug and reeled in my Count Down Rapala with the rear hook through the eye
of an identical Count Down Rapala....
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Forum: General Discussion
11-22-2020, 09:08 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,469
Heart cath
The heart cath was a piece of cake. No pain and I could watch on the 3 tvs they had
as the wire went here and there in my heart. A few days later they gutted me like a
perch, but now I'm fit as a...
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Forum: Trailers and Tow Vehicles
11-10-2020, 09:10 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 7,519
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Forum: WC Bone Yard
10-15-2020, 06:07 PM
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Replies: 119
Views: 22,615
The front page of the Wall Street Journal,...
The front page of the Wall Street Journal, October 15, has an article about one million
Canadian Sno-Birds who expected to be leaving for Florida and the American South in the next
month and won't...
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Forum: Trailers and Tow Vehicles
10-15-2020, 01:18 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 6,163
$ 5 dollar boat guides
1. Go to a dollar store and buy a kids foam float tube. You know about 4-6" in diameter and
about 4' long.
2. Buy two 12" bungee cords with hooks on both ends.
3. Cut two 10" lengths of foam...
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Forum: WC Bone Yard
10-13-2020, 12:15 PM
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Replies: 119
Views: 22,615
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Forum: WC Bone Yard
10-09-2020, 06:26 AM
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Replies: 119
Views: 22,615
Fishing lodges and their income are all that's...
Fishing lodges and their income are all that's left in some areas. Once the lumber is cut and
the mills close these towns empty out. When the railroad left Nakina it started to die. The last
time I...
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Forum: WC Bone Yard
10-08-2020, 06:58 PM
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Replies: 119
Views: 22,615
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Forum: WC Bone Yard
10-08-2020, 09:59 AM
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Replies: 119
Views: 22,615
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Forum: Canada
10-07-2020, 05:49 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 4,589
It depends on whether you want to fly fish for...
It depends on whether you want to fly fish for pike or just catch pike [or walleyes] on a fly rod.
Any kind of streamer on an 8' bass rod will catch pike. Throw it near a downed tree and hang on....
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Forum: General Discussion
10-07-2020, 05:29 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,623
boat cleaning
The Works is good. Starbrite hull cleaner is good also, but more expensive. I've found that anything
with oxalic acid will take off a scum line and you can buy it in any hardware or WalMart. I used...
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Forum: General Discussion
10-07-2020, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,653
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Forum: Trailers and Tow Vehicles
10-07-2020, 05:07 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 6,163
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Forum: Trailers and Tow Vehicles
10-06-2020, 08:26 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 7,519
rotted bunks
If you buy Weather Shield at Home Depot it's treated with/by Koppers Performance Chemicals.
It's on the yellow tag. That is MCA, MicronizedCopperAzole. It can be in DIRECT contact with
aluminum....
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Forum: Trailers and Tow Vehicles
10-03-2020, 09:55 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 7,519
rotten bunks
Hard to believe I'm still obsessing over this but Home Depot [where the wood was bought] has
a website for Weathershield, their treated lumber. They say:" Aluminum products can be in direct
contact...
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Forum: WC Bone Yard
10-02-2020, 03:06 PM
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Replies: 119
Views: 22,615
Canada
Looking on the bright side, think of how many big walleyes weren't caught this year by
US visitors and are waiting for us in 2021!
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Forum: Trailers and Tow Vehicles
10-02-2020, 09:44 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 7,519
rotten bunks
It's hard to make a decision based on "we believe, but don't know for sure," "could seep,"
"we don't presuppose to know what that chemical would do to aluminum." The "chemical" is
probably ACQ and...
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Forum: Trailers and Tow Vehicles
10-02-2020, 08:23 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 7,519
Shorelander nice response
Doug Clough from Midwestindustries [ ShoreLandr] says: "We don't use treated lumber for 4
reasons..." [This paraphrases]...1. Pine stays soft and kind to hulls 2. Treated wood when drying
twists...
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Forum: Members Fishing Reports
10-02-2020, 07:59 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,813
Rocks
Yes. The entire UP is a great big rock with iron and copper mixed in and water over
the top. And trees.
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Forum: Trailers and Tow Vehicles
10-01-2020, 12:11 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 7,519
rotted bunks
Sounds good and the price seems OK as well. It looks like you install them by bending the
sides over and nailing or screwing them into the sides of the wood. If so I can put them over
the cqrpet...
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Forum: Trailers and Tow Vehicles
10-01-2020, 11:09 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 7,519
rotten bunks
Does it go over carpet or just bare wood? I'd need another 8'...do you know if they sell shorter
than 24 foot lengths? It looks like it would solve the problem for me.
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Forum: Trailers and Tow Vehicles
10-01-2020, 10:08 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 7,519
Rotten Bunks
There are a million opinions on this subject and many conflict. You can find disagreements on
bunks on other threads of WC. The weight is on don't use treated lumber for bunks. OK, I've
got it and...
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Forum: Members Fishing Reports
09-30-2020, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,813
Michagamme
1. Big lake. Really big for the US.
2. Rocky, very rocky.
3 Gets shallow fast and is **** on props.
4.Has muskys, etc.
5. Did I mention it's rocky?
6. Nightcrawlers and minnows and don't move...
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