Ice Fishing Get Together


Shaun_300

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Just wanted to let everyone know that a few of us are planning to get together to go ice fishing for a day, maybe part of another day up at my grandma's. RangerClay, Muff and myself did this a couple years ago and had a blast! Hoping to do this again this year sometime. Dates still to be determined when we know how many is coming when people can get off at the same time. We'll be fishing on Golden Lake, ON. This is about 2 - 2 1/2 hours from the Canada/US border at Thousand Islands, north end of I-81. Hope to get a few new people up this year to join in on the fun! Thought I'd throw this out early so everyone is aware of it. :cool:

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I don't think an enhanced drivers licence will do you much good in Canada. You need your passport to get across the border by air or land now, which sucks! I don't have my passport yet, so I need to get mine before I can enter the US again.

Sure hope everyone can make it. Would be nice to meet you and Marc, Lynn! :cool:

No beer in Canada! J/K. :D It is probably twice the price as yours though.

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They are accepting the enhanced driver's license as a passport. At least for now. You have to go through a background check etc. but it is much cheaper and quicker.

When it comes to the beer, price is no object.:surrender:

Marc and I went to an ice fishing show downstate yesterday. Honestly didn't buy a thing. Guess we are more than well equipped. We just bought a new Frabill Guardian shelter and a Jiffy STX Pro 10" auger within the last couple weeks.

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Hopefully the dates can line up with everyone. We could shoot for late February or early March. I think we had ours last time in early March eh guys? We could do it in January but chances are it'd be much colder than March. Often it's in the 20s in early March, makes it a lot nicer standing out on the ice than when it's in the -20s. :D We do have a new insulated shack with a woodstove, but we spent most of our time outside watching the lines and laughing at eachother running for the flags. :D

Never got out on the lake, turns out they got more snow up there right after it froze up, so even though it's been down as cold as -5 to -10 a few nights, many nights between 0 and 5, there's still only 2 inches of ice on the lake, the snow is like a big blanket of insulation. Hoping to get a wicked wind to blow some of it away and hopefully it'll start freezing quicker.

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Sure hope to have a good turnout for this, doesn't matter to me though. Whoever can make it great, if not, understandable! Just wanted to post a link to where you'd be staying the night. Awesome place. Pool tables, bar, good food, great owners and staff, reasonable rates, couldn't ask for a better place. :cool:

http://www.sandsongoldenlake.com/index.php

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