Hey Clint, my uncle matt hit messenger schoal the other day at 11am and him and his buddy had their limit in 1 hour.  Other reports ive been getting is the action is picking up everywhere. Wish I could get out, got to take all the siding off the house this weekend!

Hey Jack, wife wants all new siding and windows/doors and I do also. To save some $$ Im striping off the old and getting it ready for the installers. I do this type off stuff at work but wife says im to slow to do the whole house. Comfort windows is coming on monday and will have the whole house done by friday, wifey should be smiling by next weekend.

the pouring rain garden adventure is over for today.. 2/3rds of it is complete and that will have to do until sunny weather comes around again, someday..
Thoughts towards the house wrap as I need to put siding on my addition, again someday (I'm REAL SLOWWWW )
I see every new construction has it.. My addition is all rough cut lumber board & batten and I'm a little concerned it may not be able to breath thus trapping moisture and rotting the wood.. We insulated the walls well with R-19 ..
Thoughts ?

I was kinda short planning about going over the B&B with siding.. If that was to be the case then Id have to put some sort of filler in between each board, possibly the cheapest styrofoam cut to fit ?
The real deal would be to pull the battens off and sheath it with osb ? but that seems way costly for a 60' X 38' addition

This project I started 2 years ago, started out as a place to put my sled, riding mower and snow blower along with other garding tools. Then I put the second floor on as a fort for the kid, anyways 2 years later and 13k its done, except for the sheetrock in the fort.



 

I need something like that to park my ATV and hunt from the second floor.  If you could put that puppy on a flatbed so I could move it from field to field I would be one happy hunter.  Solar panels for the refrig, TV, stove and heater would be nice also.

Not  fishing , but an adventure about fishing gear.  I am off to an auction with a TON of new fishing gear.   All lures of every shape, from jigs to trolling flashers to ice fishing .   It is split in lots so I may bid on a few .

first off, John that looks KILLER man !!! Nice that you turned it into a playhouse for the kids but if it were in my yard it would be a man cave shootin shack out my back yard..
 
Jack, I'm all about putting meat on the table.. Racks, while they are nice to look at , don't mean all that much to me.. We harvested 4 deer last year, 2 were for my family and the last of it is GONE !!
Only thing I ask of the property I hunt is "leave some small racks and they have to have meat on the ones we shoot"
All my life I walked the woods, braved the elements and sat in an unsheltered tree stand.. Last year I was glad to sit in the little comfort of my ice shanty while hunting when things got nasty.. I would have no problem sitting in a "shooting shack" ..
I do agree though, some of those tv shows are a little over the top and baiting is not an option for me..
 
Clint,
Sounds fantastic and hope you find some good deals..
I bought an entire sporting store out a few years ago, Taylor & Vadney.. They were getting out of the fly dept ,I'm still pretty well stocked..

 
 


 

Here is the lot of ice fishing jigs I got.   326 packages, each one marked at no less than .99 cents.   (Shop closed in the 90's)   Best bang for the buck was the jigging spoons which run 3 to 5$  apiece.   There are 50 of them.     Now to get some ice and get some of these.

 

Nice catch Clint.

Oh yea.   Some of these will not be limited to winter use.     Too bad I don't feel the urge to get out today.   12 hours on my feet yesterday did me in.

I also forgot that I looked at some older stuff and it looked pretty bad.   Next thing I know There are 4 guys bidding up an old steel pole.   It went for close to $1100 

I can see it now......a big sign on 81 N of 'cuse saying CLINTS TACKLE SHOP off next exit.
 

If I owned a shop I would not have time to fish       Nice pans RJ.  I know the feeling last 3 trips from Oneida barely got me 1 meal combined.  Cleaning 3 fish is kind not even worth of dulling the knife

Pretty sweet John . Glad you got out in some decent weather. 2 is better then none and nice fish to boot !! I usually have best luck pre- front more then post but man, it's just been a non stop rain storm so take it any way you can get it at this point.
Thanks for sharing the pics .. Great stuff..

Peace & Tuna