14.   The day brought sunny skies (albeit with a few flurries) and sub zero temperatures, we arrived at our fishing spot just before lunch and set about drilling a few holes. Dad was riding his 2011 Yamaha Multipurpose, Lloyd his Polaris Edge Touring and as usual, I piloted Project Powertek REV.

Dad had a cordless drill adaptor made up for his 4" ice auger, and I have to say it's the cats ass for drilling holes quickly and effortlessly. Even though we haven't had much snow this winter, we've had a lot of cold weather so there was well over 14" of ice on the pond. We set out our lines and went about collecting firewood for our lunch.

13.   Each winter I try to get to this pond as I know by the end of the day we'll more often than not end up with a fine meal of trout. Any day in the woods is great, but I definitely prefer not going home empty handed!

12.   Throughout the day I managed to log a few miles on the sled. I've been so busy this winter that this was the first time my sled left the garage! I managed to burn a half tank of gas throughout the day, snow conditions were not ideal, our last storm was a couple weeks ago.

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10.  For lunch we had an awesome meal of baked beans, moose sausages, home made bread, & tea. There is nothing quite like a boil up in the woods!

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1.   Upon return to the trucks we discovered Dad had a flat tire on the tandem axle double skidoo trailer. Not having a suitable spare we managed a repair with some ingenuity. We removed the flat rear-right tire and moved the good front-right tire to the rear axle. We left the damaged tire off & chained the empty front axle to the frame of the trailer. We kept the snowmobiles back about 18" more than normal when we loaded up. Thankfully this was enough to get Dad back to Bay Roberts without any more trouble!

Cheers, MIKE

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