Icebreaker 2009

[MACK]

Stick a big'un guys! Call me if anything good happens. I'll be there in spirit. Got too much stuff on my end to deal with this weekend.

[RonSki]

Well, it was cold, but exactly as I had expected. Pretty dead. I got a 42 over open water on a goldfish of all things and that was the only fish caught. Even the crappies weren't biting, that surprised me a bit. Still a fun day though...

[MACK]

Nice job on the fish Ronski! Congrats!

Nice 'n thick there with 'ole bug-eyes!

[Mike Ice]

Nice fish Ronski but what the hell did you do to it?

[RonSki]

Mike, I saw it swimming on top of the water so I hit it in the head with a pounder and netted it At least it seemed like that was the only way to get one to bite. Really, that fish almost pulled my rod in. I must have moved my rod somehow and engaged the reel and I heard it bounce a couple times and looked back to see it bent over. Another few seconds and it would have been gone. Good thing I've got rod holders for my boat now!

[Toad]

Well, Ronski got another t-shirt again. I was too busy trying to sink my boat to catch any fish, but I did manage to catch one. Ronski said there were no other fish caught, but that's not true. I caught a billy bass, so there. TThhhhppppptttttt. And I didn't have to resort to using goldfish as bait, which I'm pretty sure is prohibited in an old icebreaker by-law somewhere. Lincoln vs. goldfish, maybe, or perhaps even earlier. Ceasar vs Goldfish, I believe..... The rest of us also didn't stoop to getting our fish off the short bus either. Seriously Ronski, leave the poor blind fish alone for a change.

All in all it was a good time on the water in spite of the fishing. Once again, the day started off with a bass tournament jamming up the ramp. But we switched to pie-eyed and didn't let it hamper our day. Everyone helped me out with the inaugural launch of my new boat, which was a really good thing, considering. The drain plug wasn't in, so I had to take it out and drain the boat for a time, something that I would not have noticed if I didn't have twenty people assuming that I didn't know what I was doing. Ironically, I was doing the king of the world stance on the front of the boat earlier, so I guess I almost repeated the titanic movie on Saturday for real. Good thing I had so many guys to tell me how bad I was screwing up, lol.

Lunch was great, that bar at Pie-eyed petes is really nice. Hopefully we can make Ronski happy and do a night outing in june up there sometime. I for one, am sick of the cold muskie outings all the time, lol.

Here are some pics from Saturday, including my "other" fish. I should have weighed it in at the bass tournament, lol. Also a pic of my boat taking a morning leak so to speak. Also a nice picture of me with my new boat on the water. Well, almost nice, except for the annoying passenger next to me. Who is that dbag?

I think JOhn has some more pictures, but not for sure. Let's see them if you do John boy. It was a good time and good to get out and see some of the guys. Next time maybe some fish for a change?

[RonSki]

Toad, A goldfish in the water is better than a sucker in the livewell. And in the Icebreaker bylaws it also states that bass, crappies, and any fish other than muskies, don't count. Nice bass though so I'll give you second place
The morning show was worth being there all by itself, thanks Toad for the entertainment. Better for us to laugh at you while it's still on the trailer than after it's sinking! Just part of the learning curve, no harm meant.
And on the topic of the June night outing, I'm just putting it out there so that maybe, just maybe, we can have an outing where there's more than one or two fish caught. I think we'd have much better odds then. If nobody else wants to do it, that's fine. I'll be out there by mysef then. No biggie....