http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Just interested to see what everybody does in the summer time to cure the winter blues. Me personally, I spend all my time on the lake hunting walleye and monster pike. If its a weekend, I'm on the lake. I even venture out after work sometimes to catch the evening bite. *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

I run the Northwest angle on Lake of the Woods in my 92 20ft crestliner Phantom doing pretty much the samething.Looks like I might be doing some ATVing also this year if I don't sell it and put the money away for next year.

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Thats the way to do it, in comfort. I fish out of a 14ft lund with a johnson 9.9 on a 90 mile lake that can get pretty hairy sometimes. I would like to buy a newer lund but that would mean sacrificing a sled for it. The lund still floats so when it starts to sink I'll think about it. Nothing like the rush of ridin sleds http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

this summer i am going to look forward to a trip to lake of the woods and hopefully cure my musky hunt, i am going to take my 15 year old so it will have to be late in his summer holidays.

I go camping almost every weekend, and i drink and barbaque alot. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Paul what part of Lake of the woods are you planing on going to?

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Yummmmmmmm....BBQ........ I'm getting hungry http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

snorat,
*i don't know when i used to fish alot i read about the area's where the musky were thick so i will have to take that up again. the only time i have seen the lake of the woods is when i was in kenora last fall.

jwheeler,
*mother nature is going to get you. *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I spend as much time as I can on the water fishing and ski'n. *I also enjoy motorcycling. *Would be nice to get a 4 wheeler to ride in the summer time also, since that would be about the closest thing to sledding for in the summer...
Other than that, just waxing the sled a gazzilion times and sit on the sled making vroom-vroom noises.haha http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Sportscars, motorcycles, and beer...

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif I think sitting on the sled and makin vroom vroom noises is a national pastime for most of us http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

I usually make it to Kenora a couple of times a year just for a nice boat ride about 50 to 60 miles from the Northwest angle.We make our ussual rounds to the chip truck for some salt and vinigar fries then to Canandan Tire just to look around the last stop before we head down to the boats is the Blue Heron for some Ice cream for the kids while the women shop in the tourist trap store in the Same building.Ever try Lake trout fishing? They have some pretty good size ones in White fish bay.There alot of islands on the northern part of the Lake so it can get easy to get lost around there.I spend most of my time around Outer bay,Portage bay monument Bay etc ,nice area to just relax and wet a line also some monst walleyes in portage bay on the 20 ft reefs and shelves in there,also the water is pretty clear there for Lake of the woods but watch out for the Rocks http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif *as they are not marked except for on the charts and the charts are not very accurate either.I could go on for Days about that Place (the Angle) I run out of Jakes Resort at the angle But I would recomend either Youngs bay or The Northwest angle resort as that is were the pubs are ie Jerry's and Grumpies,Oh I forgot about Prothros trading post (nice old Cabins) and Angle outpost they could also acomadate fellow fisherpeople.
Ther are also many reasorts on the islands that are awfull nice too.

Watch NASCAR,sit on the couch thinking about winter.
Go camping a few times a year,don't miss a race at N.H.I.S
Go deep sea fishing on my father in laws 26ft boat.
oh,and work,we get alot of o.t in the summer.

Here is another thing I like to do.This is me at my mothers birday party on the beach on the south side of Oak island Lake of the woods-Northwest Angle.

i was going to say doesnt anybody jetski *i live on a 278acre lake and enjoy bass fishin jetsking or just cruiseing around on my pontoon boat i live on the water in the summer time

I spend the summers golfing and going to the local dirt track races. *I'm thinking this summer that being i'm not going to trade sleds due to the 400 miles I put on I might have to get a JetSki. *That and I get wait to get the 69 firebird out again.

spend most of my time on the four wheeler. also go fishing and work

hahah...nice pipes SNORAT!! I wish I had a seadoo....my summers are spent camping as often as possible, catching only the 3+ foot Walleye and the Pike known to steal small children from the beach.... http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif *And nothing beats float fishing with little kids for perch! http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif (except the tangled lines...you all know what it's like with little ones "practising" their casting... http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif )
* Dad picked up an ATV last fall, so I'll be "testing" that as well..... http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

We live on a small private lake in Jamestown Ohio. *We spend most of our time water skiing and wakeboarding with our twin daughters in our SKI NAUTIQUE. *Some weekends we ski in tournments.
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hope to find a newer sled to rebuild this summer so i'am ready for next winter and prehaps drink a few beers and a few ryes. hope winter gets here soon http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

In summer, I usually get a geology job meaning sampling on atv and boat and interpretation of rocks so I'm camping for about 3 months and usually stationed near inaccessible lakes, where the pikes are 20 pounds and walley, 20"and more. When I come back home (once or twice during summer) I go fishing and camping with my bro near James bay Quebec, more precisely, take a right at Radisson and go on for 600 km's of dirt road to Caniapiscau reservoir (near Labrador). There isn't any better fishing on the planet, 25 + pound pike, quota = 10 each of 4 + pounds walley, lake trout, brook trout and hybrid salmon-trout (not sure what it's called in english).

I pack up the horses and head to the high country to watch the elk and deer. Spring is my favorite time with the elk starting to calve. It's something special to watch a bunch of new born calves out romping around. This is also the time to scope out new snowmobiling areas.

NASCAR

I got more miles last summer than I did this winter. On the grass five hundred feet at a time. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Ditto here.

I work all summer in a bakery 8-12 hours a day keeping cottagers in cupcakes, pies,cookies,bread, etc, and wish for the day when I get up and the air smells like winter http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sarcasm.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/nervous.gif

I'm in a Camaro Club. *We do a lot of events, go drag racing, go on cruises, BBQs, all that good stuff. *I also go fishing every weekend. *If your curious what I drag, go to my webpage. *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

oh yea and i also sit on my sled alot making Braap sounds and practice doing heel clickers http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Hey LadyK how do you like the cake I made.

Fishing and boating. *Mostly on Lake Huron. *Mixed with some SCUBA diving.

Boats come home, the day the sleds get put away. *Which won't be long.

FishHog

Great cake Fastcat.You made this? http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif I sure did. I took me three hours for this one. I have also done a Cinderella Barbie cake and a whinnie the pooh. The next one I am going to try is my wedding cake. I got a little over a year to plan and make it. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Fastcat, that is a purrrrrdy cute cake!!LOL *I can just pictue you in the kitchen with frosting on your face, am apron(sp?)on and a bakers hat!haha http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/baaa.gif
Good job though! *Better than I could do for sure. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Yeah, it ain't a pretty sight. Although If i had the hat and apron I probably pass for the Pilsbury Doughboy. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif LMAO

fastcat02,
*what do you mean you need the hat and apron to pass as the dough boy ? you pass without it. *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

I am very impressed fastcat!!!I have a red skidoo apron I wear at work.LOL.A suggestion for your wedding cake..something simple with fresh flowers.I have seen some stunning cakes done this way,or you can have flowers made of icing that look real,my mother-in-law made my wedding cake with these purple orchids she made.They were very kool.Just my $0.02 buddy http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cheesy.gif

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Thanks LadyK. I still need more practice on makin roses but I have more than a year to perfect them.. I haven't got an apron yet though. After makin a cake there is icing all over the place. The wife don't like that part of it. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Hi ,I work as a fisherman in spring and summer, only seasonal work so not much time to play.But I did pick up a 4 wheeler for my daughter and I to pass some time on when I am home.
*We fish lobster for 2 months then chase bluefin tuna,not your typical pike or waleye. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif *
The pic is of a friend and his 850 lb Bluefin Last summer.

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Man alive, that thing is huge. That would be a blast to catch. As long as it didn't eat me for a snack http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *That is great work when you get paid to reel those big ones in, Just think about it we use 200-300 lb test line, and it can take anywhere from 20 minutes to 5-6 hours to get it in!!
My best day was 6 fish averaging 350-450 lbs landed in 4.5 hours.

Same thing I do during the winter. *I work on sleds. *I'm a vintage sledhead and summertime is my time to really get going on my projects. *I just bought a 7 sled collection from a person and going to start restoring a couple of them. *Thinking of doing the 73 blizzard and 78 Sno Pro.

c'mon fastcat...don't kid yourself...we all know that cake was supposed to be square but you just couldn't hold yourself back, could you?
"just a little from the edge..no one will know...a little more...let me just even out the edge a little....oh nuts...well it sorta looks like Tigger....yeah...it's a tigger cake.." http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Hibernate. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

LOL!!! *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Being a Texas resident, summer is just a month long period before the season of H**L starts. *110 degree days with 80% humidity. * http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

I hide in an air conditioned house during this period. *Otherwise, I'm mowing (6.5 acres), working on the cars, working on the house, or feeding my animals. *I try to get out of town and up into the mountains during the peak of the heat.

Common!!!

MOVE UP NORTH.. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Machzzzz1 @ Mar. 03, 2002, 11:13pm)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Common!!!

MOVE UP NORTH.. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif[/b][/quote]
Seriously, I&#39;m trying to figure out a way. *Only problem is, that I have a well paying job, and one just doesn&#39;t up and walk away from that. *Especially with the current economy. I don&#39;t want to be anchored to a self started small business either.

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/baaa.gif I figured you would have something to say you big burly bugger(Rocketman). I got your Barbie cake in the oven right now that you asked for your birthday on tuesday http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Apperently we got off the subject of summer-- anyone interested in making a Barney cake for our 3 year old who thinks its her birthday everday? And will just DIE if she doesn&#39;t have one in November??? http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/nervous.gif

Anyway- during the summer months I listen to ZRTMtnCat whine about when it will snow again. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sleeping.gif

Seriously though- work(home daycare), go to the pool with the kids, bike ride, camp, go to the State parks for the afternoons & weekends, and WAIT FOR SCHOOL TO HURRY UP AND START!!!!!

LadyK is laughing hysterically @ fastcat http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/withstupid.gif

Hey...nothing wrong with the Barbie twins....they make great movies! http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

We&#39;re R/C flying! LOADS of fun (and occasional bursts of pain & agony when you total one of your models...)

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif Thats what you nicknamed your hands, Hey Rocket http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

It appears that the surpreme lord is going down in flames.

LOL, you guys (and girls) are killing me.

FishHog

P.S. That&#39;s one nice fish Rodmax

fish!!!!!! http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I work on my buddys sprint car on friday nights Gas City,In I-69 speedway ,1/4 mile dirt.pic of car at gas city running the low line *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif .

Nice sailfish crazyb, but wasn&#39;t that caught in the winter. If i caught that baby i&#39;d be flaunting her on the net as well. During the non-snowmobile months. I Quad alot especially in the spring when it is real muddy. The rest of my free time is spent musky fishing. *Seem like all the lakes up here are infested with them.

" Remember if its not a musky its only bait"

N.A.S.C.A.R. racing, camping with family and fishing with friends. I guess summer isn&#39;t all that bad, have a good one all http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

work work work work work

I work a lot of overtime *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif I justify it by thinking it&#39;s paying for last winters gas & oil bill http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I live to smell the race gas. *You can find me at alot of local dirt track racing, moto-cross tracks, go-cart tracks, CORR off road race truck series, and just bought a T-Maxx nitro R/C truck. *Summer sux and it&#39;s not the end of a season, but the begining of the next!!!

I fish and waterski.mmmmmmmmmmmmbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer.

I ATV *i have a 2000 yamaha Kodiak and a 2001 Yamha Grizzly. *I also boat i have a 14ft PrinceCraft with a 30 hp yamaha *and a 20f *crestliner Phnatom 186 with a yamaha 150 on the back. Im gonna be buying a yamaha Blaster this summer so that will be fun *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

I have a 96 Tracker Targa 17 w/ a mariner 60hp. *I LOVE to fish, i go bass fishing up here in Maine all summer long. *when i dont work, i am always fishing. *now that we have extremely strict laws on lobstering i cant work as much as i used to, and its now a state law you cant haul gear on sunday, so i go upto sebago lake, little sebago lake, crescent lake, panther pond, and all kinds of places. *last year i hauled at a 6lb 6oz largemouth on a crankbait. *i swear i got a state record chain pickerel, it was at least 6lbs, the record is like 6lbs 12oz. *but i didnt bring it in or anything.

This is what I do.. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/devil.gif I picked her up for $1500, *just painted it, *now all it needs is ROTAX 600 RAVE stickers on it!!hehe