[Hot Tabasco]

After almost 35 years with my employer, I was let go 12/1/06. It hit really hard at the time but I looked at the bright side, I've got the whole winter off to do ice fishing.

Unfortunately the bad went to worse, temps have been in the 40's and no ice! Damn!

Called up the local fishin' hotline and they said the canals feeding into Lake St. clair here outside Detroit have been producing lots of perch so I went down to the local beach with my bucket and ice rod to do some perch fishing off the marina docks.

Its kinda sunny with the temperature comfortable at about 32 but winds gusting around 20 MPH. Water is too riled up to catch anything but that is what the fishing hotline warned about anyway but I thought I would give it a try. Had my good lined shooting gloves with me and when I took them off to fix my line, they blew off the dock and that was the end of that. So, to cut my loses, I packed up my gear and headed home to place another order with Cabelas for those gloves............

Go figure, I finally have a whole winter to myself to ice fish but no ice...........Now thats Bad Luck!

[Hot Tabasco]

...as for the puppies and kittens when muskie fishing, we tie little floatie things on their back so's they don't drown when trolling (that's REAL top water fishing).

You hate like hell trying to explain to the neighbor kids what happened to their pets when you got no fish to show for it.......

[girlangler]

Somebody else was telling me the other day they ice fish, and had no ice. We've had some unusually warm weather here lately and I'm not complaining.

So sorry for your bad luck. It'll get better.

Sounds like you need a nice trip down to Texas or somewhere bass fishing.