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Drove up there this morning, went down the lake with my gear, tried to start my auger and nadda……drove to Fergus to get a screw driver at crappy tire to try to fix it and still….nadda. Drove back home in the worst possible mood. Its at Adams yet again!!
I was originally happy with the Eskimo Stingray but not so much anymore. If there wasn't just over 2 weeks to go I would have bought a new auger at crappy tire earlier.
Thumbs down Eskimo.
Will try for it again on Thursday now.
What a waste of a day…I'm going for a beer now and cry into that!
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Sorry about the bad luck and the Eskimo auger I here pretty good reports about Eskimo products is it a propane one or gas ? it must have been pretty windy up there today. I may try Thursday i have to drive the wife to work and then might head up there with a bud. How much ice is up there now I only have a manual auger so I hope I will be able to manage....
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Not good for sure whats up with the eskimo ? Don't feel so bad ,I drove up to simcoe this morning from Georetown ,pulled my portable out 1 km fished for 6 hours in some crazy wind ,man was it cold.Ended up catching 1 ten inch perch and three dinks. Oh well I,ll giver another go later this week.
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Lots of ice….I'm going to guess and say at least 18-20 inches. I have a manual one as well that I will probably take up there tomorrow if I don't hear from Adam's today. There is not much time left, so the manual will have to do for now.
If i see you up there, I will stop by and say hi. What kind of hut do you have?
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QUOTE (miro @ Feb 24, 2015 - 10:16 pm)
Not good for sure whats up with the eskimo ? Don't feel so bad ,I drove up to simcoe this morning from Georetown ,pulled my portable out 1 km fished for 6 hours in some crazy wind ,man was it cold.Ended up catching 1 ten inch perch and three dinks. Oh well I,ll giver another go later this week.
I hear ya….it's a long way to go on a bad weather day. At least you got to fish!!
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My auger broke up there last year it is or was the best manual auger I have ever used its a Swedish bore 8" a weld popped I re welded it but its not the same but it still does the job and I just sharpened the blades so look out ice .....lol I have no hut myself yet i think I'm going to hold off till next year or make one that I can pull out by hand to places like belwood where you don't have to walk to far but I guess it all depends on the conditions theres a big difference on ice than 2ft of snow so if I make it up there tomorrow I will just go north side of the dam ....shoot got to see if they have minnows........
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i bit the bullet about 8 years ago and bought a normark auger huskavarna chainsaw engine changed my plug once since and thats about it had an operater out of cooks ask me on the way out and on the way in if i would sell it should tell u something
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