Hey Pikeman, I just wanted to say thanks for the nice get together on saturday. I really appreciated all the effort you and your family put into making sure that everyone had a good time and some good food. I also have to thank tubedude for the new jigs that I added to my perch arsenal. All I had to do was fillet some perch in freezing temps and hope I didn’t shorten any of my fingers in the process. Pikeman I would really enjoy spending a day with you on the water. It could be frozen or thawed. Thanks again. gshorthair
Thanks Mr. & Mrs. PIKEMAN99 We had a wonderful day on the “J”
Very good of you to find us for lunch, it was delicious! My daughter and friends had a blast, they all caught fish and really didnt care about the size (I did). Thanks for the recipie also! See you again Im sure.
You know LH2, I work at Hill and I always wonder where the he!! you find the time to fish as much as you do???[;)]
Looks like you guys had a great time up there!! Great job with the kids, and thanks for the recipies!!
Pikeman and Mrs Pikeman,
A huge thank you to you and your family. What a party. It was great to finally make it to a BFT get together.
My friend, Adam thanks you too, he is not on the net but wanted you to know that you and your wife and children are the BEST.
My friend showed up, late, dragging 4 boys with him. Age 4 to 10. Pike man, with no prompting asks every one there if they would let any of the kids reel in the fish if we caught one. Next thing you know he gives up his “Virgin” rod that was custom made for him by Tubedude so that “Calub” can reel in the biggest fish of his life. (Calub is the one refered to as “Kid” above in the pictures) Then awards him a brand new “Golden” ice fishing rod and reel for doing it.
Nicest people I have ever met. Thank you.
It was great to meet you and to witness the effectiveness of your power drill adaptor for your hand auger. Really cut down through the ice well. Impressive. Good engineering.
You know, I kept waiting for you to ask for some stickers. I brought some along but you were just too shy to ask and I forgot. Were you really afraid I would staple them to your forehead?
Shoot me a PM with your mailing address and I will get you a couple.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE NICE THINGS YOU SAID. WE ARE GLAD IT WAS A NICE EXPERIENCE FOR ALL. PLEASE DO US A FAVOR AND GET A COPY OF HIS PICTURE AND HAVE IT MADE INTO AN 8X10. YOU CAN GET THE PICTURE FROM TUBEDUDE’S POST OR IF YOU ASK HE WILL E-MAIL YOU ONE. HE NEEDS TO HAVE THE PICTURE FRAMED SO HE CAN HAVE IT FOREVER. THANKS PIKEMAN GO FISH
It has been E-mailed and linked to every Grandma, Grandpa, great uncle and aunt. Printed on several types of paper on several printers. I have it on disk and on my hard drive to size for further sending.
I’m sure you will see it on the wall at a Sportsmans Wharehouse soon. It was very nice of them to donate those rods and reels for the kids. I’m sure the UL rod Cal gets soon to go with his golden reel in the open water season will be from there. Thanks to Tube dude for the jigs too. And to your boys pikeman for the ride off the ice for the whole lot of us.
I usually keep copies of my original large file pictures, right out of the camera. If anybody ever wants a large file for printing or publishing, just PM me with an email address that will accept the larger files. They are usually around 700 KB in size.
Sorry I didn’t get the young man’s name. Hope it didn’t hurt his feelings to be called “kid” in my post.
Thanks. Cal is the second of 5 boys. You can call him kid anytime you need help reeling one in.[:)]
I would like a copy of the big file if you don’t mind. jim@remodelerinc.com
Three pics on the way…uncropped. You can do what you want with them.
Funny. In the first one he still had his hat pulled down over his face so that you couldn’t see his face well. Pikeman saw that and pulled it up for the next two pics.
I’ll attach a copy for others to see.