Thanks for the info. I'm looking at the U.S.A. version that is $9.99. Is that the one I want?

 I fished there today on the 43 side from noon until 6:30 p.m. We drilled 20 plus holes and caught 20 or so fish between the two of us.  Only 5 keepers in the bunch. 3 nice gills and two 9 1/2" crappies after dark. 6 fow and 10 fow.   

Ditto here except no cats only one small perch. I took the wife out and devirginized her on the ice. Or I could have said: I took the wife out yesterday, it was her first time ice fishing.

We parked at the ramp too around the same time as you snowcone.. Are you the guy with cool sled that I talked to?

 Wind or no wind from now on my motto is no anchor = no shanty. Good call on the shovel too. It make life a whole lot easier in this deeper snow.

 Is there any way to search past topics before staring a new thread.

I headed out friday afternoon around 1:00 from the boat ramp on s.main.  I ventured south toward the sun thinking maybe it would be slighty warmer. That was my first mistake of the day. It was blowing snow sideways and up...but mostly up. I would almost say that it was blowing snow sideways and up 'to beat the band'. But I'm not the type to say anything was doing something 'to beat the band'.

I had a borrowed shanty(that I never used or seen before),  saftey gear, auger, electronics, three ice rods each with a different offering that I personally tied on the line with equal amounts love and high hopes. I had hand warmers, toe warmers, snacks, drinks, buckets, sled etc.  One thing I did not have was a way to anchor the shanty. While I was jumping on the shanty to fold it up I was trying to figure out if this was a polar vortex or just a good old fashioned cold front.

I did get a single perch to open his mouth before me and the shanty got blow away from the south. Lesson learned.

We drilled our first hole around 9:00 this morning and packed it in at 2:30.
 Which by the way is the best time to go to the Dentist office...2:30 (tooth hurty). Enough with with the Laffy Taffy jokes that I read in third grade and down to business. Hey sometimes you just gotta go with it.

Both of us landed 2 catfish each. My fishing partner lost another nice one at the hole. All nice size 18"-22" fish. We also managed to find 3 perch willing to accept our offerings. No size to speak of though. All in 15 fow with 1/100th micro-jigs in four different colors.