Tony please post some BRES photos as soon as the ice allows...I bet they are beautiful in clear cold water. If you go out in the john boat don't forget to tie off to someone on the shore or you'll be stuck out there - albeit dry. Who has the guts to step on surrounding ice that just gave way to the boat? Not me. They'd have to ferry food and water to me until the Spring thaw.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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