[fatlazyless]

Yesterday, Saturday afternoon, I counted eight large pickup trucks spread all across Center Harbor bay, as seen from the hardware store parking lot. The bay looked a lot like a campground with bobhouses, camper-trailers, trucks, snowmos & atvs coming & going, and more trucks lined up to use the launching ramp. No one from the town was there to collect its' ten dollar, launch fee.

So far, have not seen even a single car or pickup truck out by buoy 3, just atvs, snowmos, and hikers.

Listening to the gasoline augers, it takes just 20 seconds to make a new hole. My $15, garage sale, hand-powered auger does it in about one minute, plus it's always easy to start, and just a little quieter.

An automatic fish tip-up jigger that runs on two d cells and a 104 degree hot tub, perched six feet up the embankment, is definately the way-to-go for me & this ice fisherman's best friend, Sam Adams! Definately, the country's best president!