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Preparations are under way for this weekend's festivities here in Yellowknife. Today Lord Stanley's Cup is visiting my friends in Deline up on Great Bear Lake. The story goes that Hockey was invented up in Deline so it's fitting. Was down at city hall today to pick up these. I get to hang with the beautiful people and Lord Stanley's hardware. 😁 They were working on getting the stage built. They have done a nice job on the pond hockey tournament ice too. More to come as the week unfolds.

Pier life is always interesting, dolphins swim by almost daily looking for their dinner, it's amazing how close they go into shore chasing the schools of bait fish. The pelicans drop by for a visit from time to time. I love watching them glide by just a foot above the tops of the waves, they seem to know exactly how to catch the updraft off the waves so they hardly have to flap their wings, they can glide for hundreds of feet without loosing altitude. One flew into my line yesterday, it was quite a surprise for both of us but he seemed to survive unscathed as did I when I ran for the rod thinking I had a huge bite LOL. Then there are the cormorants, pigeons, a variety of ducks, terns, and seagulls. It's hard to believe the variety of different things you catch from the depths, so far the list includes but is not limited to: Conch, Blue Crab, Spider Crabs, Black drum, crokers, whitings, a clam, spots, a shark, stingray, slick, sugar perch...... I think that's the list so far (apart from the oysters and clams I've been getting about once a week). I tried cooking up the blue crab yesterday (thank you google) one more delight to add to the list, you don't get a lot of meat but it sure is worth the effort! I am told that once the water warms up the list will be significantly expanded and the larger fish will move back in. Then we have the pier characters; My buddy Al, a retired NY state trouper and a very smart man, he taught me that if you want to communicate with the fish you have to "drop them a line". He also explained why in a flock of geese one side of the "V" is longer than the other; there's more birds in that side! 😲. I can't believe how wise he is. Rick; retired US army infantry comes for a walk on the pier every day; super friendly and boy can he sing, I went to church last week and he sang amazing grace accompanied by a guitar, I've never heard a nicer rendition! There's Tom, Bruce, Rick... pier fishing is as much a social event as it is a fishing trip. Yesterday we went to the docks where the shrimp boats come in (Calabash), one of the boats had just unloaded and I managed to buy two pounds of huge fresh shrimp for $6.00 a pound, had it home and cooked within an hour OMG is it ever good! I'll be making another trip back there again, if you buy 10 lbs the price drops to $5.00 a Lb. and these guys are almost the size of small lobsters (ok I might be exaggerating a bit but they are the biggest shrimp I have ever seen😉) The weather has been pretty good so far with temperatures slightly above normal for this time of the year for the most part, it looks like we have a bit of cooler air moving in for the weekend then it bounces back up into the high teens low twenties which should really help the fishing. The water temperature dropped to 50F and that really affected the whiting bite, it's slowly climbing again now and a couple of days of bright sun will have it back to where we want it (55F+). Fortunately all the big storms that have been hammering this area have gone around us, there is a big one going on right now but it has stayed North of Myrtle Beach. We had company here for the last week, a friend of Lynn's flew down from Toronto to spend the week with us, it was pretty reasonable, return airfare from Toronto was only $350.00 CDN. It costs me about that to drive it by the time you factor in food, accommodation and fuel. Anyway, that's my update for now, time to get ready to head to the pier. Tight lines and stay safe!

Just realized that I just passed 10,000 posts.

That will have to wait until next trip, we ate the evidance lol😊

Medically... Worked for years with this Doctor nut who was convinced Vitamin D supplements were the be-all-and-end-all to soooo many things. I'd get tired of consulting with him on patients cause he'd want to prescribe it for just too many things. Even 5 years ago I'd think phewy about it! Until I began working in Nunavut and found that some other co-workers were taking it to help them through the 24 hours of darkness. Every November/December for years, to some degree some things would start to bother... and sometimes some things could last the winter. I'd self diagnose maybe a mild S.A.D. or just think I was down for this reason or that. But, in Nunavut 4 years ago I began taking Vitamin D daily through the dark months, 2000-3000 units each morning, and I honestly do believe it helps. First and foremost with mood, second to that cognition and energy too. In the summer nobody soaks in D from the sun better than pale faced gingers. That's good for feeling vital, (bad down the road for cancers) but honestly the sun and D do much to make people feel good. The more dark the skin, the more clothed we are (like my patients in the Arctic) the more masked we are from soaking in adequate D. Do your own research on it and find out for yourself how it can help. Again, in Nunavut during the 24 hours of dark, the insane cold that keeps me indoors for a month, dealing with sick patients one-after-another daily, and the sleep deprivation that can come with a work/call schedule of 24 hours a day 7 days a week, any legal help I can get from a harmless pill is welcome. I find some benefits to Vitamin D for the winter blues.

Yeah, this is not very good. 😎 Christmas present from my son.

They should ban triploids from any sort of record books and this show lol!

Probably the same guys claiming them as PBs...

Immediate release is in the regs or is there an exception to include taking pics beforehand? Lol taking pics of OSS fish is hilarious

Try connecting a couple of jumper wires between the charger's electrical tabs and then to the battery's tabs. Then connect the voltmeter across the battery's tabs and take a voltage reading. Now plug the charger in and before the charger kicks off take another battery voltage reading. The battery may be on its way out and can only take in a surface charge? If so that surface charge will spike quickly, causing the charger to think it has a fully charged battery and turns itself off? Dan.

SPOILER ALERT!! Pretty crazy brown that the Konrad brothers caught. The addendum at the end of the show stated that it fell 1 inch shy of the catch and release world record - which is held by Eric Haataja. These guys got some serious chops. Really enjoying the series. Hoping Taro and Paul kill it on Simcoe.

Brian Trottier hoisting Lord Stanley's cup in Deline NWT tonight.

You should move then .....lol....that's not acceptable! S.