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I'm currently working on rebuilding one of the original 10, 1562 Loomis GLX prototype blanks (my 6th to date), and I've been playing with a new resin medium that has had me see numerous failures on the grip wood inserts. The frustrations have been incredibly frustrating to say the least, the learning is as of yet, not perfected, but I am making progress. This is a series of pictures showing the rear grip from failure to success. This was the first finished attempt that shows many air in inclusions in the finish. The results were clearly a failure so I started again by removing the finish. Then I started again with a new perspective and slower more methodical application method.

I should clarify the amount of time spent actually fishing...with boys in the single digit age bracket, there was a lot of untangling of lines, pulling stray hooks out of clothing, playing with flopping fish, torturing of minnows, and a football game on the ice... But that's what made it fun...I'm sure a couple of "experienced and dedicated" anglers would've resulted in a fuller bucket or two. Fishing with kids and grandkids isn't always about catching.

Took my grandkids out on Simcoe today...PA day at school. Fishing for Perch was somewhat slow, but enough flurries of activity to keep the young lads from getting bored. Threw the whole tackle box at 'em...didn't like the bugs today...best success was jigging a Slab Grabber to call 'em in, then feeding them Pinhead Shiners on a drop shot in the adjacent hole. Tim Hale's operation made sure the little guys had a fun and safe day..

Knowing the 2 ole fellas that started the Simcoe bug way back. Ole George and Pat Mahony, they are legends . When I first met both of them,they would have a bell sinker on the bottom of their lines with a few bugs above . When they hooked up,they reeled up and just dropped the fish on the ice or in a bucket and gave them a shake. Bugs just popped out of the mouth. The were running the bugs barbless. Never once did I ever see them have to grab a fish .

Yup, gimme two rods for muskie trollng, that's all I really want. I've got no desire to hang a live sucker off the back of the boat while I cast.

Brian I don't think its the same Fred. My buddy was from New York and owned or ran a variety store and his wife was in real estate and then worked at a casino or visa versa and he never ever spoke of doing decoy fish carvings.

Ya, it wouldn’t be great to see guys trolling two rods for walleye up in pointe au baril. Could get ridiculous. totally different scenario than guys running two rods out in lake o for salmon. Hence why the rule is the rule. heck we’re 1 line through the ice in parry sound!

was sure happy to have installed new AT's on my truck last week when i drove home from collingwood on Monday. 124 was closed, was forced down a country road, plenty of sections the drifts were over a foot deep. 4wd and big tires, no problem!

im still waiting to fool one of these fish on one of your high flies, had a perch attack on last trip out but incredibly did not get the hook somehow. More importantly though Im hoping to fool one of these whities with one.

I don't need to have the government tell me what to do. I'm in my 60s and have never had winter tires and as long as my tires are in good shape with good tread I don't need winter tires. You want winter tires, that's fine with me, I've got no problem with that. I'm just tired of other people's opinions being thrust upon everyone just because they think they are right BTW, I drive over 30k a year, I used to drive 60 k a year. Never had an accident caused by snow or cold.