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reports like this are alot of work man.............thanks for puttin that all together. Looked like a blast.

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still not cheering for them when they play the leafs thoguh lol

Its O.k. Lunker, i understand LOL

And hey, You guys are only 5 points behind us.......should make for some exciting match ups in the coming weeks. Too bad Ray and Domi retired................didnt matter how close the points race was, it was a rivalry within a rivalry when those two were skating lol

A memory that will last a lifetime, for all of you. Congratulations.

Jim

THanks, now if we can just start putting some wins together..........

I love that "Duuuuuuude, would you just hurry up and take the pic before my fingers crack off" look you have on that big brown lol

thanks guys, sorry it wasnt the leafs lol

Thought id share some of my morning i had this past saturday with Lindy Ruff and a couple of the Sabres. My nephew (and myself lol) were pretty lucky guys this past weekend. The coach for his travel team knows a few people in the sabres organization........and somehow he got Lindy Ruff to coach one of their practices. It was an awesome treat, meeting lindy and a couple other sabres along the way. I even got to sit in a couple of the sabres lockers as we were allowed into the locker rooms as well as sit on the players bench on the ice to watch the practice. Lindy and assitant coach Patrick did drills with the team for an hour and then played against the entire kids team. Lindy, patrick, the goaltender coach, along with my nephews coach played 4 on 20 lol......adults vs. the entire kids team all on the ice at once lol. Lindy and his squad of 4 won lol. This was a day i will remember for the rest of my life as im sure my nephew will as well. Im a die hard sabres fan now for over 30 years........and little jake, hes been one since he could watch them on the tube lol. Anyway, take a look at a few of my giddy moments..........

nephew in pominvilles locker

Ruffs pep talk before practice

film watching station

a few of the lockers

a few more

Me in the leading goal scorers locker (moment of a lifetime, and this is the pic i get!!!!!!!)

view from the bench

Paul Gaustad came out on the bench to watch

Same

I love this one, lilndy decided to show the boys how the one on one drill was gonna go, and picked my nephew to show them what he wanted them to do. My Nephew one on one with the coach of the Buffalo Sabres........Priceless!!!

Drawing out the playbook

The bench

ANother player/coach perspective lol

NEED WATER, Lindy is pushin us hard lol

Coach Ruff and his squad against the kids

Team photo, Lindy Ruff looking down on my nephew

The sabres tunnel, and yes i pretended i was stepping out on the ice for game seven of the stanley cup finals LOL

ANother blurry one, these 3 guys walked past me as i was comin off the bench to the hallway........Drew Stafford, Jaroslov Spacek, and Toni Lydman

Patrick Kaleta with my nephew for the end of the day.

Ill never experience something like this again, i thanked my nephews coaches/and Lindy Ruff immensely for a VERY memorable day. I still cant believe my picture in vaneks locker came out blurry!!!!!!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrr ANyway, i know it aint fishing, and i know it aint the team of choice lol, but thought id share it as i know hockey is probbaly the second favorite topic here next to fishing lol.

Couple from my side of the pond looking out from the small boat harbor

That is the bird island pier that you would normally be able to take a pleasant stroll out on....yeah its under water

My microsoft "picture-it" program I used for XP works well with Vista for me.

Same here

I can say it, i just dont know what it means?

Banner indeed........looks like alot of froggish water yur fishing there Solo? Im never very confident in that stuff..........how do you fish those areas with such success. Especially out by the mouths.........wouldnt your presentation just be sitting still and bobbing in the ripples? Something with some stink and milking capabilities in your presentation do the trick usually?

I was too close for his comfort and it started to hump away

Maybe you got a little too close

We also carry a 5 or 10 million candle power spotlight. There are some channels where s with little tinnies and canoes like to sit right in the middle without marker lights. Sweeping the area with the spotlight before we go through keeps everybody safe. It's also really helpful for doublechecking that you're a safe distance from known hazards.

It also gets them paddling out of the way pretty quick as they think you are the authorities lol

lets see what happens on lunch break, the numbers should go thru the roof lol

What I would like to know and ask is - DOES ANY ONE WORK? I mean, it is now 10:48am. Or, are some at work and playing on company time? 200 people online is a high number.

I am indeed at work........i wouldnt get thru a day at the office without comin on and reading something about a fish being caught. lol

I wonder how many "guests " are guys like me that clear their ''cache" every time they look up their bank info which in turn books us out of here and miss singing back in next time...???

Well, at least somebodies thinkin this morning, that never crossed my mind bean.........but you are totally right. I do the same (clear out my cache many times a day) and dont realize i am on as a guest every morning till i find something to respond to or go to start a new thread and realize i am not signed in. Good point.

I notice on many occasions the "guests" vs. the members online is almost a 2 to 1 ratio.

This morning there were 135 people browsing the forum.......89 were guests, and 46 were members.

COME ON IN GUYS, sign up, . By the time you got done surfing here this morning , you could have been signed in and taking part in the conversations....

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Sorry didnt work

He joined us last spring lol, check the original post. I was wondeirng why someone posted "have a nice summer". Someone was feeling silly and bumped the thread for some reason lol

I was also out this past weekend in that area......the "urban stream" has been producing really well for me though this year.

There is actually a guy i saw on some program that tried to fly under a bridge before landing with another guy flying just over the bridge, the one guy, hit the bridge and died instantly. The one that lived, is in the process of trying to design a landing ramp and is going to try and land without a parachute and land on this ramp like a water slide and slide to a stop. THe guy said he was suicidal and tried to commit suicide a few times (not by flying).......until he found the sport of .....well, whatever this is called. And it made him feel alive, and worth living again, and if he died doing it, well........he wouldnt care because this is what prevented him from killing himself anyway.

that's why i like him....he's ballsy....

had me worried for a second there chicken, at first glance, i thought you said.......ah nevermind

The good thing about using them rather than live worms is you can catch a dozen fish or more one one worm instead of re-baiting every time.

Exactumundo, and with the young ones with ya, thats critical to keeping your sanity lol

Nice mixed bag O'Fish.

Pin. vs. Spin....i still bring my spinning gear with me every once in a while on smaller flows just to feel the steel on a drag system once in a while. I still enjoy going back to it now and again.

And yes, the sickness is spreading with a quickness in my area as well. Stomach flu AND now alot of coughin and sore throats making the rounds. Your gonna get it sometime during the season, might as well get it over with lol. Get better

Try "Matuka"-style with a chenille/tinsel belly too.

See, thats what i was after when i picked up the bunny strips, i was looking at tying something more along those lines, ive always wanted to take a shot at them, but then my ambition kind of deflated, or i should say, got side tracked when thinking i could simplify my jigs, so i did that first. Ive got a pattern for the Matuka style just waiting to get back to the table lol