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Was hoping with that moon over the weekend the fishing would of been amazing, unfortunately not for us. I managed 3 the first night, biggest being 6.4lbs (24.5"). Second night only 2, biggest 22.5". But that one on the second night fought excellent, was impressed. Appears several other suffered a slow weekend as well.

When I first read it I was in awe, couldn't believe it. Appears almost like some of those hockey players that followed the same path....perhaps fishgreg could be on to something. Depression....can lead a person to do some really crazy things. Regardless a tough loss and no way to go out. RIP Junior.

Tough break on the canoe in the beginning, glad some good karma worked out for ya's. Definitely a trip for troopers and purist considering the actual time spent and work to get to your site. Hardcore stuff. Sometimes it's great to be proven wrong....sometimes. I was lucky enough to of met Fidel at Lakair once, a good guy indeed.

I'll be up there after a 2 year absence. Looking forward to it! I'll be doing the night shift while I'm there so I'll likely miss out seeing you guys....literally. Good luck all.

Another one I tried was Gerritts own creation, it's fantastic! Funny thing is the first time I tried his recipe. I grabbed the only baking powder I could find... as it turned out the baking powder was given to my wife, from her aunt, for playdoe recipes or something like that for my daughter....and I ended up using it. Well.....it was from 1986! Haha, but the fish\batter still turned out fantastic, go figure.

I still cook mine the way my mom taught me; crush a bunch of crackers, dip fillets in egg, then onto the crushed crackers and into the frying pan. Still love that recipe. I have also tried crushed corn flakes. I really enjoyed how crispy it was but next time I'm going to add some spices to it as I found it a little bland with corn flakes by itself. I'm definitely trying that bacon wrap recipe this year, it sounds fantastic.

Thanks for the info guys.

man that is a nice haul indeed. Good for you guys.

Thanks Dutch, I think I'll take it in for that test. It most definitely shouldn't of been fully charged, was sitting there for 3 months.

Hi there, I have a deep cycle battery I was charging the other day. I have my charger set to 15A charge. The thing is the meter would go up to around 10amps, stay there for a minute then go to 0. This repeated itself over and over again. I left it and returned later to find that it was complete. I put my multi-meter on it and read 13.01 Amps. Is this a regular output on a charged batter? Kinda thinking it might be toast with the fluctuation issue I witnessed while charing. This batter did give me some issues charging last summer too. It's not even 2 years old and has not been used all that much. Any input would be appreciated.

That is an awesome haul there! I know what I'm going to be dreaming about tonight. Now I gotta start going through my panfish tackle\rods and get em ready in hopes for something like that. Nicely done.

Sweet looking fish. Guess I know where I'll try this weekend. Good job.

I missed this one too! I remember I was gone away for 2 weeks when this was posted. Glad I checked it out, that looked awesome to say the least. Call it living vicariously through others or just simply enjoying the read and pics, it's all good regardless even if it's almost a 3 year old post. Man that looked like fun.

I love MEC, hopefully it doesn't take it out of business if it is indeed opening up across from it.

Thanks for all your replies, very helpful. And thanks for that advice stonefish, I was thinking of just that.

I have 2 Daiwa SS Tournament spinning reels in need of maintenance. I have had these reels for years and they have been through alot. I plan on repairing them myself this winter and was wondering a good place to order the parts? I was thinking Ebay but if anybody has any specifics I'd welcome that. As well, anybody have experience modifying the anti-reverse to make it instant? To me that would make it perfect. Thanks

Sounds like you had a good time regardless that's for sure. And that's what tarpon are famous for, jumping and spitting those hooks. Have you tried using those double fly\streamer hooks? Or just tie a streamer on a treble and cut one of the hooks off. BTW, I was going to try that Mont Gay Rum last week. Not sure if it's the same stuff here as it was there though? But heard it is quite good regardless of where it's from. Good stuff.

What a great game it was! I was thinking of flipping back and forth to other things on tv after half-time, however, I had a feeling Laval would wake up. Boy did they! 2 quick td's and they started rolling. Give them credit for coming back and taking the lead, but I was really impressed by Mac for not crashing under the disappointment of giving up such a huge lead. If Mac's quarterback doesn't get drafted into the CFL I'd be very surprised. He is clutch and cool as a cucumber and a good accurate arm. Some of those throw's you just don't see at that level. One of the best football games I have ever watched.

I have the X11's for Xbox360 and they are fantastic! Turtle Beach is a solid product, just a matter of finding the right price. You can check ebay, but looks like they are around $138 us + shipping. Likely released in the US only. Good luck.

I don't cook my fish in the deep fryer, but try using peanut oil. Apparently one of the advantages of using it is that it apparently does not retain the flavor of previously cooked foods in it. Oops, didn't see BigCliff's above reply.

I've decided to expand my project, forget the bench, I want to build a house like Lew's! Well.....maybe not build, but buy one like it. Very nice place you have there Lew to say the least. And thanks for all your input and offers, I've got a lot to work with.

Just did a little looking into this and appears Adobe does not support the Kobo VOX. That sucks! Here is a link to supported devices. You will see here that VOX is not on the list: Adobe supported devices HOWEVER, just found a forum that might have a solution for you! Forum

Wow, some of those are freakin sweet! Thx for the links.

Haha, it's funny you mention that Lew, I was thinking of that seconds before I read your reply. It simply drives me crazy digging through for tools.

Thanks for the info so far, if ya got pics would love to see them. I won't be working on anything heavy on the bench, pc stuff....some small wood work..... How high off the ground would you recommend the table be? I like that idea drifter, with the support being on an angle.