Tootsie II

LOL, There's enough of them. My fishing partner and I got checked on Sinclair last summer by Mr. Sirracco out of Gogama. Seemed like a nice guy but I wouldn't want to cross him. I'm a Timmins native myself. Don't know if you now the name but it was Archie Chenier of the Porcupine Rod & Gun that taught me my gun course in 64. It's not the first time we've been checked. The previous CO in Gogama checked us in 2005.

I don't know that I would want to try walking around the bush in June or July with even a non-restricted gun in Ontario. If a CO saw you, he would probably charge you with hunting out of season. Even if you weren't, he'd still lay the charge and seize the gun. You'd probably have to hire a lawyer to go to court to get the charges thrown out and then still fight to get the gun back. The CO doesn't care because he has a charge to his credit and he gets paid anyway whether he's in the bush or in court. Unfortunately the mentality around firearms in Ontario is far far different than in BC. My son got his PAL out there in one four hour course. Here in Ontario, one of the instructors who used to live down the street from me and who was a retired CO quit because the red tape was getting so bad and they kept stacking more and more stuff on the course. Now I know I'm a little long in the tooth, but when I took my licensing course in1964, and I will admit to not having hunted for 20 yrs or more. at that time you could not carry a gun in the bush in the off season.

Just remember guys that you're not supposed to have a gun with you in the bush out of hunting season. I know of one case many years ago when a guy and his wife and kids were berry picking and he had a rifle with him. A CO approached him and charged him. When the guy got up in court he told the judge that there were bears in the area and that he was protecting his family. That's one of the few times that I ever heard of a judge using common sense and chastising the CO for wasting the court's time on such an issue. Nowadays, you might lose your gun possession rights. Has anyone tried those bear bangers? They are almost as loud as a 12 gauge. Been tempted to buy a couple but even then old "betsy" won't be far away. As the mayor of Hearst said on one tv show recently, if you have to shoot one, make sure you practice the 3 S's ( Shoot, shovel and shut-up)

I believe that if you now tow a tandem axle trailer in Ontario, your tow vehicle must also be certified by the MTO. If you don't do it, your insurance company can deem your insurance "null and void" if there's an accident. Was told that by a trailer rental place a few years ago when I went to rent a trailer. Needless to say I took a smaller single axle.

Correct me if I'm wrong guys, but isn't bar chain oil a mineral based product that will biodegrade after a time while old oil will contaminate the area you cut in for a long time. I'd also be concerned about plugging up the oil feed system.

LOL, the last time this happened, people around here were getting ready to put a bounty on the head of that critter from Wiarton who called for a early Spring.

Must be getting really "mature" ( that another way of saying "old") and set in my ways but I'll take my ususal one week in early June, 15 days in mid-July and 9 days in Sept in the Shinning Tree area. Luv that Grassy River system.

I've only seen the fishing episodes though you can probably bet there are probably some goose hunting episodes. Question is, will Global Tv broadcast them. Wouldn't want to offend people's sensibilities about harvesting geese for sport. It sure beats that "Fishful Thinking" which now has so many commercials that I no longer watch it.

Duncan Lake Lodge near Gowganda is also water access only. There is a website.

Rhonda Camp near Shinning Tree might fit your request. It's a short boat ride from Highway 560. Not sure of their costs. They do have a website.

We started buying and using 92 octane fuel for our red tank 3 burner coleman stove last year. We've had no problems with it so far.

A lot has changed on that road in 20 years. There's a new bridge over the Grassy that can accommodate loaded logging trucks. The road bed was totally rebuilt and straightened in 2007-08. You can almost do a consistent 70km/hr from highway 560 for the entire 99 km to Timmins. This was the alternative road to highway 144 when 144 was closed by that big bush fire, Timmins # 9 last Spring. I'm in there 3 times a year. A lot of people bring 5th-wheelers and smaller motor homes into Sinclair. It got so bad that the Ministry had to start to enforcing the 21 days campsite rule. There has also been a lot of diamond drilling and other mining activity in the Sinclair/Sothman areas. For all the pressure, the fishing has stood up fairly well. Walleye, or "pickerel" as we native Northerners call them have survived well depsite the seines being used in the Spring every second year by the First Nations people from the Mattagami First Nation and the smallies are thriving. The losers in all of this seem to be the pike which we we seem to catch less and less of ( not that we want them anyway).

This might have come out of the fact that a lady from the Owen Sound area was recently drowned in a car that went through the ice near Peterborough in December , I believe. They were doing donuts on the ice as they'd apparently done for years and alcohol might have also been a factor in that case.

One of the negative effects of producing that stuff has been to take valuable food production land out of the loop thereby making food scarcer throughout the world and therefore more expensive. This is areal problem for people in the third world were food scarcity is already a problem. IMHO, 10% ethanol should be the max but maybe I shouldn't worry, because I try to avoid using the stuff as much as I can.

I bought a 14 ft Naden Canadian Laker in 2007. It's the wider and deeper 14 footer. In short I love it. It can take rough water and as my fishing partner do a two week trip to Sinclair Lake every summer and we camp away from the landings, it can haul a hell of a jag. It's rated for a 35 hp and I have a two stroke 30hp Johnson on it. Putting a 4 stroke on it might lower the horsepower rating as I understand that Transport Canad has just woke up to the fact that 4 strokes are quite a bit heavier than 2 trokes and some boats may have their max HP rating lowered. It can really fly when it's light. The one thing I would do different is that I would buy one with the 20" transom. At the time I had bought the 30 hp two years earlier so I had to stick with the 15" lower transom. It's also still reasonably lightweight (235 lbs.) so that on two of our other trips it rides on top of my camper trailer with a special rack that I had built.

You members won't like my reply, but they should ban them in Ontario until we get a hefty return deposit on those 1 lb propane bottles. I am so sick of seeing those things discarded all over the bush in Northern Ontario.

Just wait and see what happens if Hudak becomes the next Premier and gets a majority! He'll ram it down the locals throats in the name of "economic benefit".

With the damage that these things could do the environment and the economy, long JAIL sentences should be the only options available to the judges in these cases.

Glad to see the term "Wiskeyjacks" is still around. Anytime I use that name around here, people look at me like I have two heads. Yet, when I was growing up in Timmins, that's the only name we gave them. We also considered anyone who ever shot one of these to be a real "sc*mb!g". It is amazing how they find people with food. In January and February of 1980 when we were surveying some mining claims in Langmuir Township, South-East of Timmins, we had to work through 4 weeks of -20 F to -30 F or colder weather. We were getting our bag lunches from the camp cooks at the Bradley Brothers diamond drilling camp and he/she always put cookies in the bags. Every day around noon when our two native line cutters would build a large bonfire to warm up and thaw out and toast our sandwiches and make tea, the Wiskeyjacks would just appear from nowhere to claim there share. They got the cookies and sometimes some pieces of sandwich. It actually help brighten those short, dreary and very cold days.

Unfortunately, like other posters, I would pass on the "Spruce" grouse as we not-so-affectionately knew them when I was growing up in Timmins. Mum would always have to soak the heck out of them in salt water prior to cooking them. Thankfully, Dad liked them and they never went to waste. Dad's rule was "You shot it, you eat it!" Thankfully he saved my and my brother's butts many a time on this one.

So unfortunate. My condolences to his family and friends. I had a teenage cousin from Elliot Lake who tripped while walking behind his hunting partner while also crossing a fallen log. He landed nearly face down in the mud with the end of the shotgun barrell under his chin. All his partner heard was "Oops," from him then a bang, and half his head was gone. I was taught to not put a shell into the chamber till just before you shoot especially if your walking. It may take you one or two seconds longer to get a shot off, but with practice you can learn to do it quick enough to still get a shot off if the game is on the wing. Most of these accidents are preventable, it's too bad that they still happen.

You didn't have a small dog or a cat running around the yard at the time did you? My cousin and his wife had to start watching for eagles when their Shitzu was out in the yard at their place at Mattagami Lake near Gogama.

Quick, notify P3TA. Shouldn't they be lauching some sort of protest or boycott against that pike!

Bred, born and raised there and thats why I miss it so although you wouldn't hurt my feelings if they outlawed "quads", portable generators and Sea-Doos! Yes, my age is showing but I've earned it! LOL

I'm with "Pylon". Burn premium and synthetic oil only in my 1999 - 30hp Johnson. Also use that same straight gas in our three burner Coleman stove. I hope they keep that corn crap out of the higher octane fuels.