Billy Bob

Farmer.....so facing the water from the launch....is your cottage to the left or right....I know there are some huge doubles way off to the right.

Great report....good to see the Big Nip is producing again....

I got a kick out of how after having a shore lunch he would hide behind some bushes and watch the gulls come in to clean up anything left out... Red Fisher liked his oil.....on one of the last shows he showed everyone why he always has a pair of binocular with him....the eye piece unscrewed and he then drank from it....

Just slice the fillet extra thin and eat sushi....

SORRY to hear this Farm Report....

All the pictures I have of the house and tornado damage was taken on slide film in 1983....but I do still have the pics....don't know if I can somehow get them on the internet.

HEY, another great farm report..... We went to Kirk Kove Cottages for several years....did real well some years on good size walleye and pike....place is a little different when the new owners took over....I think he's a tree hugger in disguise.... We haven't been there in quite a while but must of went there for 6-7 years straight. 1st or 2nd week of July is when we went. The first year we had cottage #7 and the rest of the time we had #2 on the point. Bob

I was thinking the same thing....never fished BOQ but on Lake Erie a 30" fish is a honest 10lb fish......if the walleye is a average walleye on Erie it pretty much goes like this... 24" - 4lb + 25" - 5lb + 26" - 6lb 27" - 7lb 28" - 8lb 29" - 9lb 30" - 10lb + But I did once catch a old grey skinny 32" walleye in September on Lake Erie that only weighed 9.6 lbs...

Long ago I found it was OK to show and even tell where I caught the fish in the pictures because I know you Canadians can't catch any fish anyways....LOL...

For the average Joe, leasing is not good....when you lease you are actually leasing the depreciation value of the vehicle....so the best lease you can get, but rarely offered anymore is a 24 month lease....the dealer ALWAYS comes out ahead on a lease....so where does that leave you...

DAMN....how many time to I have to say it....BUFFALO'S Don't have WINGS....

As we say down here.....just another Canadian having some fun....

Best thing to do is tell a little lie.......go to wherever you're going to fish and ask another angler with a auger if you can use it saying, I forgot mine and I drove a long ways and still would like to fish....now when you do this, look for a guy with a new POWER AUGER....

No....they don't lose their teeth....but I know MANY that lost their fillets and cheeks....

NO 4 years wasn't too bad considering everything was done during my days off and vacation time....I even met my wife up there in the process....but back then I was in my 20's and was full of piss and vinegar....now I could never pull that off...especially with my arthritis. But here's the KICKER I didn't mention.....after nearly 4 straight years of working on this 2 bedroom summer home on 2.5 acres of land over looking Chautauqua Lake we had a small incendent on May 2, 1983..... I just had a friend in the carpet business lay down wall to wall commercial carpeting through out the house, except bathroom and kitchen....and just need to add a 4 foot piece of floor moulding and it was DONE....had my in-laws up for a long weekend and my pretty bride was 8.5 months pregnant with our first son....when it happened while we were sitting down for dinner in the kitchen.... It suddenly got REAL dark outside and windy....we went to the front window and could see a tornado forming down in the valley below (we sat up on a hill overlooking everything)...that when this tornado headed towards us and I took out my new 35mm camera and started taking pictures...I ran out the back door and got some real nice pics as this twister just missed us....but I ran out of film....I ran back into the house to get more film when another twister hit us head on....yes, twin twisters....pick up the house off the foundation and lifted it over 4 feet high while we were in it....set the house back down kitty corner to the foundation (didn't know it at the time)..if we walked out the front door we would of fell 8 feet down into the basement/garage that was built into the hill......but we walked out the back door where temp steps were attached to the house because I had yet to build my backyard deck.....long story but it was a MESS.....THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of dollars to the house, my travel trailer and both cars we had in the driveway.... >>>BTW when someone says your putting too many nails in that, your overdoing that....well think of my summer home...I was told that MANY MANY times but that house stood the test of a 150 mile hour tornado and saved 4 lives in the process....no one that seen the house after the tornado could believe how it stood completely intact while the barn across the street was levelled and many other homes were also complete losses. That storm took the will out of me to build another home....insurance paid for everything to be put back in order but the contractor took short cuts in everything he could because he knew I was 75 miles away and could get away with it.... DON'T TRUST ANY CONTRACTOR......EVER ! ! !

Built a house (myself), bought a house and almost had a custom house built for me....(boy am I glad that didn't happen) It took me almost 4 years to build my own summer home....but that was because it was 75 miles away......and did most of the work on weekends... but like Sinker has said....there are a LOT of hidden cost and HEADACHES to consider....when you have a family it's HARD to do....now if you're talking about having someone build you a custom home....well then....THEY should be the one you should be talking to....not us.. I will say, it is almost ALWAYS cheaper to buy a existing home then build one like it....LABOR and MATERIALS are a lot more now then back then....and most older homes were actually built better then many of the new cookie cutter homes that are being built today. Get a older home and renovated it slowly and or add on to a existing home to make it fit your large family. GOOD LUCK, Bob

You can virtually use whatever you want to make a hole in the ice.... But remember what Forrest kept saying....."Stupid is as Stupid does"....

As my duck hunting buddy Don always said....you can take dog crap and wrap it in bacon and it will taste good.....

You guys go to bed around the time I get up in the morning....LOL Kyle, good luck with Ice Resort improvements.....and maybe someday you can add WiFi....LOL...hey, at least when the wife gives you the boot you are prepared.....

SO, other then a couple of these small concerns.....are you satisfied with your mail service.... (That's the kind of question they might ask you)

Cliff, do you think he may have this mailman....LOL....

The most famous mailman tells you how to deliver the mail......

RUM also seems to help me a LOT....

Cudz.......nice razzing with you buddy......at least there is one Canadian here that knows football....and I don't mean soccer....LOL...

I have RA and some days don't feel like doing anything....but other days I feel OK.... I see a Arthritis Specialist and I take Celebrex on the bad days but try not to take it everyday. It's just part of getting old I figure....try to stay active but that's much easier said then done. Good Luck, Bob