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Yes Bill, I thatch every year and aerate every 2-3 years. For me, the trick to thatching is not to do it too early. Folks are gung-ho to get outside in the spring and want to get things done and out of the way but with the water content in the soil early in the season, thatching just rips out the good growth. Get it done when it's a little drier..and not too vigourously either. Also, doing anything to your lawn when it's wet makes the soil harder from walking on it. I think the bottom line with lawns is that rather than get a whole lot done at the beginning, do very little but more often. It won't seem like such a chore that way. As for the salt, they spread way too much of it here as well. All I can say is keep good tires on your vehicle and learn to drive.....folks should know how to do that. It's not like they were just parachuted in from Central America. Edited to add: It's all sand and clay here but for the first 4-5 years, J (Bless her little black heart) would buy me a 10 wheeler of lawn soil and have it dropped in the driveway....this usually always happened around pickerel opening. It got to be a joke around here....neighbours thought I was building a ski hill out back.

I like my lawn to look half decent. It's not easy for some folks who get up at 6am to go to work...they get back home at 6PM, have supper and lawn care is probably the last thing on their mind. Most of the folks in my neighborhood have a contractor do that stuff for them and most of those still have weedy lawns. The ones who don't hire a contractor, for the most part, have terrible looking lawns. If your neighbors don't look after their lawns, you'll have problems with yours. I don't use chemicals on mine... not because I'm a tree hugger but because chemicals are not efficient. What we do now and have done for the last 30 or so years is in the spring, I pick a nice day and J and I have a weed bee. Take a few hours and pull every dandelion or any other weed out of the lawn. I have a weed extractor for the front and one for the back that I keep handy. When either J or I go outside, we have a habit of pulling a weed or two out when we come across one. A couple of weeks into the season, there are none left and they become rare even. A good hint I can give to city dwellers whose lawn butts up against a sidewalk is to keep an inch or so space between the lawn and the concrete walk. The concrete holds the heat of the sun and the lawn burn starts from there. Keeping them apart will keep the lawn cooler. My front lawn is not very big...took these pics yesterday. I'll take some of the back lawn when I get a chance.

Dave. that was tremendous! I'm cryin' here! Thanks for showing us.

Just get the standard package Mike. All of the accessories are available at a store near you or at least online. Go to Youtube and slap in "GoPro mounts" There's a 3 part video there explaining a few goodies.

Windows Movie Maker sounds like it would be in my price range. I certainly wouldn't need anything very elaborate.

Speaking of which, what are you guys using for editing software? I'm going to get another cam, they're too handy.

Good luck to all who can get out to a zone that opens on the 1st Sat. in June. It should be an interesting opener given the weather over the past few months. Most importantly, play safe and have a good time.

Nice pics but you should have used a gun on the first one.

Good luck to you Dutchy.

Good stuff, John. Discovering new fishies is always fun. And no, you don't want to be lipping either of those two.

Yup, that's Dave alright, nothing ever shows. Hats off to you my friend.

Another stellar report Mike. Yours are always entertaining. Thank you. Yeah I was thinking that too, Joey. For a closer look at the beast he should have run down the trail, stopped dead and done a figure eight.

A good, solid tiller. My kind of boat. Congrats to you!

This I'd have to see. I'm having trouble imaging anyone holding a muskie rod in one hand going 3 to 6mph for more than 6-10 minutes. Unless of course you're using worm harnesses for bait. If you can do it, more power to you. I couldn't and would never try.

My humble opinion on this is that if you're sitting on the fence between the two reels and you say you do 50/50 casting and trolling and the Calcutta is $150 or so less and the Tranx has no clicker (line out alarm). The choice is clear. Have you ever trolled for muskies without a clicker?

Best of luck Dan. I hope you stay high and dry.

And what JohnnyB just said can be used as a good example to illustrate the point. Most people who have posted to this thread plus some future new posters to the thread will read JohnnyB's post and go back to see what I said on page 1 of this thread. That will have given us a minimum of 100 more views without many replies, if any.

Get yourself a Jeep Wrangler Josh...4L 6CYL. you'll be fine.

19 days to go here.

Very nice Bob. He's really set for a successful career. Your whole family must be bursting with pride. And now you really have free health care.

I wouldn't need all 3 steps.

Good stuff me brudder. Got yourself a good little creek there! I think J&P were going for whitefish.

Rob, you're too kind. I was too young at the time to remember the Algonquin First Nation who inhabited those lands 8,000 years prior to the first European settlers in the 1500's. I do however have a faint recollection of 1893 when the area was declared a sanctuary, banning any logging or agriculture to protect the 4-5 larger rivers flowing through the area now called Algonquin Park. I'm glad that there were people in those days with foresight. I'm sad however to have forgotten to send the park a birthday card this year. Canadave can tell you stories about the place. We went to the same school just south of there. His dad used to take us to school every morning. He had to...he was in the same class as us.

Fantastic! On rope again Larry?

Very nice Joey! Thanks for sharing. Such a beautiful fish they are.