Old Ironmaker

We fisher guys are a strange bunch I tell ya". You just keep on catching them on the stuff you like, but using those cheap CTC brass coloured swivels made in China will fail when you get that 30 plus pounder on, this I guarantee. I once saw a grown man cry when he lost his personal best Walleye that hardly fit through the 8" hole in the ice on Quinte, It straightened out like a bobby pin. Why the italics don't ask me. Johnny D out.

Who dat be pray tell. I actually made a few over the winter. I took a brick and put a few Tapcons to get a few treble hooks into it.

Not around here. Hang em' first.

The condition of a passenger has zero to do with contributing to an accident. Of course there is always the exception like distracting to the point it effects the drivers ability to safely operate a car or boat in this case.

This, I had a similar problem with my Garmin. The battery was OK but I had a short shutting down the unit. Many units shut down because the wiring is too close to other wiring unrelated and can and will effect the units accuracy. I have 3 sonar units and insulated the wiring of all 3.

Tou di la verita. "You speak the truth" in my Amiltonyio Italiano. I can butcher a language as well as I can butcher a song. One of the best Fall days we ever had here at the cottage was the day we had a few guests over and I taught them how to pull the skins and seeds out of the peppers, the worst job BBQ ing them. I brought the TV, area rug, sofa, love seat, tall lamp, the coffee table and magazine rack out on the rather large deck and watched the Bills beat New England that afternoon. This was before we moved here and had the furniture the previous owners left. How can you beat a day like that? We did something similar when I brought a TV down to the beach and watched the Stanley Cup when Buffalo was in the final. A bon fire with salzeeges and Sicilian potatoes on the coals roasting and a cooler full of Molson's and a crock of Crown Royal plus we had the Stanley Cup on. Now that is a Canadian commercial like no other. The only problem was with the bugs on the screen there was more than a few dozen pucks in play. Warning, do not spray a TV screen with Muskall to keep the bugs off it. We might have done that after we put a good dent in the bottle of Crown.

I smell Fall in the air. Maybe time to get a bushel of Shepard's, the pepper not the herder. I used to do 5 and give away 4 1/2. Had to Fed Ex more than a few to Halifax. Nothing better than to smell BBQ'd peppers and red wine in September. Very good Italian Brian. I know it must be because I only understand some of it. Each jar or freezer bag always got a few cloves of garlic and a few Bay leaves. One can't mess with success.

Huffington Post article. A bit more info than a fishing websites report. Please let the authorities decide who is guilty or not. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/kevin-oleary-wife-charged_ca_5d8a4c47e4b03e63ebabb43a?utm_hp_ref=ca-homepage If any boater gets stuck in the dark without a working flashlight they didn't do there pre trip check. I have been guilty of the same, more than a few times. Who here hasn't?

A jar of jam or jelly lasts us over a year. That would be more than a lifetime of jam for me. It isn't on the list of good foods for Diabetes. Unless you want to get Diabetes.

Something smells fishy in the Muskoka's. Not a very good news report.

Huzz, please clean the rust off that 5 of Diamonds.I bet you catch more like that. Nice fish Huzz. I could never tie a spoon in that shape on. But the proof is in the puddin'. Come to think of it that might be fish blood.

They all make new trucks that are really nice. The Big 3 and the Japanese too even though I slag on F-150's and Rams. In 73' I was the only citiot that drove a pick up into the Mills other than the farmers that worked with us. I drove it in between other smarter citiots that borrowed mine and they never brought it back the way they got it, like with some gas in it. I actually ran out of gas going in on night shift in the dead of winter. Thanks Danny if you are reading this. No power anything on them, nada. Pick up truck owners biceps and triceps were huge, quads and leg biceps too, no Gym membership required. Anything back then that had more than 100,000 miles on the hunks of rust, both cars and trucks had to be towed into the bone yard. 395 HP, maybe 150 horse on a 6 cylinder 1/2 ton. edit: yep just checked 1970 Chev. C-10 had 155HP for the inline 6 and 255 HP on the 350 V-8. The only 4X4 I had was on a International Harvester, they actually made trucks back then. Around 10 miles to a gallon. Gas was 59.9, cents a gallon not a litre. They say, "They don't make things they way they used to." Thank Goodness.

30 bucks is too much? Welcome to the World of Marine products. 30 bucks won't get you a case of beer, or in my case a 1/4 tank of a gas in my 1/2 ton 4X4, maybe. That proverbial case of Beer is what I use as my base comparison for anything I buy. 30 bucks man. Good luck to you Hack.

Yep, and 3M5200 isn't exactly cheap but it's worth the extra money by far, bar none.

This is what we do to mount transducers. Go to the $ store or Canadian Tire and buy one of those white plastic cutting boards. Cut it large enough to mount the trans. bracket to. Using aluminum screws you mount the board to the transom or toon in your case. You can bend the board to the contour of the surface by heating it up and dry fitting it. You get a tube of 3M 5200. It is the best available outside of NASA. Predrill the holes through the white board into the hull. Put blobs of 3M5200 into the drilled holes in the hull, slather 5200 all over the board and drilled holes, mount the white board to the hull. The next day mount the transducer bracket into the white board again using 3M5200. Looking at your bracket you might get a rooster tail with it. The opening between the 2 pieces of horizontal brackets is a space where water can and probably will produce a rooster tail. Filling that gap somehow will stop it. If a rooster tail doesn't get anything or anyone wet it's no big deal. My Humminbird did make a tail that splashed against my kicker and put water into the battery box. Humminbird came out with a small rubber insert available to customers of my specific unit. Supposed to be free but the marina charged 5 bucks, no need to argue over 5 bucks or a buck 30. Sorry Rattletrap, couldn't help myself, all in good fun. When ever using adhesive like PL, 3M 4800 or 5200, silicone caulking etc. do not apply it in a circle always an "S" pattern. Air can be trapped in a circle and it won't glue as well. I don't know if it is true or some guys idea of busting balls on the Internet. Sounds logical. I dunno.

I stuck enough $$ in my pocket for a few Beers. Open bar yesterday? Yep. Not top shelf but 2nd shelf. I found out today my wife's sister paid for all the food. She is a successful author and motivational speaker, she can afford it. The father is a lout and hasn't been around for almost all those 49 years. It is her daughters 1st marriage at 49 years young. She looked not a minute over 30. Good genes. I love those ridiculous 15 course meals don't get me wrong but I am always full by the time the Surf and Turf comes to the table. We once went to an East Indian wedding. 3 days of food and festivities, I tapped out after day 2. I can't tell you what I ate and drank but can tell you it was good whatever it was. Except 1 dish that tasted and smelled like Turpentine, I swear. The 1st time I was ever on a commercial Jet, around 75', actually any airplane other than the one you got Mom to put a dime in was to a mob wedding in a Boston Mass. suburb. The front of the venue looked like an abandoned warehouse with 2 foot weeds growing out of the cracks in the pavement. whad da? From the rear it looked like Caesars Palace in Vegas and the interior matched too. Us Hamiltonians sat at a table of 10 I think. The waitress took our order and when she returned asked for 50 something bucks, USD!!! We sipped on those drinks all through dinner, including the wine we bought. None of us ever heard of such a thing, ever, and I think I had 10 bucks after 2 nights of Disco dancing to get back to TO. After dinner my buddy and myself was asked by the Father of the groom, buddy's Uncle, to keep an eye on the bartenders ringing in the orders. The MC announced Mr. M has opened the bar. You never saw so many Italians run to get their orders in before he changed his mind. What an eye opener. 1st time I ever knew there were Weddings on a Sunday. A big World out there datsa fo shoe.

I didn't have to cook yesterday but had the best meal of 2019. We went to our nieces wedding in St. Kitts yesterday. Servers came around with everything from Spring rolls to Perogy's. They set up about 8 different stations of foods, my wife said Tappas, little bites. I hung around the Seafood table. Huge 10-15 shrimp, deep fried and cold. Oysters on the 1/2 shell, fresh, fresh. Smoked Salmon and Trout. Shamishi, (sic), raw fish and Japanese dips. No thanks. Sushi and California rolls with cooked shrimp and crab inside, Crab legs, and, and, and. Apparently there was a roast beef and roast pork and tatters table. That I can have here. I ate too much. I liked it better than the 12 course Italian or Portuguese wedding feasts. The sweets tables were ridiculous. Club Roma St. Kitts On.

Rattletrap, I don't want to get into any urination contest with you, too nice of a day. I'll will respectfully bow out. Have a good one.

You asked "am I out to lunch?" I answered yes. You are putting a lot of words in my mouth. Relax.

Better get a bigger net. Good solo job. While your at it better get a bigger boat.

To answer your question you are "out to lunch." I once worked in payroll at a plant of 10,000 hourly rated workers and I always got the guy that was short on his pay 25 cents or a buck something and wanted to argue with me and told me I don't know how to do my job. If I put my hand in my pocket and pulled out a quarter to save myself some unnecessary work but it wasn't good enough. He wanted his entire 2 week pay recalculated because he was positive it would get him into a tax bracket that was to his advantage. I'd make him wait for an hour, and they did for pennies for God sakes. I had to do it with a smile while the work on my desk piled up and I wasn't getting out of the office until it's all done. 25 pennies, 130 pennies. what the hell man more important things in life to get stressed over. You are probably right, perhaps, but being right doesn't always mean you have to prove it. I think my Mother was related to you somehow. I tell everyone that moans and groans over stuff like this crraap. Spend 15 minutes at the Children's Hospital walking up and down the wards, then come back and tell me you have problems.

I actually got out on the lake yesterday. Fished the Elbow, we didn't limit out with the 3 of us but we did get 15 nice 3lb. pikeraleyes. And my body held out. From the cleaning board into the pan. Man they are good, real good. I had a huge bun with 6 nice cheeks on it with creamy cold sludge.Tonight Walleye Taco's, tomorrow who knows. Mmmmm good!! Today the lake is calm.

Paul a pal that lived in Youngstown, Boardman actually (big $$ guy, friends with the DeBartalo's ), gave me his box of Large Mouth plugs. 3/4's of them I use to troll for Walleye out here. Name drop lately Johnny D?

Lew, not Lou. Great to hear some positive feedback for customer service these days. The bad ones get all the ink and those that are good don't. Enjoy the rest of your trip. I don't know if you are going to or have been to Nova Scotia yet. Remember to get out by Thanksgiving. I visited once at that time and found myself on the business end of a snow plow working for free for my BIL! Took an early flight home.

Your baitcaster most likely is a far better quality rod and reel.