Old Ironmaker

Around 142 mil above yearly budget to combat last summers wildfires. A cost they can't quantify is the toll it takes on the brave men and women on the ground nd in the air doing the fighting. First responders are the real life superhero's, not some made up CG images portrayed to be by Hollywierd. https://mnrwatch.com/fighting-last-summers-wildfires-cost-212m-but-province-saying-little-else-social-sharing/

Yes my Buckeye friend there is a Bellevue Ontario, sorry. It is north of Sault St. Marie. That's way up north. When I was playing ball in a semi pro league we flew there in ancient DC-3's. I have been to the Sault as we call it many times as there is an integrated steel plant there. Flying above that area of Ontario it looks like there is more water dotted across the land than It has land to stand on. It was Algoma Steel when I was working in the steel industry. I read my company is interested in purchasing it now that the 25% steel tariffs your guy in Warshinton slapped on is has been lifted. They would buy the place just because it has Coke Ovens and basically shut the rest down, just as they did at Stelco Hamilton. There will never be another Coke battery built again in Canada at least because of emissions.

Definitely a Large Mouth. Colour and degree of darkness depends on their habitat. Looks very close in color and markings of a "Florida Bass" which coincidently are found in Florida and are Large Mouth.

Belleville Ohio? That's the Bay of Quinte in the east end of Lake Ontario, a magnificent Walleye fishery.

Remind me why I won't put my boat in there. When we were young and bullet proof we had a camp on The Ottawa. Dead heads pop up when you least expect it. We ran the rapids in the 14'ers. We would sit on the dock and take bets on which big bass boat was going to take the bottom end out of their 200 HP engines running the rapids. We towed more than a few Yanks in. Met many an Ohioan there. The oldtimers from Ohio had trained at Camp Petawawa prior to going overseas and obviously fell in love with the place. Something like a 16 hr drive for them. 8 hours for us from Hamilton with good traffic on the 401.

When the silvers were in at Nanticoke all you needed was a jig head and they would hit them 2 at a time. We found them when the minnows were jumping out of the water as the silvers fed on them. They were definitely silver bass not white perch. Catching not fishing for sure. Fun on ultra lites. We catch them occasionally trolling for Walleye here on Erie. They can make a mess of long lines when they run across them, a big mess. One trip was 10 minutes when one ran across all 4 lines. We hate them as much as farm animals ( sheepshead aka fresh water Drum).

No kidding my Buckeye friend. I only fished there once and said I would never put my boat in there. There are many here that fish it as their main lake. They know that water, and better know it well. Nice talking to you today Ohio while watching the Indy 500. 35 laps to go, a clean race today thank goodness. Ohio goziemas is good morning in Japanese. Good afternoon in Japanese isn't Pennsylvania. It's either konichi wa or konban wa, can't remember. Talk about off topic, again, sorry. It drives my wife nuts. Focus John, focus.

Followed Basket Ball closely when I played in High School. Not since. I have seen 1 game live when they had their rookie season and haven't seen more than 1/4 since. I always said they should just make the score 85 all and play the last 5 minutes that takes about 25 mins to play. I'll check in on the score and watch the last 5 minutes. Hope they win, we can use a big win for Canada even though I don't think there is a single Canuck on the hardwood and it's great for the die hards, Raptor fans can be rabid. I bet many of the players couldn't find Toronto on a map before they landed there, still might not.

Very close friends of ours just bought themselves a beautiful 5th wheel brand spankin' new last week. All the bells and whistles. I like the 2 big screen TV's and especially the huge dash mounted screen with GPS, Doppler weather, The Google lady in the little box, and, and, and. Bob and Gail have used a pop up for the last 25 years, the kids have flown the coop and say they should have bought one when they were little kids and went with them every weekend. Now they have a 5 * hotel anywhere they decide to stop and are spending the kids inheritance. My wife had never seen the inside of a real deal RV. I told her years ago this might be an option for us during the winter when she retires. I would park it at a southern US park where there is actually room and you can't hear your next door neighbour do their morning duty 5 feet away. There is an RV park outside Messa Arizona where we had a place for a few years that are on 1/3 of an acre lots. Many have Solar panels set up on the large lots, plenty of Sun there, I like that. They jamb those things next to each other at parks around here. She always said never, now it's maybe. I told them we are available anytime and I will do some of the driving and all the cooking.

Thanks, I see the reports now. As far as navigation on the lake I would rather have low levels than high. At least with low levels I can see some hazards in the blue zone shallows and stay far away from that area. High levels look like you have clear sailing but those hazards maybe inches below. There has been the mast of a wrecked sailboat at the inlet of Nanticoke Harbour where we usually launch, a very busy harbour including massive lake freighters for the Esso oil refinery and Stelco Steel where I worked for a while and commercial fishing. Low levels you can see the mast stick up a foot or so, at high levels it is just below the surface. We have tied jugs to it but they usually disappear after a few weeks. That's just 1 example, there has to be thousands similar out there, maybe hundreds of thousands all tolled. Bang, ouch.

Right hand, left hand, no hand still a long survey. Plenty of articles out there not just locally. Not that many years back freighters were not able to ship full on the Great Lakes because of harbours being too shallow. One of my neighbours have or should I say had a pool semi inground. Because the shore was that much closer then before waves crashing on the breakwall froze much higher up then ever before. Ice ripped that pool right out of the ground. The steel railing and stairs are twisted like pretzels. Actually the stairs that went to the beach are 20 feet out in the lake. That's just 3 doors down, I imagine all the neighbourhoods that probably should have never developed in the 1st place have similar examples. The Fall storm of 86 pulled several cottages into the lake that were never rebuilt. Lawsuits are still ongoing with land owners at something called Hastings Ave. on the west side of Long Point On. The municipality and province will not issue permits to rebuild or even allow trailers on the lots. That was 33 years ago. Long Point has areas that are a few feet above Lake Erie's normal levels whatever that is now. There are several controlled channels that divert water from the bay side to the open lake side. I would think water levels are equal, it isn't that simple. I need to take a drive and see how that area is now. The same problems are present or will be soon on inland lakes in all the States and Provinces in the Great Lakes watershed. I remember when I was looking for waterfront property an old timer in my crew said "Buy high and dry." I'm glad I did, the place is a good 30' above the water and now it's an issue.

Link brings me to a survey, no thx. Water levels here will never get any lower in my lifetime. Lost 20' of sandy beach that we will never see again according to all the scientists. Something like 750 cubic meters per second dump over the Falls to Lake O. If it is 751 cuft/second Toronto Island and Montreal will be under water. Good bye beach blanket bingo parties. On a selfish note my real estate agent says that loss of sandy beach lowers the selling price by up to $100,000. Just last summer I spent around 4K to fill and reset the undermined armor stone because of the effect of the water level being that much closer to the land. All the shoreline repair guys around here are booked solid. Some will not be able to repair there shoreline breakwalls or have them built because they never needed it before these water levels. They are predicting billions of dollars in damages along the shores of the Great Lakes in the near future. Some lakefront building lots are worthless in our county now because it will be rare to get a building permit now depending on where the 100 year storm line is. They are recalculating the 100 year storm line as we have had something like 4 of them in the last 10 years not 100.

What else is new. 1st year I'm not ably to troll a line or swing a club. Everyone tells me I'm not missing out because neither can they because of the weather. Winds and thunderstorms on Erie are evil and courses aren't letting carts out, too wet, still. Heavy storms last night and today.

No season, no limit. Just a heads up. We caught them by the boatcfull at the Hydro plant at Nanticoke until it shut down. They are very good eating fresh that day or the next. They are terrible the 3rd day and almost inedible to me frozen. I have heard they can be good smoked. Never tried them smoked. Also some near her pickle them. Not bad pickled but I personally wouldn't go to the trouble. The very first time we caught them we cleaned a few, cooked them in a butter and tasted them. Went on to clean more than 200 nice big ones, that boat was sinking when we quit fishing. The innards went into Ozzie's garden. The tomatoes tasted like fish that summer.

One of the many things I do to terrorize these guys is that I tell them I will get me on the phone. Put the phone next to the TV and turn up the sound. Wait 10 minutes and pick up the phone. Usually they have hung up by then and if they are still there I tell them John isn't home. They will put you on the do not call list. For the last few weeks I am getting robo calls in Chinese. They call 4 times a day. I put the number on the "reject call" list but that doesn't seem to work, always a different number and exact same message, I think. My Chinese is rusty.

A 2 wheel drive car and the far north is an oxymoron. Tell your friend his daughter needs to start looking for a real 4X4 with some aggressive rubber on it, not an all wheel drive that impersonates a real deal 4X4. (Yes I know guys they aren't all created equally, some will do the job, maybe.) As far as drive to lakes, there are many. We once stayed at a camp right on Hwy 11 in the Long-Lac area. We were given directions to a few fly-in back lakes on some of the Kimberly-Clark logging roads. We found the mile markers and a short walk down a hill and we found tinnies left there by the camp owner in winter. We carried the tackle, 9.9's and fuel to the boats and slayed some of the fish in those lakes. While we were fishing one 2 beleaguered Yanks came putting around a corner. They looked like they were in the bush for weeks. They were flown in and charged big bucks and big $ to resupply them They nearly lost it when they found out thy could have driven in. We felt sorry for them and I brought them some supplies (brown pops and some viddles) the next day when we went back.

Great looking rig Big Guy. Be careful backing her down a boat ramp. I finally watched that video of the floating RV. Anyone have any idea how that happened? No driver? They took it very well to say the least. I sure wouldn't. Tells me it is probably the sponsors not theirs. Just yesterday I wanted to back the boat up a few feet. Buddy put the receiver on the ball, I backed up and heard kabash!!!!!. Pushed the licence plate into the rubber and the rubber section of the bumper folded up like an accordion. Probably 1000 bucks damage. It's a grand for a body shop just to open a bay door now. Who's fault? My fault, I didn't double check.

Cliff, if it was 30 years ago I could fill all the seats with cute, young female co-pilots. But it isn't 30 years ago, Same great lady for 26 now. I still think she is young and beyond cute, she's a 6 foot tall beauty. Actually she modeled for a few years. If you got the Sears catalogues in the 80's you may have seen her. Also a Sunshine Girl. Many have asked over the years if she is legally blind, Funny. She is just as beautiful inside, that's the key for me.

Who cares. What's the enjoyment mileage? That's the question. We spent a few days in a 5th wheel fishing 2 summers back. I couldn't believe the quality and the comfort. We only went inside to prep dinner, sleep and the other 2 things. In total comfort. You the man Cliff. I can't say how happy I am for you. If you need a co-pilot let me know.

He bothered posting it because he was asking for our advice. If this site was 100% fishing there wouldn't be much to read here and it would go out of business tout suite. No one want's that. Keep em cumin'.

Always a day late and a dollar short. I thought Saturday was Friday. Retirement knows no time. Saturday night it sounded like some battle in some war torn country and asked Tich what the heck is going on here? I forgot it was Queen Vicky Day.

I didn't have to read the entire thread, I beg you not to confront them in any way. Even letting them see you taking a video. Let the authorities do what they are being paid for. In a case like this the Wardens would need to catch them red handed. Even with video of them doing it . Can the Crown prove beyond a reasonable doubt that was a over limit Bass being put in the boat? Are you more upset that they are fishing in your secluded spot or are you upset because they are poaching? A little of both maybe? As far as someone identifying species from a distance about 5 yrs back I had Ministry boat stop me and demanded to see our licenses and the fish. They were not in a jovial mood. Readers Digest version, someone flagged down the MNR boat who were in the area (Walleye Tourney on) and told them we were over our Walleye limit, not only we weren't over for Walleye the Salmon we caught and boxed were I.D.'d from afar by someone as Pics.

I got lucky I guess. The pump I got from a local marine dealer came with a few different tips. Hemeroid cream tips fit some plungers. Note, don't lend it out, they are like Cd's and DVD's, they never find there way home.

I've had the pleasure helping a pal that has a small marine repair shop. I've done 4 transom replacements over the last few winters. I put a few coats of Spar Varnish before sliding it back in. We also used a tube of 3M 5200 to seal the tops, screws and drain holes. Like you said Dave I will be dead and my ashes spread across the sea, lakes and land of this great nation and a bit in The Erie Barge Canal before those transoms rot again. Doing a good job there Big Dave. Off topic off course. A little fact we didn't want to know. If a person that weighs 200 lbs. and the body has 20% water why doesn't the cremation joint give back 180 lbs. of ashes? Where does all but a few handfuls go? After I left the steel plant I worked in the refractory business for a bit. We had to replace some refractory in the cremation furnace. When I asked what temp do they lower it to rake out all the ashes of the deceased? We learned that they only lower the furnace temp at the end of the day to reduce energy costs and reducing thermal shock that contributes to refractory lining failure. Therefor the urn will contain a combination of all those cooked that day. I hope that practice has changed in 20 years. Oh my.

Yep, just measure from the bow of the boat to the water line. If you have any scunge on the hull you don't need to put her in the water to measure it. Add 12 to 14". I would rather buy a used good elec. rather than a cheap new unit. Just thinking that depending where the battery will be, i.e. under the bow, it may change where the water line hits the boat at the bow. When I took the elec. off and removed the 2X12 volts with the new gas kicker on I had to put those 2 heavy batteries back up front to act as ballasts. One can tell who isn't out fishing for the opener, like moi who is posting on this beauty of a day. They are hammering the Pics and Jumbo Perch at Port Bruce, not I!!! For locations PM me.