smitty55

Right, their outpost cabin is in dead bear bay, I remember when they upgraded it.

What lodge was that at? I know Kipawa Lodge has a solar set up.

Anyone knowingly driving with faulty brakes show have their license taken away. When it comes to the safety of yourself, your passengers and the lives of other drivers there is no choice.

First I've heard of that type tourney. Think of all the money anglers could save if most of them were like that. So my question then would be if this waterway was one that those anglers were familiar with or was it completely strange water?

It's almost getting to that point now, there's hardly any learning about actual fishing anymore, just about how to use the tech. Tournaments are already limiting what tech can be used, I'd love to see it become even more stringent or even to the point where in certain tourneys none can be used and then you'd really see who the best anglers are.

Yea I downloaded it in torrents but haven't watched it yet, tks for the reminder.

That was wonderful Lew, big kudos to Sheri. I lost my wife over two years ago and I can relate to a lot of what she wrote. I just finished reading the book You are not Alone by Debbie Augenthaler and it helped. She lost her husband suddenly in her 30's and over time went from a securities trader to an award winning psychotherapist dealing with grief and healing.

Yea that's what I was basically referring to, deep snow, bush roads into back lakes, on lakes in the winter, unplowed roads during or after a storm. I'll take my truck anytime over any awd SUV for those conditions. I still carry a pail of wood ashes in both vehicles though for dealing with ice, nothing beats that for traction when you need it to get unstuck or pulling someone else out. My driveway and walkways get a good dose of ashes anytime we get freezing rain, makes it like walking on pavement.

That's strange, it's generally accepted that a dedicated 4x4 is better than any AWD in the winter. Maybe it's those tires compared to your truck's snows or lack of weight in the box?

They are legal in northern Ontario but not in southern with their thinking that they are too hard on the road surfaces.

Speaking of a good deal, it sure does help when you're dealing with someone where money isn't much of a concern. Case in point, I drive a '95 Lumina with only 117K and never winter driven safety checked for $3500 that I picked up just over two years back. Nice Michelin tires on it with plenty of tread. I bought steel rims and winter tires for it. There was some sidewall cracking on the Michelins that was getting to the point where they wouldn't pass a safety and I was getting concerned. So I did a search on Marketplace and came across an add for some almost new BF Goodrich Advantage tires and alloy rims. They had cost $1200 at costco installed and had only been used for two months. They were asking $450 for them but after checking the rims didn't fit my car so I told them I was going to keep looking as I had found a good price locally. Turns out two of those tires weren't good so I passed on them and decided to keep looking. Bad time of the year though as it's all snow tires for sale. So a couple of weeks later I contacted them again and offered them $300 for the tires only so they could sell the rims separately. They came back to me and said to take them all for the $300 so the next day I went and picked them up and sure enough they looked brand new still. Well the neighbourhood they lived in was strictly high end homes with a Mercedes in the driveway so it was obvious that money was of no concern, he just wanted to get rid of the tires. Rims are in great shape so I know I'll easily be able to get $100 for them so these $1200 tires will end up costing me $200 plus install, now that's a great deal that will last me a long time with only summer use.

Tks guys, that's what I figured as any emails I get from here are never in my junk folder. Really make you wonder how they even know I get emails from here to try and scam as I always use a vpn. The sender name was a bit different too with the added <no reply@... Good for all the other members here to be aware of anyway, I know better than to click on anything that seems a bit funny but folks get fooled all the time. Admin may want to put a warning post out about this. Cheers

Anyone else get this email, it just showed up in my junk folder and with the amount of scams over the last couple of months I don't trust anything anymore. It says to visit the thread but I don't see it here and I'm not about to click on it without verifying it's authentic. Tech Admin started a new conversation with you at Ontario Fishing Forums. Thread We recently did a big update to the software here by upgrading to the newest version of Xenforo, will you check this thread please; https://www.ontariofishingforums.com/threads/view.28692/ View this conversation

Without getting off topic here, from what I just researched ATF is not recommended anymore to use as engine flushes.

I would never do without snows on my vehicles including my 4x4 truck. The way I look at it there is no extra cost other than used rims or black steel ones as my summers last twice as long seeing as they are only on for the 6-7 months of the warm season and my winters last just as long. I live in the country and my driveway has a decent slope and I rarely have any issues getting up with the car other than the odd time after a fresh heavy snowfall where I might have to take somewhat of a run at it. Most of the winter I just pack the driveway down with my truck.

I still see the odd fishing show on TV but they are all on standard definition channels which I refuse to watch so I can't comment on their content.

Definitely an OBD code reader is a must have to carry.

So I just looked that up on Google Maps. How close to the Rockies are you? Looks like you're only 55km away.

That was really well done, kudos.

That does sound good Dougie. Unfortunately I had a brain cramp and forgot that I sold my pressure canner 6 or 7 years back as I was never using it. I do have a pressure cooker that I do use but it only has a weight and I don't know for sure what pressure it functions at, I assume it's at 10psi but without knowing for sure it's hard to know what cooking time I should use. Besides it's not very big and doesn't have anything I could rest jars on at the right height. Oh well.

Hmmm, I never considered canning smoked fish, it's pretty well cooked when it comes out of the smoker and pressure canning would cook them even more. I guess it would have to spend less time in the smoker. I do have a pressure canner but I think I'll stick to freezing and vacuum sealing my excess for now.

I used to do a lot more trout fishing and back in the day you used to be able to buy frozen whole Lake Trout, Pink Salmon and Whitefish in any grocery store so I used to do a lot of smoking fish. The best of the bunch though was the 13 years I worked at First Air where I could get fresh caught and frozen Char shipped for free from up north for crazy good prices, at the beginning I think it was like $3lb. In the winter they still had the guts in them as they froze so fast out on the ice after being caught or netted. Best smoked fish I've ever had by far. I would also cut nice thick steaks off the frozen fish and put them on the grill, they were so good. That Sockeye would be real good too if it was available, otherwise I did find some in BC but with shipping it was quite pricey. In the meantime I still really liked what I did up last week, no complaints at all even though it was farmed.

It's that time again to give my Big Chief smoker a good work out. A couple of weeks back both Atlantic Salmon and Steelhead trout were on sale at half price for $10/lb and it's been a too long time since I did fish so I couldn't resist, best birthday gift I could give myself. Around 7-8 lbs. Put them in the freezer as frozen fish smokes better and took them out a couple days back. Made a gallon of brine yesterday and they spent the night in the spare fridge in two pots. Took them out at noon, patted them dry and the 29 pieces completely filled the five racks. After running a fan on them for an hour they developed a nice shiny, sticky pellicle and then it's that time to go outside for a 6 hour smoke I figure, maybe a bit less for the thinner pieces. Wood chips of choice is Cherry. This is where the fixed 160 degree temp comes in perfect for smoking fish at low temps over a longer period. The last couple of hours I will be brushing them with maple syrup for an extra sweet treat. This is going to be oh so good. EDIT: I was way off on my time guess. Between a windy cool day and water in my drip tray which I don't normally do at six hours the fish was still mushy so I did the syrup brush, removed the drip tray and it took eleven hours total before the fish was nice and firm but still plenty moist. It was worth the wait, I had family over the next day and a everyone was raving about how good it was. Now the hardest part is having enough control to not pig out on it too much and freeze some for later. Cheers

Hopefully it was just time related stress that blew the fuse. The other question could be what high current draw caused the fuse to blow? I'd suggest doing a real good clean up inside the back of the dryer and a good washing of the filter screen, specially if you use dryer sheets that leave an invisible film on the screen that blocks airflow and causes over heating.

First thing to check is the thermostat on the wall, see if you can hear it click when you turn the temp up.