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Pretty neat. What do you use to get your bait out? Cheers

Good one lol.

Rick I'm thinking that your nasty neighbour got someone to sabotage your vehicles. But as mentioned it's probably bad gas. Try a bottle of gas line antifreeze first. Cheers

2 months ago I dropped Bell phone and bought an OOMA telo. It's voip. Free long distance in Canada. Under $4 a month. Brand new no. and big bonus I now get get zero calls like that anymore. Cheers

Excellent photos. Tks for sharing. Cheers

As a rule, I always try and live by the "don't sweat the small stuff" motto. Keeps the grey hair down I figure. Less stress is best. Specially when I'm not in control and there's nothing I can do about it for now. Mind you, what is small stuff to one person might put a real knot in someone else's face Roe Bag I don't blame you for being ticked off, hence the rant. But you are basing all this on a single conversation last year. Anyway, for now you're SOL man. Have a beer and file it in the "next time I'll know better" folder that we all have. Sometimes a squeaky wheel does get greased. Just sayin... Cheers

That made me laugh. Well said Cliff. Post of the year right there. In my case I would ask first out of respect but there better be a real strong reason to say no. It's a two way street right? All this "happy wife, happy life" is a crock IMO. I went out with a nice gal for 5 years, then she started complaining about my hunting and fishing. CYA babe.

I've been to both plenty of times and definitely prefer Kipawa. Stayed in the hub area at Alwaki Lodge the most. The last time at Temagami the OPP were trying to pay for their new boat and were nailing everyone including lodge boats for alcohol out of residence. In Quebec you are legal to have a pint in the boat and they don't bother anyone unless the driver was right hammered. Cheers

I recently dropped my bell phone and switched over to OOMA telo. Works pretty good for under $5 a month and saves me having to give bell close to $60 a month. free long distance in Canada too. http://ca.ooma.com/ Mind you, there was a power outage in Almonte yesterday so I had no internet for a while but we still had wifeys cell phone. I d/l many movies and tv shows so if it wasn't for sports I would drop expressvu as well. Bell has been ripping us off for too long with things like the $4 charge for touch tone service, which they recently hid into their basic charge. Cheers Cheers

I've been using noscript for a long time but it can be a pain sometimes not knowing which scripts to allow to watch videos on some sites. Recently I've also added uBlock which is similar but even gets rid of those youtube ads. But likewise it sometimes blocks things you don't want like I found out the other day when I couldn't get the navionics web app to work. So you just disable it for those sites. https://www.ublock.org/ Cheers

Nice Whities. Nice rig too, looks like the kids had fun. Cheers

Tks for the heads up. That was a very enjoyable 44 minutes I just watched in hd on my pc. Streamed from cbc for those that missed it. Sure is nice with no commercials. Great show and photography on a rarely seen critter that has always sort of had that mystique about it. Cheers

Yea, after years of freezes and cutbacks including layoffs. Cheers

Whether Champ or Kastmaster or whatever, they are all essentially the same design, like a diagonal slab through a metal rod. Mr Champ has been around for ever. I actually had a 6oz brass one at one time way back. It will always continue to be effective, as will some of the other classics like Cleos, Pimples, Williams, Hopkins and Rapalas etc that have been around for a real long time and still work well. A buddy of mine exclusively uses champs for greys and whities at his cottage in QC and he's there lots in the summer. Funny enough, he's touchy about his colors, at one time was ordering bulk by the dozen of a certain pattern before it was discontinued. Go figure. Cheers

I've only ever been a member of a few outdoor forums and I'm sure I'm not up on all the protocols but does/should the thread starter not have the right to request that responses stick to the topic so that threads don't go too sideways? Or ask a mod to enforce that or lock a thread? Not here in particular, but then of course there are those that like to hijack threads, while others may start threads they know will be controversial. Some are good topics that remain productive, others go sideways. So be it, it seems to go on everywhere to varying degrees. So be the online world. It's pretty easy going and civil here from what I've seen on other forums. I like it here, I visit everyday.. I'm sure the mods love it too not having to deal with as many issues. To Big Cliff, my apology for going off topic. hehe On that note, I never got the feeling that you were ever blaming Justin for the plight of this lady, you were just bringing this example to light and suggesting to him that it's about time that Canada starts taking more care of its own first rather than spending money so freely abroad. I totally agree, but it's pretty obvious so far that it's not happening with the liberals. The opposite in fact. Scary that political agendas take priority to common sense, but what the hell do I know eh. Cheers

That's a good one. I've used windshield washer fluid in a ziplock bag before as well. Cheers

Tks Doug. Yea it seems lots of folks just take the breasts off their geese, which technically might not be legal as they are allowing some meat to spoil. Good for you on finding something to do with them. Cheers

Doug that is quite the interesting recipe I must say. Then I hit the maple syrup at the end and did a double take. I've never sweetened any soup. Well... maybe some honey in a tomato soup once. Kind of intriguing what that would add to that mix of spices. It must be the pic, but the soup has that "curry" look to it. I make a lot of soups, they are so versatile. Lot's of poultry stock frozen in jars and containers and bags. I will admit to stocking up on the Campbell' s beef stock cartons when they go on sale. Regular price has gone way up the last couple of years. I've never tried to make beef stock after looking at the price of bones. So what's the history on this soup Doug? Your own concoction likely I figure. Btw what happens to the cardamon seeds? Do they go mushy and blend in? I've only ever used powder. Cheers

Not the brands you are looking at but I have an Arctic Armor suit that is great. Lightweight, very warm and comfortable to wear. Doesn't get all stiff in the cold. Insultex is waterproof, windproof and very buoyant. The amount in one suit will float 700 lb. Not coastguard approved but that's not an issue for me. Check out the videos on line to see it in action. Cheers

Of course it's ultimately his right as landowner. But this is a local guy who tries to come across as a friend over the 15 years different bunches of us have paid him for hunting rights. It's just common decency I would expect from someone I've shared plenty of beer with. Here's the quick story. 6 years ago his property is just sitting there. So I offer him $1000 for 4 of us at $250 each. Fine, he's all happy. Two years later 2 guys can't continue. So early summer I phone Kev and inform him that I will try and fill the spots or maybe he knows someone. Cool. Then the rest happened after we found sign of others on the property early fall and he finally returned my calls. Yea he says, "I've got a cousin and his bud I've given hunting rights to" . Fine, we would have been happy to team up with the lads and share our knowledge and 4 stands. But no, he can't bother to give me a simple phone call. Then he goes on to say for the two of us who did all the work to fix up his property the price is now $500 apiece. Pretty easy to figure out what he's up to. CYA. Bottom line, the guy is a sleazeball. Always has been. Much as I enjoyed hunting a few minutes up the road not having to deal with him anymore is worth it. Karma is a bugger they say. I drove by the lane today and noticed the sign at the cable. I backed up and drove in for a look see. I had a good chuckle and had to take a pic. The more you read it the less sense it makes lol. Cheers

Now I'm certainly no lawyer, but knowing the owner of this property my vote would be a big Bull. This guy is well known to be really full of it, and will lie through his teeth to anyone, including a judge in his separation hearing. This isn't the first time he has put up signs at the entrance to his land and he knew they were a crock. Several of us locals have paid to hunt his 200+ acres over the years but after dealing with his crap and lies too many times none of us have anything to do with this jerk anymore. For example, we fixed up roads and trails, put stands up etc and then the next thing you know I've got pictures of guys I don't know tromping by our stands with a rifle in hand when the only big game open was bear. He didn't even have the decency to inform us. Then he gives a couple of "friends" of his permission to hunt his property and still doesn't tell us. That was the last straw for us, so we went in and cleared out all our stands and feeders and haven't talked to him since. It's really too bad because it's a nice property and only a mile up the road. This guy even moved his property line in the middle of the bush so he could justify dropping trees that weren't even on his legal property. I've never seen or heard of anything like this before and a google search came up empty. So I'm hoping someone here might be knowledgeable in these matters. I just noticed this sign today on a cable across the entrance. He doesn't even have no trespassing signs up. Tks for any input. Cheers

There are plenty of legit freeware programs out there that can do the same things as what some of these programs claim to do. CCleaner is a good one that comes to mind. As posted, MalwareBytes AntiMalware (MBAM)is an excellent tool. With the right version you can get active monitoring as well. It even has a chameleon "mode" to fool some malware from targeting it. But I digress... Best practice for sure is prevention in the first place by using adequate antivirus/spyware/adblocker etc (malware) programs. All mine is freeware. Just make sure not to run two antivirus programs at the same time. Firefox has some great extensions that I really like too Here is the best advice I can offer to most any home user to further protect your computer. Most home user accounts have admin privileges, which allows your account to do anything practically. This also allows malware access to your whole system to install programs or whatever once it has accessed your account. What we all should do is be signed on with a Standard User Account, which has limited privileges to install/run programs without an admin password, which you can supply when asked for things you want to use. It's free, simple and effective protection. You can still sign on as an Admin if needed. Cheers

I'm not positive about this but I heard it's only free to start then after that there may be yearly charges. Besides that, the reported privacy issues are plenty enough to keep me far away from it. Microsoft has also snuck in some of those user trackers into Win 7 and 8 in some of their updates, the sneaky buggers Cheers

I kid you not, A lady on a local fb site said a woman at her work got sucked in for 17 grand over two days. They are out there... Cheers

Boy did you ever come to the right place. Enjoy your trip Cheers