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I put the winter tires & wheels on the truck this morning then decided I may as well get the snow blower outta the shed after sitting for 7 or 8 months and make sure it's good for the upcoming winter season. Filled er up with fresh stabilized gas, pulled on the choke, couple primes and pulled the starter cord and the old girl fired right up on the very 1st pull and right away was purring like a kitten just as it does every year. Always good to take the extra time and do things right when your storing stuff away for a long period of time. Now I'm ready for the winter

Some nice fish there Roy, but it's not surprising, Marc's always on the bigguns.

I love it !!!!

Let's go with the one west of Dryden LOL

The one with the giant muskies

Seems to me Eagle Lake is on the list.

I think there's about 7 lakes listed that could hold the new WR and Nippissing is definitely one of them.

Our old family deer camp for many years was an abandoned farm near the s/e corner of Algonquin Park. My mom was born and raised in a little town called Killaloe about 35 miles from there. Her old uncles checked the archives for the history of the farm and found it was built about 1825. I started going there around 1956 and as you can somewhat see in this picture the barn is fairly intact and the walls of the house on the left are standing but the roof has collapsed. This place is isolated even now but close to 200 years ago it must have been unbelievable and I've often thought about how tough his his life must have been living in such isolation. Even today there's absolutely nothing around 'cept trees and water and the nearest hiway is 10 miles away. Those 2 buildings are long gone now and nothing more than a mound in the earth, but I was still about to slog thru the bush a few years back and find the place....lotsa great memories. When I was a kid in the 50's I used to visit my family in Killaloe and well remember how different it was from the city. They had the big old wood stove in the kitchen that was used for both cooking and heating the house and there was no indoor plumbing other than the hand pump in the kitchen. Tough life but it made for some tough people too.

Amazing what a few smart guys can do with primitive tools.

And that's why I wasn't smiling Brian

Yup, I remember that for sure Doug, definitely fun times. Thanks for the memories.

I've been wearing the same Sorel hiking boots for 15 years now and other than the soles wearing smooth their darned near as good as day one. Used to be an excellent boot, hope the quality hasn't slipped like on so many other products.

Well, there's your answer

Thanks Brian , we've had some flurries around here today but nothing like what your getting

We've got friends leaving Peterboro at 5 and heading to Casino Rama Brian, maybe not such a good idea from looking at your pictures.

A bu A group of us from this board did a November trip to Quinte a few years back and it was very rough that weekend too. Lotsa boats on the water and the only one to flounder was a bass boat. Guess the waves were just too much for them and he sunk to the gunnels and left the 3 guys terrified One of our group towed them in and everyone stayed safe, but it sure could have had a much worse outcome.

Sad to hear the 14'er is still missing, Quinte can be nasty this time of year, specially in a small boat.

I heard about a 14' tinnie with 2 guys aboard that was missing from the Trenton area, anyone hear anymore ??

Good to hear the new boat worked well in the big waves Greg.

I'll also recommend Guest, they make an excellent charger.

And there's nothing wrong with the Mrs. hauling the logs off to the wood shed either.

Can't blame them for that, too many times when someone posts a monster musky picture, all the "experts" tear them apart.

Yeah, that's a real beaut, thanks for posting that Shawn !! No wonder I love fishing Nip so much

Started off as an interesting discussion, too bad it went down the drain.

This is my brother and I fishing Quinte 10 or 12 years ago and has always been a favorite picture of mine. Ed was a member of this board and died in 2007 After I posted here about his passing, Joey got hold of that picture, took up a collection from a group of OFCers ...(totally unknown to me)...and had a painting done. She then presented me with the picture. It was one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me and is a gift I'll cherish for the rest of my life, as is Joey's friendship.