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Thanks for that Mike, you sure can tell a story Fantastic trip for everyone !!

Nobodies messing with anything, as I say, the hunters are gonna look after things.

There's a couple hunters on the road that are gonna see what they can do.

Whatever it is Art, he's starting to crowd my space

We went into town this afternoon at 4:00 and got home at 5:30 and when I pulled into the driveway I noticed the eavestrough at the side door was pulled apart. I went for a better look and saw several holes in it plus scratches and the trough was actually torn nearly in half. The teeth marks are 1/4" in diameter so I'm just assuming it was one of the many bears around here. We've got plenty of chipmunks here too and I often see them going into the trough and I'm guessing to get a drink, so perhaps Mr. Bruin saw one go in there and decided he wanted a little snack. Anyways, I took a couple pics incase anyones interested. This is the way I found it This pic shows the crushed & torn trough with the teeth marks that went right thru and out the other side.

2 rods east of the ferry and 1 rod west of the ferry.

I always have bird feeders and a few years back when I was living in the city we'd get the odd pigeon in the yard. I looked out the window one day and there was a patch of blood on the snow and a pair of wings and nothing else. I lived close to the Don Valley and there were always hawks around so I assume one had an easy meal when it became available.

When casting for muskies, LARGE spinnerbaits are excellent and I start EVERY day with one, and I'm often still tossing the same bait at the end of the day. Over weeds, thru weeds, over and around rocks and stumps and everywhere in between they'll get you good fish. And if you get tired of chucking them, their also a fantastic bait for trolling too. One of the most versatile baits on the market.

When you wash your truck, the leaf blower would be great for removing the water and would certainly save getting the chamois all wet.

Gotta luv them newfies

You make musky fish'n seem very boring by comparison Mike, we don't have any of them fancy dancy words

Hey Paul, didn't you just say EXACTLY what I said, only turned a few of the words around ??

Spinnerbaits are one of the easiest baits to use and are normally a fish magnet. As mentioned by davey buoy, you need to experiment with different colours and weights, but you can also change blade styles to get different depths. A Colorado blade will keep a bait up high, while a Willowleaf will allow it to run at a deeper depth. If fish are hitting your bait but not getting hooked, you can add a stinger hook to the back of the main hook. I always run 1 or 2 rubber worms on my baits, but that's just me, but is something you could try also. If straight retrieves aren't working, try banging and bouncing your bait off rocks and other structures, or get it down deep into the weeds and work it through them at different speeds. Most importantly though, you need to be fishing where the fish are. It's tough to work a spinner bait wrong, so if your not catching, just keep changing your tactics until you figure out a pattern and then you'll do just fine.

I hear ya, just too much squabbling among the river crowd for my liking though.

You married a wise woman

Get yourself some Tekkota's Stoty, then you'll never have to buy another reel

I guess I understand where your coming from Kemper, but from the stuff I read around here it just doesn't sound like an enjoyable way to fish to me. Seems like there's just constant complaining about so many different things associated with river fishing, from snagging, to flossing, to poaching, to guys gutting fish for the roe and 100 other things. And heaven forbid somebody mentions a river or posts a pic and there's a dozen guys ready to hang him for it. I'm not trying to stir the pot, it just never sounds like fun to me, but I spose everybody has their own thing to do....and I'll stay out on the lake where it's nice and peaceful

I'm sure glad I never took up river fishing, seems all you guys ever do is fight & argue amongst each other.

Here ya go

It'll take me 10 minutes to pack

Great story Greg and if I'd known so many folks were gonna be up there the last week we'd have come up too and grabbed a cabin.

I just went through your post again Joey and this picture really is fantastic.

I DO see my exhaust on cool mornings Greg, I was just saying that I had never had any smoke from the motor. Guess I should learn to express myself better

I've been running my 150 for 3 years now Greg and have never had any smoke coming from it.

Outstanding catch !!!!