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You need to clip a big 7/0 treble on the end of that stringer Simon

The foot pedals on those Power Drive units have been causing grief for years, although I don't know if it's still happening on the newer models or not. Most of the problems were coming from the circuit board inside the pedal. Maybe a place you can start from anyways...good luck.

By 4:30 I'm already thinking about lunch

Thanks Roy, I was just making the point that alot of folks use these boards strictly for their own personal gain with no intention of joining the "community" or giving anything back. At least that's the way it's always seemed to me.

Thanks johnny, that made for a great early morning read. Awesome trip from the sounds of it !!

Good luck today Mike, hope you nail a couple bigguns.

Doesn't really matter to me one way or the other whether folks are members or not. If they want free info they can still get it. Sorta like the rule we have here where you must have 25 posts under your belt before you can advertise in the classifieds. Guys just register, then reply to 25 posts in short order and post their stuff for sale and then they never post again. Or what about the guys who are only here for their own self promotion ?? They never join a conversation, never post reports, never reply to anything, infact some almost never even come into the main forum page, they just sit in the background promoting themselves. Some things there's just not much you can do about other than accept it and go about your own business.

$5000 sounds better to me.

Another option may be storing the boat and trailer at a farm in the area you normally like to fish. Farms all over the place have signs advertising outdoor storage and it would be far cheaper than a marina and may be somewhat more secure also just for the fact that there's normally someone living there. Until just 3 years ago I stored my boat INSIDE a barn all winter long for only $150 a YEAR. Just something else to think about.

My neighbor keeps his 15' boat with 25 HP motor docked at a marina at Burliegh Falls for $600 a season just to give an idea of price, although I don't know if the price is typical or not.

Nice one Larry, what an incredible looking fish !!

Nope, that's just an empty box, there's no food or food scraps anywhere outside the house and even the BBQ is cleaned on a regular basis. It's just an area where the critters like to hang out and I'm happy to have them.

My sentiments exactly Twocota !! I've got deer in the backyard... Deer in the front yard... Even have horse & buggies going down the road in front of the house... There's Bald Eagles in the area, I see turkeys pretty well everyday and we have Pileated WoodPeckers everywhere. I've always been an animal lover and if Mr. Bruin wants to hang around my yard, well then there's room for him too. I'll give him all the space he wants and hopefully he'll do the same for me.

At least my wife isn't afraid of bears, not even the grizzly kind

The mnr trapped a bear just up the road from me last year and relocated it, but I heard on the TV recentely that they now kill them rather than remove them. I'm not a hunter myself and would rather not see them being killed, but if they become too much of a nuisance or a danger, I spose they may not have much of a choice...unfortunately.

Bears certainly aren't unusual around here and I often see signs of them and have had bear poop in the yard several times and so have the neighbors. As mentioned above they've been quite active at night lately and just last week I had one tear down the bird feeder on my front lawn...that has since been removed. Just never had them active in the middle of the day. My wife and some of the neighbors go for walks along the road everyday and carry small airhorns just incase. I think one of the ladies also carries a can of bear spray too. And Brian, maybe I shouldn't be throwing the T-bones over the back fence anymore when I'm through with them ??

I just walked out on the back deck a few minutes ago to find a bear walking across the back yard about 100' from the house. He came from the woods behind my place, walked about 100' along the tree line and then headed back into the woods again as soon as he saw me. He appeared to be about 30" at the shoulder so I'm guessing not fully grown yet. We've had a lot of bear activity around here the last couple weeks but always through the night. I'm no bear expert but isn't it kind of unusual to have bears wandering around in the middle of the day so close to homes ??

I sure will bud, it's a place I never pass without at least a few casts.

Get your fish'n pole rigged up Kevin, I'll see you in a couple weeks

***Unions said this was a fragment of the more than 1,000 notices sent Thursday to Fisheries and Canadian Coast Guard employees about imminent layoffs.*** Too bad that governments alway lay off everybody 'cept politicians.

They were talking about these fires on the TV this morning and saying there's some fire crews coming in today from BC to help out. These fires are a very common occurance in the north but it's always tragic when they take out homes and peoples livelihoods. Good luck to everyone involved.

We just use a small flatscreen Skip and even with the old rabbit ears we could pick up a couple channels but as I said, it's only for the odd time when the weather gets miserable outside.

Thanks Billy, I've been trying to get into Google this morning but couldn't get it to open. It's good now and I found what I needed to know.

I now have the info I need.

We rent cabins for a few weeks up north every year and usually take a small TV with us for rainy evenings. We have always taken a portable "rabbit ears" type of antenna that just clips onto the back of the TV but seeing as that type of signal is no longer available I was wondering if there's any type of portable antenna that is now available to pick up the digital signal ??