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That really stinks Mike, I don't think there's many things in this life lower than a thief. Hopefully, Karma catches up to them someday.

Thanks for posting the pictures Rich, I've been waiting to see them. With the blue F150 and now the Tracker with the blue stripes, your gonna look purty snazzy going down the hiway. Best of luck with it my friend !!

I'm not into river fishing at all Mike but I've always enjoyed reading your tales and your pictures are excellent too !! Really good stuff.

With the beautiful weather today I decided to put everything else on hold and pull the boat outta the garage and knock off the winter cobwebs. Sure was nice to finally be able to spend the whole afternoon puttering around to get her all cleaned up and ready for another fishing season after a long winter. Might even get all the electronics put back in tomorrow. Now, if we can just get the rest of the ice off the lake I'll be all set

Gorgeous photograph Dr.Sal, thanks for posting that !!

When casting most baits for muskies I use 400 series Calcutta CT's & TE's but for burning baits or using jerk or twitch baits where fast line retrieve is neccesary, I like the larger spool reels as suggested by Dax and use 7000 series Abu's. Their big reels but bring in line very fast and with the power handles they also work well for cranking the large double bladed Cowgirl type baits with blades up to #13. The quality in the Abu reels is poor but at only about $150 it doesn't hurt too bad when they fall apart after a year or two.

Just to show you the other side of the coin Brian & the way a company SHOULD treat their customers. We've been buying our furniture from Leon's for more than 40 years because of their great service and quality products, so when we were moving north last month we went to Leons and bought all new furniture for the entire place and it was delivered exactly 4 weeks ago today. When they were putting the feet on one of the couches they noticed a small 1/4" hole in the dust cover UNDERNEATH the couch and pointed it out to me. I put a piece of tape over it and told him not to even worry about it. They finished unloading all my stuff and headed back to Toronto and just after they left here they called the store manager from the truck and told him about the hole. Thirty minutes after the truck left my driveway, the manager called us to apologize for the hole and because I didn't want the couch repaired at their cost, he insisted we take a $135 gift certificate which we received in the mail a couple days later. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but it does show the differences in attitude from one company to another. Hope you get your loveseat repaired shortly.

I bought a handheld radio last year but I think I'm gonna sell it and buy a fixed mount for the wider broadcast area. I spend 2-3 weeks a year on Nippissing plus the Ottawa & St. Lawrence Rivers and I think it's time to up-grade.

All the best Pal, hope it's a goodun !! BTW, your room's ready when you are

Attaboy Matt & congrats on the PB !! You gonna make it to Ontario this year, it'd be good to hook up again ??

Always good to hear about companies that still value customer service. Thanks for the heads-up Pete

The link takes me to a Windows page too Joey, but as to your question, is it summer yet, about 1/2 of Clear Lake is now wide open and I've got flowers popping in the garden, but sadly, the -13C tonight may take care of those things Oh well, it's only a few more days till April

Happy B-Day my friend, all the best to ya !!

Check with some of the local farmers in the area, alot of them offer storage spaces at very reasonable prices for both inside and outside storage. I've stored my boat inside a barn the last 9 winters for only $150 for the entire winter.

I like the members map Rick, it's good to see where everybody hangs their hats. Will you also be able to have the locations put back in the avatars ??

I don't mind the ads, specially seeing as they generate $$$$ to help run this place, but I'd still be willing to pay a small monthly fee if it was required to keep everything running. I also think paying to post in the classifieds would be a good money maker. Guys don't seem to mind paying $100 to watch the Leaf's lose a hockey game, so I don't see a problem with paying a couple bucks for all the entertainment offered around here, and what the heck, we even learn the odd thing too. Free is fun, but sometimes ya gots to pay to play With over 6000 members though, I think it would be an absolute nightmare trying to collect the $$$$

Thanks for bringing those old pics back up TJ, lotsa fun times there. Good to see the picture of Gary V again too....he was a great guy and a real asset to this board.

I've been a member of this board for a very long time, probably 8 years anyways, and in that time we've had several major overhauls around here to improve both the look and operation of this place and everytime it's the same thing. It always feels strange and awkward trying to navigate the new format and figure out how things work, but after awhile it all just becomes 2nd nature and in no time I forget how the "last board" even worked. Give it some time guys, TJ and his boyz are obviously working double duty to get everything tweeked just right but it's not all gonna happen overnight. OFC is a great place to hang out, but give the powers that be some time to iron out all the wrinkles.

Happy B-Day there young feller, all the best to ya !!

Thanks for the ego boost Phil, I always thought of myself as technological caveman

Thanks for the feedback guys, I've installed the Firefox and so far it seems to be working well and has solved the problem I was having with this new board.

I'm having a couple issues with the new board and I'm thinking if I get rid of Internet Explorer and switch over to something different everything will work better. Everybody says IE isn't that good anyhoo. Most folks I talk to recommend Firefox so I thought I'll give it a try and from what I found on Google it looks like 3.6 is the version to go with ?? Only question I have....for now anyways....if I decide for whatever reason I don't like Firefox, can I simply uninstall it to get back to IE, then try something different again ??

The new board looks good Rick, thanks for taking the time to set it all up. Only problem I have so far is when I'm scrolling thru a post it's extremely jerky and almost impossible to keep track of where I am. It's hard to explain but when I'm reading a post and scrolling down it's almost like all the text is flipping over each other, almost as if you were trying to read something thru wavy water........if that makes any sense. On the main page though, when reading down the list of forum topics, everything scrolls very smoothly. Any thoughts ?? EDIT++++ OK, something I just realised is that this problem only happens when I'm logged in. When I log out it doesn't happen and the pages scroll very smoothly. Wierd stuff

Thanks for that MB, a great fish'n tale as always !!

I was one of the origianal baby boomer kids and very vividly remember watching the old Davy Crockett show on our 8" TV. I was also one of about a gazillion kids running around the neighborhood wearing the buckskin coat and coontail hat Good times back then !!!!