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And a Merry Christmas to you too walleyedreamer & all the best in the New Year !!

Sky's nice & clear down here now Brian and the stars are shining.....finally. My shovelling's all done & I'm heading out at 9 to finish off my Christmas shopping hmmmmm, wonder if anyone remembered to shovel out the plaza ??

Thanks for the offer Dawg, but I'm fine with my coat, but would you happen to have something to keep the icicles off my moustache

Ah yes, the winter version of a jet skier ........ J/K Joey, your gonna luv that thing !!

Yup, lotsa nice fish there for sure. Thanks for posting that on such a nasty day, it kinda takes off a bit of the chill !!

I know what your saying John, my wife & I, along with a group of friends were heavy into sledding for years and travelled all over central Ontario every weekend on them. Stayed in motels Saturday nights and parked the sleds right at the front doors. I had to give it up about 10 years ago because of an injury but would sure like to be out there again in this kinda weather.

Well, I shovelled all the snow outta my driveway, trouble is, now it's all on me

Mo, this mornings 10:00 news described the 400 series hiways around Toronto as "treacherous" . Drive carefull kiddo

I believe the Toronto banana crop will survive this storm OK Glen, but we may have to do a bit of extra digging to get at them

That's the exact reason I use wire cables to attach my musky trolling rods to the boat. $5 for the cable......$500 to replace the trolling outfit

Hey Mo, have a close look at the Toronto forecast before you head down this way as I think were sposed to get another 6 - 10" of snow today on top of what we already got overnight. It's also very windy and there appears to be some heavy drifting, infact I've got about 2' in my driveway and it was just shovelled a couple hours ago. Just a heads-up for you.

I shovelled the snow about 5 this morning, but now it's coming down much harder and it looks like I never even touched it. Sure hope nobody needs to travel too far on the hiways today. Of course you all have good snow tires on your vehicles............don't you ??

Hey, what happened to your Peterboro plans ?? Sheesh, I've already got your name tag fastened to the co-pilot seat in my boat

My Mom was out Christmas shopping last week and when they put her purchases thru the check-out, she found she was short about $1.65 or something, so she was gonna put one of the items back and get it next time she was in the store, but the fella behind her threw a toonie on the counter and said, "here ya go Ma'am, it's on me". Small, but HUGE gesture on his part, and it made Moms day !! Great idea for a post Ken, and Peace to you too

Yup, and I've also got all the gear you'll need too, just lemme know when WTG Bud !!

Thanks for that Sean, it was a fantastic read, including some excellent pictures too !! Boy, for a feller that just got back into fishing this year, you certainly accomplished everything you set out to do with some very impressive fish........ Congratulations to ya for a job well done !!

Thanks everyone Roger & Pete, you boys have added a few extra bonus points with Diane for the next time your up at the lake next summer Forgot to mention that we were also checked very closely by a helicopter too Roger, not long after the boat check. We saw the chopper flying up along the Grand Island shoreline , then when he spotted us he made a 90 degree turn and came right over to us where he slowed down and basically hovered, not too high, right above us, while he had a good look at us, then contined back on his original course. I've seen them before, but that's the 1st time they've come over for a close look. We were well inside the Canadian side too, but he was just curious I spose......no problems with that at all either.

Thanks Rich, always enjoy the fireside yaks, and let's plan on hitting the water together for a few hours next June.

We always finish off the musky season with a final trip to the Upper Niagara River in December, mainly because it's about the only water around that isn't frozen over solid yet. Yesterday it was myself, squid, rizzo and keepinitreel who headed out. We met at the ramp at sunrise and got the boats in the water. Very little snow down there and the ramps were in good shape 'cept for a bit of ice on them, but everything worked out fine. I had a shovel & salt, plus there was a pile of gravel beside the ramp. We never got a musky for our efforts but that wasn't disappointing cause that seems to be the norm on that river lately and we almost expect a skunk down there anymore, but it was still an excellent day with beautiful weather, infact I never even wore a coat the entire day. We fished till sunset, then loaded the boats and headed for home after Pete & I stopped at the restaurant for dinner. I'd rather spend a day on the water getting skunked than doing alot of other things. We got stopped on the river about 4:00 by the Niagara Parks Police who just wanted to check all the usual stuff....fishing licences, and safety gear.....but that's the 1st time I've ever even seen them on the water. A couple real nice officers (one male, one female) who were very friendly and efficient, and it's good to see them out there looking after us Now it's time to clean everything up and put it away till next June. I had a decent season with about 85 muskies boated myself this year, plus what ever my friends got. Not my best season, or my worst either, but after losing my brother in May I found it hard to get back into the swing of things this year. We had some good trips this year in spite of things though. Seven days at Lakair in June with the gang is always great and this year was no different. Then in July, myself & Smokey spent a couple days fishing the Ottawa River and got a few muskies. August was another week at Lakair with about 12 of us and was as good as always. In November a group of us always head to St. Clair for a couple days of musky fishing and as usual we all had a great trip. I've got some good friends on this board and spent alot of time fishing with them this year. Our annual spring pickeral trip to Quinte was obviously cancelled this year but were gonna get it going again next season and the 1st pan of pickeral fillets cooked on the Coleman will be dedicated to Eddyk I added a GPS to my boat this season and next year I'm upgrading the sonars too. Anyways, that's my 2007 season over and it was a good one, and I'm already making plans for next year, see y'all at Lakair in June EDIT++++++ I don't take many fish pics anymore but here's a few memorable fish that I did photograph Ottawa River in July Here's a pair I got on figure 8's one morning These 2 came right @ sunrise only a couple minutes apart 1st fish on a Bulldawg that Crazyhook gave me and insisted caught fish And my favorite picture of the entire year and no fish were involved

Good to hear Roger, see you in a couple hours.

I talked to these people this morning and they guaranteed me they have NONE in stock, and their also the same people that told me this item is no longer available in any CTC store ANYWHERE in Ontario. Sorry Mo, we tried for ya

About 1955, my dad bought a 15' cederstrip with a 25 HP Johnson Seahorse and instantly became King of the Lake and there wasn't a boat within 100 miles could catch us Thanks for the memories Chris !!

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It's not a can of worms at all, infact it usually leads to some great discussions. ........But welded really IS better