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Don't be intimidated by a baitcast reel, their just another tool and are as easy to use as a hammer once you get the hang of them. As others have suggested, adjust it as you become more familiar with the settings and don't try to over power your cast. In a very short time you'll have the settings correct & you'll be tossing your baits across the lake and birds nests will be nothing more than a distant memory.

Great picture Brian and good to see you flying the Maple Leaf proudly.

A few years back I spent an evening sitting in John Andersons living room yakking about muskies with him. Very nice guy and extremely knowledgable about muskies.

Very nicely done, excellent job !!

5 days ago Clear Lake in the Kawarthas was still covered in ice, 2 days ago the north half was open and the bottom half was still ice covered and this morning it's 100 % open water. Sure is nice to finally see the sun sparkling on the waves.

Back when I had a 16'er with a 90 Merc I used a Happy Troller and it was excellent and slowed my boat down to a crawl. I no longer need to troll slow but if I ever decided to get back into that kind of fishing I'd buy another without hesitation. Nice being able to troll without having drag buckets or socks behind the boat. https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CC8QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.davisnet.com%2Fmarine%2Fproducts%2Flist_marine.asp%3Fgrp%3Dmo2&ei=2GkyVfGQMtDHsQSc94CYBQ&usg=AFQjCNH1xBJtThHCsiMkAJN5_xL7r9o2hA

My wheel barrow tire was only 5 years old but completely weather checked and wouldn't hold air this year either. I took the wheel down to a local tire dealer on Thursday and he replaced the tire. Total cost out the door was $33

I posted these pictures a couple weeks back but things are even worse now. Here's the bridge at Burliegh Falls a year ago and is normal for this time of year. Here's the same place 2 weeks ago and you can see how much lower it is than normal I didn't get a picture but I was just over that bridge an hour ago and where those rapids are in the 2nd picture is basically bare rocks today and about 1/2 the amount of water from 2 weeks ago. I live at Clear Lake 3 miles south of Burliegh Falls and the lake is about 2' lower than normal for this time of year.

Both my son & brother were excellent golfers and consistently shot in the low 80's, but me on the other hand, I was the worlds worst golfer and only broke 100 once in my life but I had a blast playing and that's all I cared about. I knew a guy years ago who was a member of a course out in Pickering and was always bragging about what an excellent golfer he was. He invited me to join him one day and after a couple holes I realized this doofus was as bad at me, but even worse he was a cheat. Most shots he'd end up in the woods and I'd hear him thrashing away at the ball, then when he finally get on the green it was another 3 or 4 shots to get in the hole. Trouble was though when he marked the score card he gave himself either a birdie or par on every hole Didn't bother me though as I was having a fun day and didn't care about my score or his. Problem was, after the game we went into the club house for a beer & samich and he started bragging to all his buds about what a great game he had and how he'd beaten the daylights out of me and what a lousy player I was. He didn't like it though when I explained to his buds that he was worse than me and cheated on every single hole. It was hilarious watching him try to squirm out of that one. He never invited me out again

Funny thing Joe, one of my worst cuts did come from a musky & that girl got me for 8 stitches LOL

Very often at accidents or fires or whatever, passersby like to stop just to watch what's going on. Trouble is though, all they do is get in the way and more times than not they block the way and emergency crews have trouble getting to the scene which just delays fixing whatever the problem is. If you can be of immediate assistance and nobody else is around, go ahead and stop and do what you can, but if all you want to do is gawk at those in trouble, do everyone a favour and just keep on going. You made a good decision Nick.

Don't worry about it Nick, nobody was injured and the bus will be insured. Not much sense in stopping if you feel you couldn't have done much to help with the fire anyways.

Nope, no choice on the color, if you don't like blue I spose they let you bleed LOL

There's already a linen closet in the room but it's out of range of the camera. Just to the left of that towel rack is the shower.

Thanks guys Steve, the tiles are porcelain and we're installed by a local company who has about the best reputation in the area. I do most reno's myself but when it comes to expensive flooring I like to leave it to the experts. Their coming back on Monday and installing hardwood in our bedroom.

It's my smile Phil, they can tell I'm too nice a guy to do anything wrong

I suggested that but the boss didn't agree LOL

We had a corner jacuzzi in the main floor bathroom that was never used and took up a bunch of space so it was time to remove it and put down new floor tiles & replace the toilet while we were at it. Finished job and a huge difference with the tub gone. Only casualty was my finger that got in the way of a hacksaw. LOL

I've been fishing the Kawarthas for 60 odd years and can honestly say in all that time I've been checked by a CO exactly ONE time, and that wasn't even for fishing. It was opening day of duck season and he wanted to know if I heard anyone shooting before sunrise. No wonder so many people break the fishing rules with no worries.

I don't have any details other than what the farmers neighbor passed onto us today.

Just an update on this elk. We heard today from a person who lives close to this farm that the elk attacked and killed 4 of the cows so the farmer was forced to shoot him. Unfortunate but obviously the farmer had no choice.

I always carry a set of booster cables in the boat just in case my starting battery won't fire up my motor. Hook them up to a deep cycle and away you go. And I can help another boater who may be stranded.

Your a handy guy bud, nice work.

Beautiful work Bernie, looks brand new.

Lotsa water going through the dams at Youngs Point & Lakefield Norm, maybe I should sneak over there tonight and shut them down a little bit for ya. LOL