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They use walnut shells in winter tires.

Winter boots tested for traction on ice. Just like snow tires the technology is changing. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/winter-boots-tested-ice-1.3867531?cmp=rss "Slipping on ice sent 21,000 people to hospital in Ontario alone last year."

Thanks guys. It is company auction and the starting bid is $125. I don't think it will get much attention so I'll keep an eye on it.

Rapala sherpa pop up shelter (2 person). Thoughts?

Big buck.

November 10th, 1975.

I have at least one of those somewhere, and at least one single joint one. Those and a frog coloured flatfish used to be my go to smallmouth lure.

Really depends on species and time of year but... Super spook 5.5 inch suspending husky jerk Tennesse shad Hollow body sunfish

That's gotta go on a wall in your home!

Yep. The grouse are safe (from me at least) for a week. Good luck deer hunters.

Generally the farther north/more remote in Ontario you go the less "flushy" the grouse are.

It's close for me. Walleye and grouse are side by each. I think grouse win, only because I don't get them as often.

Not much fishing lately but my brother joined me for a grouse hunt. It was his 3rd day out of 4 hitting the woods for birds (lucky son of a gun). There was more snow on the ground than we expected (3-4 inches). I like a dusting of snow sometimes because I can see what stories have played put in the snow but I was a little disheartened to see that much. We were parked just after sunrise and maybe a hundred metres down the trial a bird flushed unseen form the left. It sounded like it only went up into a nearby tree. As I was trying to work my way through some think stuff I heard it flush again. I brought my gun up but never saw it. Right then a second unknown bird flushed from the ground and I hit it with the bottom barrel. This was after the 1st bird went down. My brother wanted me to pose, I just wanted to get it and find another. Walked a ways and followed a few grouse tracks that crossed the trail but didn't see/hear another for a bit. Second bird was off the trail a ways. I swung on it, used the wrong trigger, but still dropped the second grouse of the day in less than an hour. On the way back we both missed birds that went straight down the trail. A photo of the 2 back at the vehicle. Grey and brown. We drove a short ways and hit another trail. My brother got one but we couldn't find it. With the snow we thought it should have been easy but the wasn't a sign of it, not a feather. Finally I found a fresh track and then a single feather, more tracks and some more feathers, and finally the bird. During the search I flushed a bird but was so focused on looking for the downed bird that I didn't have a chance. I went bushwacking for a bit but didn't see anything. Drove a bit to walk another trail. Another single flush that alerted me and the 2nd bird went down. Photo back at the truck. It was about this point that we realized that just about all the birds had been in pairs. The second bird was S.O.L. after the first alerted us. We saw one more bird, a single of course. It turned out to be Usian Bolt and ran as fast and as long as I've ever seen a healthy grouse go. My brother followed the trail in the snow but it finally flushed and he didn't get a shot. A good day in the bush.

Flipped to the NLCS tonight and it took less than 5 seconds to see the difference in the quality of the production from that junk that we had with tbs.

Not much to do now. Win this game, then worry about the next. Wash. Repeat. Or as Crash would say, "Win one game at a time".

I guess. I buy good cars and treat them right.

Thank you. I wondered if it was hidden under the 'stash.... and now we know the rest of the story.

Classic Lew smile. Congratulations! Ours is tomorrow. Just twelve for us.

An article about cleaning up the locker room after the champagne showers: http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/inside-prep-massive-cleanup-blue-jays-clubhouse-celebrations/

Jays/Rangers is quickly beginning to look like Leafs/Senators.

That was not nice of MLB to not tell the rangers the game was today. Better chance they show tomorrow.

A letter from Johnny Morris: http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CFPageC?storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&appID=87225 In short: Business as usual... for now.

Sail really played right into BPS hand then by building their store in Vaughan minutes down the hwy.

Wonder how things shake out on this side of the border?

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