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Rich you must be a real lucky man to have a wife and daughter that worked so hard to try fill that void in your heart and i'm sure they had alittle help. Good luck with the new pup she looks beuatiful, and remember she's not there to make ya forget but maybe more to remember!

Smallie have you checked e-bay they have lots of td's there for sale and good prices too!!

I thought maybe we could all relate to the story as sometimes in life we have all lost a friend, you really find out how much you do luv them once there gone, Rich i'm sure the sadness will pass over time, and you'll always have such great memories, Tightlines buddy!!!

"A Truer Freind" ....by "Wild Bill"

 

Recently, my fishing buddy of long years died. Now I realize what a true friend he was; I didn't thnk I'd miss him this much.

 

 

 

Patrick was born without arms, and could not speak, and sadly had been estranged from his family while very young. We met and quickly became freinds, mostly because we shared a love of the great outdoors. Somehow, we communicated, me through speaking, him through facial expressions, and we found we also loved being on the water. I took him out on my boat, and from that day on, I would not think of going without Patrick; he got such joy from those trips.

 

 

While I fished and controlled the boat from the front deck, he would lay on the rear deck, his head hanging overboard, peering into the waters looking for fish. He'd spot fish, and then motion to me. He got as excited as i did when I hooked and landed fish. Once,as I was battling a very feisty Smallmouth, Patrick, in his typically over-excited and enthusiastic state, slipped and fell overboard. Fortunately,he was wearing his modified lifejacket, and from his position in the water, got to see the fish landed and then released. I finally controlled my laughter enough to help him back onto the rear deck, where he dried himself off while I continued to chuckle.

 

 

Being a Pisces may explain my forty-year love affair with Bass fishing. Grandpa and my Dad introduced me to the sport when I was only six. Grandpa bought a home on a small lake outside Kansas City, MO, and we summered there every year of my childhood. I learned to cast plugs to the shoreline and docks, and to drag a plastic worm for Bass, all the while bonding with Grandpa and Dad.

 

 

Patrick never got to go fishing before I took him, never once had the pleasure of making a great cast, and I'd swear he got a bigger adrenaline rush and his heart would beat faster than mine whenever i caught a fish. Just being on the water was his "nirvana".

 

 

Most of my buddies didn't want to come along if they heard I was bringing Patrick, because he had a hard time controlling his excitement. The rear deck became his domain, and he rarely would cede it, unless he was told to. I rarely had the heart not to take him, so we spent a lot of time together.The thrill of the sport was what he and I thrived on, and I now try to share that with others by mentoring them in the joys of fishing and the great outdoors.

 

 

Less than a week before Patrick died, we shared our final fishing trip, and it comforts me to know I made his life happier by taking him along on all those trips. He returned the favor by sharing his excitement and joy with me. Fishing isn't quite the same now without him, as I miss being with him.

 

 

I just returned from the lake, the first trip since since my buddy died. I had motored through the early morning fog to our favorite spot, the point I had caught that fish so many years earlier when Patrick had fallen in. As I approached, an ominous feeling came over me, as if signalling me where to cast. Maybe it was the moment, but as I positiioned the boat, I felt that Patrick was there in spirit, guiding me, as always.

 

 

My watermelon-colored senko had barely hit the water when there was a giant swirl, right where my bait landed. I reeled down, and then set the hook, and a hefty four pound Smallie came rocketing up out of the water, almsot three feet in the air. It gave me quite a tug, and the battle was intense, re-affirming why I was there, and lifting my spirits on that spot where my buddy and I had shared so many good times together. I landed the chunky Smallmouth and looked it over carefully, as it looked so much like that fish I'd landed 12 years earlier, the day Patrick had fallen in the water.

 

 

Gently, I slipped the fish back into the water. I knew right away where my next throw should land, and it did, but it made a different sound as it landed, and there was no swirl this time, anf no tug. A very happy, yet sad feeling overcame me as I watched my departed freind's ashes, now intermixing with my tears, as they sank through the water. we had indeed shared a special freindship through our years together.

 

 

Suddenly, a smallmouth shot out of the waters, right between my boat and the boulder strewn point. I thought it was the one I had just released, and I knew right then I had brought Patrick to his heaven.

 

 

I will cherish forever the moments I shared with Patrick, my Golden Retreiver.

 

 

Share fishing with someone.....

Dude i think i saw ya filling out the paper work around 1:30 ish, congrats on the new boat, how many guyz tripped over to b.p.s? Show was o.k, couldn,t find a good deal on the drift sock i wanted though, ended up going home and buying it off e-bay out of barrie for $20 less than any tackle store delivered to my door.

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To prepare yourself, start studying Daddy's Rules for Dating.

 

 

 

 

Daddy's Rules for Dating

Your dad's rules for your boyfriend (or for you if you're a guy) :

 

Rule One:

If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package,

because you're sure not picking anything up.

 

Rule Two:

You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long

as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes

or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them..

 

Rule Three:

I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear

their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please

don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete

idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I

propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and

your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to

ensure that your clothes do not, in fact come off during the course of your date

with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers

securely in place to your waist.

 

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I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a

'Barrier method' of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to

sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

 

Rule Five:

It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we

should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do

not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when

you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I

need from you on this subject is: 'early.'

 

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I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date

other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter.

Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date

no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will

make you cry.

 

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As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and

more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for

the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a

process than can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge . Instead

of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the

oil in my car?

 

Rule Eight:

The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places

where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places

where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or

happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my

daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than

overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies

with strong romantic or sexual themes are to be avoided; movies which feature

chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.

 

Rule Nine:

Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged,

dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing,

merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with

whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but

the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do

not trifle with me.

 

Rule Ten:

Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound

of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near

Hanoi . When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head

frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As

soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit the car with both hands in

plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that

you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car -

there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is

mine

It says on the box made in china, but it also says grand island new york, says the hooks are japenese made Daiichi hooks. They are out in stores now guys check any local tackle guy, fishing world, grimsby tackle, fishmasters bait and tackle, and peters tackle is among the guys i know who have them, my understanding was they got them on tuesday, they are abit pricey, but the pictures do them no justice at all, pick one up look at it and i'll garantee you'll be walking out with one, heck they've done there job already i bought them!LOL

Just purchased some of grants lure they look amazing, i can't wait to try these in quinte and on erie as well,

I think i'll be going sat. weather permitting.

Glad to here tracker marine came thru for you, did you deal with mr.miller? JUst a heads up on grumpys, do not sign off on any repair until your satisied, i had a problem there with repairs to my boat(tracker warranty)And i wouldn't take anything there, but that's my opinion, they are very nice until you have a problem with the work, needless to say i had my boat taken to a place of my choice in the end and all was settled, just make very sure to check the repairs and look it over with a fine tooth comb, and make sure you left nothing in the boat, actually if i was u i would wait awhile to see if they resolve the problem fully, i got lots of exsperience dealing with tracker and i'm still not finished, but if your dealing with John Miller he''ll do right for ya!! Good luck!!quote name='Fisherpete' date='Feb 4 2008, 03:37 PM' post='157241']

I am a very happy camper today... Tracker has come thru and decided to do a warranty repair for me on my boat after all. (see my previous posts if you want the full story). They realized that backing the quality of their product is more important than following the fine print on one of their warranty transfer policies - good for them! It is in the shop right now at Grumpy's marine near Newmarket being re-riveted. By the way - if anyone alse is looking for boat repairs, be it aluminum or fibreglass - these guys are very down to earth, honest and straight forward. I can't comment on pricing - as mine is warranty Wayne - thanks again for your previous kind offer - you and many other members on this board are amazing people.

 

While I am here - I will post a brief ice fishing report from a few weeks ago out of Keswick. (Sunday Jan. 27th)Four of us headed out and set up in 16-18ft of water off of Glenwoods Ave, and got into some great perch action. All in all, we landed almost 400 perch in 8 hours, with only one true jumbo for the day, but enough 7-9 inchers to have a decent fish fry that night. We kept around 60 or so. The other three guys were using minnows and doing well, I kept up to them using tiny spoons tipped with power maggots. Very nice day out there - virtually no wind - fished out in the open almost the whole time. Nice first day on the ice! Next trip will be to the laker and whitie grounds... looking to bag my first laker ever this year.

Try Marks Work Warehouse they got some good stuff priced very reasonable. i use the Viking Boga Chill line they have and it's a great suit, mind you i haven't spent all day in it either, but it has kept me dry when i have used it. I think the jacket and pants cost me around $200.It's a v-tech fabric? very light and easy to stough away.

Nice pics Ryan!! Been about 3 years since i,ve been home, i'm from Annapolis royal, Buddy ya got to try bass ,walleye and musky, what a blast!!

Nice Ride!!! Again be sure to follow that breakin to a tee, my opinion that makes or breaks a motor, again congrats.

Don't know if this was posted or not but home hardware has coupons for 2 for the price of one admission, so $15 bucks for 2 people.

I'm heading out on sunday, got free tickets so price no prob for me, just alittle winter break to see what's new and possibly find a deal, also nice to see what ya can't afford, i also like to see how they've in proved from year to year, the boats that is.

Glad to here Jacks going to be o.k. Hard thing seeing your bud hurting, Iknow what ya mean about the meniscus tendon ,i'm having surjury on the 18th for my right knee, very painful.

Just goes to show the quality of the people we have here, that really warms my heart to here everythings going to be o.k for ya! God bless ya santa and everyone have a merry christmas!!!

8:00 and ther is a couple of inches of snow on the ground ,wind blowing like crazy though and ice pellets falling, not a good day to be on the road.

Hi there,

 

it is 6:50am Sunday morning

how is it now? still bad?

Ya i understand what yer saying.LOL Iguess everyone just wants the myth of the blue walleye, iknow what ya mean about color, a feew years back in the lower niagara river i caught a 8 pnd walleye that was sorta black and grey, really weird, those 2 from tb were sure pretty in color though, i guess the only true way would be to have a biologist check one out to really be sure, like you said i myself read that article about erie and they also stated they considered them a nusince fish years ago and tried to kill them off, i guess one will really not know.Makes for a good topic for sure.

It's really nice to see there is at least one topic we all can agree on, they are all a great bunch of pups and you can tell from all the reply's they all have loving familly's,Great job guys.

Well Randy if you closer at my photo's you'll see the white spot on the tails of both fish and tell me why the 2 other fish i caught that day were bronze, same body of water all within 200 yards of each other,and all the rest of the walleye that trip where bronze.look at the markings on the tail and dorsel fins.the pictures do them no justice, they are very vibrant in color . who knows maybe not a true blue but a hybrid of one for sure.

Sorry to burst yer Bubbles but there are no more Blue Walleye..

 

If you see a pic of a " Blue Walleye" and there's a white spot on it's tail it's a plain walleye

the color comes from the environment it lives in.... ie : The color difference between an Eerie Walleye and a Nipissing Walleye.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_walleye

 

I still hold hope that there some left.

Maybe these can help, caught this spring in the tb area.

When they said man's best friend, they could have not said it any better.There isn't a guy on here that can't say the day they have to let there bud go won't bother them, heck man it breaks down the strongest of men, that bond is something that can't be replicated, my american golden is 6 now and has been by my side since i got him as a pup, and i mean by my side, i can't take a crap without him waiting outside the door, he goes on every familly trip ,fishing everything, they day he leaves me i'm going to be a wreck, i know this for sure. Just this week i noticed Red has a golf ball sized lump on his left arm pit , on the inside of his leg not on his chest (thank god), Iknow i have to take him in to have it checked but finding out some bad is going to kill me, i've been putting it off for a week now ,but made a appointment this morning, Reading these post this mornin was kinda ironic as it's nice to know other people feel the same about there dogs as i do. Iknow some people will read this thread and say heck it's only a dog, but those people have never felt the real love and loyalty a dog can give. Having said that here are a few pics of my bestest bud ever RED!!!

Ridin!! SHotgun!!

His best trick Laying down

Guardian of the livewell!!!

I'm not politicely correct so Merry Christmas everyone!!!

I think there protected , if not everyone would be burning copy's and i have not heard of that yet .

Why would ya want to do this there? He never purchased the boat from there.You might just aswell take it to Dewidt Honda in SToney Creek and do it there as well, they sell tracker boats, everybosy is missing the big picture here, tracker marine is in Missuri, the boat was a year old, why did the previous owner sell it?Maybe he had problems and covered it up to sell the boat , who knows!Warranty will cover it! Go thru the proper procedures, Why give B.P.S a bad name when he bought it private, Check the rivites and see if they have been hit, if so maybe the guy did this and covered up to sell it, then i would go after the seller.