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Nice report & pics thanks for sharing!

Hi everybody here are some pics from inflatable boat fishing stocked lakes for brook trout.. Fiddleheads... http://kamkid.picturepush.com/showformat.php?format=1024&alid=216688&imgid=&clid=66579 Inflatable boat fishing... http://kamkid.picturepush.com/showformat.php?format=1024&alid=216688&imgid=13167684&clid=66579 Stocked Brook Trout... http://kamkid.picturepush.com/showformat.php?format=1024&alid=216688&imgid=13167663&clid=66579

Thanks for sharing Mike... I'll be attending Speck Church soon too!

Nice... Thanks for sharing!

I was just up at camp and it snowed May 11/2013 and my neighbour sled across the lake... Here is an up date from Alan Cheeseman (Wilderness North Armstrong, Ontario)... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/story/2013/05/09/tby-thunder-bay-tourist-outfitter-spring-ice-fishing-cool-weather.html

Ash will bend nice under heat/steam you can rig up some kind of a kettle/tube with a cap and hold the heat in to produce the tight bends req. You will also need some good quality marine glue there must be members on this board that make cedar strip canoes they will be able to help better... But you will need to rip/45 the strips and cement them together + have enough C- Clamps for the job... Again somebody that does Cedar Strip should know the ins and outs... Buy good quality epoxy glue measure twice like a good carpenter and make sure you fasten everything right in your jig for a nice finnish!

Cool shot HC... I once had a mink holding on to a striger of bass It made quite the hissing sound... lol

Yes!

Here she is she was an almost confirmed kill! http:www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/story/2011/10/06/tby-bear-attack.html Regards,Pat

Yes... Yell lots when in the bush... You are right if they hear you coming most wild animals will flee! A bear banger is your best defence against stuborn bears... But Even a bowie knife has stopped one in in it's tracks that I know of... MNR employee almost killed on the Spruce River Road hwy #527 North of Thunder Bay ( A young girl employed by the MNR) was attacked and dragged into the bushes before her boyfriend/co worker could stab it with his (believe it or not pen knife)! Even a minor deterance if the stab wound was directed at the heart could be fatal to the bear... So noize can work (mods correct my spelling please)! Regards,Pat

Cool Wilf was on board HMS Port Arthur most were named after small towns like: Fort William, Chillawack BC etc.. Life on board a Corvette no thanks... Too funny I can remember the stories still to this day... But I think they need to reinstate the bear hunt we really need this in Ontario now! Cheers, Pat

No it did not make the news Jack has been dead now for 10 or 12 years now.. He survived Ortona Italy and I can remember him saying it was like I was in slow motion I had a decision to make and I made it... My German Shepard Kazan stalled the bear just long enough for me to make a kill shot with the axe.. I think he was lucky I'd think you would only get one shot better to scare them off if possible with a bear banger.. How ever in this occasion he was gathering fire wood and actually fell on top of the bear he could feel it under his feet and he got out from under it.. The dog distracted it long enough for the swing and he dispatched it with an axe he was using for limbing the tree.. I didn't have the heart to tell Jack that the bear was probably blind due to hibernation but who is to know it could very well have killed him. The German Shepard was his favourite after World War 2 and he had to have one Jack also served with Farley Mowat on the Gothic Line & Hitler Line in Italy... I think he killed quite a few people when he was there but he did not like to talk about it as did Wilf our neighbour that worked on the Corvettes on the North Atlantic... Quite fankly I think when you have seen death up close you don't want to talk about it just forget it! As they said we did what he had to for our country! Cheers,Pat

It is getting out of hand one of my neighbours on the lake now deceased was attacked.. He was lucky to have his dog with him in the back yard of his camp... He ended up killing the bear with a single axe blow through it's skull.. I always carry an axe in the bush now!

Thanks for sharing fishing 24/7 great pics I'm hoping the ice goes out soon up here too so I can get out!

Smelt turn out pretty good when done in a brine they should just start to snap but not break when done pick your spices and your good to go!