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Thank you for sharing your adventure with us. Art

Nice fish and a warm place what could be better when it is snowing at home. Art

I think a shooting range is an excellent place to go and practice. We have 3 in the area that cater to all forms of shooting with one that has a 300 yd range for the big caliber guns. The cost for a membership varies one is $200.00 and the big caliber is $600.00 which has quite a few more amenities. I have enough land here to have a really nice pistol range that we can shoot up to 50 yards for sighting in rifles. All in all it makes for a good time for a group of us to go out back and shoot different weapons that we own. Art

Not so many trout only the small fly fishing versions. We have Snakeheads, Channel Cats, Blue Catfish, Stripers, Small and Largemouth, Perch, Blue gill and varieties, crappie both, and very limited walleye. The boat is a custom built outboard jet drive. It uses airboat controls where you sit about 4 ft from the bow and on the left is the stick steer and the right is the throttle. The motor is above the bottom of the boat and it needs 1ft of water to get on plane and not suck up rocks but on plane you need 4 inches of water. It is a blast to drive and you can run through the rapids with usually no issues. The bottom of the boat is 8 gauge or .16 of an inch. It will take a pretty good punch but I did rip the transom seam out once and a few assorted battle scrapes on it. I had to jam a nerf football piece in the hole to get back to the dock. (a great thing to keep on any boat). A hammer and a body spoon with a tig welder made it good as new. Art

Match the boat to the water and style you fish most of the time. I own 4 boats one is a 28ft twin 318's aluminum marinette that lives in the water and holds 8 people comfortably. One is a 18ft Ranger bassboat that trailers from lake to rivers in both Canada and USA. I have a jetdrive aluminum john boat 20ft for running shallow rivers and rapids. The final is a pontoon 10ft that fishes farm ponds and fits in a pickup bed. Each boat has a body of water that it spends 90% of its time on. No boat will fulfill all of your needs so pick the body of water you most often fish and get the boat that you like to fish from. Casting off of a deep V is not near as easy or enjoyable as a bassboat but trolling from a bass boat is not as easy and enjoyable as a deep V. . Down here there are few deep V fishing boats because we rarely troll for the species we have to fish for. I am in luck because we have stripers that come up river from the ocean so trolling is available and anchor fishing for 50 lb blue catfish makes owning a 28ft cruiser viable. You can usually hang around a boat ramp and ask people about how there boat fits into their lives and see how they set it up. I am sure that an offer to split costs and a great lunch might get you a day on the water with a new friend. Art

The companies have a list of what my gas appliances are and they plug in what my BTU use is. They have a program that measures the temperature and estimate how fast I use it by how cold the days are. So far I haven't run out in 24 years. If they do the same thing you can give them an updated list of your appliances and the recalculations should take care of the problem. I also own my tank so I can get a better price and shop around if needed. By owning you can control how many gallons you wish to store. Art

I would run a bass boat around granite before a deep V bottom it drafts less on and off plane. I use mine at lake Nipissing but to be fair I have been there 6 or 7 times. Now get me in open water and the V hulles win. I also have a jet boat aluminum boat and don't kid yourself they will pop a hole on rocks just like a fiberglass boat. They however are easier to repair and cheaper. The ease of fishing a low side bass boat is worth it's weight in gold for me and after fishing both the bass boat wins formy style of fishing. Art

Better mental health care and the ability to react to the warning signs is needed. As this unfolds you will hear the same story from friends and family of the broken home and the social media posts that were red flags ignored. As far as the whole gun control stop wishing for a magic answer it isn't there guns are here to stay. No amount of rules is going to close Pandora box. We can't even get rid of alcohol or tobacco no matter how much we regulate it. In fact we have even raised the price to the point of stupidity and they both still fly off the shelves. Fixing the people is a reasonable approach that has a possibility of helping this situation. Art

Finally the old tiller VS console debate lol. I have a 1989 Ranger with the 150 0n it. It is a great boat for fishing and getting around from spot to spot quickly. The 1989 GT 150 burns 8/10 of a gallon every minute with a 28 gallon tank doing 55 mph. With a few mods you can turn it into a GTX 150 and burn 9/10th gallon at 60 mph. I will say it needs to do 20 mph before it sets it nose and rides on the pad like it should. Wakes and waves are easily dealt with using common sense and goodspeed and trim adjustments. While looking at bass boats check the coring and structural carefully recoring a bassboat is not cost effective and easily overlooked. The newer Rangers from 1990 did away with wood encapsulation and the pad was redesigned for more stability. The 1989 was the last year of the IMHO best pad for speed and tracking . Art

John has been a great supporter of this community He has taken an ad out with us for a few years now to help us pay the bills. My personal dealing with John and Barbara have been a blessing and a joy. I am sure there are quite a few people here who have been very happy with his business and services. Art

This is the reason to have a professional manage your portfolio. Don't gamble with your future security only play with money you can afford to lose. The market is going to get tough fast and the word of a professional will always beat the street. Art

We are slowly adding new features to the site. Stay tuned for further upgrades. Art

we had a repair done on the site and we had to back it up a few hours. Art

scally wages and venisious kanids lol

A good plan is to use an investor to build a portfolio and then take a grand or so and play with it. If you pay with money you can't afford to lose you will get burned. An investment company is a 24/7 job for them and the information they have you will never get ahold of in time to save your assets. Art

I just might consider ice fishing if i had a day like that. Thanks for the report. Art

feel free to discuss the boxes but please do not give information that is illegal. Remember OFC archives all of the information submitted and will cooperate with any warrant request for information that is legally served. Thank you Art

You would have to be careful doing donuts.lol Art

Here is another direction to consider. Art

nice start the spring fling in a new boat. Art

A good reminder that bigger boats have some bad blind spots. A horn should be on every boat regardless of size. The guy in the big boat was completely in the wrong but that doesn't matter if the smaller boaters are hurt or killed. Be safe soft water season is coming. Art

We ask that we only share general locations here on the board. If you want to share a specific spot please do it in a private message to the other person. This is especially important in the winter where fish tend to pod up and are easily overharvested if to many people fish the exact spot. Thank you Art

https://www.charkbait.com/cs/csrods-Travel-Rods.htm I have several of their rods and they held up well. The surf rod is a 4 piece that fits inside of my suitcase. Art

Merry Christmas to all of my friends and OFC family. Thank you for another wonderful year here with all of you. Art

I have been coon hunting down south and it is really an experience. The group of hunters waiting by the truck as the hounds voices cut thru the night. The passing of a bottle and the lies spun as you wait for the hounds to tree a coon. The walk thru the woods in the dark to where the hounds are sounding off and jumping up the tree are all part of the heritage. The final shot and the collecting of the coon destine for the pot and the fur to be cured and sold all have a place in the part of growing up down South. For some it is barbaric for others it is a rights of passage. I personally have never shot a cat or a bear because they are rare here and I will not tan or eat them. The foxes are allowed to live in the woods of my house as long as they leave the chickens alone. They get trapped and the tail gets a spot of orange if they get trapped and they still have an orange tail they are dispatched with ether and buried. Hunting is a choice that i am glad I have with a deer in the freezer we have venison to eat along with lots of other tasty meats. Art