Fisherman

Ya, I doubt there'll be many more nice days like today, they're talking some grumpy weather coming by the weekend.

Ya, that's the part I can't find anymore either. Anyway it's not for me, I don't fish for them, just a fellow on another ice fishing board asking to make sure.

Okay, for those pike anglers in the know. Someone asked if a quick strike rig with 2 treble hooks is legal in Ontario. The rig he showed looks similar to a worm harness used for walleye, but 2 leaders from a snap swivel with a spinner ending with a treble on each leg. I was under the belief that trebles on an artificial lure count as a single hook but when you add bait such as a dead sucker, then they count as 3 points each. I looked in the book but I'm stumped.

Good spot, straight out from the foot bridge, 24-28 feet deep.

Haha, no, not you, I was gone by about 11. One of these fine days I'm going to hoist the OFC flag I bought a number of years ago, as long as no one promises to throw eggs.

There were about a dozen boats around me, most were doing reasonably well from what I could see. Couple of youngsters on one boat were having a great time going by the hooting and hollering.

Hang in there, things will get better, it's an awful loss.

Up at 5:30, bacon, eggs, toast and coffee, hook up, pick up half a scoop of minners, off to the Tiffin launch, boat in, then this voice behind me says "nice hat", ha, it's Skipper "D". That old OFC hat is just like a beacon in the fog. He's eastbound to the islands, I went about 300 yds in front of the beach, caught a bunch of perch with about a 1/10 keeper ratio. Even the weather was okay, light wind, no rain and the anchor held fast.

Hey, that's a long way to drive a snowblower and takes a lot of gas. Usually H/D has a "pre winter" blower sale, my son got his Ariens for about $400 cheaper a couple years ago. He's quite happy with his choice.

Yes, I do a fair bit of label checking, especially when it comes to food. The last thing going down my cake hole is pretty much anything processed "over there". Having watched some of the programs where they "grow" some of their seafood is akin to growing it in sewage lagoons.

Oink, oink, oink,

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350 olds engine converted that couldn't get out of its own way never mind every one elses way. Another GM disaster that led to the 6.5 disaster. Fortunately Isuzu lent them a hand or they'd still making clouds of soot and not going anywhere fast or reliable.

Still working on it, you'd think after about 25 years they could get something right. Then again, "looks" only get you somewhere if you're wearing a skirt while walking over the grills above the subway tunnel.

Sorry for your loss, hopefully you have good memories to keep you going.

In the believable world, it usually means that it's a person who takes care of whatever they're trying to sell. For instance if you bought something from me such as an ATV, you can be rest assured I didn't drive it like some goatee bearded monkey on steroids trying to drown it in a mudbog or seeing how much air they could get before crashing back to earth. That's the same as "mint condition", everybody thinks their XX year old stuff is mint. No, mint is when it's new out of the box or barely used. Anyway, no goatee bearded monkeys have complained about my reference to their use of steroids.. yet.

I made my own from a 5 gallon pail, cut the upper rim off with the handle and left the ridges on. Got out the sewing machine, about 4feet long by 3 foot wide piece of nylon material and sewed it to make a cone shaped tube. The small end is about 6" open the upper has a hem sewn in with 550 cord inside. Slide the big end over the ridges on the pail, tighten it up and there's your bag. Slowed the boat right down to 1.5mph and it keeps the boat running straight when only using one downrigger.

Jeez, that's just a wee bit more than 1/2 price, good find.

Natural gas does the same as propane, just think about winter and all those chimneys giving off the vapour. You just don't see it in warmer weather because the vapour doesn't condense for the visual effect like it does in winter.

Maybe a 1 inch hole on each side at the top. It also functions to let out the vapour from drying the fish(or whatever else you're smoking). Are you aware that propane also gives off a fair bit of vapour that will otherwise stay inside the smoker. To cover the vents or make adjustments, you can use a small plastic baffle on a wingnut. The aluminum smoker I have has small crinkles in the joints at the top and also the front door has about a 1/8th gap all around for venting.

CarQuest and NAPA both have what you need by the foot.

First time to go to this snow, it was interesting, took about 2 hours to walk around. Checked out the track systems for the ATVs, they cost a bunch but seem to be the ticket for winter ice fishing. Maybe the fat man in the red suit will be accomodating. Then came the good, the bad and the downright ugly. Part way around was a pretty sweet looking girl selling callenders(maybe something else for all I know) in a bikini top, that was the good, really good. The bad was a trio of spankys in black body suits selling the virtues of a certain brand of oil, (I'll take the oil and leave the spankys). Then the downright ugly was another trio of Goodyear enhanced tops with cottage cheese bottoms, nasty, nasty, nasty. I wouldn't even get close if they were giving something away.(Not that either).

Found on road dead or Fix on race day. And for the francos, Feraille ordure, reparation dispendu.

In 20 years of smoking, I've never soaked my chips, store bought or home made. If you're using an electric heater, your chip pan is either too thick or not close enough to the heater. My smoker has a 250 watt "U" shaped element that almost touches the bottom of the tin pan. It takes about 1/2 hour for the element to really heat up red and then the chips will smoulder and make smoke. They never "burn" outright. Looking back at your photos of the smoker, if that's your chip pan, it needs to be a lot closer to the heater.