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Will be on the lake from the 14th to 20th just around the hub. Been a while since I was up there in August. Sounds like the waters warm for swimming and the lake is still low. I target smallies and lakers. Never had too much success on the big lake for walleyes. Not for trying though just never found a reliable spot. One here one there.

Saw this article today. Do yourself a big favor and change the swivels on store bought bouncers to good ball bearing swivels. Also use the quick change clevices if you tie your own. Golden rule is 1 oz weight for every ten fow. Make sure you have a few 1, 2 and even 2.5 or 3 oz bouncers. I tend to get more bites on reds and oranges. Pink, green an chartruese close seconds. I pull mostly Colorado blades . Also put in the odd floater on your harness

Brown sugar, soya and Thai hot sauce rainbows from last summer. I haven't been oput as yet to start this season's batches

I have (never get to use it as my son has confiscated it for his hut) a black cat and it keeps a 2 man hut toasty enough to fish without a jacket when it's all zipped up.

Quick stop in at Liquidation World in Oakville today. They had a whole aisle of Coleman heaters and camping stuff. Blackcat, Sportscat heaters for under $40. Coleman plug in electric cooler, $45. 45,000 BTU heater head for a 20lb tank $29. A Procat 3000 BTU heater for $30. It was a bigger floor stand one than the Blackcat and it took 2 D cell batteries for a built in fan. Also had coleman lanterns and one of those pronae berner coffee makers. All really low prices.

Reports are they are excellent table fare and I read somewhere they will start being farmed from the wild. I think there is a name contest to get away from the carp and you'll start seeing them in restaurants as silverfin. From latest infishermen I think

and at last check they might even have some stock in store!!

Thats just not fair for one angler to get to do all that. Wow! wonder if he needs a friend?

All it needs is a big stove pipe out the roof and you got a walk in smoker!!

I use to do lots of "quick smokes" on the bbq. It still will take about 1-2 hours to get enough flavor though to make it worth while Here' what I did Cook your meat to about rare or just about rare and no further. Shut down the heat on one side and low on the other. This is where is gets a bit dangerous. Take the grill out from the "low" side (watch out it's HOT) and place your chip box of foil pouch with chips in it right on your bricks above that burner. I like to have the meat up higher on the bun warming rack to get the full exposure to the smoke. Close the lid and let it go for about an hour. For the first few times you will want to watch just so it doesn't go crazy. The idea is to get a nice slow burn in the chips. If you've got tons of smoke coming out it's too hot and you might have to rig up some adjustments. I use an old steal pie plate and just pour my chips in that. Now I cook on the bbq and finish in my smoker.

on the less expensive side I bought a BPS cranking stick 7' telescopic baitcasting rod when they were clearing them out a while back. Think I paid $40US + shipping. I figured it was for a one time application. I still use that as my crankbait rod. Has great balance and fast action for 8-17 lb test. Have boated a lot of bass and walleye on it and it stood up fine to big gators in northern manitoba. I had picked up various 6'6" and didn't care for the feel of the shorter rods. With the 7' I was very pleasantly surprised!

I'm doing a controlled rolling demo of my basement, taking down the old drywall from 2 rooms so we can reframe and put up proper insulation. So far so good but when we pulled the drywall off the next section I had a real good laugh. The original builder got their dimensions messed up and had to put 2 sheets on top of each other in order to but up even to the door jams. Double the mess pulling the old stuff down but I get a full view of the stud wall underneath. I honestly can't see a start or finish to this or how they put it up. There's not one full piece in the studs or the top or bottom plate. What a mix of 2x3's and 3x5's(?) THANK GOODNESS THIS IS NOT LOAD BEARING!!!. In 4 ft of wall there is 31 seperate pieces of wood and I have not even started to count the nails used.

Use to be you only had a few types to choose from but now lots of different wood flavours. I too am not a big fan on the hickory. I find it very overpowering now that I have tried other woods. I used up my last bag of the Weber hickory chips on some boneless chops the other night. Cook them 1/2 way through on the BBQ smother them in honey bbq sauce and then inot the smoker on low for 2 hours. dripping like candy bars whent hey came out I buy my chips from Barbeque Galore. Picked up 2 bags of Whiskey chips today, a bag of apple and a bag of my fav to date black cherry. I did several batches of rainbow trout last year and the black cherry is absolutely made for fish.

46.38 with the new harmonized tax equals 52.41 lbs we win!!!

Just picked up the Navionics HotMaps for Canada. The 2009 version is $130 at Radioworld. Saves you $20 over 2010 version where for Ontario there was no additional lakes added 14,000 CDN lakes and 700 HD with 1' contours. So far surfing around on my humminbird it looks OK. Only drwback is that to get anything for the great lakes I gotta get another chip.

Anyone that has done a serious bass tourney or two can attest that even with a rolling start it's not always a smooth take off and clean water. Coming out of Hastings on Rice Lake was always my least favourite place and I'd be white knuckling it all the way. You never know how the water will react when boat wakes meet and you're caught between them. Hope everything is all right for them.

I'll put up a vote for the Ford Explorer. I've had my Expedition for 6 years now and it's a beast. I pull a 17.5 Crestliner and have had up to a 24' Sylvan behind her and you'd hardly know you have anything on the hitch. My buddy hauls a big family camper all over ontario in his Explorer V6. This was my first Ford and I was nervous about the reputation on Ford. Little did I know that on the truck side they make a darn good product. I went straight to my 2 mechanics that I've been dealing with for years and they had very high praise for reliability and low cost of repairs. Direct quote from the guy who does my oil changes - You can't hurt a ford truck In 6 years, here's my service history regular oil and transmission checks/service ONE complete brake job and getting close to probably a second 2 sets of tires some electrical bugs on the security system 1 12V plug that doesn't work anymore ( I probably could fix that) 210,000 km and going strong Only drawback - They like stopping at gas stations

check out recent posts on spoonpullers. Seems bronte to credit have been seeing their fair share of fish. I came across the skyway this afternoon and the north shore from Hamilton to Oakville was showing fog off the lake so there's still a whack of cold water pushed in there tight. 100-180 FOW and 30-60 down seems popular. From what I here on VHF in the driveway (Im in Oakville) it's been a spoon bite - blacks green glows Geez i wish i could get some time and get out there

If you need a partner anytime (with a smoker) call me!! I've yet to get my boat out of the driveway this year.

I find the same stuff at Hikers Haven. LeBarons and some other Toronto stores like Tent City at much more reasonable prices. Last time I was in there I saw some very neat stuff but nothing I would buy for my day to day needs in the outdoors.

Glad to see you enjoyed your stay. Some of the nicest country in ON up there. Sorry I was a little late with the pm. I'm counting the days as the family is heading up for a week or so end of July. Hope the bugs stay down and the water warms up for swimming

I used to wet mine but not anymore. I just turn the heat down to regulate the burn. Seems to work better in my smoker

Capacity is the most important thing. If your 6000's have 20-30 lb braid. You'll do fine. Run 5 or 6 ft of mono leader 20lb. 200 yd or more capacity is a must

Landed back in the city Friday night and just getting some time to put up a report. Six of us stayed at WIshing U Were Fishin's Diamond Lake outpost cabin for a week. As a paying guest it's nice to sit back and just fish for a week and have some fun with they guys. We flew out of Temagami and within 15 minutes touched down on Diamond Lake. It's been 4 years since I was in here fishin and boy was it good to be back. Saturday threw us a mixed bag of weather with a wild lightening storm forcing Rob(Family Guy)and I to take cover on shore. After a 15 minute downpour we mad it back too camp a little wet and got ready for day 2. The week was full of walleye and a few trout. Bit was slow and we had to work for fish with slip bobber and worm rigs, jig and worm and trolling bottom bouncers. The trout were active and we got 9 small ones trolling frozen anchovy in meat rigs. 117 walleye, 9 Lake trout and some pike for 6 guys. Almost all our walleye were on the top end of the slot limit. It was hard top get a 16" under to keep. Had another good meal of walleye and a couple of the guys took home a few fish. The last time I was there the avg size was 23" so they are getting bigger. Dean got the longest walleye at 29" and to get 2 fish over 28" in this lake (known for numbers not big ones)is a good sign that the size limits are starting to produce bigger fish. Enjoy the pics, Rob's nice trout Distracting scenery A typical trout My Big Walleye 28.75" close up on a clone 23-25" fish 2 Trout came for dinner The meals were A-1, here we polish off the lakers and 2 lbs of shrimp - nap time right after The empty drum, I drink Macklays A couple walleye we caught had vivid blue fins on dorsal and tail. here you can get a glimpse but the shot just doesn't show the blue as good as in person. Probably back up on Temagami the end of the month for smallmouth.

leaving Saturday the 19th for a week in Diamond Lake, Will let you know when I get back