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I do this ever now and then off Bronte and learned this technique fishing the ditch that ran off the one end of the Ridgetown at Port Credit. You can use the same outfits as you would use casting the bigger fall spoons off the piers. I run an 8ft spinning rod rated for 12-20 and a 4000 series reel. I tend to think that this is a shallower water technique (less than 40-50ft) so the need for extremely heavy jigs over 1 oz would be limited. The key to this is to have a harbor or rivermouth area that will have structure to group fish up and hold them. Something that is more prevalent in the bigger US harbors 1oz stuff works well enough - crocodiles, castmasters, moonshine, cleos If you drop shot for smallies you're pretty much 80% there now. You can always chase a big fish in a boat. I like the braid to help with feel as you'll have salmon swipe at the bait and miss every now and then. Plus it does help with line capacity on the 2500 or 3000 size reels if you get a screamer.

I bought a 4 lb sirloin roast last weekend and cut it up into 1/4" cubes. That's the starting base of my chili. Next comes 2 lb lean ground, garlic, celery, onions, beans, mushrooms and a generous helping of ginger. Sauce base starts with 1 can of manwich, tomato paste, Guinness BBQ Sauce, thai seasoning and add a bit of hot sauce so it just has a slight bite! Slow cooked in the crock pot for 3 hours. Unfortunately it's also what I have brought for lunch the last 2 days so unlikely there will be any left for Sunday. Plan to go ice fishing anyways!

If you have 2 set ups I'd turn one into a dispey or lead core set up and run it from the other side of the boat. Put a good rod holder on the open side and run the rods apart. You'll avoid a world of hurt down the road as it only a matter of time during the day when stacked rods WILL tangle Lead core has been the most productive for me the last couple years on Lake Ontario vs the dipsey's

For ice fishing I always hit the dollar store/canadian tire before each season. I pick up a full box of the hot packs that go in your boots as they are really thin and I find the inexpensive thin knit gloves but they have to have some wool content. I use these gloves all ice fishing season under my heavy gloves. I buy several pairs and just swap a pair out if they get wet during the day. When it's really cold I slip into the palm a thin hot pack. I can jig right handed or left handed while I put the other hand in my pocket to let the hot pack warm everything back up.

Very nice, Hopefully the same Chris Lyons. I was able to jump in a group and fish with a group of guys that included Chris out on the Ganny in the early 80's. I swear those guys were part fish and I learned a ton. Back then a lot of the guys were fishing to old green cardinal 3's and there were a number of US guys that came up that fished the Johnson/Shakespeare 1810 closed faced reels. I can remember seeing my first float reel in action fishing the mouth of the Ganny by the Willow Hole.

The proposed 2014 law in Minnesota is in reference to another level of training/certification on the spread of Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS). Like getting your boating license, the DNR have proposed an on-line training course that is mandatory for all those boat, canoe, kayak and float plane owners. The course is aimed at increasing public awareness to prevent the spread of AIS's and of course it'll cost you money to complete. You get a sticker to put on your boat that says your trained not to spread invasive species. I think what has caused such an uproar is that you need the certification even if you are just travelling through the state with your boat and not stopping. It got the attention of many DNR's and also the MNR up here in Canada I could be wrong but when I was following this, I don't think it ever passed for the AIS training and decals. Instead Minnesota slapped an AIS user surcharge of $5.00 on all boat registrations. They're good for 3 years and then you have to pay again.

I left to pick up my son from baseball training when it was 2-1 Canada. It's was only a 10 minute drive. get back and it was 5-4. What a drive. Had my 1972 Team Canada jersey on, waving my arms out the window when Canada scored. Had 4 or 5 cars honking their horns with me at a red light when Canada went up 5-1. It was a very different drive back home!!!!

The Humminbird Helix 5 is in the new bass pro flyer for $370 I'm gonna have a look at this one as having the bigger screen than my current 7 series would be really nice in the summer on the front deck

Another very good one is the Tecmate Optimate 4. I bought mine at Magnacharge when I picked up the bigger 15 A battery packs.

I think it's more about controlling distribution. Existing Ranger dealers may be ones with the most concern

Fond memories of sitting with my grandpa as a wee lad watching Stampede Wrestling followed up by Maple Leaf Wrestling on Saturdays. You couldn't tell my grandpa it was fake. I'm only 50 but don't really care for the new stuff. prefer the old guys I liked Haystack Calhoun, Pompero Firpo, Killer Kowalski, Baron Von Raschke

Value Village or Salvation Army stores are good starts to pick up cheap used skis

I built mine from 9' - 6 wt fly rod top pieces. They're too long for use inside a hut. I like medium to medium light still and something with a fast action with backbone I do like the new St Croix rods I saw at Sail the other day

I run this on both my ice rods and centre pin now. It's been good to me Siglon Flourescent in the bright pink - it sure is easy to see ice fishing. It picks up less water running through the guides. My reels that had nanofil and crystal braid on them pulled up more water through the guides that would freeze. I'll still fish braid first when weather allows

Yep they do love batteries I mounted my graph on top of a small lunch cooler and run it off a 12V 15Ah battery. It's a beefed up version of the 7.0Ah batteries they provide in the underwater camera's like Aqua view Got mine at Magnacharge Batteries for not much more $ than the 7.0 one. It's just a little taller and heavier. There is a store out in London I can run full out on fly in trips for 4+ days - 8 hrs a day before recharging. Make sure you turn the brightness down and you'll get a lot longer out of a battery charge. I'd also suggest getting the optional ice fishing transducer for your set up. For convenience and travel well worth every penny. I put a bit of insulating foam around the battery to wedge it in place and bought one that had enough room that I could transport the ice transducer in the cooler. Make easy set up and pack up. A little trick I use seems to get me more life. I crack a hot pocket from the dollar store at the start of a trip inside the cooler to keep the battery from getting super cold during the day. Happy Shopping. Almost as much fun buying them as it is fishing with them

The flasher vs graph debate has always interested me. My first ice unit was Lowrance Green box and then from there I upgraded to the first Eagle Flasher the Silent 60 I think it was. I ran a paper graph on my boat back then so a seperate ice unit was mandatory. Our ice fishing group has a wide variety of units and I get to fish with enough different guys over the last few years to give the different units a good work out. As mentioned I really think brand is a personal preference, I used to only use Lowrance for the first 25 years I had boat and now for the last few it's been humminbird. Both units are pretty awesome What I came to realize is, in my opinion a graph unit gives you so many additional feature sets. There is a myth that only the flasher gives you instantaneous feedback. That's a bunch of fluff. Present day graphs provide immediate response on screen to see your jig move, fish swim in,..... Most graphs now have a flasher mode that rivals any of the flasher unit only machines. I've switched back and forth on my bird a number of times to check out the markings and responses. The key thing to get in a graph for ice fishing is POWER. My Bird runs around the 4000 W and I see very clearly a 1/8 ounce jig in 100 ft of water as well as the swivel 3 ft above the jig. Lower power ranges will start to struggle in deeper water. I've been side by side with guys using the $100 units and they see nothing compared to what comes up on mine I also could not live without the built in GPS and last but not least I'd never give up my color unit. I find the color graph much easier to follow when fish come into view hugging the bottom than a flasher. and probably the biggest benefit is on a graph you have 10 seconds or so to see what you might have missed if your eyes wander from the screen. There is a new unit coming from Humminbird called Helix and pricing on Radioworld website looks interesting but I can't find too much on specs yet or when it comes out FWIW my ice unit is a 788 ci. it's been flawless and it'll be hard for me to swap this out for anything soon. In the warm season it sits on the front of my boat for when I'm fishing on the front deck You've got a big enough budget to get a pretty nice unit. Keep an eye on spoonpullers as many of the salmon guys sell used stuff.

I grew up in a stereotype Canadian house with parents who came from farm country. An exotic dish in my house growing up was Kentucky Fried Chicken I never knew other people ate different stuff until college and the crowd I hung around was very multicultural. everyday we left Humber College in Rexdale and ventured out for a different style of food. I've never looked back. My mom still is nervous coming over for dinner as she thinks we'll cook some weird stuff. Love sushi and probably have it once a week now (also working for a Japanese company it's a given you must eat sushi!) Have been on the Indian and Thai lately cooking a lot at home. Amazingly easy dishes to put together and the sauces are easily available at most grocery stores. Curries, Masala and my current favourite is Vindaloo. You have to like the heat for this one. Simple one pot cooking with your fav meat and stir fry veggies added Best Butter Chicken out there guys is at Costco!!!!. Big ready to serve plate - just add rice. You find it in around their meat counter in the prepared foods. Still the best curry dishes out there come from English pubs! Also eat alot of seafood and fish now from the grocery store, Halibut loins, shrimp, catfish,..... A common request from my son is to have a pigout meal of mussels - steamed in butter and white whine There is a Peruvian place opened up by me on Oakville called Machu Pichu that is getting a lot of press about the different ceviches they have Rotis, Gyros, shawarma are my grill cheese and hamburgers now

If you have time for some shopping stop in at Erie Pennsylvania - Millcreek mall Just 5 minutes off the I90 on I79North Within 1 city block there is the Field and Stream store, and a Gander Mountain next store to a Dicks Sporting goods

You don't need any gear with a good quality guide. I took down several combos for when I was mucking around on the back roads fishing intercoastal but when I was on the guide trip I used his gear. My freshwater spinning would not have held up to what these fish can do. It was like hooking into a bull dozer - such power!!!!! If you are heading to Orlando area I can't stress enough - ditch the bass and head to the Atlantic coast for some red drum and trout. This is probably one of the most desirable red drum destinations in the world. Google Mosquito Lagoon Fishing and see what's out there. My two cents would fully endorse Captain Jamie Glasner - he does a wicked inshore trip on the flats and now has upgraded near/off shore boat. Check out Fin and Fly charters I'm back down to Florida for baseball this March but on the Gulf side so gotta find a new guide for goliath grouper and hammerheads http://ontariofishingcommunity.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73789

I did Cocoa beach last march break and took down the following - 2 Shimano 4000 Bait runners spooled with 30 lb braid and I ran 40 lb flouro leaders. In around the piers and bridges and caught a fair amount of small jacks and sheepshead on shrimp under floats. For rods I had a longer 9' Rapala rod I used to chuck spoons for chinooks in the fall. Combo worked out great. I also took down one of my flippin sticks. It was an older St Croix 7.5ft that was a cut down to 6'8" making it super heavy action. That with an Abu 7000 spooled wirth 80 lb mono I bought down there made a great party boat rod. If I had more time I was gonna use it on some of the piers. From what I remember you'll pay quite a bit of a premium on the convertible. My package included a basic rental and I upgraded to a brand new 2014 Ford Expedition with all the bells and whistles for way less than the sports car option.

Just saw some neat stuff on centerpinangling under steelhead flies/jigs

There's a good source on eBay from Pennsylvania that sells 50 packs The precision moulds are really expensive in this size so ultra small jigs will cost more. I was buying some 1/50 ounce from eBay with no problems and delivery in about 10 days. $7 USD plus about the same in shipping

Like Skud says, no problem having a few back ups You can spend a bunch of knives and I sure like my custom ones from Ron Post Canadian Tire regularly puts on a small folding Buck knife for $9.99. It's a 4" black handle folding knife. Usually found in the glass cabinet hanging on one of those peg hooks and normal price is something like $24.99. Packed up in that clear plastic that you have to destroy just to get the knife out. Keep your eye on the flyer as they will go on sale coming into hunting season. These little knifes are absolute awesome. Never had a knife for that $ keep such a great edge. Handle is very durable and a very easy knife grip and use. When they go on sale I have to resist adding another couple to my pack.

from spending a number of years at the family camp on Temagami I see many guests who overlook these simple items Zip-loc bags (one with some toilet paper for the boat) roll of aluminum foil Knife sharpener anitseptic cream spices to help flavor meals BBQ sauce or salad dressings as toppings for fish/steak - There is nothing better than a little ranch dressing on fresh cooked fish Always fun to have a small bottle of hot sauce for when the scotch comes out and for me, the must haves are ear plugs small reading flashlight (LED Head lamp preferred) good flashlight over 100 lumens glow in the dark stick from dollar store (hang in the cabin at night to make midnight trips outside easier) 2 way radios but one that has a weather channel (hate to have a boat on dead water when other are on the bite) as mentioned - pack of baby wipes can be worth their weight in gold I also take up a small speaker that can plug into my phone for music and there are AA battery adapters out there to power your phones to play music My next add on is a small form pack in guitar, seen a few but haven't heard one that sells itself to me yet. The Martin backpacker is close. Brought my acoustic on a fly-in north of temagami a few years back and had paddlers camping across from us clapping after each song and shouting requests across the bay

Done a couple in the last few years Bonefish in Mexico Redfish in Florida but my number one bucket list is a trip for big specks. Needs to have a good chance at fish above 5-6 lbs Once I get that under my belt I want to get myself an Aurora and a Tiger tout. Then it's all down south - big bull reds in Louisiana, goliath grouper, hammerhead shark, tarpon to name a few