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So what type of flavour wil that give the meat? I have had your cooking; so I know that you have all the seasoning tricks and skills required to make anything taste very good.

I have one of each, and love em both!

So, it is raining out your way? A good time to pontificate. Thanks for the read. As for a response, yes our carefully chosen and cared about tackle will be considered antiques and curious. I just inherited my dads tackle box two weeks ago and transferred all of his lures and hooks into my bag. I have stored his rods away to use with my future grandchildren hopefully.

Unless you are a very experienced (good) canoeist, I would suggest that it is the wrong watercraft for the area. That being said, I would suggest using a medium to large minnow bait, or real minnows. Look for points, rocks, and other underwater structure to cast around. Take lots of pics, and be safe!

Leafs lost my support after this Ballsile fiasco.

Heres a wild and crazy idea....spray on pickup truck bed liner.

The other option I have is to say that if the boat is not gone by such and such a date.....it's mine.

I have land that is reasonably secure, and would like to use it as a storage area. What is a reasonable amount to charge for a period from Oct 15 - April 15?

I dare say there is an artitistic side to our favorite redneck! Those are some nice baits you made there Dawg. Now I am sorry I did not bid on them. Heck they are so nice I can't even come up with a smartrearend comment about them! Oh, I just did....you sir are a master bai....of the highest order!

Quickbooks is what my bookkeeper uses.

I really like my citica. I have never used any other manufacturers baitcasters so I am a bit biased.

Ah, com'on Dawg, you stand at least 6 feet tall I thought. You ain't lowly....

Could someone post a pic of this plant? Re: Killing the tuber, would a steriod based herbicide for work? I.E. Roundup?

I'm gonna stay up and watch the news. Which station would be best??

Both!

So who is bring what for the potluck/campfire on Saturday eve?

The chance had finally come again; I can go chasing wallyies on Erie, WITH MY WIFES PERMISSION nonetheless! Morning/early afternoon job is done; hook up the boat, and off to Fishmasters I go. At the launch I make an appointment to price a bathroom, get the boat in the water and surprise surprise! the motor starts on the first pull. Well this is gonna be a great afternoon from the looks of it. Off I go to my favorite drift, worm up, and drift the channel, nothin doin, so after about an hour I set off to the lake. The plan was to go to the Hogsback and get some smallies, I couldn't find it, (a theme to be repeated later), and so I decided to flat line a deep diving minnow bait with a string of flashers on it. 2 - 3 miles out in 60 FOW I am marking the occasional fish but no takers. As we all know time on the water is not just about reeling them in, I was able to watch a spectacular sunset over the lake. Did you know that when the sun goes down the light disappears?? Well I just found that out tonight, make back to the river no problem at all, start going up river and all of a sudden the river looks MUCH different, no problem I think to myself, I have been up and down here so many times I can do it blindfolded. (I can't) About 1/4 of the way in I notice my feet are getting wet. Look down and there is about 4 inches of water in my bilge, my boat has a habit of having spray come in at WOT and on the 25 minute run to the river I got a LOT of water in the boat. So I stop letting the motor idle, (big mistake), and bail out the bilge. Did I mention it was dark and the river looks different? Well somehow I ended up facing the wrong way and got disorientated, OK I got ....l..ll....lo.....lost, (hard to say that). So I started motoring along, and well that doesn't look right.... Did you know that there are sections of the grand that are less than 2 feet deep? I know that now. Fortunately I was watching my depth finder and did not get hung up, but I did do some paddling. Here is where the second dough head part comes in, (in case you didn't figure it out yet, I am the first dough head), ....as I was trying to extricate myself from this situation, another boater goes by, laughs, and ignored my 3 blasts on the whistle, and keeps on going. Needsless to say I was annoyed. I learned some things tonight: 1) when in a situation, remain calm 2) I need to fix the mike on my VHF 3) Don't boat after dark unless you have a GPS and full lights 4) The have a WORKING flashlight rule in the regs, is a REALLY good one! 5) My blackberry has a GPS function, that is how I got back to the dock. 6) Most importantly; always remain aware of your boats movements and watch your depthfinder. 7) It would be very nice if there was more light at Fishmasters.

Going against the sentiment in your sig...The above statement is of course his, (Bertrand Russell), opinion, what is yours?

Shouldn't they be called Dutch turtles then????

As I understand it porpoising is caused by trim not being set correctly. Perhaps you want to check that first as a cause.

So Tony, now that you have two boats doesn't that give you a bit of a paradox in needing a pair of docks. (groan) Congrads on the wins!

Ok the car is out, but how are the O2 sensors????

Got your boaters card yet???

Not being an expert by any stretch of the imagination this is what I would suggest, stack a number of rods on the downriggers let's say 20 feet apart. Provided of course, that you are allowed more than one rod per angler. If not, then multiple passes at different depth where you see them on the finder. Hope that helps.

like everyone else has said; great report! So when are you gonna finally stop by? If only I had the money at the time.....