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Ryan, all you need is a WETT certification, I hope it works out for you.

Very, very old, and I am glad to see you're getting an early start on your Christmas cards.....

It was just sittin' there like a baseball on a t-ball "T", I had to hit it.....

We are waiting for the before pic........ Good luck!

Well done! That is a great walleye! Soon thye bait caster questions will come, and we will know that we have a new one to add to the addicted.

Need some help with the HTA????

I was there today and discovered the flea market upstairs. I was like a kid in a candy store, full dash assemblies with guages for 150 - 250, seats, and seat posts, misc parts out the wazzo! And very good prices too. The people behind the counter were very helpful as well.

Nope, but they have one more day before they are named publicly.....

If one has an oil tank leak, the costs in remediating the the situation are huge! Houses have had to be demolished and goodness help you if the oil gets into the ground. In this case I can see the insurance company's point. It is not often that I do, but if the tank is at all questionable, then they should engage in CYA. It sucks that you have to pay for it though....

10 - 20 K that should be about 1 - 2 months of use, I will drop some 2 stroke into it tonight, as I am running up to Barrie and back tomorrow. How much should i put into a full tank?

WHY!!!!!!!!!????????? would you sell your Ranger?

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Don't ask me about the rigging of my Opti......

It is a 2003, they checked the fuel pump and it is drawing the correct amperage with good fuel flow. He (service manager) assured me that the injectors and injector pump should be OK....I am eager to hear what you have to say. Via PM or post. Thanks

Last friday my wife went to Simcoe with my Jetta diesel, stopped for fuel and the fellow mistakenly pumped gas into it... Feces happens, but I am P.O'ed with the response or rather lack of response I am getting from the gas station manager. The only times I spoke to him, I was very pleasent, realizing this is not the end of the world, and mistakes are made, but his lack of response to the situation is using up my paitence. One of the main rules on successful complaining is that the first one to lose their cool loses the argument. One of the chellenges in this situation is that the station is located in a part of Canada that has been in the news a lot...So I do noty know if that can be used as a legal shield in this dispute. This is an edited copy of my letter of concern to the fuel chain involved. Sept 13, 2010 To whom it may concern: On Friday Sept 10 at 10:15 am my vehicle was given $20.00 of regular gas when it was clearly requested to have $20.00 of diesel pumped. The vehicle was then driven from the station to an address in Simcoe, and returned to Hamilton. Upon arrival at Hamilton the vehicle would not start which resulted in the following expenses: A $295.24 repair bill at Hamilton Volkswagen (905-574-8989) for work that was performed on Sept 11, 2010 and a tow bill for $174.00 by CAA. Mr ***** was contacted regarding this issue, and when I spoke to him he assured me on two occasions on Sept 10, that the matter would be taken care of. I have left him three voice mails and messages regarding this matter in the meantime and I have not heard from him as of yet. The only contact I received from the station was a phone call during the evening of September 10, from the attendant that pumped the gas, indicating that he was being terminated and that he would have to pay for the repairs. That is a matter between the employee and Mr. *********, it does not concern me. In order to resolve this matter I expect that my expenses are reimbursed including the above mentioned expenses as well as the time wasted and inconvenience that this has caused. Regards

Here are the 2010 Darwin awards. 8th Place In Detroit , a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys. 7th Place A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran", accidentally, jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run. 6th Place While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole for protection from the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom, when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach used their hands and shovels trying to get him out but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital. 5th Place Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was robbing. Death was caused when the long torch he had placed in his mouth to keep his hands free, rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor. 4th Place Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger. 3rd Place After walking around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door, a man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms intent on robbing the store. The shop was full of customers and a uniformed officer was standing at the counter.. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up and fired a few wild shots from a target pistol. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire and several customers also drew their guns and fired. The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt. HONOURABLE MENTION Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just driving around at 2 a.m. So they lit a stick of dynamite to toss out the window to see what would happen. Apparently they failed to notice the window was closed RUNNER UP Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from a local bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 a.m. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable lay nearby. They secured one end around Bingham's leg and then tied the other (!) to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. Bingham's foot was never located. AND THE WINNER IS... Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt ( Paderborn , Germany ) fed his constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief. Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded. The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock as the elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that proves.... 'crap happens'

A gas powered pressure washer might be the way to go, or a gas powered pump.

None at all, I would give them a ringing endorsement!

By giving the name, are you endorsing the manuacturer? If so, Ugliboyz baits...

U.S. names Asian carp czar, from The DRUDGE REPORT, finally some movement on this. Maybe we can keep them out of the Great Lakes. Backfire U.S. names Asian carp czar September 8, 2010 10:57 AM | No Comments The White House has tapped a former leader of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Indiana Wildlife Federation as the Asian carp czar to oversee the federal response to keeping the invasive species out of the Great Lakes. On a conference call today with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin and other congressional leaders, President Obama's Council on Environmental Quality announced the selection of John Goss to lead the near $80 million, multi-pronged federal attack against Asian carp. "This is a serious challenge, a serious threat," Durbin said. "When it comes to the Asian carp threat, we are not in denial. We are not in a go-slow mode. We are in a full attack, full-speed ahead mode. We want to stop this carp from advancing." Asian carp, which have steadily moved toward Chicago since the 1990s, present a challenge for scientists and fish biologists. The fish are aggressive eaters, consuming as much as 40 percent of their body weight a day in plankton, and frequently beat out native fish for food, threatening those populations. They are also prolific breeders with no natural predators in the U.S. The fish were imported in the 1970s to help wastewater treatment facilities in the South keep their retention ponds clean. Mississippi River flooding allowed the fish to escape and then move into the Missouri and Illinois rivers. Some species can grow to more than 100 pounds. The challenge for Goss, who was director of the Indiana DNR under two governors and served for four years as the executive director of the Indiana National Wildlife Federation, will be to make sure millions in federal money is spent efficiently, to oversee several on-going studies -- including one looking into the possibility of permanently shutting down the Chicago waterway system linking Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River--and to bring together Great Lakes states currently locked in a courtroom battle over the response to the Asian carp threat. "Certainly there are some legal questions that are in process, but there has been a history already of good cooperation among the states," Goss said. "I believe that will be one of my strengths, talking at the level of the department of natural resources in each of the states so that we can very carefully coordinate our efforts." Today also marks the second day of what is expected to be a three-day hearing in federal court in Chicago to deal with Asian carp. Michigan and four other Great Lakes states are suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago to try and force closure of two shipping locks in the Chicago waterway system that could serve as a barrier to keep Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan. Testimony on Tuesday focused on the reliability of the environmental DNA research that has been used to track the movement of Asian carp through the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal as they have inched closer to Lake Michigan. The architect of the research, University of Notre Dame scientist David Lodge, said the method is sound and that Asian carp pose a "a very imminent risk of invasion." He added that such "invasions are often irreversible." Attorneys for the defense countered that the DNA research has never been used in this manner and was unreliable. They argued that even scientists disagree about the likelihood that Asian carp are capable of sustaining a large and destructive population if allowed to enter the Great Lakes. --Joel Hood

Send it to me as well...

Rig with a three way swivel, one ounce for every ten feet of water, and try trolling a spoon with a TON of line out. I do not know the formula, maybe someone can help with that.

The reason they do is; They charge a twonie a minute and it's a coin slot....

Thank goodness you're not a plumber, they deal with male and female fittings all day long, and the worst of it is s short male - male fitting is called a nipple! You'd have to hook up a shower and use it right away.

Wonderful post, right now I am struggling to come up with a story to share at my oldest daughters wedding in t-26 days.....The next years will be wonderful, and trying all at the same time. All the best.