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I am thinking a lot longer than that, maybe late 80s? Doug

Got a recipe for that, Brian? I am not usually a fan of battered fish, but they do look good. Doug

Remember the time we were there catching perch after perch, and nobody around us was catching squat. When we left it was just about fistfights for guys trying to get into "our" spot. 😁 Good memories for sure. Doug

Awesome. And I thought halibut got pretty big!

Are you using it as a dropper, or your main lure? I think the effectiveness of a dropper is sometimes a fish wants a snack, not a meal. The bottom lure catches their attention, and the bug gets the bite.

Thing of beauty, Brian!

sold as cutlets, or you cut them off a loin roast? And what do you use for a coating? Doug

okey dokey. Doug

I live here and would be happy to pick it up for you, but I basically never drive to Mordor aka GTA. So I could store it here until you pick it up some time... Doug

Quick strike rig?

And now back to our regular programming......this just in: Brian is now spending all of his fly tying profits on lottery tickets....😁

Perch season isn't done yet!!!

Laker bait?

If you can mail that with the bugs I'll pay the extra postage....😁 Doug

As a boy, we would go out to Lake Huron somewhere along the shoreline when the smelt were "running" and catch them with just about anything - cattle feed bags, for example - and there would be a bonfire on the beach and a honkin' big frying pan, and people were frying up fresh smelts. Some of the smelt got cleaned first, and some actually got cooked before they were eaten. As a lad, it seemed like a wonderful adventure. Fast forward to my teenage years. We heard the smelt were running, and a bunch of us went to a patch of Lake Huron shoreline with some feed bags, a logging chain to act as a bottom drag, and since we did not own waders, we wrapped our legs and shoes in black plastic garbage bags. Alcohol may have been involved. Everybody got soaked to the ass, no smelt were caught, and if memory serves me, somebody got some wieners and we had a wiener roast on the bonfire as we tried to dry our soaking wet clothes and shoes. Good times!

I forgot we used to catch smelt on our lines back in the 80s in Simcoe. Some of them were real dandies, like 10 or 11 inches. Smoked smelts, yum! Doug

Remember folks, back in the 50s, ice fishing was invented by the Department of Health to give heavy drinkers some fresh air in the winter time! Doug

What are all them VEGGIES going there!!!!????? 😲

I would have stayed in the shelter rather than bailing out!!!!

But what we ended up with was this:

This was what we were after.

Please tie more of the reds and check your e-mail. 😉 Doug

Thanks buddy!

It was this part that made me ask the question. I DID think that you were fishing the bugs bare, then I saw the word maggot. Doug

OK you guys have convinced me. Looks like these are $179 now (online). Anybody know if major retailers (CTC, etc) stock them? Doug PS) Anybody find them TOO WARM?