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Thanks Andrew, for adding to my education. I did not know that a person could freeze-dry their own food. I still don't think I would go back to that kind of meals, but home-made is going to be better than dried cardboard in a foil pouch.............just add water and grumble.........🙄

Hope those waders are waterproof from the INSIDE too!!!!!!!🙄 Doug

Pretty soon you'll see the lake turn over? Like I said, I hope you get a chance to soak some lures for the greys! Doug

Dave, this just gets awesomer and awesomer...................😉 Hope you get a bit of time to soak a lure for the lakers. With the fall coming on full force, they must be on the feed bag big time! Doug

Do tell? How do you make this? Doug

Good eats on the fly there! One of these years I have to try sandhill crane, "the ribeye of the sky." Maybe we will get a season for them, or maybe I will do another hunt out west! Doug

always thought I would give that lake a try one of these years............

Well.......................I did the freeze-dried meals thing a lot when I was hiking and canoe camping forty or so years ago. Maybe the meals are better now (and almost certainly this is true), BUT!!!!! I will happily walk more loaded miles to eat real food, even if it means doubling a 2 km portage! Doug

Thanks for the report, sounds like an EPIC trip. If you are also a hunter, I am guessing that the waterfowl are flying and making more memories for you............ Doug

Today's project tucked into more of my BC haul. So a seafood chowder, with my own smoked side bacon, celery, vidalia onions, Yukon Gold potatoes, halibut, lingcod, coho salmon, clams and shrimp. Good stuff, but RICH.............. Doug PS) I did not catch the clams or shrimp.😉

My favourite way to eat halibut! And I brought home about 15 pounds from my BC trip.....😁

Yesterday's treat was marinated bacon wrapped halibut chunks. And I even took pictures. Now who knows if they will show up here, and in the proper sequence, but let's giver....... The hali fillet was probably about a pound and a half. Cut into bite-sized pieces then into a marinade of maple syrup, soya sauce and some spices. Fresh ground pepper on the pieces. Take a package of bacon, cut the slices in half and half-cook them. Wrap bites in bacon, skewer with a toothpick, and cook at 375 F for about 11 to 12 minutes. Fabulous! (but very rich.....) Doug

Thanks Brian. Might have to try this with my smoked side bacon! Doug

I have never been asked for my boat registration, but I do have a copy of it in the boat. Surely to God a CO or cop asking me for my registration is NOT going to ask me to prove I OWN the freakin' boat??????????????? Like who else would own the thing, if I have the registration certificate? Doug

Brian, is this your own smoked side bacon? If yes, what more are you doing to it? Like smoking it more then drying it out? I am thinking you are going to get a real salty, maybe even bitter product? The flank steak looks great, but what are all those veggies doing??? 😲 Doug

I guess TROLLing is kind of fishing.................🙄

great report, and THANKS for taking the time to write it! Doug

Update here now, I ran a small fishing camp (for bass) last weekend, and it was, shall we say, NOT a stellar show. So on Saturday night when I had planned a bass fish and chips supper....................we had halibut instead. First time for me, I think, to pan-fry halibut, and it was very toothsome indeed. And just think of the bass we did not eat, that are still swimming!😉 Doug

That boat was a 1966 model if memory serves me, and it was 18 feet measured at the waterline. Today the marketers would probably call it a twenty footer! 🙄 Gunwale height was below my waist but not much. It was a BIG boat for small water, steering wheel of course, prop was a fair ways down if you wanted to run shallow. I don't recall how many times I had to replace/rebuild the prop, but it was quite a few. It just wasn't the boat I needed for the kind of fishing I was doing once I was no longer out on Lake Ontario, Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. And at heart I am a tiller boat guy, the steering wheel was great for downrigging but not worth a fart for back-trolling, and there was literally no place for a bow-mount electric. If you are going to own two boats, I suggest two used units, one that is OK for big water and for farting around with the family, tubing and that kind of stuff, and one that you can use for "most" fishing off of the big water. My $0.02. Doug

Here is that thread. I was looking for advice for a bow-mount electric, but also got lots of advice about boats: https://ontariofishingcommunity.com/topic/89966-advice-requested-bow-mount-electric/#comments Doug

I had an older 18 foot Starcraft Holiday with a stern drive. It was a magnificent big water trolling boat, but it was just too big for the back lakes around Kingston. I finally settled on a 16 foot tiller boat for all of my fishing, and (for me) that has been perfect. It is NOT enough boat for big water and heavy waves, although I have had it out in some marginal conditions. If I can find a link to a thread I had going a while back, there were a number of recommended rigs. Doug

jerky gun? I tried one of those but found it took forever to do a batch of jerky. If I was going to make beef jerky I would wait for eye of round to come on sale in those cryovac bags, and use it. Very lean, and straight-grained, lots of flavour, makes good whole muscle jerky. And of course if you wanted to grind it you would get a very lean ground beef. Doug

I find I do that more often as I get older........😁

and now this meeting of the mutual admiration society is adjourned..................🙄

Interesting. Reckon you need a big-ass boat just to keep your stern from going under with the weight of that!