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This has no doubt come up before but a search did not help me, and who knows, there are probably new products out there. I am pretty much convinced I am going to buy a new fishing boat, 16 foot aluminum, tiller, with a raised casting platform on the bow. I want to get a bow mount electric that doesn't wreck my back each time I deploy and stow it. (I acknowledge that I am not the young man I once was...). I am very comfortable with a foot pedal control, and would only use the motor from a SEATED position, never standing, never on one of those 3/4 height bicycle seats that are designed to torture old guys, thanks very much. I assume that a new boat will be able to accommodate two 12 v batteries for the motor, independent of the starting battery. I am not in any sense a competitive angler, and a LONG day in the boat for me would be 6 hours. I am certain I don't need a 36 volt motor. I don't fish big water any more, and the weight of the boat doesn't need that much power. (If it is really windy, I will not be fishing, so need not worry about boat control in big swells or with a side wind.) So what do you guys recommend? I have run Minnkota electric motors for forty years or so, but would consider another brand. The critical thing is ease of deploying and stowing it. Thanks for any advice. Doug

Sounds AWESOME Smitty! I almost never see pork hocks any more, and they are a treat......... Doug

good on ya, bud! Doug

Thanks for the report! And good luck on your competitive days out there. Doug

I really enjoy deer heart, so when we shoot a deer in the camp, the heart is saved, unless the bullet or arrow went through the heart. In that case, the meat is too damaged to eat. We also enjoy deer liver, but that is another story. (Hint: slice it thin, season it like steak, and pan fry at high heat for a very short time). So the traditional deer camp heart recipe is to stuff it and bake it in a very slow oven, often with a bacon wrap on the stuffed heart. And you haven't lived until you have tried gravy made with bacon-wrapped deer heart...............LOW cholesterol. 😉 I really like stuffed baked deer heart, but it is also delicious sliced and pan-fried, which is a lot quicker and makes a great appetizer. I even took a couple deer hearts one year and ground them up and cooked ground deer heart like hamburger - it was very good but not worth the effort. So I was rooting around in one of my FOUR freezers that are running right now 🙄 and found the heart from the buck I shot last November, vacuum-packed and still plenty fresh, and I thought to myself, how about BBQ deer heart? So I cut the heart in three, cleaned out the connective tissue and most of the fat, brushed it with EVO and seasoned it, and put it on the BBQ on indirect heat for about ten minutes. Instant-read thermometer put it at about 120 F. I was quite worried about over-cooking it, since it is extremely lean meat. I took the meat off the grill and covered it with aluminum foil, then served it with fresh yellow beans from the garden and roast cauliflower. It was fairly rare (see pic) and would have been better medium rare to (maybe) medium). I would do this again. Doug

Boat, fifty thousand. Fishing gear, five thousand. Rain gear five cents. Getting soaked to the nuts, PRICELESS. 😉 Doug

The batteries Argo currently installs only have a six month warranty, and if you don't keep them charged up they die in about a year. And they are not cheap. So you need to keep a trickle charger on them when they are just sitting parked. I have a plug-in (110 v) trickle charger for the winter when the Argo lives in my garage, and a solar 12 v battery charger for the spring/summer/fall when the Argo is at my camp. You might be using your machine more often than I do, and that of course will keep the battery charged. Doug

Wonderful! Glad to be of help! Did I ever mention the Argo 12 v battery? Doug

Oh, I wear it fishing and farting around in town, just not hunting or working in the bush. I don't think it is thornproof or puncture resistant.............

I have their jacket and it is LIGHT and waterproof. But I don't actually trust it in the woods, where I am getting thorns etc tug at my clothing. I don't want to tear a really expensive jacket! In the woods I wear a much older set of Cabela's gear, and it is good stuff but too hot for summer fishing. My summer weight rain jacket is from MEC, and I had it out in today's rain, in the woods. I was still dry after a couple hours of steady drizzle, but it was not a serious downpour - when that happens, the MEC jacket gives me a couple hours, tops, before I start getting damp. Must look into that conditioning stuff. Old dog, new tricks...........🙄 Doug

Good for you, Cliff! Your planning and work have paid off, JUST as you had hoped! Doug

Well, at my age I should WRITE STUFF DOWN so I remember it. I thawed one wild turkey breast and my intention was to brush it with EVO, then rub a rib rub into it, and into the slow cooker on some cut-up Vidalias. I patted down the breast, completely forgot about the EVO, and rubbed the rib rub into it. CRAP! Well, what I should have done is rinse off the rub and start again, but being the cheapskate I am, I just went ahead and used the breast without the EVO. I did put a couple tbsp of EVO in with the onion on the bottom of the slow cooker pot. Six hours on low, and the breast was done. OK, how do I move the pictures to here in the middle of what I am typing??????????????????????????????????????? I wanted to show you folks the pics and then write some more. ANYWAYS, the flavour is very good, but the meat was a touch on the dry side. 😐 After supper, I made a gravy with the onion, pan drippings, and some veggie water and corn starch, and cut up some of the leftover breast into it. Even if I do say so myself, that's AWESOME. Live and learn. Doug

And I did honey mustard pork tenderloins on rice vermicelli noodles last night but as usual did not take a photo. It was pretty toothsome... Tonight it is a wild turkey breast in the slow cooker, done with a rib rub. It smells pretty good right now, hope it tastes as good! Doug

Other than the tomato, that looks AWESOME, Brian! Do you make your own onion rings? If yes, how? I have never tried that. BREAKING NEWS!!!! Food Basics had a 1 kg bag of frozen cooked spot-tail prawns on for $12.99. I have never seen these here before, only ever brought them back from BC after fishing trips. I "hope" they are as good as they look. Doug

Them, and jelly beans, and red licorice nibs, and jelly tots, and wine gums, and broken nut roll, and strawberry marshmallows, and............🙄

As far as I know, nope, we never had relations! 😮 There were some Newfoundlanders in the crowd singing, though..........

Mine's a 1998, very sweet, does everything I need, and it's PAID FOR. But those two finalists you were looking at are mighty fine looking boats! Doug

So I went to the Bulk Barn to get rye flour and unbleached white flour........ Curse you, Fisherman! Another five pounds of belly I don't need...........🙄

One door closes and another one opens..............and damn you!!! Now you got me thinking it might be time to get a new boat as well. It doesn't help that my outboard had an issue just before bass season and is at the sick motor doctor awaiting parts.............🙄

Now as you mention it, I did notice that.

PS to Fisherman) usually i am known to DRINK rye, not eat it! 😉

Beauty! Thanks buddy!

So how about a recipe for your rye bread, old buddy? Doug

That I have. I put it in most of my venison dishes, as well as my Canadian Scotch Broth. I buy it at the Bulk Barn.

Looks like summer savoury?