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I have used Luhr Jensen smokers for about 35 years, first a Little Chief, then another Little Chief, and for the last 20 years or so, a Big Chief. GREAT smokers! The element it comes with is just fine for smoking, in my view, and yes you definitely want to cover it with something (cardboard box is good) for windy and cold weather, it keeps the smoke in and the temperature up. ABSOLUTELY leave the skin on fish for smoking. One pan of smoke is not enough, in my experience, for fish of any type. Hickory is by far my favourite, and two to three pans of smoke. To get dryer smoked fish, leave it in the smoker longer. You can still use a wet brine, take the fillets out and put them on paper towels or clean newspaper to air dry for about an hour to allow them to form a "pellicle" which is a kind of tacky surface to which the smoke sticks better. Whitefish in my view take smoke better than any other fish. If you get LOTS of them (I know Simcoe only has a small limit, but elsewhere you can keep more), then put the fillets into the smoker (after brining) for two pans of smoke, then pressure can them. AWESOME. Doug

as others have said, paracord is not a good idea except in an emergency. The "REAL THING" has 550 pound breaking strength, but the sheath around the nylon fibres is apt to separate. I think this is one of those areas where the OEM part is a good idea......... Doug

I was here for the BIG ice storm of 1998 and it was a doozy. I hear the forecasters are saying this one could be on that same magnitude. That would NOT be good................. Doug

Warmer today in Yellowknife than down here in the Banana Belt!!! Doug

Adam, go to this page and look at the top. If yours is set up like mine (and I think it can be customized), your name will be in the upper right corner. To the left of that is an envelope icon - click on that and it should take you to your pm's. (private messages) SOMEWHERE you can set your board preferences, and ask for an e-mail notification for private messages. If you get that e-mail, you can then just click on the highlighted text, which will take you to the most recently received private message. HTH Doug

FF1978 check your pm's. Doug

I do not recall the names of any of the bays. I had a rental boat from the lodge and did not venture more than maybe eight kilometres from the dock, and mostly less than that. It was the first week of August. Doug

Heck, yes! But if you believe that stuff, you probably also believe that the world is ROUND, and that the moon landings REALLY happened! As Sir John A MacDonald wrote: "It is a grate pitye that the Internette hath caused so maney citizenes to believe in straynge tayles."

But it's global WARMING...........

GLOBAL WARMING.

Thanks! So canola, not EVO, kind of thing?

tagged for interest.......... ........And a trip down Memory Lane, thanks folks. Doug

tagged for interest. I just expanded my vocabulary by about twenty terms and have no idea what any of them mean. And I am older than Old Ironmaker so I claim "senior moments" Doug

1. I suggest you bring your bait with you. The worms they had for sale in 2016 were mush. 2. Take a GPS with you and the minute you are at the lodge dock, create a waypoint and NAME IT. That lake has a lot of back bays that all look about the same and I got turned around twice out evening fishing. In both cases my GPS saved me a night out lost in the dark. 3. If you use their boats, they have fish finders that are reasonably good, and you will need to eliminate unproductive water. The walleye were in less than 12 feet pretty consistently when I was there, and most of the lake is deeper than that. The map they provide is a good starting point, and you should be able to get a handle on what depth is productive when YOU are there. 4. I never did figure out the lake trout, which were suspended in good numbers. A manual downrigger would have been a good idea to bring along. 5. Avoid the cabin above the dock and to the left as you look at the lodge. (Cabin #6) The stove in that one could hardly boil water, and it was a DISASTER for trying to fry fish. Even with all the windows open it is dark and dreary as well. 6. There is a bay to your left as you head away from the dock. Fish the left shore of that bay for walleye in good numbers (but not much for size) 7. Don't cheap out on rain gear. That lake whips up BIG and chances are good that you are going to get wet at least once. 8. There is one funny turn up there on your way to the launch at Missinabie. I forget exactly where it was, but the highway numbers are tricky, probably 651. If memory serves me, the sign pointed one way but the road went another. Good luck! Doug

This sounds delicious, but I am betting it takes a few tries to get it right. How do you keep the liver from getting over-cooked, but enough heat to melt the cheese? And what are you using for oil? Like bigugli says, that one I gotta try...........

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DEER liver!!! But NOT on the day the deer was shot. If you eat a liver on the day the deer was shot, you are guaranteed to have the runs. Don't ask me why, I do not know. But many people have said the same thing, their experience with TODAY's deer liver, ended up badly. So now we shoot the deer today, slice it VERY thinly, put it in milk overnight then cook it tomorrow for brunch. MY OH MY!!!!!!!!! Doug

If you use firearms for hunting, target shooting, and competition, why on earth would you surrender them to the government? This makes no sense whatsoever. And has already been stated, the likelihood in Canada is very remote of a person being confronted in their home by an intruder with a firearm. In MOST areas.

yep, YUM and what a fabulous presentation!!!!

I kept my own counsel for a bit about the difference between a .22LR and a .223/5.56 NATO cartridge. It has now been amply pointed out. But just to add to people's knowledge here, I have a buddy whose hunting partner uses a regular rifle (not an AR-15 or any of the semi-autos) chambered for the .223 cartridge. That guy shoots deer, moose and bear with the .223. He uses a Barnes X monolithic copper bullet, which is about the best choice one could make for a smaller calibre hunting bullet, and so has excellent expansion and weight retention. But at the end of the day, he shoots serious big game (and lots of it) with the .223. It is not a plinker. Doug

Thanks for adding to my education, I did not know that the Bushmaster COMPANY has anything other than their AR-15 variants, which I think they call X-15 or similar name. Yes you are absolutely right that they make a non-restricted version ACR. I apologize. But wait for the Horsemen to decide that the ACR is a scary looking rifle and watch the new 12(9) prohibition in action..........

The Bushmaster is an AR-15 variant, and it is RESTRICTED. All of the AR-15s and all of the rifles for which the parts are interchangeable, including the Norinco stuff from China, all of these are Restricted here in Canada. But there are lots of semi-automatic .223s that are (currently) non-restricted. It is the 12 (9) provision in the draft C-71 tabled this past week that should be of concern to persons who own non-restricted semi-automatic firearms, since the RCMP can decide that something currently non-restricted (like the Swiss Arms Classic) is now a Prohib.

You are 100% WRONG about the AR-15. That rifle, and ALL of its variants, are ALL Restricted firearms in Canada. There are other semi-automatic rifles, including the ones on that page you reference, that are non-restricted. There is no rhyme nor reason to what gets classified as what. And ALL semi-autos must have mags that hold five rounds or less.

OK I watched the video. Mr Day should KNOW BETTER than to suggest a person can HUNT with an AR-15 or any of its variants. There is no place in Canada where a person can legally hunt with ANY restricted firearm. That includes all of the AR-15 variants, all handguns (that are not prohibited, which of course also cannot be used for hunting), and any other firearm designated as restricted (or prohibited). To acquire and possess any restricted firearm, yes a person has to take and pass the course, and apply for a Restricted Possession and Acquisition Licence. As part of the approval process (which Mr Day also neglected to mention), there is not only the criminal records check, but also a confirmation with the spouse and any ex-spouse that there are no domestic violence issues that may be a concern, PLUS a confirmation that the applicant does not have mental health issues. Every 24 hours the entire list of individuals having a firearms licence is cross-checked with the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC). It is noteworthy that CPIC does not run daily checks on anybody else, not paroled rapists and pedophiles, not career criminals, not known gangsters, only firearms licence holders. Restricted firearms need to be stored in a very secure manner (all described in detail in the regulations). Ammunition for them most be stored in a separate locked container. IN CANADA, the likelihood of a child, or other non-licenced individual, getting access to an AR-15 or ammunition for it is remote. And as Mr Day did mention, all magazines for the AR-15 family of firearms must not be capable of holding more than five cartridges. While there may have been an instance of somebody in Canada using an AR-15 in a "mass shooting" I am not aware of it. The people who own them are amongst the most vetted and thereby law-abiding people in Canada. I do not own an AR-15, nor any of the variants, given that they hold no attraction for me. But I consider it perfectly reasonable that folks who wish to own and shoot this type of IMMENSELY popular firearm should be able to do so. If they want to go through the hassle in order to take their firearm to an approved range to shoot it, more power to them. And no, I don't buy the argument that more guns equals more gun deaths. In Canada that is simply not true, and people using AMERICAN statistics to make points about CANADIAN firearms issues are definitely mixing apples and oranges.

That looks AWESOME!!! Heck, I just ate lunch and the pics made me hungry all over again............