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back to Spiel.........thanks for that. If you get a chance to take a picture of the (raw) steaks that will probably clear up the mystery for me. I do shoot them and butcher them, and always interested in what other folks call their cuts of meat. For example, I call the long muscle against the backbone loins, lots of people call them backstraps. Best regards, Doug

two dimes of dried habanero? Sounds like a dope deal..........

What the heck are "HIP" steaks? Top round, maybe, or ???????? Never thought of apple cider vinegar but I bet that would be good, especially if you added brown sugar or maple syrup to the marinade........ Doug

yep, the clots in a moose heart could easily be as big as a golf ball when cooked. <<<EEEEEWWWWWWW>>>>>

Back to Blue Lk, that moose heart sounds delicious! I did not mention it, and neither did you, but for the benefit of somebody reading these recipes, it is VERY important to rinse the heart thoroughly and get your fingers into all the nooks and crannies. Otherwise you end up with big ugly blood clots in your cooked heart - which won't harm you but they are certainly unappealing. Doug

Something I do when I bake a deer (or moose) heart: I first of all trim all of the fat, then I cut out everything inside the heart, leaving the walls and about half of the top. I cut the sinewy bits off the parts I have cut out, then dice them up fine, add celery, onions, bread crumbs and seasonings (always including summer savoury) to make a stuffing for the heart. Then wrap the stuffed heart with bacon and cook in the oven, covered, at low-ish heat for a couple to three hours depending on the size of the heart. Delicious! Doug

Back to Big Cliff..... ...........yes, you should smoke your side bacon with maple wood chips for sure. Hickory will definitely give you a pretty darned smokey product and (in my view) detract from the flavour. (and don't even THINK about mesquite...) Cold smoked, with maple, it turns out FABULOUS. How much are you paying for your pork bellies? Last time I asked my butcher quoted me six bucks a pound...............and I can buy awesome smoked side bacon from a German butcher for seven bucks a pound............. Doug

If you want a fax machine and some free printer rolls for it, please send me a note. It is NOT COMPATIBLE with phone service that comes over the cable company's lines (Cogeco in my case) but it did work with Bell. All I would want for it is the shipping. Doug

Victoria is nice enough but it is still a CITY, with lots of TRAFFIC and CONGESTION. I am sure if a person lived in Toronto, they would find Victoria to be a charming, laid-back place with hardly any traffic.............but in comparison even to Kingston, the traffic was an issue when I was there two and three years ago. Both times for short visits, did not stay there for a month or anything. As others have said, up island is gorgeous but it might not be as warm. But my buddy in Campbell River had to mow his lawn last week.......... Doug

back to Old Ironmaker................ My favourite: "My ancestors did not evolve for thousands of years to be at the top of the food chain for me to eat tofu." Doug

Generally speaking, the first rule of thumb when you find yourself in a deep hole is to quit digging. So AKRISONER, how very good of you to label LEGAL hunters as "A hole" types. And how very kind of you to show your immense superiority over persons who eat fish, which last time I looked was not only LEGAL but one of the primary reasons MILLIONS of people fish. Maybe the person wanting to validate his manhood is the person putting down other outdoors folks whose views are not congruent with yours. Pretty much penis-waving from the looks of it.

I am sure that quite a number of Inuit hunters would be surprised to know that they have been branded an "A hole" for a traditional hunting activity. I am also fairly certain that the Inuit communities who benefit from "southern" hunters coming up for a polar bear hunt would also be nonplussed by this moniker.............. Hunters have enough enemies already from the anti-hunting types. We do not need fellow hunters pointing fingers at LEGAL hunting practices, just because they do not agree with them. Just my opinion.............but one that I have come to believe in over close to fifty years of hunting............... Doug

back to m2b2: I can't do cut and paste, but google it. I think they first called it a copolymer line, now they are calling at a molecular polymer line or similar. The (old style) line casts very well and is very abrasion resistant, even in small diameter/light line. Doug

This is a "sympathetic ear" post, Mike. I have three sons, the youngest of whom just moved out. All of them marched to their own drum, REGARDLESS of what my wife or I thought or did, and they all still do. I absolutely do not agree with some of their opinions/beliefs/ lifestyle choices but try my best to communicate my disagreement in a mature and loving way. I don't always get that right. I don't agree that trophy hunting is wrong, even though I am first and foremost a meat hunter. My bottom line is "fair chase" and if a hunter takes their game in a fair chase scenario, I don't care if the primary reason for the hunt was going after a trophy (however that hunter defines that term). But that is a reasonably philosophical argument that even hunters can have problems with, and not really fodder for a speech by a young person. So I am not offering any advice here. I think you have received some good advice and some not so good, and your own situation is unlike everybody else's because every person is unique. GOOD LUCK to you! Doug

I really liked Ironsilk for jigging, glad to see it is coming back. Doug

Thanks for the report, Drew. As always it's pretty much like being there, without the discomfort.......... I'm with Chris, I think that is an otter trail.... Doug

Sushi? Around here, folks call that BAIT. Doug

I fished one of their ice shacks back in about 1983 or maybe 1984. We did OK for whitefish and lake trout, if memory serves me. I also fished up by Rabbit Nose Island in that same time frame - and all we caught there were ling. I do not believe you will see any walleye (pickerel) in 80 FOW. There were walleye further south from there, alongside the eastern shore. But I suggest you ask the lodge operators about their fishing and they will probably be pretty truthful. Good luck to you! That is a pretty part of the country! Doug

what, and plug the toilet???

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... "this channel does not exist" Doug

Hmmm, looks like a miniature Liberalis slimatae, of the genus Nullus Spinus. Could be the Justinus Givus Votus, but the proof would be whether the angler had to wash their hands five times until they no longer felt unclean............. Just sayin'.......... Doug

yeah it was 9:01 by my clock when my post got uploaded, but HEY! You live by the sword, you die by the sword - and we got another thirty bucks for a good cause! Have a good one, cuzza! Doug

somebody's got a better clock than me.............

it was $245 for cats, so $245 for bows and salmon............. Doug

back to pikeslayer..................and of course the ten dollar bid increments are a MINIMUM of ten bucks, so more would be OK..............