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PS) The pot on the stove behind my left arm probably had a very pretty something or other in it but I did not think to take photos. My bad. And yes that IS a four litre (empty) wine bag in a box type bag, and yes there was still some work to be done on the last 66 pounder. But we were equal to the task. Doug

Liquid lunch, Cold Lake Alberta, fall 2011

back to Bunk.................looks like your lunch needs a tourniquet................. Doug

Baseball bat, or a two by four, or a shovel..... They cannot move very fast. And don't let any nosy neighbours see you................................. ...............or if you have nosy neighbours, use a golf club and carry a ball with you for "putting practice." Then make the carcass disappear. You can lift a dead porcupine by its feet and not get quilled. Good luck PS) Porcupine is pretty tasty. I was looking for an old recipe for sweet and sour porcupine but couldn't find it. And I cannot cut and paste in this infernal website, so you can google recipes for yourself. But "porcupine meatballs" don't use porcupine meat, they use beef burger,,,,,,,,,,,

paul sr. please check your pm's. Doug

Mike, thanks for that information. I did not know that Dave had died (and I did not think of him as "old" but then again I am no longer young............) I caught my PB walleye there, 12 pounds, and gave it to Dave for the lodge wall. He used to take it to the Sportsmen's Show in Hogtown every spring, and I always wished I had kept it for myself. But I had kept a nice 10.5 lb walleye, had it mounted, and figured, a twelve pounder is not that much bigger...................WRONG. It was a LOT bigger. I had heard that the lodge had gotten run down, too darned bad because the fishing was really very good indeed. Doug

I am not sure if Georgian Bay Fishing Camp is still operating, but it was out in Georgian Bay near the Bustard Islands, near the confluence of the Key, Pickerel, and French Rivers. Access by boat from the village of Key River along Highway 69 up north of Parry Sound. (Hwy 400 North to 69 North to Key River) It did have AWESOME smallmouth bass fishing, and plentiful walleye and pike - but again I have not been there in many years. Doug

Yes those are big holes, but................... ...........there was an older lad on the Bay of Quinte (dead now, God bless him) that used to spud holes about two feet square. His gaff was a piece of two by four with about an eight inch spike through it, no such thing as catch and release. And one time I visited him at home he had the BIGGEST walleye I ever saw in his basement sink in preparation for filleting it. That walleye had to have been at least fifteen pounds. My biggest ever was twelve, and this fish dwarfed that. And he refused to take it and get it weighed.... Anyways, his partially frozen-over holes were man traps, and one of my buddies went down in one of them, both legs and up to his waist, scary stuff. And by the way, what an awesome report! Doug

Yes I was thinking that maybe most folks would not get that one. When you fire a Carl Gustav anti-tank rocket, it's a two-man team. Number I is the gunner, number 2 is the loader and safety man. After the rocket is loaded, the gunner asks the loader to confirm that the lock is engaged, because when the round goes off, there is a ferocious back-blast. So you want to make sure that the back-blast of explosive gases doesn't happen in the gun..........

As I had started to type, before my response disappeared................. That is INGENIOUS!!! If you have time to start a thread about how, exactly, a person could replicate your rig, that would be FABULOUS!!!!! I have been wanting an underwater camera for ages but the price has always put me off. Thirty or forty bucks I can handle! Doug

Number 1: "CHECK VENTURI LOCK!" Number 2: "VENTURI LOCK CHECKED!" (whacks Number 1's helmet) Doug

The last time I had something migrate down the leg of my floater bibs it was highly unpleasant.............

Reminds me of that joke, "It looks like you blew a seal.........."

Understood. I had wrongly assumed that the ciscoe run was a spring time thing, like smelts down here. My buddy up there had a limit of ciscoes in his freezer for the summer GSL fishing. Doug

Did you not catch any ciscoes with the spring run up there? 1. Or are ciscoes illegal for ice fishing? 2. Or do you forego ciscoes in favour of artificials? They sure played hell with the lakers on Great Slave Lake last July.................our biggest was 42 pounds, and I forget how many over 20 pounds but several dozen........... Doug

Simcoe? (or a secret?) BEAUTY lakers! Doug

Ward's Marine in Kingston does good work and they are good honest folks. They are no longer a Honda dealer, but have done 100% of the work on my (1989) Honda 40 hp for fifteen years, and I have found them great folks to deal with. Doug

back to wallacio, and warning to other users: that link just attempted to do a malicious attack on my computer, detected by Norton 360..............

That last buck looks like he is using his nose. I think of al their senses, it is smell that is most acute, and which the deer trust most of all. They catch your scent, they are out of there. So.....................would you mind terribly if I set up a ground blind at your house late next fall? Doug

I've been chasing whitetails for over forty years and my own observations mirror that of the "expert." In early fall, I cannot recall ever seeing a group of does and fawns with an antlered buck amongst them. But I have seen groups of antlered bucks together in that same time frame. Typically I see does and fawns together right up until the rut, then generally I see single animals, or a doe being chased, or a buck tracking hot does. So I cannot recall seeing a "harem" of an antlered buck with does and fawns. As I understand elk biology, the biggest baddest bulls do get a harem and defend it against all comers; I do not think this is true of whitetails. Maybe a biologist with current experience will see this and weigh in........... Doug

Actually, I had a deer specialist tell me that whitetails are matriarchal, as in the oldest doe runs things. Most of the year the does and that year's fawns travel and live together. Yearling bucks and older bucks typically form "bachelor groups" and often by age. So your buck might be the leader of the pack, or maybe he is just cruising along with grandma picking up wisdom............ That guy was Ontario's MNR Deer Expert, probably twenty years or so ago. Who knows if the science since then has changed! Doug

BBQ fillets, skin on, or smoked. Either way, leave the skin on, and skin DOWN for the whole process. I don't think there is any bad way to eat whitefish, it is just lovely. Doug

He'll shed that other antler very soon, in all likelihood. Bucks generally shed both antlers within a short time. He looks healthy enough, but not fat by any means. Doug

I reckon I know a guy who could build one of those rigs! What a hoot! Hello "Fisherman" are you there? Doug

What a complete load of codswallop. Who the hell is AdamS and why is he being allowed to shill this crap on here? YES I AM A GRUMPY OLD FART. Doug