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back to Old Ironmaker........ Looks like your keyboard got switched to Canadian Multilingual Standard........go to the bottom right of your screen and just left of the date/time it should show CMS, click on that and then hit English (Canada) US keyboard. If that doesn't work, well that is 100% of my bag of tricks................ Doug And back to Mike.............just freakin' AWESOME!!!!!! Doug

Well, with all due respect to other posters............ ...........I have caught thousands of perch through the ice over the years. For the past fifteen years or so, almost all of them have come in on a Lindy Ice Worm #6 in fluorescent orange and chartreuse, with a perch eye on the hook. You have to catch the first perch for the eye, and so I start with a Berkley Gulp maggot or similar, but after that.............. 2 lb test, MAX 4 lb test, and the absolute lightest ultralight rod you can find, so you can feel (and sometimes see) even the slightest hint of a bite. And I would be looking for about 20 feet of water on flats, fishing (almost always) the bottom 4 to 6 inches, with ever the slightest of movement on the jig. Set the hook vigorously (with all due respect to the guy that said don't do this), and don't stop reeling until the fish is out of the hole. And those white grubs won't hurt you. Once the fillet is fried you can't see them or taste them either. Good luck to you! Doug

OK that link did not work, once again.................. The Mighty Mouse Hunter!

YOWZA!!!!! Where does a fellow start? OK, 34 years with the same wife (neither of us is going to make that same mistake twice), and I have served nine years more than a life sentence. She hits me when I say that. I announce my plans for hunting and fishing, with dates. IF there are date conflicts, THEN we negotiate. Otherwise, I am gone. Works for us. So far.............. ASKING for PERMISSION, ah, no. Never. Short anecdote, I got married on a Saturday and went to my deer camp for a week starting Sunday. We had a sixteen hour or so honeymoon, what more can a woman ask for? (TRUE STORY, ask her............) Doug

As "Fisherman" could tell anybody who might want to listen, there are few guys in this world who are less technically inclined than I am. But I can sharpen a chain, by hand, with a file and nothing else. TWO files if the rakers are really proud. But you just look at the angle on the chain, align the chain file to that angle left/right and up/down, and shave it square to the direction of motion, for an equal number of licks per tooth. If you need to take the rakers down, file straight across on a 90 degree angle to perpendicular, if you follow me. The top of the rakers are parallel to the bar channel. Works for me.............. But if Fisherman says the new whizbang electric gizmos are the cat's meow, he is without a doubt 100% correct. Doug

BTW, if you liked Three Day Road, you will enjoy Boyden's second novel, "Through Black Spruce."

Back to Brian B, yes indeed it was the Pine, Nottawasaga, Mad and to a lesser extent the Sydenham and the Pottowatami (sp?) that I used to hot-shot, mostly with skunk pattern Flatfish. And HANG ON for the strike! Doug

I did not read the article, and it may already include two snippets offered below. Here they are: 1. If you can see the fish, they can see you. 2. Spawning Chinook don't generally eat much, but do strike at reaction type lures like a flatfish/kwikfish/etc running in the current near them. Doug

Thanks for the report, just freakin' AWESOME. You need not go solo if you need a companion at the last moment......... .......and I have the solution (several in fact) to nuisance bears! Nipigon is still on my bucket list. Doug

BRILLIANT cooler!!! You could run that off an inverter in a cottage with 110 v service but no AC, and it would be just the ticket to cool off a bedroom. Wish I had seen that fifteen years ago!!! Doug

I bought my "main" rain jacket in the 80s from Mountain Equipment Co-op and it still keeps me dry and NOT sweaty. MEC sells quality stuff and their advertising is brutally honest. HTH Doug

Fabulous report as always, buddy. As you know I was up there the next week and we did very well also, but the fires cut our trip short. If I get off my lazy butt, I suppose I could scribble out a companion piece to this one, albeit with poorer photographs and for sure less gifted prose. And yes, I have been thinking that I SHALL return............... Doug

I think TimRM may have been inflicted by that terrible ailment called Political Correctness. In assuming that the poachers may be something other than white anglers, and assuming that non-white anglers would somehow be treated differently under the law because of their non-whiteness, then of course the actions of the poachers are completely forgiveable. In this type of thinking, people who did not grow up in Ontario (and these folks may be twelfth generation Canadians, we do not know, right?), anyways non-Ontario born anglers can't POSSIBLY be expected to know OUR laws and follow OUR rules, because you see they may have different customs, and such. They probably grew up so poor that they HAVE to keep every fish they catch, they can't help themselves. And other codswallop like that. Apologists for criminals can always find "REASONS" for their views. So yes, suggesting these poachers did not get a fair hearing effectively suggests that TimRM thinks the judge is racist. Which I personally doubt very much. JMOYMV

With one exception, which was a Dodge one-ton back in the mid-'80s and which was a pig, I have driven Ford pickups since 1977. I admit that my memory is not perfect, but I do not recall many problems with any of those trucks other than a three-quarter ton, probably about a '69 or maybe '70. That one I loaned to a buddy of mine, who I "THOUGHT" knew how to drive a standard, and who drove it out of oil. Then my wife drove it a hundred miles or so and told me afterwards that the oil light was on. Blown engine, and that was a big old flat-head six if memory serves me. Not Ford's fault. I have never heard about the spark plug problems mentioned above, but yes if there are several million F-150s on the roads some of them are going to have issues. And the issues might be Ford issues, or they might be operator error issues, I have no earthly idea. Doug

a Heinz 57 also known as: a Canadian!

As "Fisherman" can attest, my mechanical savvy is rather (ahem) modest. I have had excellent service from a series of Ford F-150s, last truck I bought was (is) an F-250 Super Duty Diesel, and I am delighted with it. If it is true that the F-150 is the biggest-selling model in Canada, there has to be lots of them out there in decent used condition. The Triton engines gave me pretty decent mileage and I never had any mechanical problems with them. Doug

No white buckets?

back to lakerguy.......... Most loons I know go to Fort Lauderdale for the winter. Some go to Arizona and other to Texas, but most of the REAL loons go to Fort Lauderdale....... Nice work, Justin! Doug

you could always sub-let...............

That is fabulous, and GOOD ON YOU!!!! Doug

Back to BillM, I was using 2 lb Fireline Crystal as my main line for fishing Texas-rigged worms. Yes the stuff is basically unbreakable. But I found that my pick-ups went way down with the stuff. I surmised that it was more visible to the fish............and switched back to the original Fireline. But I do not prefer it for this type of presentation.............. Doug

back to bare foot wader............. Yes indeed I checked the line guides, they are fine, so are the edges of the spools on my spinning reels. Yes I do re-tie, as I mentioned, but I am still thinking I need a change of line. By the sounds of things, Seaguar and Drennan are both good choices for leaders. I fished Silver Thread back in the 80s and did not like it, never went back. I fished Stren in the 70s and didn't like it, never went back. Both companies probably produce fine lines these years, but.................it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks. Doug

X3 for a rat trap with peanut butter, screwed down onto something solid. You are getting good advice about firearms, discharge thereof, and game/trapping laws. I am going to suggest that you use that good advice to decide that a less problematic solution does not involve pellet rifles or anything that resembles a firearm........... Doug

Back to Jigger..................according to the Ontario Out of Doors article, dated 20 May 2014, the photos WERE taken by a guy who came upon the scene, and the name of the person who took the photos is also listed in the article............. Doug

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