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can we all agree to try find some Titans on sale lol my sorrels used to be awesome before we got these global warming winters where 60% of the time the lake is a foot of water and slush. im in the market for something to keep my feet dry this year.

They arent already? Literally every time i fish buckhorn/pigeon i see at least one thing thats worth telling people about. My last trip it was 6am and I was at a fishing spot and a dude in a wakeboard boat for no reason at all guns it at 50mph 20 feet from our boat for no reason and then proceeds to absolutely crank some really really bad eurotrash stripclub music that I can literally hear clear as day for the next 5 minutes while he drives down the lake...his stereo was so loud i could literally hear his music over a kilometer away. The time before that I am going out for the evening bite and we are pulling up to a shoreline on our left to start fishing when a jetski rips past us on the right and then cuts infront of us (we are less than 50 yards from shore at this point) we stand up and say "what the F!?" and then buddy proceeds to drive 5 feet off of the shoreline at 50mph down the entire channel literally blowing out the entire spot...just amazing.

I wish this was true, but in today's PG NHL...the league protects rats from being exterminated. If this was the 80's he woulda swallowed a few teeth and been outta the game after the first run. Rielly gave him a good cross check, except he then got a penalty and its probably being reviewed for the old shanaban. Watch Rielly might get a game for that one as warranted as it was.

funny the comment about electric cars...up until the ban on coal consumption in ontario and the implementation of "clean coal" in the United States, Electric Cars were dirtier than gasoline. Funny how short sited people can be. I honestly believe that the electric car is the real deal though as long we can keep the cost of electricity down...which in Ontario is a joke...(thanks for stealing a billion dollars...ok too political sorry Art!) It is true that the global economy is unfair because countries like china and india do not maintain the same environmental standards as we do in North America, however at the same time the cost of pollution to those local populations when it comes to cancer and respiratory illness is astronomical. At the end of the day we can sit and point our fingers and say China should do a better job...but at the same time I think we need to take pride in doing things the right way...thats why we are canadian and not Chinese. I have pristine lakes to fish within a half hour of the downtown of Toronto, try that in beijing or New Deli. I would rather have a sense of pride and be known as the highest standard than stoop to a lower level just because its easier that way. My old man is a metallurgical engineer and he does projects all over the globe, as a rule anything they design is built 100% to Canadian Environmental standards...thats just how canadians do business. When it comes to really dangerous stuff like pressure leaching using acids etc, third world countries cant hire garbage to build these types of plants anyways so they are forced into doing things the right way. Obviously there are also publicly traded companies with invested stake, so they cant be part of an environmental disaster. I am definitely interested in this discussion about the required amount of resources and carbon emissions it takes to create ethanol vs simply refining fuel and using it in a gasoline engine. In fact that is an entirely different discussion and really a feat of pure ingenuity. The efficiency of gasoline and diesel engines is mind blowing. We can talk about cars being a POS...but seriously, what other thing is there out there that you can run for 1,000 hours straight in wildly variable conditions and basically not expect a single blip aside from minor maintenance like a couple of oil changes.

having seen the condition that the causeway is left in on a typical day...im all for it. Agreed about the gannon though, its gonna be an overload of people. Although there is a lot less parking nearby.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/ontario-government-wants-to-double-gasoline-ethanol-by-2020/90322/ Sorry i was reading a different article.

bingo....if you fold the handles down on the reels mine closes no problem. even funnier is my buddy spent $100+ on an actual ice fishing rod holder and it sucks...

i honestly bought a gun case...the foam inside doesnt catch hooks and if you fold your real handles in, everything sits perfectly secure and snug inside. I even throw my plano's and other crap in it. Nothing ever moves and the stuff gets bashed around on skidoo rides through the bush. When i open err up everything hasnt budged. I think i paid 20 bucks and it holds 4 rods plus my plano with my ice lures and a thing of line.

i guess i wasnt clear, the law would only effect regular grade fuel. If you buy Esso Premium it already has ethanol in it. I know shell v power has no ethanol and i believe Crappy Can's premium is also ethanol free.

this 100000% it blows my mind no one has figured this out yet. Every single winter fisherman would buy it if it was small enough.

Does not effect premium grade...however most marine gas around me is mid grade...looks like ill be hauling more jerry cans around to get the ethanol free gas.

not even close lol hes played 13 seasons and doesnt have 600 yet. At most hes got another 13 seasons to score almost 300...and theres no way hes keeping pace once hes 40-43 especially in the NHL now where its so stupid fast. Gretzky's records will go untouched forever...although seriously, i personally believe ovechkin is the greatest goal scorer of all time and its not even close. When you look at the records, its all names from a really long time ago, and then theres just alex ovechkin right in the middle of it...if he played in the 80's good god hed have 2000 goals.

slow days on the river better than no days on the river

may have told these before but whatever was fishing with the old man a couple of years back when the old man gets a phone call, he answers the call and then hangs up...it was my brother, he wanted my dad to drive over and pick him up so that he could ice fish too. The old man slips his rod into a crappily made snow "rod holder" but i can already tell he doesnt have enough snow there to hold a turd. sure enough a pike smashes his bait as he lifts his hand away from the rod and boom the rod is gone down the hole. I look at my dad with a face "that was stupid" ...the old man just sit there staring at the hole in disappointment. about 30 second later my dad jumps up in a flash and shoves his whole arm right into his hole and retrieves his fishing rod...the pike had swam away with his rod, but then came back past his hole and sure enough the rod floated right back up it. He fights the pike and lands it and takes it home for dinner. Last year i was fishing craps in late march when all of the snow had melted but the weather was cold. The whole lake was glare ice and it was windy as hell, we were having a little trouble with the flip up in the wind so i hop outside to try anchor it down better when i hear dave from inside the hut, Scott what the hell is this!!!!! i quickly run back to the door and peak inside and there is a friggin big old bowfin with its head sticking out of my hole staring at dave! I scream grab it! and the bowfin makes a quick escape. Good to see you back Nick!

gotta love the olden days when a fight was still a fight...if that happened today there would have been multiple shooting victims. I could only imagine being locked up in the Don jail with a bunch of bikers at 16 years old...holy cow how you survived that alone is a feat!

spiel im gonna pop you a PM.

yup and their owner is still batchit crazy

Ottawa plays a game on a very very thin line. They basically have no top 3 forwards so they rely on a couple second liners and a pile of 4th liners to play a really really tight system. They rely on winning 2-1 games. The minute that goes slightly awry and they make a few giveways..i.e. teams figure out their system a little bit they fold like a cheap deck of cards. Dont forget that last year they scraped into the playoffs by 4 points were the only team with a negative goal differential that clinched a playoff birth in the league. meaning literally a couple of goals go the other way via luck and teams simply reading your system a bit better after playing a season and a half against you....this is the result. The margin is so narrow in the NHL these days the difference between 5th and 28th is about 10 wins...in an 82 game season? thats nothing.

read the posts too

huh? i never said that? thanks for the heads up. Are they actually open until 9pm like google says? I know that these kinds of shops always have far more limited hours than bass pro etc. thats what you get when you actually have knowledgeable staff.

hed cost on of the big three for sure...and obviously matthews is not in that equation. I could even see it being marner or nylander + kapanen or someone. Then youd also have to sign him to 10+ million...not worth it IMO. I think theres other very very good D men (Vlasic, fowler) that would come much much cheaper and are nearly just as good at D

i just remembered that i crushed the end of my St Croix premier musky rod as well. Are these guys know for carrying musky gear as well? I think im going to compare the price of having someone do it for me vs trying it myself...although maybe If i want to learn I should try on a rod that doesnt cost hundreds of dollars to replace lol.

Totally open to recos to get them fixed...preferably in the GTA...and isnt it too small of a job for a rod builder??

this story just shows how messed up people get in their heads when they do something absolutely nuts. Like why bother going through the trouble of wrapping someone up and throwing them off of a bridge into a river when its painfully obvious that someone is going to find the victim within a couple of days. Not to mention believe that you will get away with it and get the insurance money!

Hi Guys, I am absolutely clueless when it comes to rod repair but I have a question for my fellow rod builders and repairers alike. Ive got a problem with 2 pretty high end rods 1. is totally missing the ceramic from the top eyelet...yes ive fished without it for the year but its driving me a bit nuts because i fish braid. What would be the best way to repair this? Do i cut the top eyelet off somehow without wrecking the blank and glue a new one on? If so is it even possible to buy one fuji/or other high end eyelet for the tip of my rod? Or do i somehow find replacement cermic ring to epoxy into the eyelet? 2. Ive got a drop shot rod that I was fishing in the last cold snap with and sure enough after icing up the literal hell outta my rod fishing in -18 the cermic popped out of the eyelet. Ive still got the insert, and i was even able to poke it sorta back into the eyelet seat. But it pops back out periodically. Both Rods are Loomis, so i am not sure if they use a specific brand of ceramic? maybe even fuji? Once again I wouldnt give a crepe, but these are some pretty high end rods and im rattled that such a stupid thing is effecting their overall performance which is friggin awesome. Any help or guidance you guys can provide is greatly appreciated.