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Well I went on the Lake Nipissing Ice Fishing site and South Shore Ice Condos came highly recommended by numerous members as did Rob Hyatt. I called them and as Woodsman suggested, they were booked up solid. They made a few recommendations and told me to stay away from a few places. I opted to go with Lake Nippising Ice Fishing Charters, their huts are on the reef and they will go out of their way to get you on fish where some of the others just drop you and you're on your own. Apparently they just took over this business in the last little while and are hungry for building a happy return customer base. Has anyone here heard of them or done business with them? Now I have 3 weeks or so to get the tackle together lol. I will do the big report with lots of fish porn (if I chose the right place) when I get back. Thanks for all your help Stan

Thanks for the responses guys, anyone else have any into I may be able to use please fire it up here. Stan

I'm planning on going to Nippissing to do some hardwater fishing on the 23rd of Jan and I am trying to research bungalows in the area. There are probably tons of guys from this site who have had good and bad experiences with different outfitters. I'm hoping to get some of these experiences to aid in my decision making by the end of the weekend and hopefully I can book it tomorrow evening. Thanks in advance guys and gals. Stan

Hey fil where can I buy a good dry aged Prime Rib Roast? I have been looking for a good butcher for years with no luck. I live in Ajax, anyone know a good butcher?

Thanks Lew, I didn't think of a Belleville area site. SS

Thanks RT2

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I was thinking of taking a run out to Belleville tonight to try for some Wallys at the pier. Does anyone know whether or not the ice has formed around the pier or not. There used to be a guy here on the site that lived in the Belleville area and was at the pier daily, but I haven't seen him for a long time. His name was martycoo. Hopefully we have some members in the area. Thanks Stan

Perhaps this is something that has started to occur in the last ten years or so but have definitely seen a difference first hand around the GTA. We do mostly schools and a lot of them use American Standard, even the plating on these is three times the quality of the chrome plated plastic components that is being used in the residential purchase outlets. I am sure there are other plumbers on this site who can also attest to this fact.

I work as a Pipefitter/Millwright for a well known Mechanical outfit in the city and have been told on six or seven separate occasions not to buy faucet fixtures at the regular Canadian Tire or Home Depot etc, if you are looking for higher quality fixtures, buy them at the plumbing distributors like Noble Trade, or Brampton Plumbing etc. The quality of the crap they sell at the regular mans outlet is nowhere near the quality of the trade suppliers. You will pay a little more but you will get solid brass not plastic and there is without a doubt, a big difference in quality. This goes for Peerless, Moen or any of the top brands. There is simply a much cheaper grade of fixture being sold in the big residential purchase outlets. I have been installing fixtures from Noble for years and have also worked on the ones being sold at the other outlets and can attest to the fact that there is a very large difference. Check for yourself, purchase one of each (same model) and notice the weight difference alone. A good quality unit from Noble will last for years without having to touch anything.

Thanks guys for all the great comments and good advice. I will purchase a couple of the suggested baits and post my report with pics (I hope) tomorrow. SS

Buckhorn, Lower Buckhorn or Pigeon. I am going with a couple of friends on Sunday and we are trying to decide which of these three areas would be the most productive for Muskie. Also, I don't have a lot of Muskie gear so I am planning on using my Chronarch spooled up with 80 lb PP on a MH V-Rod, will this be enough? I only have about two or three large spinnerbaits and a couple of big inline baits so with a little help from all you Muskie guys, I was hoping you could tell me which bait you would buy if you could only have two. I was also thinking of getting some big huge minnows, any thoughts? Please let me know. Thanks SS

Hey mattones, I have a recent copy of the Canadian Firearms Safety Course Student Handbook which is likely the one that you will be using. If you are near Ajax, I will lend it to you. Send me a P.M. and we can chat. Stan

I deep fried ours yesterday 23.50 pounds, took an hour and 15 minutes. Juicy, perfectly cooked, injected it with melted butter, lawrys seasoned salt, garlic powder and cayenne pepper. A friend who has done it lots of times brought his equipment and showed me how. I will definitely do it again. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. SS

4reel I would be glad to let my buddies know to keep a few and I will keep any that I get this year. Would love to get a couple of Bucktail jigs or whatever, I have just started to use them for Walleye and they work great. Haven't been to confident with them until I went out with a Bass Pro Bud of mine this summer and we slayed the Eyes on Balsam.

Very good advice GCD, you have obviously done some seat work on your past or present rig. I am in the middle of looking for seats for a project boat I am working on and appreciate all the input. Stan

I too am having problems with my trailer lights. try this site to give you the basics and figure out where everything should be. http://www.etrailer.com/faq_wiring.aspx Good Luck

Crappie, hands down the best then Pike and Walleye and Perch. Just had some Beer Battered Crappie for dinner.

Wicked fish fishindevil, how many hooks were you seeing down there? Maybe you found the "Motherlode" I wish everyone would live release beautiful breeders like that one. Congrats. Stan

Hey Victor Next time you are going out, let me know and I will tell you a couple of spots to try for Walleye and Pike. I did the PikeMania Tournament there two years ago and we did quite well, probably got about 20 pike for the day. White seems to be the colour on that lake.

Sent you a pm BillM Here's a map to those spots I suggested. http://www.fish-hawk.net/ Go to Fish-Hawk Projects then Ontario Map Project. Stan

Try the image resizer down near the bottom on the right. It works great for me. Just install it, right click on the picture you want to resize and presto... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloa...ppowertoys.mspx

Very nice offer MoiraRiverman, that's why I like this site so much, always someone going out of their way to help fellow board members. If that doesn't pan out, you could try Ability Metals on Brock rd just South of Bayly in Pickering. 963 Brock Road, Pickering, ON L1W 3A4 Telephone : 905-420-0788 http://www.abilitymetals.com/ Good Luck. Stan

Hey James, glad to see you finally got here. You will like it on this site, lots of info and plenty of pics and the people will answer all your questions (no women or politics questions though) lol Check out the classifieds for the downrigger and baitcasters you are looking for. Sorry you missed the action on Balsam today, we did pretty well. Kept one under the slot and one over which was 25 1/2" I caught about 6 in the 18" range and Greg did about the same. We were rippin Bucktails through the weeds. Sorry, left my camera at home. We'll hook up next weekend!! Stan

While we are on the subject, does anyone know whether or not there is a slot size on Lake Dalrymple. I looked for the Lake but could not find it in the regs. Sorry smalliefisher for taking your thread, just figured it's kind of a similar question. Thanks