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yep, had a great time out there until the monsoon hit! probably 50+ gallons of water in the boat by the time we ventured back out of the car.... My 1st fish was a smallmouth(we didn't get a pic) right off the launch about 4 casts in, we were close enough to lock the truck with the remote, funny to see the mennonite "b-trains" (for all you truckers out there) Horse, pulling a buggy, pulling a big wheeled trailer with their tinnies on it. I almost thought they would unhook the horse and use it to back the trailer down the launch!LOL

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Hope this helps...

Second Depot Lake

Not a super busy lake although it can be, If you're staying at the campground there are some seasonal campers that you can ask about the fishing. I've fished it once when I was camping there and seemed to do good with bass to the south and west of the island with campsites 1, 2, 3 on it, didn't have a lot of time to explore the lake though. Third Depot Lake is a short drive (or paddle) away and might be another option for you although I've never been there

jjcanoe

I've edited my original post for more clarity. I meant that bass season is open in parts of Ontario, ie. the entire province is not closed.

it's the matter of the 15 minute boat ride across the Niagara R. or Lake Erie or a 10+ hour car ride..... $70 for a NY license or $150 in gas each way

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If you are using live bait, besides removing the barbs, use long shanked hooks, they will give you a spot to grab the shank with forceps or pliers if they do take the bait a bit deep, rather than a small egg hook that you can't find.

Aberdeen hooks

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European Soccer Leagues have a system where the bottom 2 or 3 teams get relegated to a lower league and they have a 4-5 league system with 60-100 teams.

 

The NHL should implement something like that and we'll see what happens to the sorry leafs

That will never happen in the NHL due to the fact that to join the league you need to pay a massive franchise fee. This is not so in European Soccer, most of those teams have been around for 100 years or more and all have bounced around between the top league and the bottom from time to time. It's a totally different system than North American sporting leagues. BTW since 1967 the Leafs have only ever finished last once. 84/85

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Despite being a Leafs fan my whole life, I'm not delusional. The Leafs will never follow the Hawks path or example. At least, not until they get rid of short-sighted front office staff, and GM Brain Burke. The Leafs should have done what the Hawks did 5 years ago, and KEEP your bloody draft picks and rebuild. But no, they're too dumb and stupid and would rather try to get the big name stars (like Kessel, like that worked well) and make it happen now, instead of being patient and rebuilding.

The Leafs have tried that for 40 years now and it hasn't worked. Time to try something different. Kessel scored 30 goals this year playing 2/3's of a season How many goals did the draft pick score in the NHL this year....0

Now are you going to tell me that Hall or Seguin will be way better players? possibly but they might end up like so many #1 or 2 draft picks Remember Alexandre Daigle or Alexi Yashin or Radek Bonk? All sure thing can't miss NHLers....where are they now Kessel is a proven NHL Goal scorer, draft picks are not. I would make the trade again and again(not like I had anything to do with it LOL)

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sorry on both counts Hossa never scored to tie it,Hartnell scored to tie it for the flyers for OT.

 

Oh yea the leafs are never going to see the cup anytime soon.

 

Sorry just a long time suffering flyers fan.

Um yes, Hartnell's shot went in off of Hossa, (own goal)

jjcanoe

Former London Knight, Pat Kane scores the winner after Hossa ties it to send it to OT

Leafs are up next!!

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We bought a Sultan mattress from Ikea and 8 years later it has no sags or soft spots. the price was WAY cheaper than all of the big brand names, It is a foam/latex mattress and is guaranteed for 20 yrs(I think) I'll be buying another next time...

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man I'm old! That happened on the first day of my first trip to Algonquin when I was in High school, we were going to canoe Opeongo but took the water taxi instead because of the high winds. hadn't heard anything about the tornado at all and then we got to Barrie and saw where it cut across the highway into the racetrack, didn't know if it was an explosion of some sort or what happened but there was debris everywhere, stopped at the cookstown service center and asked what had happened.

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yep I drive my truck to QC and stop at the petro pass or Irving to fuel up the truck and stock up for long weekends!

jjcanoe

listen to 680am and they have a traffic report every 10 mins ( on the 1's) it is very trustworthy and they'll let you know where the backups are

jjcanoe

First you have to convince "Southern" urban voters, and their political majority that banning the spring hunt was a mistake. That won't happen until there have been some maulings close to home.

Now thats where you're wrong, we did not vote to kill the spring bear hunt, nobody did, it was killed by the P3Ta wackos pressuring the Ontario gov't. it was not an election issue and the hunt cancellation was a HUGE suprise to all with very little (if any) public consultations, the general public had absolutly nothing to do with the cancellation regardless of where they live.

Also, if in fact that the majority of the vote is in the south as well as the population, doesn't that mean the majority of the hunters are also in the south? I find it unlikly that they would be the cause of this....

The hunt was killed by P3Ta wackos (a huge global entity and plenty live in northern Ontario)

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MY RANT....

1st off I hope the guy recovers fully from his injuries.

I guess it's ok to kill this bear since it's in the north, seems that the London police were doing they're job by preventing a bear attack, where were the Coldwater police? That guy should have used all his "bearwise" knowledge they drill into your head up north. Why wasn't the poor bear trapped and brought to some happy place in the north rather than giving it the death sentence, was the nearest bear patrol officer 3 or 4 hrs away?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that a nusiance bear is a nusiance bear no matter where it is, don't give us "southererns" a hard time about our problems when you have the same problems which you told us you were ready to deal with (in the London bear post) right in your own back yard.

This is not a north south thing, it's a bear thing, Bring back the spring bear hunt!

jjcanoe

JJ I manage a active green and ross location as well as work in the back turning a wrench sometimes, no matter the deal i could give you on tires there isn't much margin in them ,anything I could save you you would use in time and fuel.

Dans offer is genourous and he is local to you i would suggest you go see him, his prices are pretty much spot on to mine

Thanks for all the help guys, Dan I'll get a hold of you sometime this week!

jjcanoe

looking at my catalouge and i am not seeing a listing for a LT tire for 1500 series dodge hemi sure it's not a p245/70r17?

yep 265!

He's got a 4x4 and his idea of off-road is a little different than mine. He's talking about getting stuck on wet grass No bush whacking for that Dodge, it's too pretty!

 

Raf; no difference in fuel economy? I went from 20.2mpg to 14.39mpg overnight when switching my Tahoe from All Seasons to All Terrain (Toyo Open Country).

Your mileage will vary (figuratively and literally) when switching to AT's depending on brand and tread design.

That wet grass thing was with my RWD Dakota , my off road vs Slowpokes = I don't have a snorkle and 40" of clearance for my Diff!

I'm getting 15.5 mpg with this truck and my foot isn't nearly as big as Slowpokes

absolutely.. mileage will vary with tires. on my jeep, it sucked with no-seasons and it sucks with ATs but no noticeable difference in suckiness. if there is a difference, it's very small.

Jeeps of any kind are notoriously bad on fuel mileage due to the big flat windshield. I get 6.0 MPG with my frieghtliner

The C load range is likely all you would need weight carrying wise. As for the traction; I just called my supplier and had a look at the tread design of the Silent Armor and of the Wrangler AT/S and they’re not that different. Yes possibly the AT/S may be a bit more aggressive tread but that’ll also make them quite noisy on the road.

When these AT/S come off of backorder (min one month), they’ll sell at the same price as the Silent Armor C rated tire; which the AT/S are as well (C rate).

The Silent Armor also comes with an 80,000klm tread wear warrantee; the AT/S doesn’t. You didn’t say whether this truck is 2 or 4 wheel drive; if it’s a 2 wheel drive, it’s not going any further in the mud, then what the drive train can push it; regardless of the tire.

 

Dan.

2005 dodge ram 1500 5.7 4x4!

If people are throwing out pricing; I can sell & install a set of LT265/70R17 load range C (6ply) Silent Armor for $1120.00; that’s with OTS (Ontario Tire Stewardship fee), valve stems, balancing and tax’s included.

HST will not affect tire pricing; we’ve always have had to charge both P & GST; 13 % is 13% whatever you want to call it.

Or the pro-grade load range E (10 ply) Silent Armor for $1196.95. all in.

The load capacity of the C tire is 2470lbs@50psi compared to the E that is 3195lbs@80 psi.

The E load rated tire will ride somewhat harder but it’ll carry almost any weight you throw at it.

The Silent Armor doesn’t actually have the AT rating but Goodyear’s propaganda sheet says it’s a “Premium on-/off- road tire”?

Then there’s an $80.00 mail-in rebate on a set of four.

If you’re interested; my shop is here in London. 519-681-3844

 

PS: I just did a quick count of different Goodyear Wrangler tires and I found 13 types in the main listing and didn’t look at how many sub groups there were. So if you buy the wrong tire for your application sure they’re going to seem like crap.

 

Dan.

A second set of snows are way, way out of the budget, and snow/mud traction is important to me.

Is there a big difference in fuel economy with between the A/T's and the all seasons?

Don't do any in bed hauling other than gear for the cottage/camping,(a few 100 lbs at most).... I do tow my boat here and there it weighs in at around 1000lbs but I'm guessing that it wouldn't affect the load range of the tire I would need, (correct me if I'm wrong)

jjcanoe

i could do michelin ltx m/s 2 for 1220 all in and there is a $60 rebate till may 22 on all michelin products

I'm getting nothing but positive stuff about these tires, you're from Dunsford, where is your shop Lindsay or Peterborough or Bobcaygeon?? I'm way down here in London so it's a bit of a hike lol

jjcanoe

Great job! wait until you get into some big ones!

jjcanoe

Falkens are ok, my expierence is they wear quickly, what is your price range and size sure i can find something for you

17/32" tread depth on the highcountry

I do some off roading when fishing and have been stuck before with all seasons thats why I'm looking more at the All Terrains, The snow around here in London can get nasty real quick and I work out of town 25km, how are those michelins in the snow and muck?

jjcanoe

upper limit is around $1200 including 4 tires, install, balancing etc. stems (all work) tax, tax, TSF tax (at least there's no Hst yet) LT 265/70R17

jjcanoe

just wondering if anyone has Falken tires on their vehicle. I`m looking at the Highcountry A/T. They seem to be highly rated on a few tire websites and reasonably priced. Need a new set of tires for my Ram 1500 and am not a big fan of Motomasters which seem to be one of the few others that are in my price range. Had bad luck in the past with buying used tires since they always seem to have cracked sidewalls after about a year.

Thanks

jjcanoe

May the fourth is National Luke Skywalker day!