splashhopper

From this morning >>

beauty fish

He needs the foodbank and he still does good deeds for others... is a great testament to his character

I count on Him Bean's. Same offer if your son's need help too.

If she needs any help, send me a PM with her number and we will see what we can do for her.

Went to pick up a guy for work this am. I got stuck on the side street behind his residence. Another car had come out of nowhere and I headed to the shoulder to miss him and then he LEAVES! I am stuck, big time and no shovel I try rocking the van, but it ain't moving anywhere. I am on top of the snow with the wheels slightly off the pavement apparently. Called a couple of friends and they couldn't help. ( no tow ropes and too far away) I say a little prayer and ask my Creator for some SERIOUS help. Lo and behold, a private contractor grader comes by within a minute or two., but he won't stop to help A few minutes after that and this nice guy from Newfoundland walks up and offers to help. We try and try and try to get the van out off the hardening snow, but the wheels are just spinning. He is more determined than I am to get the van out! I am thinking I would just go in to the Sally Ann and wait for my buddy to be available to pull me out with his 4x4. Then, the grader comes back for a second pass and he gives me the two handed halt sign from his cab. Hmmmmm? He maneuvers that brute of a machine to within a foot of the front of my van, with me in it and the newfie beside the van. Then he backs up and takes the snow down to the pavement and gets even closer THEN, he backs it up and does about a NINE POINT TURN and comes at me from another angle ! Everything is cleared right up and all I have to do is move the van 6 inches and i will have pavement under my wheels. Then the nice newfie jumps outa the van and says, gun it and keep moving. Nothing for a few seconds, so I rock the van a bit and voila... I am moving forward. I get the van on to solid ground and give the grader operator the I ask the newfie where he was walking to in this weather. He says sheepishly: " the food bank". I tell him to get in and coffee is on me. We grab a coffee and muffin and start discussing the snow storm we are in. As we pull up to the Foodbank, I see this parking meter. I wish I had thought to take pics of that grader in action. The operator was a young guy, but he sure knew what he was doing. What a morning! The talk radio show I listen to CJBK1290 broadcasts out of st catherines and serves their market and ours from 10-12 am. He has callers calling in from London about the storm and I decide to email him a few LIVE SHOTS from my van window. I finally get home and pull in to our UNPLOUGHED lane and parking area in the townhouse complex I live in. Two pick up trucks abandoned and blocking most of the skinny "trail" in. I get in the house and decide to take one more pic of our record breaking snow storm. The snow is still coming down and the forecast is for 20-30 more centimeters today and then another 15cm tonight ! I guess I am shovelling my wife's parking spot out again this afternoon. Stay tuned, this storm broke the record we hit in 1977. Somehow that one seemed a lot more fun that this one. Oh yeah, I was 16 then ! lol In retrospect while writing this I am grateful for: 1) Asking my Creator for a little help. ( a grader and newfie were there within minutes ) 2) Not flipping the bird to that grader operator when he went by the first time and didn't stop 3) For my giggling daughter and her friend as they enjoy another "snow day" at our place today and that I am here to listen to them and all their innocence! 4) And the FREE ADVERTISING the radio host gave me. I emailed the pics from my blackberry and it uses my work address to do so. How great is my Creator for me this day, and it is only half way done.

That's what friends are for!

not too much further to go and the drifts are over my head in our parking lot... and they have NOT plowed it yet! cars stuck in it everywhere tonight.

your doc was thinking same way as my doc..... get the swelling down and nerve away from the herniated disc. ( see my post above)

ummm,,, yeah,, we have had close to 80 cm since noon yesterday here in London. Weather is forecast for 30-40 more tonight and another 30-40 tomorrow!

I have herniated disc as well (C-6 along with a benign tumour right under it) that caused unbelievable pain in my neck and shoulder and then I lost all strength and feeling in my right hand and forearm. Did the whole chiro - physio thing... finally got an MRI ( 48 hrs after my doctor requested it too ) Was referred to a nerve specialist (also a spine injury trauma specialist). The first thing he asked me was how long it had been since I had slept and did I want IMMEDIATE RELIEF ? uMMM YES PLEASE. He gave me 4 shots of Marcaine. This is the stuff they numb your gums with before they stick the cattle prod in that they pretend is a NEEDLE . i WAS PAIN FREE in a very few minutes! Then the doc suggested that the pain was coming from an inflamed nerve. Ie: the nerve was pinched and we had to get the swelling down to get IT away from the herniated disc. Hmmm... that made sense. ( all the other docs were trying to treat the cause, instead of the symptom) THIS MADE TOTAL SENSE TO ME. He put me on Prednazone and within 48 hours I was pain free! nOW THAT pREDNAZONE HAD A FEW SIDE EFFECTS,... but hey,,, "potato face and a very touchy personality" for a few days were small prices to pay( for me ) to be pain free. I did two weeks of physio to basically loosen up all the muscles that i was using to counter effect the pain and that was two winters ago and so far, no re-occurrences. All the doctors have said that surgery for me is very risky due to the tumour under my disc and we will deal with this symptom as long as this form of therapy works. They also told me no more golf . if I wanted to keep my neck in check longer. Oh well, more time for fishing and I now have a sport that I can participate in all year long.

those are REPUBLICANS! not maggots!

As an entrepeneuer myself, please send me the link. Happy to help in any way I can.

sentence the dirtbag to a year of service with Don Cherry

The waiting is brutal.... both my wife and I went through it a couple of years ago (in the same year). Prayers from our family to yours.

I just hope the skunk is truly over.... I started going after steelies 4 years ago and had pretty good success the first two full seasons. Didn't think it was such a big deal to catch them... Then the fishing gods decided to give me a piece of their ever so ready humble pie and shut me out for fall and spring last year My hopes were not raised much last week either, but the place I fished this weekend is very much a piece of The Creators heaven on earth to me. Quiet, very few anglers to be seen and lots of time to reflect on life, Just for Today. But catching trout there is THE primary reason for trekking in a kilometer through Thanks for the all the other great steelies reports on here, they have kept me interested to say the least

i am having the same issue

Prayers from our family to yours GBW

Finally ! The rainbow trout skunk is over for me. I didn't catch one at all last spring, nor last fall I put it down to being so nuts over bass and pike that I may have been ripping the baits right out of last season's trouts mouths. Or maybe I just lost my touch. Who knows, who cares! MY skunk is OVER! Been up twice in the past two weeks trying for bows. My buddy Dutchy was all over them on Thursday and that was enough for me.. if HE can catch em, so can i lol Got a late start yesterday and ended up fishing with two friends from 2-5 pm. One of them celebrated a birthday of sorts with 8-10 bows... a bunch of them were shakers, but he landed two good ones and lost a lunker. My other buddy went 0-0 and I did the same. I posted a thread last night from my Blackberry about trying some floater jigs on a bottom bounce rig. It started out promising enough. Two solid hits and my worms were stripped. Had one helluva solid hit and it actually broke my leader in the middle. Maybe I had a knick in it though. Not sure. Kept trying for another hour but no more hits. Decided to try some float fishing.. Nothing. Pulled out my 5' ultra light combo ( with 4lb test line) with a green and orange deep diving Rapala. WHAMMO on the first cast Not the biggest, but it put up a decent fight and MY SKUNK WAS OVER ! This was a similar pattern that Dutchy and his friend used on Thursday and it was still working today. Thanks for the heads up Dutchy. Shortly after I caught this one, a guy showed up to do some fly fishing. I was keeping an eye on him and hoping to see him land one too. No luck for him. He was a decent chap and didn't crowd me so I decided to move down river and give him some more room to work the fly rod. Am I ever glad I did. The water is quite a bit shallower than where I caught the previous fish so I tied on a another rapala in the same colour but a shallower diver. Five casts in to it and KARRRUNNNNCH! Bent my little 5 ft ultra light in half... No doubt about it, this was another rainbow! I was pretty nervous with this set up and loosened the drag way off so I wouldn't lose this fish. After about 5 minutes, I very gently brought it to shore and was just hoping it wouldn't do a death role at the last minute. Dragged him up a grassy bank and voila... I got my limit for the day !!! Yippee.... whooppppeeee..... yahoooo.... lol I had left my gear back where the guy was fly fishing and he kindly offered to take a couple of pics for me when I got back with my catch. So after an estimated 2000 km or so, I finally come home with something to show my wife for my absence on the weekend. I think she was wondering if I forgot how to fish. lol And then, just for the sake of ANOTHER PIC to end my skunk, I took this one too.. lol The smaller one is being given to one of the chaplains at the Sally Ann where I do some volunteer work and my wife is baking the other as I type this. Thank you to the fishing gods for blessing me with some trout this year.

I don't think we have any control over what our avatar suggests that we are. I think it has to do with the # of posts made. Just saying!

So I am up fishing for rainbows this weekend and want to do some still fishing with worms and roe. And damned if I didn't lose my worm blower. I am sitting in a restaurant in a small town with no tackle shop for miles that will be open. So, I was going throug a pastic bag of stuff I bought at the outdoors show in Walkerton last spring. I found some small floater jigs. I am going to try them on a 2-3 flourocarbon leader with some slinky weights to try bottom bouncing first. Then, when my legs need a rest, I will add some weight and still fish this set up. Has anyone used these jigs before? If so, any suggestions as to working them is appreciated. Thanks. Splashhopper

My go to baits are: 1)top water scum frogs 2) Crankbaits 3) Senkos I just may try making a few of those slip float rigs myself. I like how you packaged them individually too .

It was cold to the touch, but still soft in the hind quarters when I pushed my boot in to it. The belly was soft too. PM sent.