Barry Willis

Could very well be. As far a I know that's what the world record rainbow were. caught by brothers. Still a heck of a fish. You wouldn't hear me complain if I was to be so lucky. LOL. 

Came across an interesting article this morning of a potential world record lake trout caught in Colorado this month. Maybe I am behind times but I have never seen anyone measured the length of a fish (as shown on you tube) especially a potential world record like this. The forked tail should be pinched together and then measured. Looks as though it has been feeding on some pretty good size white fish.

Good morning Spiel, I had a 14ft sportspal, the biggest motor I ever had on was a 1979 2hp sea horse which I still have and runs awesome. I can not even imagine how fast yours was. I will post some videos if I do get it done. Thank you.

Here is a project I started last fall and and obviously did not get very far with yet. Should be a blast. That is if I ever do finish it. I found the copy of the popular mechanics magazine with the plans in an old abandoned house. It is from the 70s. There used to be a few videos on you tube of them.  They were fast.

Saw this unit this morning. It must fly with that 25hp Yamaha. 

Very nice pic John I really like it. It appears you may be in your RV I also like what you typed in below. I am going to put that on a plaque and hang it in my gazebo.  One that I use but not as meaningful as yours is, to day is the day after yesterday, and the day before tomorrow, make the best of it. Here is one of my past boys about to leave in the RV.

Our last one, Pyrenees and yellow lab, Harvey I named him as he reminded me of Harvey the Hound, the mascot for the Calgary Flames as he was always into mischief, had him since he was a pup, never chewed a thing. A couple days after my wife brought him home was sitting outside with him rhyming off different names. As soon as she mentioned the name Monny he came running right to her, (hence the pronunciation of E at the end of his name) short for Monster, and he was a monster. Even the vet upon our visits said that dog should not be any where's near that big. So the name stuck. The purebred we have now, Trooper, doesn't chew any thing except the toys we buy him. The toughest toys on the planet, supposed to be chew proof, yeah right not to mention the cost. He thinks they are to be ripped apart and eaten. He's a power house. In some cases it is a result of boredom, or displaced aggression, in others it's just what they like do. My wife and I have a combined of over 60 years of working with dogs, myself, just off and on and my wife has been doing it for 40 plus years and is doing it as I am typing this, every thing from obedience to training the best bred gun dogs in North America and we have never came across a dog as muscular and powerful as Trooper. Yeah I guess I'm bragging about my buddy but we need a dog like him in our crime riddled neighbor hood. He doesn't miss a thing. Speaking of boredom...sorry for such a long post guys.

Hey HH, What a beautiful smile, I wish my teeth were that white LOL. Great Pyrenees have more teeth than any other dog and can open their mouth wider than any other dog. 

Hey Dan, we had two cockatiels that lived well into their twenty's. They would start singing as soon as they heard Mom get up in the morning and at certain songs on the radio. The rest of the time they would just scream, drove me nuts.

In regards to Porkpie's post and light fingered people a couple weeks ago there was an article on the news that someone had stolen 35 trail cams belonging the the Wild Horse Society of Alberta. Thank fully the RCMP caught the bugger and got most of the trail cams back to them. Man, that's a lot of cameras. They claimed it ran into the thousands of dollars that was spent on them.

Good morning Doug, I agree with everything you mentioned there. These pics were taken with a Bushnell (obviously) that I used for the first time and I couldn't be happier with the clarity and color. I swear by Bushnell. My cameras are an hour and a half drive one way so I only check them and replace the card once a month or so. I prefer stills over video as well as even though Bushnell have an awesome battery saver videos sure take up a lot more battery power. I keep them out there year round with the exception of last yeas as a forest fire was threatening the area so I retrieved them and never got them back out. I can't remember the make of my first one it was one of them big cumbersome buggers that took the big batteries. The anticipation killed me wondering what was on it. I wanted to check it the next day LOL. I left it out for 45 days, came home plugged the card into the computer and it only took three pics, of me walking away from it. The batteries died. They were brand new but I guess they must have sat on the store shelf for ages. I'll tell you what, it was very disappointing.  -  Barry.

When I was a kid there was a woman that give me twenty five cents for every sucker and carp I caught for her cats. You hit the nail right on the head misfish I'm dying for a big scoff of smelt.

These are Pontiac's, big potato flavor. I've been growing them for over forty years. This year I'm finally planting Idaho (russets) They are very versatile and make especially tasty and crispy fries. The blade on the clever is nine inches long. Would have made too much sense to put a tape measure next to the spud, too late smart as usual LOL.

I've been doing it a long time especially tomato's. It's my valium. I've never grown jalapeno peppers, I grow other's but never thought of them. I get three and a half pound tomato's every year. And lots of blue ribbons at fall fairs. I used to grow enough (over 200 plants) when I was a kid to supply three grocery stores and also sold them out of a booth. Every cent of it went towards fishing tackle. I actually made pretty good money for a kid not even in his teens yet. LOL.  

Very nice. I'd be lost without my tomato plants. Once they start ripening it's pretty much all I eat. Lots of canning as well. This is going to sound a little far fetched, about four years ago I was quite a bit over weight as usual, I started eating my tomato's and toast, slice of cheese, mayo  and salt and pepper of course and started losing weight. I lost 60lbs and have kept it off to this day. I went from right around 219lb down to 155. Doesn't make a darn bit of sense but it happened. LOL.

I had a heading typed onto the top of this photo but when I go to email it or post it somewhere the heading is no longer there. Any way this one should have read DON'T P%&& me off  !!! and you can see why it was so fitting with his muscular size, facial expression and facial scars I call him a power house as that's exactly what he is. ( the scars were prior from me rescuing him)

Hopefully these pic will help relieve some of the winter blues some of you may be going through.

No Dan you are not nuts, My Trooper will watch tv for hours and if he isn't you can be sure he' listening for a particular commercial and alot of times just go ballistic wanting to get at that critter he is seeing. We had to mount the tv up on the wall but the big bugger can still reach it. He's so smart as he looks behind the tv to see if the action is outside as the tv is mounted next to some big bay windows. We had another dog that would charge the tv screen so hard that he left teeth marks on the screen, you could see them and feel them, they were surprisingly deep, and that was an old school picture tube tv. As soon as the song came on the tv - who let the dog's out, well lookout, that was his favorite, or most unfavorite. It drove him nuts. There were times he hit the tv so hard he practically knocked himself out, poor bugger.

Howdy Freshtrax. I love them, it's hard to pick a favorite as they are all so awesome. Hopefully, I will have my cameras into cougar, wolf, grizzly, elk etc. country around the end of May, or mid June as the highway is closed during the winter so the animals can come down off the mountains away from the really deep snow and graze and feed in the valleys below near the road undisturbed by people. Money permitting with the price of gas and all. not that I'm complaining but it's a long trip but a nice one. I've been in this area before while hunting, Where I have in mind is just shy of 50km from any back road that you can traverse with a truck. Have Argo will travel, LOL. So it won't likely be until near the end of June before I get back out there to retrieve and replace the memory cards, In the mean time keep a watch for the pics I will post near the end of May, Ya never know, I may get a burr under my butt and go sooner. I'm not expecting alot of traffic where I placed them just yesterday but what I do capture on film should be worth a look. I have never hung my cameras in this area here but I know from the tracks that there are some very big critters using this trail. Some unexplainable tracks to some people but not to me. Stay tuned, Same channel. Cheers. -  Barry, aka - Bearcat.

Hey Head Hunter, great suggestion, thank you, and of course thanks to all that posted pics of their four legged friends. I really enjoyed them. I love dogs more than life itself. Here's my boy Trooper. He loves watching tv when I am upstairs on the computer. Not just any show, it has to have animals of course, and a couple collages. My best friend on the planet.

Well not much on the cameras this time as I didnt expect there would be as there is about two feet of snow where I want to and usually put them and I dont have tracks for my Argo. But anyway here is a couple. Pine marten checking out the tennis ball, etc.

Yeah I know Smitty.

I just received this last night. I realize this has nothing to do with fishing and  I was not going to post this but I just had to as some of you I am sure can relate. As far as I am concerned there never will be a cooler generation with the fun we had and all the things we experienced. NEVER.

I get bored easy. I'm sure I'm not alone. Here's a couple of my novelty projects.

If nothing else Lew with all that moisture it should be a good morel season.