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It is never too late to send in your donations. Thank you to all and also for bringing this thread back up again. Best regards, Sam

Morning to all I feel like I slept in. Sam

Bumping to the top and this is a great package for someone. Regards, Sam

On April 3rd I posted a thread called “Local little girl needs your help.” I am extremely thankful for those that have contributed to Lauren Gillie’s trust fund. Lauren Gillie is a 5 year old child and a senior kindergarten student at Massassauga-Rednersville School and she was diagnosed with a rare, life threatening form of brain cancer. Lauren with Easter chocolate. I have recently received an email from Scott Walcott who has made an incredible offer to assist in helping raise funds for Lauren Gillie and her trips for her daily Chemotherapy sessions in Toronto. Lauren’s family is driving down to Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto every morning. Scott, Sophia and Don Walcott are owner/operators of West Lake Willows Resort in beautiful Prince Edward County. When I called Scott today his offer to assist was overwhelming and very much appreciated. Scott opened up his heart and has offered a financial contribution as well as a gift certificate that is now up for auction to the highest bidder. For further information on West Lake Willows Resort just click here to be redirected. The gift certificate is for a three day, two night fishing trip to West Lake Willows Resort for 2-4 people. Package includes accommodations in a waterfront cottage suites, boat, motor, and gas, GPS, and guided outing to learn the lake, successful techniques and proven hot spots. Spend the day fishing in the shadows of the world’s largest freshwater sand dunes, and the evenings relaxing in our first class accommodations. Package value is $577.00 - $883.00 and valid May 10, 2007 – June 19, 2007. If you would like to bid on this package please do so on line or if you wish to remain anonymous you can send me a PM or email me at Bidding to help Lauren and I will be pleased to post the amount from an anonymous donor. This auction will close on Wednesday April 18th at noon. A cheque for the winning bid should be addressed to Lauren Gillie in trust and sent to Carra Outdoor Sports, 51 Adam St. Unit # 2, Belleville, ON K8N 5K3. Thank you to all that are assisting and a special thank you to West Lake Willows Resort . Kind regards, Sam

Well this can be a can of worms at times wanting to keep or replicas. For those that know me I have been doing taxidermy for over 30 years and I have a couple of salmon skin mounts in my store that were mounted in 1986 and they are just doing fine and look just as good as when they were mounted 21 years ago. I also mounted a display of 6 walleyes that I did 7 years ago and they also look like they were mounted just recently. Replicas of course are a great way to remember your trophies as explained and of course they also had to have a trophy killed in order to produce a mould of which replicas can be cast from. Alot of new taxidermists prefer to paint replicas as they do not have the many years of experience to understand the anatomy of the specimen that they are going to mount since the replicas are anatomically correct. All they have to do is some prep work and paint them. It is much more difficult to produce a top notch skin mount. As for the taxidermist with the greatest experience in reproductions I would not hesitate to contact James or Shawn from Advanced Taxidermy they are by far the leaders in the business with many years of experience and their many world class awards speak for themselves. Investigate your taxidermist that you are about to get the work done from and look into their quality of work there are many out there with many years of experience nad I might ad that they have been doing the same work for years and some of their work is not satisfactory and they have been doing it wrong for years. Keep in mind that fish taxidermy is artwork and not how much can you do it for and how fast. I am now only doing big game mounts both shoulder mounts and life-size mounts and the only fish that I do is for my family, sorry I will not take any fish specimens. Remember price dictates the expertice of the taxidermist that you choose and ones that have been around the industry for many years and many more years to come. Hope this was of help. Best regards, Sam

What does dust taste like, there isn't any dust up here where we are............how far back behind us are you guys of Team 9. Better put your masks on here comes a dust cloud your way......... Regards, Sam

Time for rabbit stew. Regards, Sam

Nothing in the rivers yet, just checked yesterday. Regards, Sam

One last bump.

Thank you to all that are participating..........I really do not like to send a generalized thank you to all in this manner so I am sending a PM for your contributions and many thanks. Regards, Sam

On March 27th my son Andrew came home from school and said he wanted to shave his head bald. I immediately said “NO”, as that would seem foolish of him. Andrew’s reaction was but Dad you did it once for one of your workers (employee) a couple of years ago. I then said what are you talking about and he handed me some papers that he brought home from school. Andrew said, “ Dad I want to be just like you..” The information came home with every student in the school and here is the message that I read; Dear Parents, We have organized a fundraiser for Lauren Gillie who is a student in senior kindergarten at our school. The attached form and pledge sheet explains the fundraiser. This is a voluntary project set up by friends and classmates of Lauren’s. We are encouraging students to participate in this cause by collecting donations from friends and family. We would like at least 6 students to volunteer to have their hair shaved or long hair cut short for this event. We have hairdressers/barbers who have volunteered their time for this cause. There is a sign up sheet in each classroom for the hair cutting. Permission form must be signed and handed in by April 18th so we know how many students are going to have their hair cut/shaved. We would like the pledge form as and money handed in by April 20th. Thanks in advance for your support! Lindsay Hannah (S.K.), Dylan Hannah (Gr. 3) [organizers] and many more of Lauren’s friends. I did not need to hesitate any longer I immediately signed the permission slip. I then decided to get more information about Lauren and I learned that she is 5 years young and a senior kindergarten student at Massassauga-Rednersville School and she was diagnosed with a rare, life threatening form of brain cancer. Lauren was complaining about the TV being blurry her parents started to get more concerned when they noticed her left eye was starting to drift. She started commenting on be able to "see two daddies and two mommies". The eye continued to migrate gradually, until she was very noticeably cross-eyed. We set up an appointment with an Ophthalmologist to have her checked, thinking we would need to have the eye corrected surgically. Doctor Vaughan, a family friend, asked about the patch Lauren was wearing during a social family dinner. We explained she had been complaining about the TV being blurry and having double vision. Doc asked Lauren to allow him to take a look at her eye. He suggested we needed to have her seen right away, and set up an appointment with a peer of his, Dr. Gregoire, a pediatrician at Belleville General Hospital, for the coming Tuesday. The physical exam went well, but the CAT scan to eliminate any doubt showed a rather large tumor. We were instructed to leave BGH immediately. Dr. Gregoire called ahead to Kingston General to get a rush MRI done, and have us meet a Doctor Silva, who is a practicing Oncologist. Dr. Gregoire preformed a physical exam for reflexes, muscle control, balance etc and assessed Lauren's eyes, looking for swelling or dilated blood vessels behind the eye. He seemed satisfied, but the following CAT scan performed around 11am, showed a rather large tumor on the brainstem, resulting in pressure on the 6th optic nerve which controls the left eye. Basically this pressure distorts the signal transmitted from the brain. In a healthy person, this signal is balanced so the eyes track left to right and up and down when following something of interest. With the tumors influence, this "balanced" signal is offset. When you cover Lauren's good eye, the poor eye tracks quite well, because the brain is sending the signal only through the nerve affected by the tumor. When the good eye is uncovered, the poor eye migrates due to the unbalanced signal sent from the brain. Doctor Gregoire gave Lauren’s parents the bad news, and they discussed their options. It was decided the tumor’s location didn't lend itself to surgical removal. The tumor is too close to autonomic nerves that control critical body functions, such as breathing, heart rate, swallowing, gag reflex etc. This was all I needed to know and I felt that I have helped many people along the way that I need to help this little girl that attends my son’s school. I am always under the understanding that children belong to everybody, what I mean form this is that this child is not related to me and I have never met her, and yet I feel that Lauren is one of our children that need help. I am starting to raise money through our store to assist with the expenses that are now being burdened to Lauren’s family. Lauren is undergoing daily chemo treatment that might not be a benefit to her and we have our fingers crossed as we have seen miracles in the past and are praying for another for Lauren. I do not know many of you on this board and I am hoping that maybe some of you that are able maybe you can send a couple of dollars, a toonie, or 5.00 or anything that might be of help to Lauren and her family. You can send us a cheque or money order addressed to Lauren Gillie in trust we will make sure that Lauren’s family receives it. Those that want to contribute please do so prior to April 18th so that I may take it to the school for Monday April 23rd. You can send the funds to Carra Outdoor Sports 51 Adam St. Unit # 2, Belleville, ON K8N 5K3. I have attached a picture of Lauren with Dr. Vaughn Kind regards, Sam

Great report Joey and nice rainbow Paul. Regards, Sam

Happy Birthday Bud all the best to you. Regards, Sam

Happy Birthday Monique and you are definitely a beautiful lady.............that guy you are with well he obviously has thought of having suicial tendencies just like he did here. Go get him girl and please post pics of what you do to him we like seeing him suffer. Happy Birthday and may you have more happy years to come. All the best, Sam and Laurie

Well this is Sam and I am not trading my wife for a case of beer.................how about rum? I'm dead if she reads this Regards, Sam

Just watched the episode of Tonyb with Aaron Shirley and I was impressed. Tony you are a natural and I thorougly enjoyed watching the show. Makes me want to go fishing. WTG guys awesome job and coverage. Best regards, Sam

Great job Tony, uuuuuuuummmmmmmmmm where is the OFNComminity.com sticker Regards, Sam

That is what my problem has been all of these years I have been using an ultralite rod instead of a 12' rod. Sam

Good going GCD, I have read many of your posts and enjoyed them. Regards, Sam

Just got to love it when Roy is on top of things and this Eastern Crap gets busted.............Nice job Roy and CC don't waste your time or breathe on this one. Regards, Sam

Great job Maureen, not surprising with the all of the efforts you put into the Tyler organizing you deserve it. Regards, Sam

As expected of you great job and report. Regards, Sam

WTG Tony keep those reports coming. Regards, Sam

This thread seems to amaze me when someone comes on here and starts to bash someone like Canadian Copper. Scott has been posting here each year and he does work hard at what he does and he does it well. At no time have I noticed anything that CC has posted that would send a bunch of steelheaders to any trib. I think and most agress that CC is the Chrome King of steelheading and he has proved it more than enough times that when others can not produce CC can. It really does not matter what is said on this forum about CC as everyone will learn, he has always posted honourable mentions and never bashed anyone. Of course when others come on here and start their nonsence it will not be long as you will learn that OFC is a family and we do not like attacks on our family members. End result will be banishment and back to the forums that will tolerate your nonsence. Now let's see......hell might as well start a boycott of my store for stating my opinion and liking CC and for calling him the Chrome King of steelheading. Kind regards, Sam ps CC go give them hell

You do not need to get a passport photo at all. A digital camera is fine have a white background and make sure the pic is the size that they require on the application. We generally take photos of our students when they complete their PAL course and send it in with their apps. We have not had an application retiurned. Hope this is of help. Regards, Sam