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You yanks don't know what real bacon is.

Bucktail jigs and twister tails. For in the boat, nothing beats drifting harnesses, especially for a novice.

BBQ them with a last minute melt of havarti or jack cheese

It depends on 2 things. 1) Are you straining all the sediment out of your oils after using? 2) Temperature you are frying at. The hotter you fry, or the more fatty your meats, the quicker the oil will darken. Get your oil to the point of burning/smoking, and i would throw the oil out. Bacon and sausage cause the oil to darken very fast, unless you fry a lot of potato with it. Truth is, you want a little colour in your oil to get that golden brown. Nothing worse than doing fries in new oil.

Glad to hear that things are looking brighter for you.

Clarifying the oil, to my knowledge, merely eliminates the fishy flavour in the oil. It will not remove any actual bits or scraps of meat left in the oil.

It's all about flavour holding in the oil. Thtaste of fish is not embedded in the fryer. There is a way to remove the fish taste/odor from the oil. When you finish cooking your fish, you clarify your oil by frying a batch of taters. The taters, due to some chemical process. absorb or neutralize the residual flavours. Works quite well. Not every kitchen has a separate fryer for fish. You have a fryer bank for meat, and one for taters, rings, etc... YOu would be amazed at how many restaurants precook their breakfast sausage and bacon in the fryer.

What do you think Rapala lures were originally patterned for? There's no bass where the original lures were designed.

My granparents loved Ontario when they first came here. Not only did the landscape look like home (Finland), many of the fish were the same, albeit smaller. Pike, perch and zander in abundance.

Your dog will live longer too!

Finally found where I left the camera. Peanut was oh so happy when we finally started to catch some fish. When the little thief gets her paws on a perch it will be beheaded and disemboweled in all of 30 seconds. THen she leaves the remains at your feet to dispose of the evidence.

Prime specimen. Well done!

Cute pup. Chocs love to chase bobbers, or anything hurled to the water.

In that era, generals, then, just as now, were not placed near the battleground. They were "too" valuable. They would have done their time, and faced risk, while holding lesser rank. It was the norm for that time for regimental and battalion commanders to lead their troops. The ratio of officer casualties was quite high in British and Commonwealth forces, with jr. officers having a very low life expectancy.

He looks like a little polar bear. Call him Bear

Yep. That first name doesn't really count. There will always be that pet name that the dog likes. In the case of Peanut, she has several. I usually call her "ping pong" or "pingers" because she bounces like a ping pong ball. If Granny is around, she will ignore me and only answer to Peewee. Your pup is too cute, Joey.

My Uncle Bob, An old sweat in the Great war. A bombardier with a horse artillery battery, thrown into the gap left by the zouaves during the first gas attack at Wipers. He got a gong for his efforts, but rarely talked of it. My Uncle Matti, killed at the age of 16 during the Talvisota against the Russians. My father in law, Alf Conley, a surgeon with the RCMC, attached to the GGFG through the liberation of Europe. Uncle Harry, a CPO, lifer with the RCN. Carrier service from beginning to end. The cadets at Valcartier, 1974. I knew some of the survivors, and they were never the same again. My cousin Eric, a lifer PO recently retired from the RCN. Spent 3 years bouncing around the Serbian countryside setting up Canadian outposts I cannot name the thousands I have known, and respect, who have served their country unselfishly through both World Wars, Korea, peacekeeping and in peace. Time and space will not allow. All too many with a scar that never truly heals. Each one a hero in his own right.

Gawd! Back then I looked like Fidel

I bet you were quite the sight in your Herb Tarleck polyester suit

Only went there to troll

I can almost smell the air we would breath in that place

You bring back some cool memories, early days at the Bamboo, Desmond Dekker, peter Tosh, Toots and the Maytals, etc.... Listen to some ska..

Pull that kind of stunt at an NFL Sunday game and heads would roll.

What a wonderful play on words.

sad excuse for hockey. Can the spectators get a refund?