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Hope to see and meet some OFNer's at the show this weekend. Don't be shy. Say hello. You won't turn to stone if you look at me There will be all sorts of OFNer's there, besides myself, representing various organizations, etc... http://www.niagaraoutdoorshow.com/

You might want to hook up with/ send a pm to live2fish. Bowen is a great young man and very successful with his charters. He runs out of Port Weller in St Catharines.

JWL's puter did the crash and burn. It's in the shop.

DDDDDDDDon't dddo tttttthat aaaggggain gggguys. Really had me wondering what I was going to do for the next few evenings.

Pike is closed in Zone 16 til the 2nd Saturday in May. A lot of conservation areas will remain completely closed to fishing until May.

The Eastern seaboard is beautiful those 2 months. Take a quiet romantic getaway at a Nova Scotia B&B on the South shore, the valley or Fundy.

Even if it was only 2 hours, it was prime time with your little one. I'd take that kinda day anytime. The smiles on Averie's face say it all.

Bill called me. He didn't want to waste a perfect day.

I wasn't ready to give up ice fishing yet. You've got ice!

I think the longest my fillets have been in the freezer might be 6 months. They go into a big wicked pot of Gramma's "Fish head soup" if they're that old.

Got out to my favourite pond with my good friend Bill. Got there at 8:30 and there was skim ice. Dagnabbit!! Any how, we put on some heavy weights to bust through and start getting perch. Lost a few on the ice , oh well. After 1 1/2 hours the ice finally was gone and the perch shut down. We moved around a bit to relocate the school and found a few more perch. That was it. Toss out a fresh minnow and before I've got the slack up, the rod bounces. No wonder the perch were gone. Pikies. Then Bill got the monster. Between the two of us we got a decent feed of perch and one pike joined the chowder club I know what the puppies and I are having for brekkie tomorrow

I too, know only too well the experience of having bones caught in the throat. Ended up in the hospital to have them removed some 30 years back. That scope was the most horrible experience. Everytime I get the feel of fish bones in the mouth, that old gag reflex starts to kick in. Despite that, I love fish. Got to have it twice a week or so, and I am perty finicky about my fillets. Offspring love it as well, but not the Mrs.

That's a thick one. Well done.

It's a tough time just to get a bait harvester's license. One friend tried for three years before giving up.

Every story from first to last was a great story. Thanks all for sharing a bit of yourselves.

That's a beautifulstretch of coastline. THanks for sharing.

Pretty hard to pick one moment out of a lifetime. 5 years back we were staying at Dalrymple Resort and the wife and daughter wanted to go fishing without the 'mouthpiece' (son). Up to the northeast bay and we started a very slow drift. The wife and I were using harnesses and the girl was bobber fishing. Well we hit a school of large sunfish that stayed with the boat the 2 hours we were out fishing. The smallest in the school were 7" pumpkinseeds, the biggest was a 10 1/2 bluegill. After the first 20 minutes I just put my rod down for the rest of the outing. I was too busy taking fish off the line and rebaiting hooks. By the time the girls had had enough we had gone through 4 dozen worms and had a good 30 fish on the stringer. The daughter insisted on carrying the stringer up to the cleaning shed and show off her catch to everyone she met. She could barely keep it off the ground. Hazel put it on the scales at the store and the stringer was just over 15 lbs. There were no monsters. Just a whole lot of fun. Heck, I wasn't even fishing. Then there's the time stream wading where I got 2 dunkings...... I've a life full of those kinds of memories.

Two Fingers truck wash diversified considerably from the original idea. I guess not enough income from the one business line. They now include water haulage, irrigation, road wash, etc... They use tankers which would put you well over the $30K investment.

I've not had the experience, but a dory is a very demanding project. You might be able to get specs and drawings from 'The Dory Shop' in Shelburne, NS. They've been building traditional East coast dories for several generations in that location since the days of the schooner fleets. They still build to order as well.

The L Ontario shoreline in places like Frenchman's, Oshawa creek, Port hope used to be loaded in the day. Don't know how good it gets there now?

My little dogs get the no name stuff. The vet says its not bad, and better than some big names. No big dint in the wallet. Safe veggies are added to the kibble (no onions and garlic) occasionaly. They also get fish twice a week.

Armed Forces Reserves have great survival training programs.

Kinda feels good finally being able to live out a couple of childhood dreams,

I'm glad you got down there and had the time of your lives. Great report.

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