Governator

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We don't sell our oil and buy it back. We HAVE To ship our oil to the US, it's part of the NAFTA agreement we signed. We have to distribute our oil/gas equally with the states and their demand is higher than ours so they get more. Most of the remaining oil stays on the West side of Canada as we don't have pipelines to get it to the East. 40% or more of Ontario's oil is imported (Not from the States last I checked). We certainly have more than enough of oil for all of Canada but there are no energy plans in place here to utilize it.

Confirmed, we'll be there @ 6am. I'll put an OFC logo on the hut, feel free to say hi.

I could be wrong but as far as I know due to NAFTA, Canada exports more oil to the states than any other country (Including Saudi Arabia). We have to legally give them (for the rest of our known lives) something like 75% of our oil. Basically oil in North America must be divided up to the highest consumers which of course is mainly the States.

When the prices shoot up, I go to torontogasprices.com - You can search any city and will tell u the price of gas at all the stations that members have reported (and how long ago that was). Cool site when you're looking to save a buck or two.

he can't sell bait now anyway, but more so I love the effort he puts in to giving weather conditions both winter & summer.

So we don't just register at innisfil beach? Where's the T&H Supply Company?

To be fair it's for his business otherwise he wouldn't even have it.

Agreed with bobowski, Peter from the cooks bay board is extremely helpful with info from Gilford. The guy from Innisfil Bait & Tackle is great too, definitely go there. Afterwards head south 1 street from there and go on Gilford rd. and head towards the lake. Park right on Gilford rd on the south side. Do NOT park close to a driveway or corner or you will get ticketed. They heavily enforce parking tickets there. Parking starts about a block or so up from the end of the road. There's huts everywhere out there so just head towards them.

Awesome video, I was waiting for a T-Rex to roar at the end.

That's what I thought, too bad on the house fire sorry to hear. I have maybe 4 or 5 rods and 5 full plano boxes but that's about it. Well plus ice fishing gear too. Come to think of it I probably have $1200-$1500 worth and I only started in 08. I could see the $$ going up pretty steadily.

We've had a membership a couple of years but I've never really shopped there a lot although we really should. I don't have a deep freezer and it's just my wife and I and an 18 month old. Buying fresh food in bulk doesn't really help us yet until I get that freezer but for whatever reason we keep renewing the membership. I do a lot of my christmas shopping there which saves me money and buy most of my gas there too (Barrie's location has a gas station). That stuff alone I probably break even on my membership.

Try following this link http://www.ofncommunity.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=36839&st=0&p=392583&hl=united%20states&fromsearch=1entry392583 (It's from your own topic a couple years ago)

I'll be there with a buddy hopefully. If he can't make it maybe I'll drop a message if someone wants to fish in my portable with me.

I just love going through this thread. Do any of you buy insurance for fishing tackle? Some of you guys have so much $ invested I would assume you could protect yourself (I'm not there yet)

Really looking forward to this as well, just puttin' the fixins on my pop up, broke 2 hubs so far (Clam replaced). I think I've finally figured it out now lol. Hopefully others might be able to steer us in the right direction when we're there. Never fished from IBP and don't have a flasher.

Cool video, thanks! Do you think it could be different in 15-20' of water with perch below?

It's all about the buck, I bet they found it's a lot cheaper to export fish to china for processing and then reship back than it is to setup factory & employ here. Pretty sad really.

Nice report and nice fish. Can't wait to get out there, only been twice this winter.

My buddy had a pike on in about 6-7' feet of water, he used his lap grabber to land it, but the fish thrashed next to the boat and got away. However, it took the lip grabber with it! (He didn't have the loop around his wrist). It was in very still water, anyway he looked down and saw the pike dormant right below the boat. He attached a heavy jig and carefully lowered his line and managed to snag the rope of the lip grabber. He successfully relanded the pike with the lip grabber in it's mouth lol! There's a pic somewhere with it as well, pretty cool story.

They tried to make a similar deal last year and boston backed down before the trade deadline. Remember too, Kaberle had a no trade clause he could refuse any trade and thankfully allowed this to happen. They couldn't just sell him like he was freely available to all teams because he wasn't. What other choices did they have? This is likely the best deal they could've got for him and it's 10x better than having him walk to the free agent market like Sundin did.

That's true but Boston would have to make a decision how big of a contract they can offer Kabs. He's not getting any younger and will probably still demand over 4mil/season.

Kaberle has been dealt to the Bruins for prospect Joe Colborne (He was a 1st rnder) the Bruins' first round pick in 2011 and a conditional draft pick. It's not the pick the leafs gave up for Kessel, it's the Bruins pick but still they got a couple of 1st rounders and 2nd rounders now. I'll miss Kaberle though, he was definitely a dedicated Leaf in and out. Maybe he'll get resigned in the offseason.

lol I love watching these races on TV the odd time (Been a couple years now since I've seen them). It must take them a week to the learn the course.

Nice read thanks for sharing. I love reading reports about others lending a hand, especially on the ice. That's what the fishing community should be all about.