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Assuming the biggest pike you might ever see is a 40 incher I'd go minimum 80 pound fluoro. If there are no big pike in that lake smaller.

Nylander was at fault he went for the guy carrying the puck. These are young guys in a super fast game. Look at comparable young teams...Edmonton, Arizona, Carolina...none of them are burning up the league. That ability to know which impulses and instincts to trust and which to shun is a learned thing...it's called maturity. As Babcock has said these are good games they are playing....tight low scoring games leading into the third. The type of game they had trouble winning earlier Insert other media and the type of game they will have to win to advance in the playoffs. I'm not pushing the panic button.

The thing is that they are not fading in the standings...and pretty well have a lock on third in their division. Why, because the top three teams of each division automatically make the playoffs...AND...the teams below them in their own division SUCK. If the Leafs get a little bit better than one point per night they would have 96 points. Heck they can probably get away with one point per night because which of these following teams will hit 90 points? Buffalo, Ottawa, Habs, Panthers, or Wings? Probably none of them. That is why predictions are already 95% that the leafs make the playoffs and will be playing Boston. Now this has been apparent for some time, so what if Babcock knowing this is using the remaining schedule as a giant practice. Points are nice but not necessary. Get this young impulsive team under his thumb and beat defense into them until they bleed. Otherwise what do you have? You have a team like the Jays of the last few years with a potent offense but that doesn't win you everything. This keeps contract extensions down in price also. Ditto Matthew's lesser ice time. Finally, Babcock can then turn the switch late in the season into a more aggressive playoff mode, let them off the leash and he now has the bonus that the defensive lessons were internalized. In the end it doesn't really matter how you did in the regular season...ie Habs and Capitals last few seasons, it's how you do in the playofs....so you can't judge Babcock until after the season is over. Getting into the second round would be a success.

If you tried to turn back into the fold of the Hab's fan base they would kick you in the nuts and then step on your hands with their white skates. See the difference in fan bases? As pathetic a fan that a true leaf fan has been over the last 50 years they are good willed and loyal. Hab fans are ALWAYS vindictive and shrill!

If there were as many Hab fans as Leaf fans on this thread you would be going OUT OF YOUR MIND. The Leafs fans here adore you like a child with boundless hope not seeing the disaster before him. We know the Sens are a quaint off beat regional team on it's last breath along with the Coyotes. Whatever they do to you Matt, we will take you back!!! <3

Most Hab fans I know back then watched the Leafs simply to watch them lose. It was more important to them that the Leafs lost then the Habs won. So I'm sure what you had was Habs fans impersonating Leaf fans doing all of those things. On second thought the obvious clandestine Hab behaviour is trying to beat up females from opposing teams. A Hab fan never gets into a fight unless they know they can win.

Any older Leafs fan only has one Canadian team to hate, correction...only one fan base to hate. Habs fans!!! Vancouver fans can chirp but it's not malicious, they never won the cup, Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg have been many years in purgatory. Ottawa...well leaf fans only have happy playoff memories with Ottawa. But a Hab fan is a scum sucking trilobite most of which at one time jumped onto the Hab bandwagon. Thus they are constantly trying to prove how smart they are but that's got nothing to do with what a fan is. There is no loyalty to a Hab fan. Have you noticed the utter silence this year from Hab fans? When their team loses badly they have only exhibit two behaviours: turtling or bandwagon jumping. They are a whinny selfish lot much like a baby with colic except a colicy baby has an excuse. I love this season it is like a season without mosquitoes!!! Bergevin Forever, Berg-evin FOR EVERRR!!!

The CBC should show the Jets...who wants to see total loser hockey with the Sens or Habs?

Varadero, not the place to go to try fishing down south. Protein is at a premium in Cuba...all fish caught are consumed by locals.

I have many fond memories as a child skating on my neighbour's rink. There is the pride of making a nice rink but the real payoff is for the kids....the sound of skates and children's laughter in the dark cold clean air...priceless!

It's a free world buddy, if she has an opinion why get your knickers in a knot? Hunting has it's place but if people don't want our most magnificent animals killed who are you to judge that as inappropriate?

Give Mrs. Harper a break, at least she expressed an original opinion. It was a magnificent animal. While legal, we are destroying our earth and the loss of the biggest beasts is symbolic of the systematic destruction of every natural thing on this earth. I shake my head at seeing that pic also, as I do pics of dozens of dead fish in a cooler. It may be legal but that doesn't mean I have to like it. While there is opening of off topic political discussion what say you about these great hunters eh? They want to kill elephants again!

When fishing a method that allows for tons of experimentation like trolling for lakers in the deep I like to experiment alone. Whereas heavy casting I like a partner to make the time go by..

Come-on Matt, it's not like this is happening with a real hockey team!

In grade 7 there was a farm boy who had huge pipes. Every lunch it was all about using his strength to to get me to the ground and then pin me. You'd call it bullying now, and it was. Nobody ever stopped it or did anything. 20 years later at a high school reunion I learn he murdered his wife and stuffed her in the freezer and that's where they found her. He's in jail for life. A reunion friend is into researching family trees so we search and find a pic of her tombstone online....that creeped me right out!!

Had a box, got a warning in the mail through Bell, and then my box got completely blanked. At that point I thought perhaps I was watching too much TV.

20 plus pike...what size? There are places you can go that doesn't cost a lot where you could catch 20 small pike in an hour.

...and what about the Habs? As of last night: -Price-3.56 GAA with a .885 S% puts him at the bottom of the pack for starter goalies. -Habs last in division & only 3 other teams lower in the league -26th on the powerplay -31st out 31 teams for goals with 1.5 goals per game -one player with 2 goals & only 7 other players with 1 goal. The Habnots

You pulled me down into the rabbit hole with your prose and photos, once more was I amazed by a far off place that I could only dream to visit. A fine reverie for a blustery Oct morn.

Phaneuf said Matt, time to map out the parade route!!

Mocking science are we? Here is a short little video on the earth's mass extinction events. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yINoJNA1SGs The video talks about how life dies within water bodies when oxygenation can't occur. That is something that all good fishermen understand. Most mass extinction events were caused by warming except that last "meteor" one where the dust kicked up by the impact caused global cooling. That would be two different types of extinctions based on opposite temperature extremes. If further explanation is needed just ask.

I don't think that is a given. Matthews is still learning and filling out.

I've leadcored for brown in a yak.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/canadiens-offence-continues-fire-blanks-new-york/ Any comments about how the Habs suck in exactly the same way as the did when they got bouned out of the playoffs? The sell was that the moves in the offseason would put them in contention again.