JerseyDog

I gotta figure anything really fat, out-of-shape people can do with virtually no physical training is probably not a sport and their professionals are probably not athletes.

250k lakes in ontario. 245k of them have good to great pike fishing. the rest, its only fair.

If the bulb is a halogen, it could be that you are touching the actual bulb while installing it. The oil from your fingers will create a hotspot that burns the bulb out ASAP. This was happening to me in my car before I Googled it and found out what I was doing wrong. I installed a new bulb making sure not to touch it and the problem went away.

For the record, the "street racing" law was a knee jerk reaction to a car crash that killed a couple and orphaned a child. The two kids who were "racing" were initially blamed for the accident, however once the investigation was done, they determined the kids were maybe going 20km over the limit (not 150kph like the paper said) and the man who was killed was well over the legal limit for booze AND turned left in front of the kids who were "racing" making the accirdent HIS fault. And while I personally would prefer if kids did not race on our busy roadways, one person running at 150kph is not necessarily racing and not even necessarily doing anything unsafe (except maybe if he was towing a boat).

I like to drive 130 on the highway (weather/conditions permitting). It will pretty well get you a ticket if you get caught, so it keeps you real alert as to what's going on around you. The easiest way to stop paying attention to the road and everything around you is to drive a boring 100kph.

Thanks for all of the great suggestions but I just couldn't bring myself to spend that money (and since I lost a friend a couple of weeks ago), I sent it over to the Canadian Cancer Society. Hopefully they can do something positive with it. PS. A Dead Pool is where you pick a list of celebs and the player with the most dead ones at the end of the year wins. I won this year and the prize was $165usd.

I won $165 usd in my Dead Pool. Since the money has bad karma, I thought I should just spend it on something I wouldn't usually buy for myself instead of paying bills or buying more RRSP's or something else so responsible. After all, the last thing I want is my RRSP to have bad karma. Anyway, I've been struggling for the last couple of days so I thought I'd ask OFC. Does anyone have any thoughts about the perfect gift to oneself for no more than $165 usd?

I've seen coyote in Toronto proper, including at Finch and Dufferin, walking along Finch street on the NE side of the corner (he must have come up from the resevoir) and at Hwy. 7 and 400 running up the side of one the ramps in the grassy areas. They are basically everywhere now.

I need to agree with Irishfield. With due respect, I can't imagine that no one on this fishing board, with so many active members, has never ventured out on new ice, or had thier leg break through, or fallen in, or had their sled sink or whatever other stupid things that occasionally kill some unlucky folks. That guy was maybe being an idiot, but we are all idiots sometimes. Most of us just never make the news.

The one place in Ontario with basically every native species, clean, wide open water, tricky back bays, small and large tribs with terrain from swampy, rocky, weedy, grassy, sandy to all of the above. And not small, but HUGE - with millions and millions of acres of fishable terrain. "320 kilometres long by 80 kilometres wide. It covers over 15,000 square kilometres, making it almost as large as Lake Ontario." You guessed it, for me there is no contest - I vote Georgian Bay!

I've been fishing barbless for maybe three seasons now (except when using bait). Single easiest method to ensure the fish gets back in the water fast. Unless a fish is really deeply hooked, I don't even need pliers, just give the hook a wiggle and it generally pops right out.

HomeTown is right. If there is no skill testing component, the contest becomes a Lottery. In Canada, lotteries must be licensed and require extensive regulatory oversight. Simple contests need to follow a set of rules, but the oversight required is far less and generally informal (depending on the size of the prizes). You will notice a contest often excludes Quebec. This is because their rules are different from the rest of Canada and the States and what would be a simple contest elsewhere is expensive and difficult to adminster. As for the question, almost no contest administrator would let someone lose a big prize because of the Skill Testing question. They would "help" them a little bit to make sure they get the right answer.

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I like my soft sided bag because of two things: 1 - the shoulder strap which leaves my hands free for other things (like beer). 2 - if i forget to zip it up, when i pick it up, all the stuff does not fall out. with the old plastic boxes, my stuff was getting dumped out all the time which drove me nuts.

Good Luck. whyquit.com and Allen Carr are the best. I'm 27 days now.

I find them a bit expensive. They are definately not a discounter. And it costs more to do business in Canada than it does in the States. That is one major reason why things are most expensive here even when the dollar is at par.

It has been said above, but I look at OFC as a club and the only one I really need and/or have time for. There is a decent, engaged and friendly executive committee, the dues are reasonable and there is an open discussion that runs 24/7 on multiple topics at a time. There is a mix of age levels, experience levels, geographic locations and a wide variety of interests from angling specific interests to other outdoor interests to a myriad of other related and unrelated topics. There is a virtual tourney for bragging rights, there are regular social events and even a polling system so the membership can vote on different things. Like a lot of others, I do not have the time to actually go somewhere, sit in a meeting, deal with the politics, stick to a one topic agenda someone else set, etc. When I do have time, I would prefer to spending it fishing, golfing or just hanging around. And since the OFC meeting is 24/7 I can engage on my terms and when I have time. I think lots of old school clubs are being replaced by more virtual social clubs because they offer a lot of the same benefits and maybe even more information, flexibility and social opportunities.

Funny - I knew it was an anti-smoking post before I opened it. This time of year its a timely topic as people try to start the year off smoke free so belongs on this fishing board since smoking, drinking and fishing are a very popular pastime. I smoke but I hate smoking. It's not a choice (for me) its an addiction with its great pleasures and terrible side-effects. And I am under no illusion that its health effects are nothing but devastating. I don't care about the drain on health care, pollution or anything else. I care that it makes me unhealthy and may very well kill me. So I struggle to quit. Sometimes I win for a while and then sometimes I lose. I'm even worse than a non-reformed smoker - I smoke and still hate it and will happily tell anyone. And read Allen Carr or Joel Spitzer and you might find out that smoking is less of a "choice" than you think. Still, there is nothing finer than sitting at the end of the dock, drinking a beer, smoking a smoke and tossng a line in the water - which is part of the problem.

If you call the CCRA collection line they answer on the first ring. Every time.

When I read this, I knew the poster was a smoker. For every smokers in "great" health, there is probably a thousand who are suffering from the crippling and chronic side-effects of smoking. Not all are dying or dead, but most everyone who's smoked for any period of time will most definately not be in "great" health. I hate smoking - it'll kill you dead. PS. I smoke. Hopefully one day I will quit.

During a license stop a couple of years ago, the CO told me that if you have the three year, they can find you on the system and can see that your tags are up to date. Saved us a fine that day.

I once actually caught something - which for me goes does in the books as unusual.

Ha - I wish. Since I don't commute, I have 20 hours extra every week - and I spend them working.

Agreed - in fact if you add up all the gas and repairs and other commuting costs (including a huge amount of time) one might conclude Toronto real estate isn't that expensive after all. Imagine - 3 hours/day commute = 15 hours/week @ 50 weeks/year = 750 hours which at a normal 37.5 hour/work week is an additional 20 WEEKS you could spend working or for leisure as opposed to being in your car.

If you are planning on working in TO and living in Barrie, you might want to do a few practice commutes. The drive can take a lot out of you. Today would be a good day to try to get a feel for it. I'm sure the news already says 500 accidents and counting.