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Yeah for some reason I was logged out. That's why I was seeing them thar ads.

I don't know about you guys but I hate having to deal with ads in the middle of a post.

What say you?

Here's some shots of my little pound puppy Sahtu.

See a pattern here?

There are pros and cons to either glass or polycarbon lenses. You cannot beat the clarity of a glass lens, along with the scratch resistance. However if you are constantly smacking yourself in the face with lures, you'll most likely want a poly lens, lol.. I like the heaviness of a glass lens, plus they double for when I'm driving (I do about 1000kms a week just for work)...

 

Easy choice for me.

Another vote for glass lens here.

UPS BLOWS!!!!!!!

I refuse to deal with any company foreign or domsetic that ships with them.

Living in the NWT I mail order a crap load of stuff. There really isn't a week that goes by that I'm not expecting some toy in the mail.

UPS doesn't ship by road to us so they charge stupid amounts of money for shipping.

For instance to ship a USB thumb drive from Toronto to Yellowknife is about $60.

Now get this, they say they only ship air to us and not truck but they don't fly the freight here.

What they do is fly it to Edmonton and put it on another carriers truck!!!

So we get dinged for a ton of cash to fly stuff in that comes by truck.

What can brown do for me?..................................GET STUFFFED!!!!!

They will never get another penny from me.................................EVER!!!!

Rant over, we now return you to your regularly scheduled rant. Thank You, Come Again.

Got you covered!!!

Habervision make some great fishing shades and they are always having sales too.

Here's this weekends sale

Haber fishing shades page

I got home for lunch just after noon today and after dropping a couple of hot italian snausages on the grill heard some jets running around out back. Off I go to have a look see. It's the annual Yellowknife Air Show this weekend so I figured it wasn't Westjet. LOL I was right!!! It was the Snowbirds running through their routine for tommorrow.

I ended up watching them for nearly a 1/2 hour so needless to say the brats were burnt (but still edible).

I snapped a few shots (sorry about the quality though)

Looks like a great place to store old broken Yamaha outboards for parts.

customer

Maxwell House Coffee Singles

Here's what I would do.

Put an access cover on the inside of each gunnel to acess the nuts.

Pick up a couple of these covers (they come in 4", 6" and 8" and three colours. A 6" is probably perfect.) and install them on the inside wall of the gunnels in the proper location. Then just bolt on your mounting plates and go fishing.

Is the boat aluminum or fiberglass?

We need pictures to give you options so break out the camera.

Peter, interesting you say this, the battery was in the front of the boat, I know where the new one is NOT going. Thanks!

The further back towards the stern you can get them the better it will be.

My boat has a hatch right at the back for access to the bilge/bilge pumps the three batteries and storage for spare prop, manual bilge pump, fire extinguisher etc.

I have been getting about 5-6 years or so out of the CT Nautilus batteries I have been using over the years.

Use a white tube jig over structure.

Plus you can troll just fine with a canoe so drop a spoon down there and paddle around.

In fact canoe trolling can be really good at times as the lure gets an erratic action from the paddling.

Pike are diurnal meaning they are most active during the period from dawn to dusk.

While it is always possible to catch the odd one at night you are better off fishing during the day if you want to catch them consistently.

Back in late 1999 I was laid off from my position as an assembly line supervisor at a truck upfitting plant.

I took the opportunity to go back to school and learn 'bout these newfangled 'puter thingies.

My course was a year long and cost just over $20K but UI covered 1/2 and paid me UI benefits while I was at school (not much but better than nothing). I graduated in March of 2001 and had a job lined up before graduation. It's now 9 years later and I'm an IT manager working for the government of the North West Territories. The year long investment was well woth the time and money, me thinks.

If you like working with your hands there are plenty of good carreers out there (mechanic or any of the trades). Take time and think of what you want to do and got get em!!!

PS I was 37 when I went back to school and since I graduated and changed carreers my salary has increased by nearly $60K per year.

Black Strap Resivoir is south of town and is full of nice eyes.

Also if you have wheels and some time to roam there are plenty of great fishing opportunities Deifenbaker and Last Mountain Lakes to the south are excellent fisheries and Big & Little Quill Lakes to the East are also good. There are plenty of good lakes to the North towards Prince Albert as well.

Here's a link to some mapping of the area, you can zoom right in on the areas you want.

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A couple of Black Strap eyes.

I'm doing a controlled rolling demo of my basement, taking down the old drywall from 2 rooms so we can reframe and put up proper insulation. So far so good but when we pulled the drywall off the next section I had a real good laugh. The original builder got their dimensions messed up and had to put 2 sheets on top of each other in order to but up even to the door jams. Double the mess pulling the old stuff down but I get a full view of the stud wall underneath. I honestly can't see a start or finish to this or how they put it up. There's not one full piece in the studs or the top or bottom plate. What a mix of 2x3's and 3x5's(?)

 

THANK GOODNESS THIS IS NOT LOAD BEARING!!!. In 4 ft of wall there is 31 seperate pieces of wood and I have not even started to count the nails used.

 

 

Mike Holmes would be beating his head off the wall if he saw that.

I hope your whole house isn't built like that.

Drifter.... Lol I was looking at a salt chlorinator that was regular 299.00 on sale for 249.00.... Decided to wait as we weren't setting up the pool yet and all of a sudden I see it advertised regular 249.00 on sale for 199.00!!!! lol maybe if I wait another month it'll be regular 199.00 on sale for 149.00

Yeah, I know. But any way you look at it a portable colour fishfinder for under $150 is a pretty good deal.

If I didn't have over 1/2 a dozen finders already I would get one.

I see it's $349 and $139 pricing down south for yoose guys.

Eagle FishEasy 350C Fishfinder Portable

An even better deal is the Eagle colour fish finder SKU# 79-8535-4 regularly $367.49 on for $146.99!!!!

Great deal on an entry level colour finder.

I pull my Ranger 175VS with a 2002 Chevy Trailblazer without any issues at all. Lots of power and pretty decent on gas too!

 

Do us all a favour... buy domestic!!!

Yep, Like Toyota or Honda.

Toyota: Made in America

Honda: Made in America

I would rather have it cooler too.

A little snow and I would be ripping around town on my sled as well.

 

 

Hope your dog's alright...and I hope you gave him his doggy treat for that display of heroism.

Me thinks you owe him a chunk of brisket.

Ok, so I came across this site last week and it has some pretty funny stuff on it.

Why you don't ask a disgruntled graphic designer to help you find your lost cat.

This is just the first in a long list of funny stuff.

Enjoy!!!!

I bought a 6pack of Old Mill at the Ramada across from MLG during the beer strike and paid $22. That stands as the most ripped off I've ever been.

You want to feel ripped off on a daily basis move to the NWT!!!

We are being hosed $64 for a two four.

I don't drink much any more.

Hey Dave, your tach says you're doing 1100 RPM sitting on the table.

That's not an ordinary table.

It's one of the new V4 powered kitchen tables and it was idling at the time the photo was shot.

It idles fairly high due to the agressive cam I installed.