DRIFTER_016

None of the above.

Live leopard frogs kick

As far as I know they are compatible.

I'm researching new power for my boat and I want either a 90 or 115 4 stroke Merc with the smartcraft guages. Everything I have read say they are compatible.

I'm waiting for a call back from Power Sports in North Bay as I have an in there.

I'm pricing out 90 and 115 plus new controls, smartcraft RPM and Speedo plus a 9.9 kicker.

I also want a Lowrance HDS 10 and HDS 7 plus structure scan.

Wouldn't mind a new bow mount trolling motor as well.

I just need to go rob a bank to pay for it all!!!!

 

Promise?

 

aint midnite yet--whos dog is that in your vid Dave?

 

yours?

 

nice lookin pooch dude--ICEDOGS--there's a concept for a show-one of my dogs is truly an icedog- know only too well, unfortunately, what the loss of canine family can do to a man-you have my sympathies lads

 

Tight Lines All

 

Cheers

 

Paul

Yes Paul he's my pooch.

He's a pound pup I've had since he was 12 or 14 weeks old.

Here's my favorite two shots of him. The first is camping on the East Arm of Great Slave Lake last summer and the second is floating the Kenai River last fall.

You wanna stop it from chipping as badly, after you prep and before painting coat the trailer frame with rubberized rocker guard (you can get it at CT). It adds a little elasticity under the paint and it helps to cut down on chipping.

It is used to protect the rockers and lower doors on a lot of cars.

And as a bigger bonus it's 50% off right now.

Rocker Guard

Bump!!

Last day I will bug you I promise.

Until the next one.

Contest closes tonight so I hope I will be posting some good news next week.

Thanks OFNer's for all your help!!!!

I would get Chuck Norris to continually round house kick me in the face as it would be less painful than deaing with the rest of the 's at Queens Park!!!!!

Very well done!

The fish, the photo's, the scenery, and the video!

 

Good luck!

 

 

How thick was the ice?

Anywhere between 4 1/2 to 5 feet.

Bottomed out the auger with an 18" extension (64" thick) twice during that trip.

Thanks a lot guys!!!! Keep the looks comming.

Washington=

WOW, what a game!!!!!!

Not a Habs fan but I'm impressed with the way they played this series.

I don't know why everybody seems to be afraid of these bears so much. I've had quite a few bear encounters over the years and usually all I see is their back-end as it's running away from me. A couple times I've had them look at me. And then they turn and run away.

I actually look forward to the bears moving down here. Maybe they will keep some of the people away from my fishing spots.

I haven't had a dangerous encounter with a bear yet.

But at some point it will happen, it has to in the areas I frequent.

I have been as close as 12" to a 600# grizz and have been woofed, jaw popped and glared at by black and grizzly bears. I have had them sniffing at my tent in the middle of the night and fighting in a ravine in the camp ground and I have come face to face with a 1000# sow at 10 yards. It is very easy to determine a bears intentions within seconds. That big old sow ignored us completely and hug out right in front of me for almost a minute before ambling off into the woods (my hand was on my spray but I never felt the need to unholster it).

Another time 2 cubs came out of the high grass 60 yards away, followed by mom!!! It took her all of 2 seconds to see me and charge 1/2 way across the back channel and make it known that I wasn't welcome there.

I backed off down the gravel bar and fished with my head on a swivel until ma and the kids left.

I have had a couple of friends charged by grizzlies and it is a frightening thing for sure.

My one buddy was out hiking with a buddy in the mountains in the Yukon. A grizz appeared 80 yards away as it crested a ridge. As soon as it saw my buddy it flat out charged looking to kill them!!! He difused the situation with a .458 slug to the vitals!!

His buddy who was unarmed and standing behind him got a gret picture of the charging bear at about 20 or 30 yards just befor it was shot.

I have also seen a small black bear beat the living snot out of some idiot that was harassing it in a campground in Alberta. This was a small 2 year old blackie about 200#. The idiot had a bull whip and whipped the bear when it entered the camp ground. The bear didn't like this much and ran over, jumped on the moron and slapped him, then left. He deserved it and it was most amuzing to watch as the bear had him on his back and slapped him left and right with open paws.

So yes bears can be dangerous and unpredictable and this little London bear could very well have advanced on the cop and just because it was little does not mean "harmless".

Most people are afraid of the unknown and a bear in their community is something to be feared because they don't know about bears or how to act in bear country.

Done, done done, fabulous video, we watch the ice roads all the time, But like your version a whole lot more. send me a contact number, so we can get in touch with you. Cheers.

Thanks again guys!!!

Well, we have 2 days left and it looks good but I can still use your looks.

You can look once a day and it counts, anything more doesn't so please look today and tomorrow.

Blizzard just send me a PM.

im sure they will educate the kids about bear safety now. my main point here is that there hasnt been a bear in london in many many many years. this is not the norm. im sure bear education/control is about to change in southern ontario.

Oh ,but it will be the way they are expanding their numbers and range.

 

Personally I think every nuisance bear trapped in Northern Ontario should be distributed by a lottery system to a Southern Ontario county.

Starting with Queens Park!!!!

I highly doubt that a bear is going to get that far without being spotted earlier, same as with the one a few blocks away from me last year in Pickering, and the one a couple of years ago in Newmarket. To me a more likely explanation is that disgruntled hunters are capturing and releasing them near urban areas. People like these for instance.

MNR Density Map shows that the population of black bears is unfairly distributed

That's true!!!! There are hardly any in downtown Toronto. If there were there wouldn't be so many homeless people and pan handlers there.

done I guess we dont have to rate it?

Nah ,you don't have to. But it helps.

I'm in the middle of putting a video together for the next contest as well.

It's for you open water top water pike lovers.

I have a bunch of good topwater action that I need to edit.

Stay Tuned!!!

i just heard on the radio that police just shot a bear in west london today. thats pretty shocking news for london. i guess a lot of the boars from the bruce peninsula are moving further south to establish their own territories. pretty crazy!!

Yep, that's what happens when you stop hunting and the population expands unchecked.

FYI it was weak knee'd polititcians down in South Western Ontario that brought about the demise of the spring bear hunt, so all bears that show up down there should be forwarded to your local politician so that they can take care of the cuddly little teddy bears.

Pretty sure he's referring to his own personal dock. I know i swim off of mine all the time. And, have taken more than one fugitive lure off the swimming ladder.

Possibly but the OP said he was fishing in an empty marina not in front of a cottage owners dock.

It's comparing apples to oranges.

True enough but there are still hooks to set in waiting for the summer's swimmers. My brother’s personal best at his dock was about an eighty pound grandchild.

The way he's been trying to handle this; is by explainning about the kids swimming and then try and point the fishers to another spot, where they may have some luck; his neighbor’s dock. LOL

 

 

Dan.

FYI

A marina is not a place to be swimming.

Marinas are for boats, beaches are for swimming.

Thanks for all the inputs! Lots of anglers recommend U40 Cork Seal on another forum, this makes me wanna try one:)

 

 

 

DRIFTER_016, your rod looks great! Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil® Gun Stock Finish, is this the one you use? After sealing the cork, will it feel a little bit slippy and slightly harder? I really like the soft feel of cork in hand.

 

Spiel, I've never sealled cork before. This might be my first time trying. Read another post here and know you are a rod builder. Could you share some experience of sealing cork?

Yep, that's the stuff.

Depending on how many coats you put on you will get a soft satin to a high gloss finish.

That handle has 4 coats and has been sanded down with 600 grit between coats.

With just a couple of coats it still feels like cork but has a bit of protection.

Awesome guys!!!!

I have already got a use fer the winnin's if I'm lucky enough to win.

The first prize $$$$ will just cover my Alaska fishing license this fall with just enough left over for a nice Moccha!!!

Hey guy's I could use a little help.

The ice fishing video I made when my buddy Terry came up last month is currently doing well in a video contest it is entered in but I could use a few more hits before the contest ends on Friday.

So if you could see your way clear to visit and have a look, it would be much appreciated.

http://www.trophy-clips.com/view_video.php?viewkey=3a2b5af89203c2b78c67

I just use a couple of coats of Birchwood Casey gun stock finish on my handles.

Stock finish can be picked up at most gun shops, including Lebarons.

If you want the U40 product you will have to mail order it most likely.

Here's a couple of shots of my latest handle built on a Sage Z-Axis 7136-4 blank.

So I was out crappie fishing with my soon to be 3 year old son, who by the way is also obsessed, and we were fishing in kind of a small bay full of docks that you commonly see in trailer parks and marinas. I'm assuming the owner told us that it was "man made" and we were tresspassing. I thought that as long as I wasn't tied to his docks or bumbing into them that I was okay, no?

 

There was absolutely nobody at the park, and he made my little guy bawl his eyes out when I told him we had to leave because the action was hot, so the guy was a total idiot. Even if it is tresspassing I'm pretty sure if I seen a dad and his little 3 year old fishing in late april just before dark I wouldn't tell them to leave.

 

I'm sure others have encountered this and was wondering how you guys dealt with it? I'm not big on confrontations, especially with my son, so I just left and asked him if he was happy that he made my son cry. Haha, throw a little guilt his way, why not?

I gather you were fishing from a boat, right?

If so you were not tresspassing. You would have been tresspassing if you had been on the shore or docks though (if it was private property).

If it happens again just pull out your cell phone and call the police right in front of him to complain about being harrassed while legally fishing. The only way people like this will learn is if they are instructed by a person in a position of power. If the police refuse to do anything dial up the MNR and lodge a complaint with them.

Well, the opener was slow for me, but great for my friends...no worries... I needed the break from the everyday grind.

 

I caught this fish in a small trib off Lake Huron Saturday morning and there is some debate as to what the fish is.

 

It is either a large brook trout( for these waters) or a small brown trout?

 

What do you all think ?

 

Thanks

 

Splashhopper

Small Brown Troot.

What else is new.

Happens every year.

Sens blow a 3-1 lead and now get to go golfing!!