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Me neither, I buy the 200 yard spools of everything. The one exception would be maybe Seaguar STS, but even then that's 100 yards, and it used to be reasonable. This is the only way to fly. Leader line spools are a ripoff!

You can’t go wrong with super sniper. It’s tough as nails!

Much as I don’t love boot fishing in creeks at all, I tend to agree with this viewpoint. Trolling big kings in the lake is an excellent time and one of my favourite sounds in the world is a wire diver shot with a 25 plus king at the end of it. I’ll take the river full of muddy boots and all that comes with it. That and I do love catching bows in the fall! By rights none of those fish belong here, but they all have their time and place! I take people into consideration when I see these things. Sometimes young guys get overwhelmed seeing big fish in small water. Some people view it as an easy harvest of meat at all costs (you may not agree that they’re fit for food, but some cultures eat dogs and horses and that’s ok where they live). Where I look down my nose is guys with 1k fly rigs lining them in riffles and thinking they are fishing, or dudes who have 20 years in the game running custom outfits and clearing snagging them (time to grow up fellas). Everyone else I cut a bit of slack. Our views are sometimes born of too much available wealth and opportunity. Some areas salmon snagging for residents harvesting meat is perfectly acceptable and legal. Killing is killing, at the end of the day if the intent is harvest for meat then how it gets done doesn’t matter much to the fish… they’re dead! Anyway in my life I’ve gone full circle on this over the years, from a 12 year old salmon snagger, to a steelhead snob and purist for many many years, and now I look at it with a bit wider lense, especially having spoken to numerous people of other cultures who do indeed consider creek salmon as good for dinner!

US immigrant, cameras shy, hasn’t got her visa yet. Made by Starcraft, yet again!

Found it, bought it. Tks

Thanks that would work for me entirely but a little less HP than I’m looking for! I still need to pull a tube every so often.

This worked for me once before here some years ago, so let’s try again. Looking for a deep V aluminum 16-17 foot. Very good condition. Honda/yamaha/Suzuki. Prefer newer than 2012 unless it’s mint. Trying this before I buy new.

Lookin good Barry! Nice pics!

All of my tackle is insured under my home insurance. I have up to 40K for "sporting equipment" and I clarified specifics as to what could be claimed in the event of mishap as I collect certain things that may be worth more than a shimano sienna. We also have a separate policy for our items up north. As for my boat policy, it's a separate rider on my insurance and has all specifics laid out for trolling motor, electronics, kicker etc. Any company should be able to do this for you relatively easily unless the agent is a dolt!

Great pics! I have a pic of a pair of Sandhills that showed up on the back trail of our place near River Valley ON, in the middle of the bush. It was the darnedest thing, not where I’d ever expect to see that! I’ll have to try and find it.

Good fishing! Nippissing sure is a factory for many species!

I guarantee crusty old boy won’t care. He’ll probably give you his business card and his Staff’s home phone number. There are no worse bedside manners than crusty old b@stards on their way out the door, and newly minted young guys who believe there is a world to be saving!

The tradition continues in our house! No Americanisms here!

Yeah, I hear ya every year people accuse us of bass fishing in the spring from a distance in pad beds. Yelling out “bass is closed”. I’m always waiting for the CO to show up so we can laugh our butts off when he tries to bust us for this big caper and finds a livewell full of crappie lol. I can only imagine what it’s like in a bass boat.

Circuit breaker, I'd recommend a minimum of 60amp. Princess auto sells them, but I've occasionally had trouble with the cheap ones. I generally spring for a minn kota branded one when it's time to replace.

I hope you are right. We have 2 older ATV's with carbs, and I run them dry every time we aren't going to be using them for a bit as a matter of course. We also have a late model Honda UTV and a Honda ATV that are both fuel injected. I never worried much about it before as we have a large tank and it's still half full of ethanol free fuel. Once that's gone, and we are on the corn gas full time I really hope it's not an issue because the bikes don't get run every week.

It looks cool, a little bit much bling for me but I’m sure some will like it!

Word on this street is yeah. I called both shells near to me, one said no ethanol in hi test, the other one said yes ethanol. I don’t know who to believe.

If your handy, just hang out a shingle and start doing small handyman jobs. If you can advertise near retirement communities so much the better. My buddy retired about 4 years ago now and did this, It's all I can do to schedule a fishing day with him as he's so busy. It was easier when we where both on rotating shifts LOL.

I'd suggest just dumping your personal facebook entirely. I did a few years ago when people where neck deep in pandemic pandemonium and I didn't want to read all the back and forth anymore, turns out I don't miss it much other than marketplace. I created a fake account with no personal data attached and a dead end email that I use strictly for marketplace and I use it on an old tablet at home. As for the rest of social media, I avoid it like the plague!

Under the roost tree! IMG_7092.MOV

Bow turkey this morning!

If your going to buy a cell cam, by far the best is the tactacam reveal sold by Cabelas. I make the spypoint cell links work in farm country because I get 100 free pics a month in the off season without having a plan, and the cell signals are strong. But they are dicey unless you have very strong cell signal. Once past North Bay, they barely work and only send occasional photos. The one camera I’ve been able to get to work anywhere with very strong signal is the Tactacam! If you plan to hang a camera on any public land, put it 10 feet up a tree on an adjustable mount angled downwards , you’ll suffer less loss. Do the same if your going to run one for bears as they won’t mess with them that way. Most of my cams are on private land but it still doesn’t hurt to hang them higher up a tree. Pics are just as good and less chance of some light fingered trespasser walking off with them. I pretty much only run cell cams now unless it’s just to monitor our atv trail. Once my current spypoint gear is done, I probably won’t buy any more of them.

Those are some solid looking tomatoes. I have to spread plants out pretty good or I get blight or some such thing. My thumb isn’t so green though. I’m better at catching than growing but I’d like to work on that. Im envious of these gardens! I love tomato, jalapeño and onion sandwiches! Jalapeños are one thing I can’t seem to screw up!

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