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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!

More deers

Some bears to the mix

The wildlife do love to showboat for the cameras! I had one Tom take 42 pictures of himself strutting in front of one of my cams a couple weeks back LOL

Nosbonsing is 1/10th the fishery as Nippissing. Rent a place on Nip, I dare you to get skunked!

Turkey hunting, it’s addictive!!! My boys and I chase them every year. No joy opening morning this year but we’ll find em!! A couple pics of my oldest sons last 2 birds, I like getting them on birds as much as I like being the trigger man these days! Try to adjust to the mouth call if you can. Super convenient and has killed me 90 percent of my birds. You shoulda hammered that Jake. You did well for a first hunt!

Percy is a pretty good small mouth fishery. I’m not sure how the pics hold up these days. Belwood would not be somewhere that I’d go for walleye. There may be the odd one here and there but the place is overrun with people and not at all consistent for any kind of fishing. I’ve always liked the buckhorns, and Crowe was surprisingly not bad last time I fished it. Rice lake while busy is usually a producer for pics. Hard to go wrong there so long as you don’t mind contending with weeds. Anywhere you go on opener will be a gong show for the most part so just keep that in mind!

My generator has had seafoam treated shell premium gas in it for 3 years. I just did it’s bimonthly check last week and it started up just fine. I always shut off the fuel and run the carb dry though. Im going to finally drain and replace next month, it’s been sitting too long. Now I’ve added a bit along the way off course from running it, but its all pretty old gas. Will it keep, yah I guess it will, but probably not ideal!

Deer cart, you can toss all your other crap on it as well and strap it down. Cruise kijiji, I bought a beauty for $50 2 years ago. It’s hauled out 2 whitetail and all kinds of other junk in and out of the bush when we can’t use a wheeler!