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  1. I have had good success with fenwick, shimano and St. Croix. They are pretty much the only rods in my arsenal other than a couple of old loomis and a coupl of sage customs due to the fact that they have honoured their warranties in short order!
  2. Ya man your blades are badly pooched!!! Buy new, keep em in good shape!!
  3. I wil believe it when I see it. Students are notorious rabble rousers who generally fail to show up when it really counts. Reliable as a poncho made of newspaper in a rainstorm! It is the grownups who vote on the basis of who is the handsomest and most personable, rather than on the basis of results. Those are the ones that will see little poo elected, and they are the biggest concern. As was mentioned above, one trudea was enough for this country, another one will see us straight into the toilet like the UK.
  4. I use the improved clinch knot for everything including braid and fluoro. The only time I use another knot is for joining 2 pieces of line together. For this is simply take the tag ends and line them up flush with each other, make a loop and wrap the 2 tags around the line 3 times and tighten it up. This works on almost any connection. The only difference with the improved clinch and fluoro or braid is that I make a few more wraps as they are a little slippier than mono!
  5. Your not alone. If I'm renting a hut, it better have a wood floor, and walls and a serious heater/cook stove!
  6. I guess I won't complain about my $70 a month gas bills for my little bungalow.
  7. I am neither for nor against, but I do wonder why? Good flavour? Allergies?? Thanks!
  8. Don't matter, they'll work great, pop em on a genz bug and wiggle.
  9. Nucanoe frontier 12, I have one too, it's an awesome boat. Sail carries them as well. They can take up to a 2.5hp gas outboard. I use mine for fishing and duck hunting. You can stand up in them without tipping as well. They have several YouTube videos, check them out!
  10. I do something that is nowhere near as high tech, and really I only do it for steelhead fishing, I record water levels, colour, fish caught etc by date. Really helps me decide where I'm fishing on a given day based on my own historical data. Works very well! Nice job on the log!!
  11. They are very hard to find, and I believe that other than etec or maybe the merc salt water series they are pretty much out of production. It's the reason I just bought a 2 stroke yammy. My johnson is still running perfectly, but I wanted the yamaha for some time now, and I knew the supply of new old stock was drying up. If you find one, grab it!
  12. I have a lifeproof case on my iphone and a cheap plug in speaker from costco. I only run the stereo when I'm sitting still, so spray isn't an issue. I wouldn't bother with a stereo install these days.
  13. I just picked up a 2 stroke yamaha, new old stock from the last year of production. I am a big fan of yamaha power equipment, and I've not heard many complaints about yamaha, however I wouldn't turn my nose up at a Honda that's for sure. I'm not sure how good the Suzuki dealer network is.
  14. I'd bet you would find some open water given there was a bit of a melt and the weather since hasn't been terribly cold. I havent fished it in eons however, but when we where young and stupid, and not old enough for a drivers license we used to go to erindale by train and bus to get a winter fix. Some of the faster sections would stay open in all but the coldest winters. I wouldn't say them fishing was great though.... LOL. Good luck!
  15. No of course not, I haven't owned an 8 inch auger in 10 years. You sound like a real tough mudder, happy drilling!
  16. 18 volt rigid drill/driver combo with 2 batteries, $180 at Home Depot, $10 for adapter, and the cheapy normark auger for $50, your at $270 and it is multi purpose. I get close to 40 holes give or take on 2 batteries through a foot of ice. You just need to fashion an auger retainer of some sorts to fit on the adapter! The ion is nice to look at, but it retails for $540 and reportedly gets 40 holes per charge. I personally could make more use of the drill/driver!
  17. While I would agree with you in most things like that , I can't on the basis that we have run off brand gennies for years at our hunt camp, and put hundreds and hundreds of hours on them. And yes eventually they fail, however it would surprise you how long they run before the Big Bang. Maintenance is the key with them. Most people who buy the cheaper ones will fill them with oil And gas and never look at them again. Guaranteed they will fail in an emergency. If looked after, run often, oil changed once a year for light users, and the carburetor run dry by shutting down the gennie with the fuel shutoff valve instead of the off switch, I have no doubt that most of the champions etc. will power someone through a week long emergency. If you are an end of the world type, then yes your right buy a honda but we've run cheap generators for so many hours without failure that on this I'd disagree!
  18. Well, it's his show, and if the network wants to let him preach at the end of it, so be it. If people stop watching, they'll drop him plain and simple! I don't get the angst over religion.
  19. Our local CT is sold out of most of these items as well. While it sounds like the CT clerk is a little off the rails, it does prove the theory that you should keep things on hand. Our local store was stripped of all these items within a day of the ice storm, and still isn't restocked!
  20. I was just using it as another opportunity to dump on artic crap, LOL!!
  21. Untrue. I once owned an arctic cat ATV. It was the worlds biggest piece of crap, and I was happy to tell anyone that'd listen!
  22. I always had good luck with Floyd Hales, but it had been a long time.
  23. What size battery pack on that? Nice rig!
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