Big Cliff

Welcome to the board, you will find this group a wonderful resource of information not only for fishing but on almost any topic.

This is a seniors community Lew so no kids locally. I use to do mine and my neighbors but it's just too much for me now. I have tried seven different snow removal companies in our area, I've been quoted everything from $950.00 for the season (up front) to $30.00 per but in a big storm they come once for every three inches so a foot of snow = $120.00. My driveway is barely big enough to park 4 cars and the path to my propane tanks would be about 60'. While I really don't want to do it myself, I really don't have many options. Christ, my driveway isn't big enough to even turn that thing around in lol

Anyone have one? If so I would love to hear what you think of it. I need to do something for this winter, I just got a quote of $750.00 to do my driveway and path for this winter and they only come if there is 3+" of snow. Gas ones are a pain to store and service, corded ones are not practical for my place as I would need about 100+' of wire. Battery powered seems like it might be a good option.

If it was by accident it doesn't count. Jk lol, they all count especially the first one. Congratulations 😊

Looks like a really nice rig, enjoy!

Dirt lol. Jk, for years now I have been composting all my vegitable scraps and anything else other than animal/fish protine (trying to not attract critters). In the fall I add as much mulched leaves as I can. This usually yields about 3 5gal pails of good compost every year. I mix this with a couple of bags of tripple mix and use this for my gardens. This year I used it for my pails and as I harvest the pails I plan to just dump that soil back into the composter and mix it back with fresh compost hopfully eliminating the need for buying more tripple mix. The only down side I can find with growing in containers so far is that they have to be watered pretty much every day so if it doesn't rain you have to do it via some other method. As for pros, easy harvesting, little or no weeding, use of space that might otherwise go unused and lots of fresh produce.

Bruce as always it was a real pleasure to get together with you and CPH. I always enjoy spending time with you guys fishing or just hanging out. Thank you so much for the new samples and for the gardening tips, both you guys are amazing and I am so blessed to have such wonderful friends. Can't wait until next time.

Well curiosity got the better of me and I decided to see how my potatoes were doing so I harvested my first pail, 4 about the size of a hard ball, 4 about the size of a golf ball, about a dozen the size of grapes and a bunch of smaller ones. 4 more pails will be left for later harvests but all in all I am quite pleased with the results and would do this again.

Scugog is still closed for walleye. Sturgeon Lake is getting a lot more pressure since they closed the walleye fishing on Scugog. You can still find them but the numbers are way down from what they use to be.

So this is the first time I have tried it. Started off with 2" of soil in the pail, seed potatoes and 2 more inches of soil. As they grew I kept adding soil and now the 5 gal pails are full of soil and the plants are huge and in flower. When should I start to harvest them for maximum results.

And there is the answer, "an old LG". It didn't upset me that it failed, what turned me off was that even though it was just out of warranty I couldn't even get it repaired.

Well, this is day 4 already, I've been too busy enjoying it to sit down and post. What a beautiful place! We are in The Point cottage, the view is spectacular, and the cottage has everything we need. It's been hot, 28 -29 sunny, with little to no wind and the lake is like glass. It's taken me a couple of days to get orientated, the lake is 12 miles long with something like 80 islands. Even with a detailed map learning which island is "cabin island" or "Ray's bay" was a challange but John (the owner) aranged for some other guests with 15 years experience to give us a tour and point out landmarks. Now I am comfortable running right down to the end of the lake. Smallmouth are hittin like crazy fight like heck and are amazing eating. Clear skys and calm waters are not the best conditions for walleye. There's no shortage of them, we have seen plenty and if you are willing to go out VERY early or VERY late you will have no trouble catching all the walleye you want. We haven't targeted lake trout, pike, or white fish and none of the other guests have either so no report there. This morning we went to a speck lake where the lodge has a small tinny. My friend Ken had grabbed two containers of worms from our fridge before we left. Unfortunatly there was only 1 worm in the one container and two in the other lol. We did manage to catch two nice specks, had several follows, and missed about 5 that took swipes at our spinners and didn't get the hook. I am amazed at the level of service here, new motors on all the boats, a beautiful pool (which is really handy when it's 29*c) everything is so nice and clean and they make you feel like you are family. Every lodge has it's pros and cons, I am really hard pressed to find a con here. I'll give this place a 5 star rating and you can bet I am already booking for next year.

I went to Drydan last year, Temple Bay Lodge. It's a drive in but I wouldn't suggest doing it in one day even in shifts, it's a long haul. The fishing was like nothing I have ever seen before. I didn't count but one of the other guests reported 19 casts, 19 walleye and I don't doubt it, it was one after another. Now, they weren't monsters but they were good size and very agressive. It was some fantastic fishing for sure. Not only that but we caught lots of pike, smallmouth, and even some great perch. A side trip yealded some of the best lake trout fishing I have ever seen. I am heading up to Chapleau on the 17 for a week. I haven't fished there before but Bordon lake has a great reputation and Chapleau Lodge rates very highly. I'll post a full report on my return but so far all my research indicates great fishing, awesom variety, and I couldn't find a negitive review that made any sense. The rates are good and it's only about 8.5 hours drive from my place.

Doesn't supprise me at all, you do amazing work! Congratulations 🤗

OMG, You never cease to amaze me, that looks amazing!

I lived on Sturgeon lake (Snug Harbour) for 16 years. If you ever want to fish it again, let me know. I might be able to show you a few spots😊

Last year on my trip with Mad Jack he mentioned that he has been fishing Chapleau lodge (Borden Lake) for many years. My best friend and long time fishing buddy Ken has been wanting to get away for a trip and one of his choices was Chapleau Lodge. After my conversations with Jack and reading every review I could find it looked pretty much like a no brainer so we booked it. Now the excitement builds, checking our gear, planning the food, the trip itself, reviewing maps of the lake, the route.... Just courious, anyone else fished the lake? Stayed at Chapleau Lodge? Any tips?

I just got another email that looks like it came from this site saying that there had been 5 faild attemps to log into my account from North York so my account has been locked and to click on these links to "secure my account " or change my password". It explains that if it was me no further action is needed and I will be able to log in again in ......... However I don't seem to be having any trouble logging in obviously. My question is: are these emails actually coming from OFC?

Thank you again, VPN now active.

Ya, the first two were text messages, all they would need is my phone number. The email I got this morning that looked like it came from this site , well, all they would need is my email address. I just deleated the text messages and doubt I need to change my psaaword on here and is unique to this site only.

Since my Facebook account was compromised I have had a few texts telling me that "to change my password I need to enter" (and it gives me a code number). One for my Facebook account and one for my Samsung account. I have already changed my password. Then this morning I got an email which seems to have come from here saying my account was locked because there had been 5 attempts to log in to my account from North York and that I should change my password. My account doesn't seem to be locked. I am just worried that these might be attempts to get me to change passwords that they can some how capture. Am I just being paranoid or is this another scam?

I just bought one of those new vacuum cleaners that does the whole house by itself. I named it I've. Now when I talk to ladies at cards I tell them that I've vacummed the whole house from front to back, under beds and everything every day this week. I got three marrage preposals this week alone. 🤣 Seriously though I can't believe how well this thing works. I like a very clean house and was a little sceptical, I am very impressed, it gets into places I never thought it would!

Wow, Big brother shure is watching! Thanks that is an awsome link, I was amazed at how well it worked. I went through everything and cleaned out a whole mess of stuff and apps, reset my password and should be good to go.

Thanks guys, password has been changed, hopfully that should do it.

Apparently it has been hacked and people are getting friend requests from me that I didn't send. Do I need to do anything? I did put a post on my time line that I have been hacked and to not accept any friend requests, got lots of responses telling me to contact xyz and they could help me but I haven't done that yet.