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Guinea pig here. I was on that 'coldest corner in Winnipeg' many years ago during a cold spell in winter. People were saying how cold it was and I didn't feel the cold like I have always felt here in southern Ontario. Wasn't near as 'penetrating'.

Ya well... it'll be a 'wet' cold in Guelph but only a 'dry' cold in Yellowknife, so.... ?

Sinker says..."Right. Try calling the local police or fire department for an ice thickness report. Do you really think they have set foot on the ice anywhere? Do you think they even have a spud or an auger to check? All they know is stay off the ice. And try contacting a CO.....LMAO.....good luck with that. Just try it.... The only safe ice FOR ME is ice ive checked myself, that's under my feet, at the moment I'm on it. Any other reports are just hear say. " I say to drive way away to a lake without doing some research is silly when you can call up there to speak to people in the know. That includes as I said... bait/tackle dealers. Others mentioned may say where they have seen huts/anglers out on the ice. But still you need to spud and be careful if you go onto any ice. But you never know when someone will come to the phone that knows ice conditions or can advise who to call re where you want to fish.

I don't see why a member can't ask about ice thickness on a specific lake. If he is scared about letting someone know the lake he shouldn't ask or at least ask about a nearby similar type lake to cover his tracks. But really, if you want to know ice thickness you need call the local police of fire department close to the lake or a bait/tackle seller close. Or call MNR local office and try to speak to a CO or CO supervisor. Good luck and be careful.

Bet the name was also lovingly included on the collar. Doubt anyone would admit to shooting it then after realizing they would be hunted by the media. Kinda ironic in a sick sorta way. LOL!

That is just a 'non-typical rack. They measure them completely different than a typical rack. If you Google non-typical whitetail deer racks on youtube and look at the pictures you get some idea. Canada has many too. Also youtube explore Florida Maquis re the Venezuelan thing from another perspective. He is an ex-US soldier and has numerous posts about the goings ons down there. Oh, and the world record typical whitetailed deer is actually a Canadian deer taken by Louis Milo in Saskatchewan about 20 years ago and it is at the Bass Pro Shop in Vaughn right above the gun shop. A full body mount!!!! Hardly anyone knows its there.The most famous deer in history outside of Rudolph. (a reindeer I know LOL!)

Googled it and found in general... "Mercury Marine says it spent the last five years developing a new line of four-stroke marine oils, featuring three formulas designed specifically for outboard and inboard/sterndrive engines. The two key four-stroke oils in the product line have a 25W-40 viscosity rating, and are produced with either a semi-synthetic or straight mineral-base stock formula. The third oil in the lineup is a 10W-30 mineral-base stock oil intended for use in rope-start outboards because it’s easier to pull over in a cold engine… call it duck hunter’s oil." Here due to a generally colder climate the thinner oil is recommended. Since you musky hunt in colder weather at times I'd stay with the 10W30 thinner oil.

I'd go to NAPA and ask who they'd recommend to do it for cash. Lots of backyard guys with garages to do it for much less than dealer or other expensive wrenches. I've been told rubber nowadays has lots of vinyl in it. This is what we get, cracking and breaking/ loss of flexibility. You've already got $560. into it. To sell the truck with low oil pressure means you're either going to fool someone or you are going to take a big hit on resale value. Oh and I drove a few old vehicles and Dura Lube helped them all last/stop passing oil quite a bit. Be thankful for Youtube for the advice that looks so promising. $1500. even sounds good at 350,000km.. If you just drive it til it drops you'll constantly be thinking and worrying about the problem. When will it happen? Where will you be stranded with a scrap truck? Better to get the seal replaced. Either it is fixed or you know you've tried.

As long as you shoot up and in an inland direction there should be no issue. But common sense should be used for sure. Maybe eagles or other species would visit to eat hat's left after the shooters have left. So I agree steel is best.

Going forward with the proposed Bill means we are stuck with the cormies. UNLESS under it shooters can descend on the rookeries and scare off the adults and blast the nests during breeding season. I will work with anyone here on this. I have a boat. Would rather use lead. Maybe since we are shooting nests we can do this.

Aerial spraying of a percentage of nests would be how gov't would do it if forced to do it themselves. But again, what impact on other species would be a concern. Fake eggs replacing the wild ones is also good idea, but to get into the nests is the general problem. That's why the lead-shot idea came to mind.

Shane, you like shooting and eating ducks and geese. You also enjoy walleye, musky fishing and eating among other things like crappie and turkey and deer... Hard enough time getting out there for these. To spend the money on dekes, steel shot and to find the time to chase cormies...... Few could/would do it. I sure wouldn't. But I'd sure be happy to enlist as a volunteer for MNR/DFO/CWS to take my old lead shot rounds and join a group to blast nests for a bit. You want to go shoot them? No problem with me. But to look at the proposed Bill vs common sense IS a big difference re getting the numbers under control. IMO as said these birds aren't dumb fly-through young migrants like many of the waterfowl we shoot. They learn quick from what I've seen. Some heros will go and shoot a bunch and brag...... enter the antis. If you and the few others who would carve or buy cormie dekes and then find the time to DISCRETELY (no pictures) shoot some, fine. IMHO this sure it won't do the job. I bet some would even pay to be on a guided cormie hunt. But in general terms the gov't needs to be honest and to be going with a better solution than to put heat on hunters.

Anyone who knows anything about waterfowl hunting knows it's near impossible to shoot many in a short period of time. All the armchair cormie killers here can find this out at any time. Just go and 'make believe' you are hunting them. Then say how many shots you'd have got inside of... 40 yards/metres. Keep in mind a few dozen per outting per hunter among allot of other hunters is what is needed at a minimum to get a local pop'n down a wee bit. Go, then tell us how you did. IMHO not enough to harm the local pop'n even if multiplied by 100. Layout boats circling where they roost is probably best. They'd be low to the water. Still that's allot of layout boats and which only allow shooting about 110 degrees around. Once the birds learn then odds get way worse. These are smart animals.

I recall in the 1980's there was serious concern that the cormies would disappear. Huge media uproar happened when some drowned in commercial fishing nets around Bay of Quinte. Well IMHO that pop'n crash may have been from the DDT/mirex/? that was found to be thinning eagle eggs. A resulting ban on the egg-thinning stuff may be why the cormies have exploded. Or perhaps this and the usual case of a pop'n crash due to disease that flows through it. But to try and genetically engineer a solution may be bad for other species if in a consumable format. (Eagles and such also eat same stuff). To capture and introduce a genetic modifier to birds would be a long-term solution since the treated birds would be unable to affect the breeding of other birds. I suppose a spray treatment of nests may be able to get into their system, but again, eagles, osprey, other species landing on the nests would also be affected. The best way to 'treat' the nests is to have shotgun pellets go through. AND since the nests are being shot then no need for steel shot. Volunteers/wild-life officers can dig out the old #4 shot and use full chokes to easily destroy/perforate 'the nests'. Also from what I hear the cormies do not like being disturbed and so the adults leave before the roost is arrived at. They can return to twig-infused omelettes. The Feds just need to pass regs allowing such 'treatment' of nests. Hey and this is just off the top of my head. Anyone in wild-life management paid by taxpayers should be able to fine-tune the idea. Maybe they already have a plan that they quietly want but are afraid to go forward with. Biggest concern to me is that many wild-life management people are into the 'let's get nature back the way it was' mindset. They want nature to take its course and not control native species like the cormies. This is who is standing in the way of anything being done. These are the folks who are denying the cormie impact of fisheries. They are happy to lie about things to attain their end objective. Their mantra is "The end justifies the means'. Politicians/Ministers need to know the truth about what is going on. They won't get it from their underlings.

Oh and the same net-canon devices could easily be set up on the rocks the birds frequent. Used them on turkeys so why not cormies? Hunters/anglers/others could still serve as volunteers to help gov't officers do the work. Good way of screening the 'I wanna shoot sumfin!' weirdos out of the volunteer helpers would be to make them aware that before they get to 'shoot sumfin' they must dispatch a certain number of the trapped birds humanely by hand. Hopefully some gov't types in positions of authority read this and can get some perspective on what to do. Heck right now many municipalities are quietly kerosening Canada Goose eggs.

Dumb idea. Too little too late. All it will do is further lower the image of hunters as mean-spirited killers with no regard for life. The antis will eat this up and proudly show any and all piles of dead birds they can track down. The answer isn't just shooting but rather the destruction of eggs/nest shooting their tree nests. OMNR and DFO should be doing this quietly. I recall when the issue of controlling deer in Federal parks came up and the gov't decided to not let hunters do it but used their own personnel. Guess they like shooting deer but not cormorant nests. Fed and prov officers should have a plan as to where and when and how to attack specific roosts during nesting season. It's part of their job IMHO. Rather they would lazily sit by as hunters do the work and take the heat. They should also develop means to use the carcasses perhaps as fertilizer. What do rendering plants have to say? Can they use carcasses for something? Has gov't even bothered to research any of this? Deer hides are collected........ and I know MNR doesn't like dealing with the stinky things. Gov't is playing hunters as fools on this one. On a problem gov't has been denying and hiding and is therefore partly responsible for. Wild life officers are out there anyway and should know where and how best to deal with the roosts.

Last wknd caught a 30 inch pike on a perch jig in 20ft. Empty stomach female. not much weed there and an offshore wind so water was colder and some minnow schools were going by. So might be a good idea to troll close to 20ft bottom for pike.

I recall reading about them at the bass pro website and declined purchasing once I read some don't work under a certain temperature. That was a few years ago but IMHO read the limitations of it before you buy one. I like late fall trips so the temp thing was a real deal breaker.

If any of the stuff the fellow says is true about rocks at 'Mudfossil University' on You Tube....... Who knows!

Looks to me like the seat was built into the 'bench' assembly and was likely attached from below before the assembly was dropped into the hull. Since you are replacing the carpet you may as well start tearing the carpet off to find the assembly attachments.

Before replacing I would just rebuck the existing ones. Might be all you need.

What a great report! Very informative especially about how to use both leadcore and bottom bouncers for lakers! I don't generally fish bass but that part was also helpful to bass folks. Surprised the lakers were caught so deep this early.

Grreat report! Love to see little ones getting out fishing with dad! Gave this recipe to TJQ at Lakair years ago. Hope it's still being enjoyed. To flour add salt, pepper, AND (don't be cheap) rosemary and thyme. Cut the boneless pieces into 2" chunks and deep fry. or bake.

shovel, tarp(s) and rope. Ax, hatchet, lots of batteries and flashlights/headlamps.

I think the main donor group is elder ladies whose husbands have passed on. The nice police will come to their home and leave with all the guns. Expensive or not she won't be compensated. Sad. They should all go to an appraiser and be auctioned legally if possible with proceeds to her or her selected charity.