Canuck2fan

Here is hoping Jesse gets away clean... Amazing show and it is good they are going to end it while it is still going strong. Too many shows hang around for that extra year or two and it just ruins the whole experience.

Lot of good recipes so far. Only one poster got the most important thing RIGHT. Always dip your fish in flour or the dry mix before you put them in egg. That is so the egg will stick to the fish evenly... You will be amazed at the difference if you don't already do this.

Here is how I do mine for what it is worth.

1 cup brown rice flour

1 cup white rice flour

1/2 cup corn meal

2 tbsps Lemon Pepper

1 tbsp Garlic Powder

2 tbsp Lawry's Seasoning salt (Like Porche there is no substitute)

1/2 tsp Cayenne Pepper (less if you don't like heat)

Mix all of the above in zip lock bag.

Beat 3 eggs with 3 tbsp cold water.

Pulverize 3 sleeves of soda crackers with some Lawrys in a food processor,

the finer the better.

About half of the first mixture will do 2lbs of perch fillets, so set half aside it keeps for months in a sealed bag.

Put perch in the first mixture in a ziplock bag and shake until coated. Pull perch out shaking off excess mixture.

Then dip in the eggs

Put the soda crackers in a pie plate. Then press the perch into cracker mix firmly and coat thoroughly.

This is important don't skip placing the fillets on wax paper and refrigerate to SET the coating for 20

minutes or up to 8hrs.

If you make sure they aren't touching you can even freeze them then put them in a ziplock for up to a

couple of months. (I always bread mine now then freeze this way so I don't have thaw and coat later)

Fresh or Frozen just heat up about 3/4" of oil in a pan and cook until done. If you using a deep fryer

and cooking from frozen set the temp about 325F so they will cook through before getting too dark.

I always serve them with dollar chips and maple baked beans.

If a miracle happens and you have some left over then have the fillets cold in a sandwich the next day

with lettuce, swiss, tomato and honey mustard.

BTW if you are feeding a gluten free crowd just dip the perch back into the first mixture and don't use

soda crackers. I have 3 family members who need them done this way and it always a hit with them.

CT's are definitely YMMV. Some franchisees are of the opinion that customers are an interuption of their work, where as some realize we are the reason for it.

I have two stores I go to. One is in the city where I work the other is in the town where I work. The town store is super small and they don't have the room to have the full inventory but they WILL order anything and bend over backwards to make you happy. One example is a customer on my bread route asked if I could pick them up an item since he knew I travelled by a few stores on my route. EVERY store was sold out by 8:30AM the morning the sale started. The town store owner heard me ask for the item shortly after 8:50AM he apologized gave me a rain check even though the flyer said NO RAIN CHECKS allowed on the item, because he said it was Bull that the corp had put an item like that on sale then only had 3 sets for stores his size.... Also, he said it might take some time or it might not happen because it was an item they didn't normally carry. Long story short they got a similar item in the flyer about 6 months later for 20% more.... I got a call saying if I wanted the different item for the same price as my rain check, it would be at customer service for me the morning the sale started if I called back by 9PM the night before. How do you beat that? I will tell you when I came into pick it up they had someone carry them out to my vehicle as I paid that is how LOL.

The city store has all the upgrades and a fairly new owner (who is probably mortgaged to the hilt) so they aren't quite as friendly or helpful. My favourite pet peeve there is, if you ask an "associate" (I just use the first 3 letters myself in reference to their expertise) for an item they will say I have to check the computer. If there is less than 3 on the computer they don't want to go look because of phantom stock. So you have to take a rain check that their own system they actually have LOL.

So if I need something from CTC I just shop in the town store....

^{Not sure about Turkey Point but the fish were scattered for the boats on Monday in the eastern basin. We talked to two or three boats who came in when a non storm threatened and we were out fishing them from the pier. The perch move around a bit and so the best advice is usually just to leave port and look for the armada. Even on Monday with few fish being caught there were still 25 boats grouped together out of Port Bruce. If you see 75 to 100 boats you are probably not going to have enough minnows LOL.}

There is decent small mouth fishing in St. Marys both under the old tressle bridge on the river and in the non swimming side of the quarries. In the quarries though you won't actually "catch" any small mouth until you think about what is happening, once you get the trick you will have a great outing. Take gulp alive leeches and small crawfish you will have way more action in those two spots than any place around the area with the water so low right now.

The most important tip I ever got was from my Grandfather...

If you are going to take the time, spend the gas money and other expenses involved to go more than an half hour from home. TAKE at least 2 rods and reels with you!!!

I have had many pals who constantly natter and chirp about my bringing too much equipment only to have THEIR trip saved by my having another setup they could use when theirs broke, went in the water or had line that had all but rotted off because they left it in the sunlight all summer before the fall steelhead season started. (Fortunately, though I have never needed a second setup for myself but I always have one just in case.) Also it is an EXCELLENT excuse to buy this year's model of rod and reel when I really don't need too LOL.

On a side note does anyone know of a fishing swap meet coming up?

It might not be the retailer's in Canada that are charging more... Some companies have Canada in a high priced zone and so even if a retailer wanted to price match the States they are unable to do so because of how much they have to pay the importer. Shimano lost my business forever because this used to be their business practice for YEARS and YEARS. Once I verified that I switched to a company would sell to Canadian businesses for the same price as US businesses, even less when the Canadian dollar was above par. I haven't looked back since.

As for duty/taxes I have yet to find a hard and fast rule except to plan on paying it because you just never know if the person running the scanner at customs had a wife who treated him right before work that day or not..... Although BPS and Cabelas are always delivered to my door for the price I paid at checkout.

I don't see a problem... LOL

Actually some fish might get up river and do their business, which is a good thing.

FTW Bass pro shops has what you want a decent price...

http://www.basspro.com/Bass-Pro-Shops-Crappie-Maxx-Pro-Series-Crappie-Rods/product/10210596/

I have the 8.5ft and the 10.5ft either will cast a mile and are super sensitive. I use them for perch and cast 1oz weights all day long so they hold up. I also use the 8.5ft for floating small trout streams. Caught everything from a perch barely bigger than a minnow to a 9lb trout, about 300 sheephead and numerous 20lb plus carp (why they eat the minnows when I am perch fishing I have no idea)

For a reel I like the small Pfleuger President.

There's no reason why you can't bottom bounce, chuck hardware and drift floats with the same rod... That shouldn't be very difficult.. No need for 8 different rods to catch steelhead, lol.

NEED? heck no want heck YES... I spent the first 2yrs fishing for steel with the Catera I mentioned before and it did it all well. Then I got a deal on a couple of Swan Company noodle rods and they ARE still a blast to use. Athough they don't chuck spoons worth a crap they do the float and bottom bouncing thing quite well. Then I got gifted an old school Berkeley 10.5ft piece that has been run over, dropped, left behind twice but it still will do the trick.... I then decided to get a small river float rod 8.5 for crawling through the bush.... Then there are the "mistakes" I bought along the way, with too much handle or not enough sensitivity. Anyhow I learnt a long time back to always TAKE 2 rods on any trip, after seeing friends have to stand there for a few hours till I was ready to drive them home when something broke or got pulled in by fish who were quicker than they were... So having a few to choose from helps in that regard although it definitely does not help catch more fish though LOL.

I used to love bass fishing at only one spot, where they weren't easy to catch LOL Then they outlawed transporting crayfish over land. Haven't went bass fishing more than twice since then.

Now I pass the time until perch fishing chasing chrome...

Make sure if you buy the ranger net from lebaron that you take the time to do two things to make it last.

1) Replace the nut on the top eyebolt with a locking nylon nut otherwise no matter how you try to tighten the one that comes with it will come apart in the water. Resulting in you pulling up the eyebolt and the top piece of metal and nothing else....

2) On the head drill 4 holes and use 4 small bolts with nylon locker nuts to hold the head together.... Other wise the pressure of dragging the net will separate the two plates of the head and you will lose one or more of the arms.

The above 2 things are a minimum if you want do more than 5 pulls for minnows or smelt. I can't count the number of times I have watched people take their new net out of the package at Port Bruce only to have it ruined by a lost piece after less than a dozen pulls. It isn't even fun telling them I told you so any more, after I explain what will happen and they should just borrow mine until they make the proper add ons to theirs, and they say it will be all right.... LOL

If you have access to someone with a welder that will work on the type of metal in the head, once you have the hole drills assemble the arms fold them down (remove the locking nuts though the nylon melts) and have it welded along the outside edge making sure you extend and retract the arms. I had this done on mine and have used it a few hundred times with no issues....

While a pain to do the mods it was a lot cheaper than buying the 120.00 nets for sale along the lake Erie shore by a couple of people. They are indestructable but you can still lose em LOL Another tip is to buy a buoy at CTC and put it on the rope just below where you have the loop for your hand to go through. That way if you do let it go the buoy will float up so you can stag the line with a treble hook on a lure. That 8.00 buoy has saved my net at least 5 times when it has been thrown in by people borrowing it....

If all you want to do is float fish or chuck metal, you are ignoring one of the best methods for catching chrome. Bottom Bouncing!!!! I haven't yet found a rod that does all three types of fishing perfectly and the only rod that I have come across that does all three very well is a Shakespeare Catera IM-8 11.5 ft with a michigan handle. Sadly they don't make them anymore. Definitely the best 69.99 I ever spent on a rod though. What makes it better than the other 5 or 6 rods I have as an all around rod is the fact that the last 4 eyes before the tip are single foot and all the others are double foot giving it incredible backbone and strength to drill spoons incredible distances. The tip is extremely sensitive so by changing the way you load up the rod to cast you can get great casts with a float and keep the worm on the hook. For bottom bouncing you can cast it far with a light setup of split shot and then feel the difference between a rock and bite as it bounces along.

I personally would look for any 11.5ft plus rod in my price range. The 10.5 or less I find don't have the casting power I want, without having to use way too much weight. (which can snap a tip off even the most expensive rod) Also the more weight and effort you have to use will tire you out that much faster if you are going to be out fishing for 6 or 7 hr trips.

However, if you can find Quantam 10.5 ft Michigan handle steelhead rod they are a good compromise, the (Scam)ano convergence 10.5ft with the michigan handle is a good rod too. The regular handle convergence or clarius is way too long for chucking spoons you will find it wrapped up in your coat almost every cast... or least everyone I know who has one does.

I totally agree parking charges for hospitals are out of control... When public funding PAID for and built hospitals the purchases included in most cases land for parking. I understand the need to keep those spaces available for patients, and their families and to do probably means some sort of charge to keep other cars out. That being said anything over 2 bucks in a rural town like where I live is just the hospital holding sick people hostage in my opinion. Everyone agrees visitors are beneficial and in some cases necessary so why slap huge punative parking fees on them?

Also as a person who used to work for a company that catered our hospital's executive almost weekly board meetings and other staff planning lunches there is a TON of wasteful spending just at that level that could be put towards to lowering parking fees LOL. Another easy way to save some huge money would be to stop sending out flyers 3 or 4 times a year begging for money, that 99.9% of which just wind up in the garbage unread.

Caught me a round mouthed harbour trout a couple of weeks back... Always a good sign of spring.

Have they forgotten that salmon die after the spawn and there dead carcasses feed the rivers

See now you just made the classic mistake we all make when trying to fight city hall. You have went and confused the ISSUE with facts and logic, and from past experience as right as you are it probably will fall on deaf ears....

I find that the employees at our HH make the difference. I would rather jab fishing hooks in my eyes that ever have to suffer through going into a Home Despot in my life again.... If I don't know EXACTLY where something is in those monostrousities, they call stores, I just personally have WAY too little time for having to wonder around looking for one of their "hot deals" only to ask 10 employees about it, to be told sorry not my section let me call "Fred." Fred must be imaginary because he or she never shows up LOL.

BTW alll in pricing is generally cheaper for me at HH because the closest Despot is a 40 min drive and they aren't giving away fuel these days.

USPS / Canada Post all the way for any imported items, both FedEX and UPS must be on some serious drugs when they come up with their "brokerage/duty" fees. I will never understand how simply signing a declaration can translate into a charge for 50% of the cost of some items with those clowns. USPS charges nothing for the same service and if customs here doesn't open it no fees are attached at all.

Incredible looking rod. Can't wait to see the fish it gets you.

To my amateur eyes not only is it fabulous looking but since it is a Michigan handle it will extremely functional as well!!! Can't wait to see more.

I never call in sick to go fishing... or for any reason short of being all but dead. I have called in sick 4 times over 35 years, as I read this I almost want to slap myself for the numerous times my work days have had perfect weather and my days off not so much LOL..

I have never been blessed with a job that has "sick" days or I sure would take advantage. Why anyone with the option of having a paid day on the water would waste a sick day being actually ill is beyond me. Use em or lose I would say.

Wow stealing a van with child seats in it has to be a new low... Hopefully you get it back in good shape. A good punishment would be to have the loser who stole it have to tow it in dog sled traces through your town for 10 miles while wearing a huge sign saying "I am a total degenerate." Then have him spent about 5yrs getting a daily "massage" from his 35Olb 7ft tall cell mate..... Unfortunately the system will probaby see the theif as the "victim".

Sometimes rose colored glasses are worn by vehicle owners.... Here is an example. A friend of mine had a 84 Ford truck purchased used in 86 and he worked it hard delivering milk. It had 747000 actual KM on it and about half of that again idling as the reefer would only work with the motor running, when he finished using it. He replaced the normal wear and tear items, one transmission, 2 fuel pumps, and the block because the harmonic balancer shredded. This was over the course of 11 yrs. In 1992 he purchased a Z71 step side Chevrolet, in less than 7 months it had to have a new engine and a shortly after a new transmission.... To this day he is a GM guy and fords just suck. He wouldn't own one if you gave it to him.

His reason was because the ford left him on the side of the road 3 times during that 11yrs. His pickup when the engine was going went into limp mode and he made it to the garage for repairs avoiding a tow. When the tranny went it wouldn't leave his driveway, meaning he wasn't stuck on the side of road either?

In short I take anything someone says about any vechile they own with a grain of salt... LOL.

My first car was a 67 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible I bought in 82. Developed some piston slap at 280,000 MILES so my dad said he would rebuild the motor. I get there to help him and the motor was still in the car, but he had told me he had done the top end, the night before? He said he took off the heads jacked the car up loosened every thing off the crankshaft, removed the pistons, replaced the 2 that were scored, did all the rings on the rest, WHILE STANDING in the motor bay. So all we had to do was jack the car up while he did the main bearings put the oil pan back on from underneath. I was skeptical but when he finished the compression was dead on for factory specs and I put another 55,000 MILES on it before the main crossmembers rotted out.... Now it would take more time to unhook the electronics on a motor than it did to fix and button up the bottom end of that 289.

 

 

I have been using the Raven line,and happy with it. Is that a super line? Cause it,s been super for me.LOL

+1

I even use high vis green for perch fishing so I can see my line easier after the 12 people near me cast directly over me after I land a perch LOL.