dave524

Nice report , reminds me of the many years my folks had a cottage in Haliburton. Amazing how when they got their place in 68, it was 10 years before I saw a largemouth, all smallies. Gradually saw more and more over the 30 years there, seems they are in the majority there now , even on the deeper lakes like Haliburton.

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Thanks for posting, your trips and stories are always entertaining and top notch. I think the critter in the rock crevice is a groundhog and not a beaver, fur is too grizzly for a beaver.

I like the jointed ones on Erie, they can handle a good speed unlike other Flatfish and Kwikfish lures. Big plus is that they last and last unlike some of the the baits mentioned.

is it like a car radio??? is there an antenna ??? if not maybe there should be one, check for a jack for an antenna on the unit.

You could go the famous celebrity route and go with the " Hamptons of the North " Lake Muskoka or Rosseau.

Just go to to your local shelter and pick one that feels right for you, maybe it will pick you.

Leave the whole cluster of flowers , this page shows what I mean by a sucker. There is a lot of discussion whether there is any advantage to this. My rule is sucker and stake my indeterminates and let the determinates and Romas go and cage them. http://www.agardenforthehouse.com/2012/05/de-suckering-my-tomatoes/

I grew Big Beef a few years, they were indeterminates so I would stake them and remove the suckers.

The Seaway Authority is not too crazy about people fishing in the canal, at least the part that has freighter traffic in it today, there is an recently unused section running through downtown Welland that has some pretty good angling opportunities and you can used unmotorized watercraft in there. Dain City is a popular destination and I've got some decent smallies where it narrows for a train bridge near Port Robinson. I said recently unused, that was about 1970, recent I guess is defined by your mileage.

Yes!!! always liked a heavy fly rig ( 9 wt bass bug taper ) for weeds , especially pads. You can lay a popper in a card table sized opening and pick it up without retrieving and cast to the next opening. I like to watch for movement at the junction of the leader/flyline knot for when to strike. Big saving making you own deer hair mice and frogs over what those plastic ones cost.

Saw this on a friends facebook page, name the song ?

You need to lower a temperature probe before even setting lines, few days of east wind you can see it 60 degrees at 80 feet in the west end. If so pack up and move to Erie for Walleye or catch up on the honeydo's.

Old school but I get quite a few on a good old jointed Canadian Wiggler. that or a firetiger Hot n Tot

I always thought this was as Canadian as you could get

Ok , wasn't sure what you meant at first by the swing, but again found a guy doing the BC swing cast on youtube, That usually requires a fair bit of weight both a large float and shotting to pull off, especially when first starting out. Not too popular here on smaller flows because of that, if you want to carry on with it up your float size and shotting till you get the hang of it.

What casting method are you using??? there are many, Youtube is your friend.

We need more posts, falling way behind the stoopid hockey thread, this is great, first went upstairs at the Coq d'Or to the Hawksnest in 69, borrowed ID, drinking age was 21 then. Had a Grice and Young float reel called a Coq d'Or just to keep it fishing orientated. edit: this is a good read for the youngun's who don't know the Hawk or the history http://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/read/historic-venue-spotlight-le-coq-dor

It's not quite as bad now, but when I first moved here, the shoreline was littered with chopped up plastic tampon applicators. Guess women flush them , the sewage treatment plant must have a chopper in its initial processes, but the plastic makes it through without decomposing and back into the lake. Yeah butts are bad too.

We have 2 of the 14000 BTU units made by Haier, they were both bought at Future Shop, one is 5 years old the other 3. They do a good job on our 900 sq.ft, bungalow with no central heating and have never given us a problem. edit: this is the ones we have http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/haier-haier-14-000-btu-portable-air-conditioner-hpf14xcm-b-black-silver-hpf14xcm-b/10234635.aspx?path=4b4cbe19a0b257afb0e836b94cfc4c2cen02

CTC has s stainless Brillo type pad thing that I use now after catching a few loose bristles on the grates.

Yeah , wife just mentioned the passing of Squire a few minutes ago, saw them once at some rink on Carleton St. about 72/73, great show.

This is excellent another version, very cool

he has the auto body shop I suspect, I'm below the escarpment but watch my speed every time through there.

Must be the small town mentality, we have the exact same situation on top of the escarpment here in Grimsby. As often as not they have radar set up there as well