dave524

Being old enough to have grown up with the original 6, I remember a day 50 years ago when your loyalty went the way of your junior team , not your geographical location. Grew up in Niagara, in those days if you were in Hamilton you would have been a Red Wings fan, if you lived in Niagara Falls you were a Boston fan most likely , St Catharines meant you followed the Blackhawks. Back then players stayed with the same team longer, not like todays Leafs where I don't think there is a single player left from 4 years ago. Here is a link to the old St. Catharines TeePees of my youth, look at the list of NHL alumni to come out of that junior era, virtually every Blackhawk star of that era. I for one preferred it the old way rather than the bidding wars or however they play musical chairs with the talent today http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Catharines_Teepees

I'm thinking of trying a couple of the Rapala Hydros linecounters, seen some favourable comments around and the price is not bad. A 30 size for a braid dipsey reel and a 45 for a full lead core or a wire dipsey.

Do you still have it?? and what was it?? If it was some stamped metal Grice and Young forget it, but something like the older clickerless, non anodized, metal footed Stantons or an early Smith Stream Master bring it out and clean or replace the bearings, still running both of those from that era.

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Once you get into high end units over a grand, I seem to see mostly Furuno's on Lake Ontario with Airmar transducers FWIW. out of my snack bracket though

How about .... Colonel Saunders meets Capt Highliner..... swap out the fried chicken on KFC's Double Down sandwich with a pair of walleye fillets

Come on, be realistic, it looks like a Walleye

Saw that too, commented to my wife on that.

in the eighties it was only open Dundas to Burnamthorpe, year round

its a pdf file you need adobe acrobat reader, thought most would have it installed.

Years ago, when I was heavily into the shooting sports I built this reloading bench, as you an see by the detail shots the front lip is well braced for vise or other tool mounting. It is very solid and may be what you are looking for or give you some ideas on construction. http://accurateshooter.net/Blog/benchnrma.pdf

Just at an age when you need them the most and they're gone Happy with my little 24" 2 stage Troy-Built, but here we don't get much snow.

If you got the same one I do Billy , been running one since before there was GPS, never could bring myself to hang a 300 dollar probe on a rigger cable. This combined with the angle of the dangle of the rigger cables, hum of the wires and the way the little bubbles break off the cable I do good enough on speed. There are even local to you. Mine is the Osprey model, it is even self powered unless you want the light. http://www.moorelectronics.com/fishing/trolling/trolling.html

Ditto what he said

I can launch 2 minutes from home and have a very good chance of 5 salmon for a box weight of 150 lbs or trailer down to Port Colborne and have an equally good chance of 5 smallies totalling 30 lbs or 5 pickeral(walleyes) over 45, can't do any better than going north and spending fishing time on the road and boat gas in the truck.

Also this is not the first time that there has been a majour effort to reintroduce the Atlantics to Lake Ontario, the start of the hatchery programs in Ontario were mostly to reintroduce Atlantics , check the stocking figures on page 155 of this document. http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/stdprodconsume/groups/lr/@mnr/@letsfish/documents/document/mnr_e001346.pdf edit: page 164 , seems the adobe page numbers don't match the document page numbers

would this one work ? or there is one called "Troll Daddy" that has has hydraulic steering built in if you want to google for it https://www.adventuremarine.net/product-catalogue/index.cfm?ProductID=31&do=detail edit: here's a link to the troll daddy, there is one for swim platform mount and it would solve the steering question too http://www.remotetroll.com/products/wireless.php

maybe a new boat would command more respect

After 50 years I wasn't going to change same with Baltimore Orioles and Marsh Hawks too

Those long tailed ducks look like "Oldsquaws " to me

Gotta be careful though Craig, almost all of these small creeks, ditches and stream, many unnamed, close on the regular closer the end of Sept. and don't open till the l4th Sat in April, at least for salmon and trout. Think it is only Northumberland and Durham that states all water south of a line is an extended season, west of TO and the south shore it is only specifically named creeks that have the extended season, bummer

30 years ago when I first moved here there was much more flow year round and Chinook reproduction might have been possible, especially since the fry hit the lake before the summer spike in water temps. Doubt that any of the other species would make it as they have to spend a summer in the creek before hitting the big water, water gets too warm for them. Now they only really get upstream during weather like now and when the water drops they end up stranded in a few pools or beached. In the 80's several hundred made it past the QEW, Main Street and further, back then they was always a mess of dead ones behind what was Miracle Mart back then, Food Basics now. Gotta be lost stockers now though IMHO.

Lots of creeks, ditches and flows will get a few salmon, especially with all the present rain and the with the quality of the these flows, successful spawning and smolting of fry would not be possble. The fish going up these less than satisfactory waters would be lost stockers that were dumped in harbour mouths as fry with little imprinting. I'm pretty sure a wild fish, that was hatched, grew up and smolted from a creek that would support natural reproduction would be sufficently imprinted with its home water to return when it was time. If it runs into Lake Ontario and a fish can get up, they will try, seen salmon and trout in some pretty strange places along the south shore come spawning time.

They are not a native species but have been widely planted with a lot of older trees around in established neighbourhoods.

I suspect the ones you have are not the edible kind but the Horse Chestnuts. We did have an edible chestnut but it is virtually wiped out due to a blight like the Elm Tree. http://www.canadianchestnutcouncil.org/ edit: you have this one I'm guessing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesculus_hippocastanum