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The ones we want are the Seaforellen brown trout strain, they get bigger than Chinooks as of lately anyway

Correct Bill, we used open cell and it took a lot of searching in the housewares depts.to get the right stuff, a shiny translucent foam worked way better than the more dull opaque stuff. Never went to the extreme of vaseline impregnating it, just ran balls of foam maybe some sent and like I said when yarn came out it was abandoned.

This guy was a prolific writer on steelheading back in the 70's and the first place I heard of sponge vaseline balls many years ago, haven't touched sponge since yarn became popular with all the pretty colours in the 80's, lot less hassle FWIW here is a link for making sponge balls straight from the original horses mouth. http://record-eagle.com/daverichey/x75049104/Dave-Richey-Vaseline-balls-for-steelhead

You light it and drop it in the jar while still lit quickly put the lid on while still burning, it will burn until the oxygen is all used up and go out. If done correctly when the air inside the jar cools the lid will snap and seal with an audible snap and seal . No oxygen = no spoilage

I treat water hardened eggs with a boric acid solution, about a tablespoon to a quart of water, let dry without rinsing and store in bags or glass with air removed. They will keep months this way with just refridgeration. Boric acid is a non toxic antiseptic, fungicide and preservative that is used to treat everything from an eye wash to yeast infections and preserve everything from milk to urine samples, guess it works cause the eggs are sterile and free from nasties that will cause them to go bad when treated this way .

No advice on your purchase but let me congratulate you on selling a 4000 dollar atv with a plow to the significant other in the snow capital of Mississauga while I sit here with a stupid snowblower that won't haul ice fishing or hunting gear or get into the back country when it is not needed for the 6-8 times it actually snows enough to use it A gold star for your mancard

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