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Sorry Bruce, I'm a little sensitive on the issue spent 5 years as a teen farm handing on a mixed fruit farm in Niagara. When they banned Killex and Roundup I did some searching as I knew I had used a lot of similar chemicals, namely Gramoxone and 245T , the Material Safety Data Sheets and reports of long term medical conditions due to exposure was a real eye opener when all we had for protection was cutoffs and a T shirt Oh, we also grew a field of corn and a field of potatoes, you can add atrazine to my list of my exposure for the corn and we always dusted the seed poatoes with captan too. The Railway and Hydro workers I believe has law suits going for compensation for their exposure , they used to spray along railway lines and hydro cuts. I do have respiratory problems but only my say so on exposure and a long gone farmer. Hint : if you go the contact herbicide route, mix a little diesel fuel with it. It will stay on the shiny waxy poison ivy leaves longer and work better as they are contact herbicides.

No, just stay very far away from those names, please.

Add 245-T , Gramoxone and Paraquat to he list, essentially Agent Orange The right person may be in the military. We used Gramoxone on the farm back in the 60's, it killed everything very dead, now they say we could have serious health issues because of it , no MSD sheets back then

Done both, if the kicker is on the transom along side the main motor, the one Terry showed works great. If it is on one of those brackets you can raise and lower, then the EZ Steer is the better route. Just my experience Edit: I've only used the kind Terry showed attached to the steering connection of the main and a straight shot across to the kicker, they talk about connecting at the cavitation plate too, guess that would work if you had a bracket mounted kicker but would be a real pain to connect and disconnect.

If you expect to make any trips to Erie for the fanastic pickerel fishing there I'd add a 9 foot dipsy diver rod with a line counter reel loaded with 30 or 50 pound braid and a selection of divers. Not sure but this might be useful on Quinte as well.

In 1941 the name Walleye was still a pretty new handle for what was called most often a pickeral. http://www.ontariowalleyefishing.com/walleye-biology.html Fishing Lake Erie out of Port Colborne in the 50's with my dad, he simply referred to them as Yellows and Blues, short for Yellow and Blue Pickeral, the Americans just the other side of the Peace Bridge called them yellow and blue pike. Dad was darn good pickeral fisherman, he always trolled with a Pfluger " Rocket" trolling reel loaded with about 15 lb. monel wire, 3 way swivel , appropriate weight on a dropper and usually either a June Bug spinner or a Gibb's Tee-Spoon spinner with a crawler on a longish lead. He'd produce fish all summer even when others couldn't get down to them.

I think photobuckeet is doing some work on their site, many avatars have a message to that effect on several boards the last couple of days. edit: is this what you are talking bout? I noticed though the problem with overlapping posts in threads with pictures has returned recently.

You want to try something different, take a good sized Williams Wabbler, remove the treble and attach a fly like a wooly worm to the split ring with about a foot of mono separating the spoon and fly, had good luck at times with that combo from a paddled canoe trolling. The paddle stroke imparts a fluttering action to the spoon and attracts them, then they hit the fly.

I really didn't think I was fear mongering I just pointed out that a lot of the creeks with sucker runs are sanctuary water until trout opener. That big fat juicy crawler, actually produces more spring steelhead for me anyway than any other bait and yes if he tries drifting those under a float in any well known trout stream before opener that is not deemed sanctuary water and says he is sucker fishing, people are going to be very suspicious. A choice of water like the lower Grand with a diversity of species would be a better bet in this regards than a more strictly trout river.

On a day like today when the air temps are fairly warm and the water temp is 40F if you are lucky, you'd be surprised how much condensation you will get in an aluminum boat.

Check the regs for water that is sanctuary until trout opener and maybe stay with areas that are open all year for trout, as some for sure is going to question your intentions, maybe the law

OOPS Maybe not as identical as it was at first glance. I've been logging less than 8,000 kms. a years, fuel economy was not a big issue with me. 2 or 3 days a week it doesn't leave the drive. I'm probably not a good candidate for a diesel vehicle, as it stands I probably should be putting stabilizer in if I fill the tank, it lasts that long

OMG , it's a twin to the one I got 2 weeks ago, same year and colour My story is pretty much the same, old 97 GMC Safari, needed new tires, brakes, exhaust and probably a few other things. Told the better half we could put 2 grand into it and still it would only be worth a couple of thou or so, time to go shopping. Originally, I went to look at an 06 GMC Trailblazer, I have a 3500 lb cap landscape trailer and a 18 1/2 foot tinboat with a V4 on it that the 4.3 litre Safari towed well so thinking the 4.2l. Trailblazer would give adequate performance, alas when we got to the lot it was sold the day before. They had the Liberty for 3 grand less than what the Trailblazer was and only 52.000 klm's on it. Haven't towed with it yet, actually went this afternoon to the hitch shop but they closed at noon on Saturday ( darned small town ) I live a couple of hundred yards from the boat launch and only use the trailer around the area, no roads over 80 kph. so I'm pretty sure the 3.7l. will handle it, it's rated to tow 5000 lbs. , I don't expect to go over 3000lbs. Here's hoping we do well with them.

Nice coop, just make sure you use the finest mesh you can get. In my childhood we had chickens and rabbits, not many yotes back then and everything was fine for years but then we got weasels, nasty little buggers, not any bigger than a red squirrel but they kill for fun they'll kill most of a whole hutch or coop and very little eaten.

I used to order a lot of hunting stuff from the Cabelas catalogue, also an outfit called Gander Mountain, BPS couldn't compare to the selection and quality of those two firms. The hostile environment was mainly about the perception of firearms/hunting in the greater Toronto area. I recall 40 years ago, picking up my first varmint rifle, a Remington .22-250 at "Hallams" which was then on Yonge St. between Bloor and College, packed it in a soft case and got on the subway back to the carpark, try that today and you'd have a dozen cruisers and a swat team on you in seconds

I got one of these in the mid 80's , lives on the boat, I can put a salmon or trout on it and be within 2 oz of the weighin scale everytime. No it's not digital but it is IGFA certifiable and it still works almost 30 years later, I 2nd the vote Roy for a Chatillon http://www.chatillon.com/Our%20Products/Chatillon%20Weighing%20Scales/fish%26game_product/IN_SpecSheet.pdf

Cabelas has always impressed me as a outfit that caters to the hunting/outfitting crowd a little more so than fishermen, possibly they view the western provinces as a little less hostile social enviroment to set up shop in.

I operated a 2 hp Johnson on a bracket on a fairly heavy cedar strip canoe. Few words of wisdom... these motors often do not have a gear shift so they start in gear... Don't start at WOT or when the motor is turned sideways, be pointed in the direction of travel before starting . To utilize reverse you simply spin the motor 180 degrees... again a very low throttle is advised, depending on the stability of the canoe maybe not even advisable at low throttle.

I'd go with Rapalas J9 or 11's or other stick type baits, either long lined or off boards, stay inside of 20 feet of water. It will be a few weeks before the Kings start, they just don't seem to be there this early , even on the south shore, not sure where they are, maybe deep still.

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Sitting here looking at the folding trailer tongue thread , I thought, maybe it would be a simple task to pull the hinge pin on the folding tongue, guess you would have to have an addition plug maybe for electrical, not having a folding tongue trailer don't know if this is feasible, but storing the short hitch portion in the house would make the tongueless trailer even more difficult to steal. Maybe this would work

Actually I'd go 2 stroke for the weight saving again myself because I use a kicker for trolling, owned one and seen a few boats that get too heavy in the butt with 2 motors. Get 2 guys at the back setting riggers/netting fish plus the motors/batteries/fuel is often too much. Most often the big motor gets run only to get offshore, minimal fuel consumption anyway. I'd go 4 stroke on the kicker before the main engine, in my case anyway.

ARRGH! got one of those too, was a humbling experience backing it into the drive the first time. The worst part is trying to back the darn thing up in a straight line, when it's straight you can't see it behind the van. It's actually easier to get it into the drive from the street than to back straight down the drive.

Very nice rig My experience was if the 90, 115 maybe even 125 are on the same powerhead with the same displacement any gain will be very marginal, maybe not worth the expense. My experience was with the older 85 to 140 V4 OMC's, think they just upped the rpm the HP was rated at to get the next engine in the line-up.

No problem, for browns you are often close enough to shore that a shorecaster could hit you. Better to stay out further a few yds and run a board in shallow though. Start with J9's and J11's in natural blues and silver or maybe a chartreuse if there is colour to the water to start.