dave524

Where I worked we had propane towmotors, heavy rubber gloves, face shields, grounding straps etc., go to some filling stations for the BBQ and a 16 year old girl is filling with bare hands in jeans and a T shirt

In catch and release fishing, whether it is a personal decision or a legal requirement some fish are always going to be lost. Some that you think are going to make it, don't, and some that you think will succumb probably don't. I eat fish, so if it is in season I'll keep a deeply hooked fish, if it is a legal requirement that it be released and it is hooked deep, I'll cut the line or hook.

Excellent pics, if I'm ever in the market for a trail cam I know which brand to get.

Is there natural gas run to the house?? I'm thinking going natural gas forced air heat with central air shouldn't be much more than that? Maybe I'm out of touch with costs

just finished picking up a lot of small limbs out of my willow tree that fell on the side street, went to the back yard, big one down there. Looks like I'll be busy hauling it all to the dump tomorrow

Awesome, that is actually a nice looking sheepie. Seems so many of the larger ones have lesions, cysts tumours, incredibly clean looking for its immense size, perfect fins and a nice colour too.

FWIW , dad taught me to turn off all accesories in the car when starting 40 sum years ago, like radio heater blower, lights etc., still do it in all vehicles. Of course batteries then weren't what they are today, fuel systems of that day were prone to flooding if it didn't start right away and today there is a lot of stuff that you can't power down. But it still makes sense.

X2, up your wire gauge on long runs and make sure you use fine stranded stuff. Stereo shops that do mobile installations are a good source, heavy gauge speaker wire.

For steelies and river run browns, I'd add a selection of San Juan Worms in favourite colours.

Thanks I was unaware of that, all the neighbours were out watching , he circled a long time, was not sure how many there was, really kicked up a fuss when he finally beelined out of here.

couple were probably below a thousand, up and down the lakeshore.

Lots of low level jet fighter traffic along the south shore of Lake Ontario here in Grimsby , maybe a dozen low level passes in the past 10 minutes ??

Lots of them go up the Niagara in the fall, also those backcross, mostly Laker Splakes used to run Georgian Bay Tribs back in the 80/90's. Used to get a ton of them steelheading in the fall but they were OOS after the end of Sept, shame too, they were very good eating.

I am very skeptical on this, noting the antlers are not typical whitetailed deer's. Look more like a young elk's antlers, possibly a domestic farmed red deer/stag escapee, but I seriously doubt it's a wild native whitetail. edit: or a shop job by some who doesn't know better

I've probably caught more Walleyes trolling a " Canadian Wiggler" than any other lure over the past 50 years. Originally the silver one piece style but since I troll Erie for eyes the last twenty years I like the jointed, chartreuse/green two tone or the Five of Diamonds in yellow red spots, they handle the higher speeds well that I use on Erie eyes and you can sweeten then up with a piece of crawler on the front treble. Probably caught the most pike on larger sized Mepp's spinners, but I don't fish pike often.

Beef up the tackle, get a skunk pattern flatfish or Kwikfish, work it back in under and around the timber on a tight line from an upstream position and hang on !!!

Remember those from the early years of salmon fishing, believe " Grizzly " was the company that made the most popular one. Ive still got a sailboat knotmeter that I ran for speed, little paddle wheel on a bracket on the transon generated a current that a meter on the console read in knots, 0 to 10. "Pelican" was the manufacturer of the one I had, this was all before the days of GPS.

Always found the first day it drops to fishable levels after a heavy rain is the best day to hit it, best friend a steelheader has is a boss or job that allows you to be flexible.

Never lost a rod, but believe me sometimes ten feet away in a lawn chair is too far when carp fishing, a few close calls when briefly distracted

I grew up in Niagara, back in the Original Six days, at one time if you lived in Hamilton chances were you were a Redwings fan and if you lived in St Catharines a Blackhawk fan, had to do with your local farm team affiliation. Lot of big name Blackhawks especially played junior in St. Kitts long ago. Remember Pierre Pilote had a string of laundromats in town back then. NHL didn't pay too well then I guess.

Being this is a fishing forum, the one I remember best was 1982 or maybe 83, fishing the Salmon Derby out of Bronte in August. One heck of a squall line appeared over the escarpment onshore, Bill Spicer was onboard with me that day, this was before he went totally fly fishing. I quickly started pulling lines and fired up the big motor, we managed to get to a dock in the harbour just as very strong winds hit and held on and tied up while the intense winds hit and quickly subsided in a few minutes. Made our way to were we had launched at that time and put it back on the trailer. The next morning there was a big write up in the Star, luckily there was a big charter fleet at that time as about three dozen smaller craft had been swamped and only through their effort no lives were lost. For years afterwards that day was referred to as "Black Friday" among the fishing fleet. Should have learned my lesson that day about the big water, but being young pushed my luck offshore on a few occasions even after that

We are all mature responsible adults here

done, very cool

The large white flower is datura or Jimsonweed, not anything you would want to ingest. It has hallucinogenic compounds and can cause severe illness or death in quantity, don't mess with it. Few kids get very sick or die every year fooling with it.

Very nice, appears to still have the plastic on the full wells grip and small extension grip. Is it 8'9"long or is it 8/9 wt line, see an 8 and a 9 near the grip? It would make a good steelhead rod should you choose to fish it. Again very nice score, I assume it was not overly expensive. I'd roughly expect it to go for $150 to $200 to a collector, maybe more in Japan.