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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.

got an old galvanized one out in the garage, it's ancient, how long has it been since Canadian Tire used the brand name " Mermaid" for their own brand of stuff?

If you want to target steelhead with it, go with a 8/9 Hardy Marquis Multiplier, be prepared to spend some coin though or you may get lucky twice . Heard good things about the newer Pflueger fly reels too, maybe give one of those a try in the 8/9 class. edit : oh the plug is a small cork attached to what looks like a tiny silver pawn from a chess set, stick it in the female end of the ferrule when the rod is broken down, keeps dirt and debris out and would offer some protection against damage.

That's good , Hardy's of that vintage usually had a silver female ferrule plug as well did you get that ?

Good score, they are collectable. Friend of mine who is a fly fisher of some notariety is after a little 7 foot 4wt I have along with a 4 Hardy Marquis reel, he knows his stuff so it must be of some value. I got mine back in the very early 70's at Eddie Bauer on Bloor St. back when they sold fishing tackle and guns and real outdoors stuff instead of yuppie clothing you might want to start your research here http://fiberglassflyrodders.yuku.com/directory It was the first quality fly outfit I bought and has sentimental value, spent a lot of time with it on Spring Creek near Caledonia NY. and for brookies up on the Rocky Saugeen.

I really haven't specifiacally targeted them, but have had a few gar strike while fishing other species, I'd say they are pretty tricky getting the hooks into them good enough to land one, haven't done it yet. Low percentage fish I'd say making them my hardest to catch.

Crazies in Toronto figure their garages are for cars, we all know they are adult toy boxes

Sorry I stand corrected, my slug gun knowledge dates from the very first controlled hunter numbers hunt in Niagara in the late 70's, when virtually everyone that went out just used the old Foster style or Brenneke slugs in the favourite smoothbore cause that was basically all there was except for an iron sighted smoothbore barrel option on some guns though till the late 90's, when the 12 gauge slug gun had been perfected with developments like sabotted slugs, rifled bores or choke tubes and various scope mounting systems. A little research shows that this technology has now been applied to the 20 and it has definitely come of age as well as a slug gun in the last 10 years. While most of the guys I hunted with used hi tech slug guns, I most often carried an also legal black powder rifle having shot deer with them previous to the start of the gun deer hunts in Niagara.

Thanks to the almighty that I retired a couple of years ago and am now a 1 vehicle family, for the past 25 or so years, my boat has always been in the garage and both vehicles sat outside. Can honestly say my single car garage has never seen a vehicle in the 26 years I've lived here.

Yes , but they are smaller of course, and the effectiveness, assortment and technology of them is way behind the 12. If you plan on big game get the 870 multi barrel combo with a dedicated slug barrel. My choice would be the one with a cantilevered scope mount over the receiver. edit : on the subject of recoil, many 20 pumps are built on the same receiver as the 12 the only weight saving is in the barrel and not as much as you think. A 12 with 1 oz 7 1/2 size shot trap loads ( an excellent choice for grouse ) may actually have less felt recoil then a 20.

If you plan on hunting nothing but grouse get the 20 and use lead, if there is any chance you may want to hunt waterfowl and that includes woodcock, get a 12 because of the steel shot regulations. Most of my hunting years were before the steel shot requirements for migratory birds, licenced first in 65, and the twenty was a more versatile gun then with lead, but now, you need the extra volume of the 12's bore for the less effective lead substitutes. also: can't go wrong with a Remington 870, with a 26 inch barrel and an assortment of screw in choke tubes, in what ever gauge you choose.

Nice Browns and Bows too, do I see another whisker again? good to see they are still popular on the river, I like traditions in gear, maybe just an old age thing

Handsome fish like the old school spinning reel too, classic on the rivers.