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Hey , that's how I've done my chicken the past couple of years, in gourmet circles it's called "spatchcocked ", usually brush with olive oil first and then a rub mixture. Maybe get one of those smoker boxes and try it next , thanks for the tip.

Thankyou Rick and JDM, I had no experience with inflateables and didn't know about the bladder. I assume camo floatercoats are still not legal PFD's even though the construction is identical because of the colour. Seriously entertaining one of the inflateables even though my boating days are over, not as steady wading any more and the reduced pension would cramp the wife's style if I went down

Years ago I bought a floater coat, good idea as I fished Lake Ontario solo a lot in colder water. At the time I also duck hunted so I thought the camo version a good colour but there was a warning that the camo version was not approved as a life saving device, enquiring further it seems that to be approved it had to be of a highly visible colour like orange or yellow, made a lot of sense from a search and rescue standpoint and I got the orange. Today I see a lot of vests, especially the inflateables in navy blue, green and black. My question, has the colour issue been relaxed or eliminated ? or are you still required to have proper hi viz vests in addition to the less restrictive, stylish coloured coordinated vests ? Also, vests were designed with size and weight stipulations, 4 adult vests don't cut it if there are 4 on board and 2 of them are small children.

Good one, reminds me of an supposed quote, might be urban legend but like to believe it is true. Back in 1966, Charles DeGaulle announced that France was withdrawing from NATO and that the U.S. had to close all bases in France and remove all military personal from French soil. Lyndon Johnson was president and Dean Rusk was secretary of state, the supposed response from Rusk was " Does that include the 60,000 American servicemen buried on French soil ?" classic edit: BTW DeGaulle did not reply

just a guess seeing you are from KW, you maybe fishing the upper Grand were the water is lower and clearer than normal now, stealth may be an issue now. You see it more often trout fishing but a bold visible approach to the shore, noisy wading and casting maybe putting the decent fish as they say "down". Watch how you approach the bank, kneel to make casts from shore to present a lower profile, pick lures or baits that enter the water with less commotion or downsize them a bit. just a thought

Border town, those that didn't fill up stateside probably are now with the increase in price

Actually, I was quite impressed, I expected a larger number of non target species to to caught and wasted.

Lone coyote yes, but usually there is more than 1, entirely different story then. One draws mama off and the rest make the kill.

Didn't too well at first with that, always missed them striking at the sound, too quick!!! wait till you feel them

I remember it, my family was at " Stricker's " cottages on Lovesick Lake near Burleigh Falls at the time, we were there with my aunt and uncle for a week, would have been 10 at the time. It was pretty unbelieveable at the time and still is, just a lifejacket.

Makes sense, especially as the gator would be kicking up a fuss going down. I thought that since a lot of snakes have backward angling teeth it would make regurgitating food unlikely.

Another vote for a kicker as someone who had a steering cable break long ways out on the Big O, was nice to unhook the eazi-steer and motor back in at 8-10 mph on the 9.9 and the tiller.

As a kid exploring the back 40 I once found a large Garter Snake that had tried to eat one of his smaller brethern, the smaller one was about half consumed, I assumed that was all the room before it bottomed out in the larger's stomach. They were both dead at the point I found them. Way cooler to witness on this scale I am sure. I would think it may be more common than expected, I think once a snake starts to swallow they are committed to finishing, not able to reverse, " never bite off more than you swallow"

or the classic Canadian made "C-I-L Wobbler"

Weasels are horrible little animals. Size of a red squirrel and will take a 10 pound domestic rabbit and only eat on the head and neck. Friend next door had rabbits as a kid and they wiped them out. Luckily it was an early spring and they got caught with their white coats on and brown ground. Time for the age old rural solution of the 3 S's. Minks are little larger, about the size of a grey squirrel and very good swimmers, weasels on the other hand I've never seen in water and they turn white in winter, called ermine then I think in the fur trade, tip of the tail stays black all the time. Edit: Weasels seem to be pretty agile in the trees , thinking back don't think I've ever seen a mink more tha a couple of feet of the ground , like on a stump or blowdown log.

Many fields especially in heavy clay areas are tile drained, network of piping about 3 foot under the ground, fields dry out faster in the spring and they can get on them faster with machinery. Pretty sure this is all this is, with all the recent rain the drainage tiles are just doing their job.

Friend had one of those Ram-X Coleman scanoes quite a few years ago with a 2 horse on the back, I felt quite secure in it, don't know if they are still available or how well used ones have stood the test of time, a little heavy though. Could be another possibility. edit : found this link but it is not quite the same, his had a aluminum tube inside down the keel and was green an the inside , the dimensions seem about right, at 43" wide it should be pretty stable but heavy as I said. http://www.coleman.com/coleman/colemancom/detail.asp?product_id=S16M010&categoryid=66001

check Ebay, they were a popular reel in the sixties, expect to pay a premium cause there is some collector status to them, basically they were a lower cost alternative to the Mitchell 300 back then. I would think you might be able to replace it with a more modern reel of better quality than what you would pay for a Cap now.

HMMMM! bells and whistles going off in my head, Terry, you didn't perhaps run a salmon charter operation on Lake Ontario back in the eighties, 40 foot Post Sportfish and later a 46 footer. The CB talk and the pics in your avatar say we may have crossed paths for a while ?

When I switched from a van to a pickup as a tow vehicle, I made some adjustments to my EZ Loader trailer via the suspension, there was obvious extra holes that could be used to adjust the height of the frame to the axle so that it sat more level with the increase in ball height. NB!! do this with the trailer hooked to a vehicle and good axle stands under the frame. The increase in ground clearance made trailering a little less of a worry on uneven terrain as well. Have a look at your trailer , may be some adjustment that could be made. edit: chock the wheels of the vehicle it is attached to , just for extra safety.

If it has a cassette deck, there used to be a kizmo that looked like a casette with a wire hanging out of it that you plugged into. Really don't know if they are still being made, but they don't need power as I recall, had one for playing a CD player through a vehicle.

Depends, stream and river trout fishing... early no question, big water like Ontario or Erie going out to the blue zone 10+ miles out, been burned once too often by a predawn calm run out only to have a white knuckle run in shortly after the sun comes up and the winds pick up, I now wait a bit there before making the run out. Bass fishing, had good luck at all hours, but my favourite time was when my parents had a cottage in Haliburton and I'd get up very early and slide the canoe in the water with a flyrod amd work the shoreline, not so much for the fishing but enjoyed the quiet and the sounds of the world waking up. Walleye, Erie they bite good all day no hurry, the same Haliburtion Lake, eat supper early and go walleye fishing till midnite was the rule, never figured out a good daytime pattern there in 20+ years in that clear water. Never fished much Musky but my limited experience on Pike says that they really don't feed much in the dark, figuring I wouldn't get up early for them.

The fly appears to be an Atlantic Salmon pattern, probably east coast origin, knowing the tyer would maybe add to the value. If the box is old and either " Perrine" or "Wheatly " there would be some collector value to the box as well.

its from a male fawn, google "button buck".

Sweet, I ran a 18 foot Sylvan, much the same hull but a centre console layout all ovet the west end of Lake Ontario and the eastern end of Erie for 20 years without a spec of problems with the hull. The 115 should be good I only had the last year Johnson made a 85hp V4 and was satisfied, had riggers and a kicker instead of the tow bar and ladder, but then again I was still single then