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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

That would be the call of a Bittern, I used to be a park naturalist at Long point Prov. Park in my younger days, fielded that query more than a few times.

I'm betting on a Blue Jay too, they have one call they make that I swear sounds identical to the creaking of a clothesline pulley when my Mom used to hang out clothes when I was a kid, about the same interval between calls too as hanging clothes. Your desciption kinda sounds like that call.

Gotta second the gang troll suggestion, at my parents cottage nearby in Haliburton it got to the point where that's all we used, the numbers were so much better with them. Get a baiting needle, take a 2 footpiece of leader material with a treble on the end, insert the needle nesr the tail of a smelt or we used about 5/6 " chub, run it out thru the mouth and a half hitch to keep the lips closed and a slight bend in the body so it rolls , tie on a snap swivel to the other end and clip it to the troll, we used large hammered blade Les Davis/ Luhr Jensen trolls with a half chrome half copper finish, adjust speed for a rolling action. FWIW we caught most of our fish fairly high in the water column, temperature probes usually showed a distinct thermoline between 30 and 40 feet depending on the lake, month and wind, we found the most active fish just below in water in the high 40 degrees.

I still have a large one, little over a foot square, good for a gross of worms. Best bet is to soak it well, laundry tub over night. I've also ussed well wetted spaghnum moss as a bedding , not peat moss, keep the box and bedding moist and the worms will be cool through evaporation cooling. I'd be inclined to keep them on a concrete basement floor rather than the garage, might be a little cooler.

I second the EasyClip frames for prescription glasses, light and almost unnoticeable polarized clip ons. http://www.aspexeyewear.com/

The best two products I know of for keeping worms are the old " Oberlin Bait Canteen " and a bedding called " Buss Bedding". The bait canteen was a pressed fibre that was best presoaked and would keep the worms cool through evaporation, the bedding was a finely ground newprint by the look of it.

On the other hand , make sure you get it high enough that the kicker is totally clear when up on plane. http://www.garelick.com/product.php?pnumber=71057# I had one of these with an Eazy Steer , when I had my rig, there was plenty of adjustment to get it low in the water with a short shaft 9.9, but it was marginal to clear at full up, you definitely don't want it dragging under main power. Wish I had it mounted an inch higher at times.

You would have to go with dual filaments on the side markers and more wiring. Your request reminds me of one one of the strangest wiring snafus's I ever saw. Friend's trailer, the right turn worked perfectly but when he put the left signals on the whole trailer flashed, man we were sure it was a ground problem, a few pops, pulling wiring and hours later found it. He had replaced the left tail signal light with a single filament bulb where a dual filament should be, remarkably the contact on the bulb bridged the 2 contacts on the receptacle so that when the left signal were turned on , power was getting into the side marker taillight circuit. Was a real head scratcher for a while

The one I have is the middle one on the right hand side, the glo phlorescent green, it has very stout galvanized hooks, probably got it for pier casting staging Kings at night. Flatfish type lures were at one time very popular for salmon in the lake, Heddon had one called a " Tadpolly " I did well with on spring Kings, Luhr Jensen had the "Fireplug " a spring fishing staple in the late 70's, " Kwikfish " was popular as it handled speed better then the Helin " Flatfish " and my personal favourite was the "Canadian Wiggler " in the jointed model great on salmon and deadly on Erie eyes too, for eyes we would add a bit of nightcrawler to the front treble. There were probably others too.

Think it is an old Luhr Jensen " Fishback ". believe I have one somewhere edit: did the google thing, came up with this , looks like them http://s975.photobucket.com/albums/ae237/Old_Relics/Lure%20Displays/?action=view&current=IM007410.jpg&currenttag=Fishback%20display%20Luhr%20Jensen

Very nice, the pics and the poem. Fun knowing where a big one lives and how many times you can fool him in a small piece of water. The chinny really is a strange one, early run jack ?? a smolt that never went to the lake ?? its way bigger than most before they hit the big water.

Used them a lot for trolling walleyes in the evening, used the Gapen BaitWalkers in various sizes depending on depth with a floating rapala or a worm harness 30 - 36 " off the back. Google Gapen Bait Walker and there's chart showing recommended weights for various depths, these worked well for me.

Save yourself a lot of headaches, for the past ten years coming into anything at the Convention Centre, Air Canada Centre, CNE etc or even stuff like the Museum and downtown businesses I just drive from Grimsby to the Burlington GO train, hop on and get TTC tokens at Union station if required, not much more than the parking if I drove and a lot less stressful. Maybe there is something coming from the north that could work like this for you.