dave524

Just tell you let a few rounds fly at it from your deer rifle, you'll have a bunch of squad cars and a SWAT Unit there in under 5 minutes

Built my first rod when I was living in Port Rowan, 1974. A 9 foot, seven wt fly rod for bass bugging. At the time there was a fly shop and general tackle store in Tilsonburg called Vance's or Vance Bros. For the most part they imported a lot of stuff from the old Herter's Sporting Goods in the states and resold it. I would think this rod was one of their kits, brown fibreglass and chromed brass ferrule, probably coated the windings with spar varnish or polyurethane . Shortly thereafter I started to deal with Lorne Green in Mount Hope when he was still selling out of his basement, Lamiglas and Fenwick blanks at the time, also was getting Browning Silaflex blanks from Johnny Raso in Welland, fine fibreglass blanks too. Had a copy of a rod building book by Dale Clemens, think it was a Christmas gift. First graphite builds were Fenwick HMG's and then used G. Loomis blanks when he started up on his own. Except for a few diamond butt wraps always preferred a very simple winding with a fine trim band, usually a wrap close to the blank colour with a turn or 2 of gold or silver for trim depending on the blank diameter and no colour presever for a transluscent look. Only built for myself, a few friends and family. haven't built now for about ten years and now that Lorne is gone and I'm retired not really sure where to go to get materials. Loved to go there, flex a few different blanks, compare different hardware, talk a bit, mail order just is not the same

Kaberle was playing for the Czech's too

This division in the ranks of sportsmen reminds me of this poem " First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me." Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) First they come for the fur hunters, then the fur trappers, then all hunting , then catch and release angling Tighten ranks gentlemen or we are all at risk.

When a buddy lands a fish, say " you're gonna want fries with that "

Sounds more like a bunch of bureaucrats trying to justify their existance and their budget. Looks like the women are assured gold or silver in hockey and curling, WTG.

they did step up the game a notch or 2 but the opposing goal tending was several notches below that of Miller or Hillier, going to be interesting, not going to run up the score like that in the first period against a better goalie.

I had an Sony Hi8 movie camera that had a 20 X zoom and an infrared setting, never tried the infrared at any distance but close it gave those weird colored nightime shots that you see on Survivor on their nightime shoots. Decent zoom but no image stabilzation so a tripod is advisable, they should be kicking around for a song now, might work for you. EDIT: some of the trail cams have a infrared setup, with deer season over maybe one of the hunter could do with theirs for a while.

Did Crosby play?? didn't seem to see much out of him

In a similar pinch, grab a tube of saltine crackers, roll them, still in the tube, to your desired size with beverage bottle of your choice, dip fish in egg mixture and roll in cracker crumbs, fry, works well.

3.99 105 s dave

Yes, Canada beats the US and Russia takes the Czechs, we have #1 seed. Unless I'm missing something

Yeah, I saw that it was tied to google by the logo, but, the last time I was on google it did not have street level for anywhere between Hamilton and Niagara Falls. Just tried google again and see my house there. Google has expanded their coverage recently, my mistake, thought the new site had better coverage.

My 82 year old father just showed me that site this morning, way better coverage at street level than google

Just got up and see the Russians went down to Slovakia in a shootout, getting very interesting..

Good sized resident Browns can be pretty voracious feeders after dark, frogs , crayfish and on a flyrod , used poppers more designed for panfish at times with success. ditto on the vacuum sealer, get a good one, pays for itself , not only for fish, home garden produce and roe , but buying in bulk meat on sale and longer term freezing.

I always preferred a nylon rope, being softer and more flexible. The stuff you don't want is the floating , stiff, often yellow in colour polypropylene ropes.

yes, very nice fish and the parking lot is so handy compared to the Niagara River

Horse racing etc. believe me they are working on those plaything , stroke your ego ? if you not fishing for food, just why are you fishing ? enjoy the peace and solitude? why bring a fishing rod? just as peaceful without Yes we are at the top of the food chain and the new p3ta thrust at our fishing tradition acknowledges that with their policy on catch and keep I don't represent them or their thinking, but I am pointing out the arguments and logic they are using, I've hunted 45 years and fished over 50, didn't get married till age 49 cause I was too busy hunting and fishing, probably caught or killed more game than most, only the messenger of their side of the argument.

I think most are missing the point here, this movement to ban C&R fishing is not based on whether the fish feels pain or whether C&R is better for the population of the species. They know they will lose the argument on these grounds, I dare say most animal right groups have more PR spin doctors on staff than trained biologists. Their argument is based solely on whether it is morally and ethically right for humans to reduce an animal to basically a plaything for our enjoyment or to stroke our egos.

Whether or not the fish feels pain or is traumatised by the experience was really not part of the argument. The fact was that once you remove fishing for food out of the equation you have reduced fish to a plaything for our enjoyment and that is morally wrong, not unlike bullfighting, noodle fighting or dog fighting. Want to play , get a video game or Cronzy batter

Regardless of whether it was wise, right or smart, the law was passed. Since when have politicians been wise or smart or even followed biologists advice. Look at the spring bear hunt, there was no evidence that it was hurting the bear population but it is gone and look at the consequences. Looked like, for the most part a cave in to animal rights types. Actually the Swiss have always impressed me as a bunch of straight up type people. Last I heard they had compulsory miltitary service and you got to take your weapons home with you. Not a bunch of left wing liberals.

This idea is not to be taken lightly, Switzerland banned catch and release fishing recently, surprised it didn't make the headlines in this forum. http://fishing.about.com/od/fishingontheba...Swiss_Catch.htm

The casting thing makes sense, yes had that unfortunate experience with the line as well. My first spinner, an Airex " Spinster " and my dad's main reel a "Luxor " both had a fine pipe cleaner like wire that ran in a groove around the bottom of the spool between it and the housing, kept grit and line out. My mistake, never owned one, just remember the profile from river fishing and all these years thought they were rear drag. Actually considering one as a shore casting reel for trout, am I correct about the reputation as good distance casters at least

This is also a good resource for Algonquin and surrounding areas. http://www.algonquinmap.com/