dave524

Born 1950, started cutting a few lawns grade 7 and 8, including a neighbour who had a very large fruit farm in Niagara. Going into high school he asked if I would like to work on the farm, made a $1 a hour, 11 hour days during cherry and peach season. At 16, bought a real nice over and under shotgun, came out of the same factory that Browning bought to make their Citori guns later, paid $300, a lot in 1966. By the time I finished high school had a lot of good fishing tackle, bettter stuff in some cases than Dad's. Got a 19 year old here now, unemployed, live in Grimsby ( fruit farm country) , I tell that story and suggest farm work and all I get is

I would also expect that seat is filled with level floatation material, another reason to leave it.

Just a thought, I would think the wooden diving lips are adding floatation exactly where you don't want it, on the bottom. Maybe hunt up some clear lexan or acrylic material and cut out your lip on a jig saw and epoxy it into a fine saw cut, could help with the attitude in the water.

Doing a rough head count , looks like a couple of Marlies are going to be called up to fill a few spots.

the worst part is who replaced Luongo in net and held the Leafs scoreless, he is still on the Leaf's payroll

I could see that the option to have your number made public, that is listed in the phone book and available on 411 should be made possible. A few people I know dropped their land line based phones completely and rely totally on cells now.

Very nice fish, that brown is probably the prettiest brown I've seen out of the Niagara.

Almost 30 years ago I used to have two and about 30 less pounds around the middle

Same here, alternating 12 hour days and nights, seven days a week for the best part of thirty years , then got on a Monday to Friday job 7-3 and 3-11 for the 4 years. Retired now too, wish I could have had internet access to pass the slow times at work Believe me and Lew, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

This board has a chat feature, its just gone for a bit during an upgrade, but its usually just a bunch of old guys Seriously, I think you are referring to Internet Relay Chat , haven't used that in over 12 years, beleive the program I used was mIRC and I was on dialup with a 14400 modem. Doesn't it have a search function for channels ? Sorry, as a old guy couldn't help responding, good luck and welcome to the forum.

I used to really like 2lb. Trilene XT, used it for steelhead leaders and on a Mitchell 308 for stream specs. Haven't seen it that light in years though. The stiffness didn't seem a problem in the finer sizes but I found it unmanageable on spinners in heavier sizes.

I think you will find that most match grade bullets are of a hollow point design, but it is not a large hollowpoint designed for rapid expansion but a small one because of aerodynamic stability and also an exposed softpoint is subject to deformation on handling and feeding through the action and this would affect accuracy. Edit: in most cases when a hunting bullet with a soft point is swaged, the copper cup that the lead core is place in before swaging has the open end to the tip of the bullet, most FMJ military rounds it is reversed the open end is to the back of the bullet.

From a practical standpoint I really don't think there is any advantage for angling, I could see a tournament distance caster reaping some benefit , a steelheader that used one for float fishing or some one who regularly used extremely light lures, but I would think any advantage would be nullified by the antibacklash braking system. To gain any benefit you would have to have the system backed off all the way and a very educated thumb.

I was born 1950, so I remember watching them with my dad when in high school. Every Saturday night with that familiar Imperial Oil/ Esso guy as the majour sponsor. On Wednesdays the game was usually in the second period by the time the network switched to it, 9 PM. if I remember right, of course it was B&W.

They're cannibals, we used to tip our small hooks and tiny jigging spoons with a small piece of an already caught smelt, the eyes worked especially well I've also smoked them, remove the rack from your smoker, thread them on cheap chrome skewers for shish kabobs by the tails and rig up something to hold the skewers horizontally in the smoker. If there is lots of them, there is no better place to take young kids. You'll never wet a line yourself, too busy taking them off the hook and baiting.

First pickup I drove had a push button starter, well it was more of a spring loaded plunger above the gas pedal on the floor. you had to heel and toe it along with the gas pedal to get it starrted, once you turned the key on and pulled out the choke. Yes things have changed drastically.

Back when I used to hunt coyotes and fox for fur in the seventies and fur prices were very good, we tried some hardball military ammo, full metal jacket stuff in hope that there would be less fur damage. From a humane standpoint I can't really recommend it, little if any expansion was good for the fur but we ending up chasing wounded yotes that would have been clean kills with varmint style expanding bullets. For the record I used a Ruger Model 77 6MM sporter, Redfield 4-12 scope when I was on a stand or calling and a Ruger Mini 14 Ranch Rifle .223 with a 2-7 Leuopold when I was driving or dogging. I'd stay away from the military stuff for sporting purposes on live game, stick to paper with it.

In defense of the Leafs, they actually have one of the higher shots on goal totals in the league, quite often in a losing effort they have outshot the opposition, finding the back of the net and keeping it out of their net is another thing

Yep, put out an empty milk bottle with the correct change in it for however many actual glass bottles you wanted on the front porch, like that would really last today Bread man , think we had a card to put in the front window if we needed him to stop. I do remember on Sat morning he used to bring a tray of different sweet type buns to the door Dad wore a suit to work, same job is now more casual, cleaners used to stop and pick up white shirts for laundry and a suit if it needed drycleaning. Man, she was some POed if she forgot to put the card in the window, she'd have to wash and press a shirt We lived in the country, had to take our own trash to the dump. But that could be a lot of fun, never knew what sort of good stuff you'd find and then on occasion Dad bring a .22 and a box of shells and we have a blast shooting rats

I remember before it was considered violent, probably because nobody worried about stuff like that yet

thanks for that, I've always wondered how a 2lb. hammerhandle pike could bite you off most of the time and a 5 lb. walleye so very rarely.

Donald Rumsfeld was briefing George Bush on casualities in Iraq and mentioned that 3 Brazilian troops had been killed. Bush's face went ashen and a few moments passed when he asked " just how many is a brazillion ? "

Used to use one all the time when I got my first boat back in the early 80's. Had a Lowrance 1510B paper graph and a transducer compatable Lowrance flasher on the console. Only used the paper graph when deep trolling with riggers, fishing smallmouth , cruising and looking for shallow water structure the flasher saved yards of paper and $$$.

Actually, I'm a bigger fan of British Blues Rockers, mostly older stuff but I saw this fellow last year and he is without a doubt as good as any of the guitar heroes back in the 60's and 70's, this is from his Royal Albert Hall dvd of 2009. Shades of Led Zep and ZZ Top with a Jeff Beck intro.

Why am I not recognizing a single name you mentioned