dave524

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

Very nice, both versions. Seen those fellas crawling out of the water onto the snowbanks on shore, almost getting warm enough

this may be of some use to you http://crownlanduseatlas.mnr.gov.on.ca/

My three fav driving songs Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild Golden Earring - Radar Love Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen - Hotrod Lincoln All three guaranteed to get the pedal a little closer to the metal

Very nice, good open layout at the back, obviously designed for salmon fishermen by salmon fishermen. Good weather protection, my favourite in its class for great lakes trolling.

I didn't get married till I was a few months shy of fifty, ten years ago now. Worked to support my hunting and fishing habit. Usually had 4 weeks vacation, 1 week for trout opener, would take the week of deer season for hunting and the week previous so I could spend it in a motel room in Meaford and then the 3rd week of August was usually prime for staging Kings so that I would spend on Lake Ontario along with most days off from April through to the start of hunting and fall steelheading. I've slowed down a whole bunch now, domestic responsibilities and a minor health issue. Retired though last year, so picking up some speed again

Yep, just did the paperwork recently, going be one more starting May, gotta pay for my gear

If you're going to come up with a Walleye hoax, you gotta go BIG http://www.walleyecentral.com/humor.htm

Costco in St Catharines fills 20 pounders for about $5 less than the truck stop or garage here in town. I looked into a small tank, 5 pounder, some time ago ago to run a propane cooking burner on for day trips, more expensive than a 20 pounder They seem to be priced like AAA batteries vs AA, pay more for less.

Great looking buck. Is there any special significance to him sticking out his tongue at you ?

Before we got into all the downriggers and stuff we would get a few evening fishing out of Port Colborne just out from what we referred to as the east break wall, water would vary from 15 to 30 feet deep. With a predominate SW wind we would run to the east side of the shipping channel by the foghorn and drift towards Nickle Plant Beach along the east wall jigging with worm tipped Erie Dearie's. This was quite some time ago but probably worth a try if your close to Port Colborne.

The 90 would get 40 barely with just me and trimmed out right. Surprised on the tank location, the Sylvan had its tank back under the well at the back. I was primarily a troller so the front platform was used for little more than storage and a place to set a big igloo cooler. Console had a bench on the front with storage in it, also the seat for the driver was a good sized live well with a foam top and back rest that flipped so I most often sat facing the rear when trolling. I actually plugged the hoses for the live well on the exterior of the hull with removeable plugs and used it for tackle storage Unlike you, if I could have made any mod, it would have been to shorten the front deck a bit and move the console forward a bit to free up more room at the back, but I was almost always running riggers and such. Great that you can customize it just to your needs.

Your're going to love that boat when it's done. I ran its cousin a 18' Sylvan CC , 90 hp and a 9.9 kicker for the better part of 20 years on Lake Ontario for salmon and Erie for walleye and bass. Was hard to chose between the two when I was buying, Starcraft had the nicer console but the Sylvan had a built in 18 gal tank, looks like you got the best of both now. Good deep hulls for the big lake and easy to move around in. Looks like you are doing a great job on the refurbishing, nice rig.

Curiously, spring water that has been underground for like a thousand or so years, bring it to the surface and put it in a bottle and now it has an expiry date