dave524

At this stage of life , couple months shy of 60, if I lost everything, I could make do with replacing my 1: Float rod and a good quality centrepin, steelhead 2: 9 foot 5 wt. fly rod, stream fishing the Grand for browns, specs elsewhere, crappies and gills in spring 3: 6 foot ultralight spinner and old Mitchell 308, concession and culvert hopping for specs, crappies and gills in spring 4: 10 1/2 foot steelhead spinner with medium sized reel, two spools, 8lb test for shore casting browns and 12lb. test for occasional carping. After years of sampling everything, this is what interests me the most now.

Would this person be the same who bailed you out when your boat was headed for the rocks ?

Caught a bat once, fly fishing after dark. Not really sure if it actually took the fly on the backcast or I sorta lined it, man, it was really peed off.

Black ones, white ones, more than likely a result of domestic dog genes in the mix, coydogs. Lots of shades of grey out there. May account for the behavioral change we seeing as well, way bolder than they ever used to be. My mom lives just outside of Fonthill, while walking her dog, a friendly pet runs out to say hello , the owners make no bones about it lineage, it a coyote mix. The shooter was using a shotgun, so I'm assuming the range would have been quite close, probably 50 yds or less. Other than a collar, in some cases your best feature for ID is going to be gait and behaviour . What's that old expression ? " If it looks like an duck, acts like a duck and quacks like a duck "

Wonder why the landowner called in coyote hunters to deal with a supposed coyote problem, livestock or game animal harrassment or predation ? By the actions and behavior of said dog maybe coyotes weren't the culprit.

Post a picture of a good fish here today and it gets viewed further away and by more people than if it was plastered on the front page of the local newspaper fifty years ago.

Wait till some of these fellows try salt water fishing with conventional tackle, can just about guarantee you are going to have to reel right

Their best music was before Keith Moon died.

When spinning gear was fairly new to North America in the fifties and early sixties, it was not unusual to see people that had been brought up using bait casting gear and cranking with the right hand actually switch hands with spinning gear and with the spinning reel on top of the rod reeling backwards to retrieve. Same problem, different era

Me three, of course with a high enough graphite content, it could double as a VHF Marine Band antenna

Might depend on how you hold a bait rig too. I learned to fish with the old direct drive casters with the pistol grip offset reel handles. Dad taught me to cast in the late fifties, he was a very good tournament caster, won a few T.A.H.A. competions at the C.N.E., before there was even a Sportsmen Show. He'd set up hula hoops and my favourite target, the lid off the galvanized metal garbage can, gratifying clang when you hit that, in the back yard , the competition was called " SKISH". Anyway, being right handed we cast with our right and like everyone would transfer the rod to the left and reel with the right, but instead of gripping the rod handle, the left hand would grasp the rod ahead of the reel somewhat with my palm against the sideplate. To this day, I use the more forward grip while retrieveing. To use my favoured grip while holding the rod with my right would seem to necessitate tranferring the rod to my left and then repositioning my right hand above the reel, even more movement. I use the more common today straight grips but still grip the same as I learned. guess I've just done it too many years to change now. Really this left hand reeling only started when fixed spool spinning gear started becoming popular in the fifties, before that everything was right hand reeling. The guys that grew up with spinning gear became accustomed to it and it's carried over to their casting gear.

For those of us that need bifocals to do routine tasks , last time I needed some correction in the top 1/2 as well and can't swing the price of polarized presciption glasses. I've been getting these for some time and been very happy with them. The clips are very close fitting, light and secure unlike most of the aftermarket polarized clip ons. Last pair is 4 years old and the magnetics are still strong. Look at the Easy Clip line http://www.aspexeyewear.com/

Disagree with the LCD graph, unless you are fishing on a flat bottom. You'll lose your ability to see your jig if there is any structure down there until it clears the top of the structure. edit: try googling " fish finder dead zone " or just look here, one of the better explanations http://www.a-guide-to-florida-bass-fishing...ish-finder.html

Small game licence, if I remember correctly, couldn't find it in the latest regs, you have to be north of the French-Mattawa Rivers to legally snare rabbits EDIT: after a little further searching "Snares cannot be used, except by the holder of a resident's small game license for taking varying hares north of the French and Mattawa Rivers with a snare constructed of copper or brass wire between 22 and 24 gauge. The opening of the snare wire loop must be 10 cm (4 in.) or less in diameter."

I'd be surprised if I totalled all the snow I've had here this winter that it would be over 4 inches. First snowblower in the garage and used it once to clear the end of the driveway when we got about 2-3 inches and the plow put enough to actually use it at the road. 59 winters under my belt and this is the least by far for snow. Bring it on, can handle 6 more like this.

The narrow beam will help as you see less of the bottom, what I think you are experiencing is what is referred to as a dead zone. This link will explain what is going on and gives a little insight on LCD vs Flashers in this situation. Read the section on cone angle, shows visually what I tried to explain. http://www.a-guide-to-florida-bass-fishing...ish-finder.html

You are looking at a fair amount of bottom there, depending on the cone angle. If in the area of view the bottom varies from 102 to 100 feet deep, the finder will show the bottom at 100 feet but if you happen to have your line set in the 102 deep area of the field of view you will not see the jig as a separate mark until it clears the 100 foot mark. Hope I am making myself clear.

Thanks,Good one got a second chuckle when I saw the ad for saline filled testicular implants at the bottom of the page

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.