dave524

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

Full size GMC 3/4 ton, rear wheel drive 1979 to 1988 GMC Safari, rear wheel drive, more trucklike than your average mini-van 2000 to present Put snows on the back and extra weight if it is an empty box, makes a big difference.

named after a beer??

Labour day is fine, duck season is a few weeks away. GPS is good, take it, but you will need a airphoto to pick your route through inpenetrable stands of cattails. Point A to point B will not be a straight line.

What Fish Farmer said is true, stay out of their area. Long paddle out to there anyway, this area is open and is where I did most of my fishing. http://www.longpoint.on.ca/lpwa/SatelliteMap.asp

I lived in Port Rowan and worked in the park for a couple of years when I was a lot younger. The water level at that time was high so maybe things are different now. It is an excellent place to kayak or canoe, spring Bluegill and Crappie are excellent in the channels and ponds used in the fall by duckhunters. I used a light flyrod, white #6 maribou streamer for the Crappie and a sponge rubber spider for the gills. There is also pike, bowfin and LMB. Shallow weedless presentations rule, again, I used a heavier fly rod most with poppers, deerhair mice and streamers tied on weedless keel type hooks or monofilament weedguards. I liked the ability to set a fly down in a card table sized opening in the vegetation and then lift it without retrieving and then hit the next opening. What I strongly recommend is a current air photo of the area of the marsh you intend to fish and make sure you know where you are at any time. The myriad of channels and ponds are like a maze and with the high vegetation you are lost visually. There is more water to fish than the Park proper. The Long Point Waterfowl Management Unit stretches from the causeway to the park on the north side of Beach Boulevard , it would be all accessable outside of duck hunting season. Get a airphoto though, knowing which direction you want to go is useless if it is solid cattails.

It's my fault Solo, I treated myself to a snowblower this year. I actually was hoping to use it this time

Looks well maintained and very clean. Assuming it's in Kentucky, would that be far enough south to get a test run? The price is defintitely right.

Glad I live close to the Niagara River so if I really want to go fishing in the winter I can actually go fishing.

OK, I seem to be a generation older than most of the stuff posted, grew up listening to the guitar heroes of the blues/rock genre of the late 60's/70's, you gotta be a virtuoso on that Les Paul or Strat to get my ear. Gary Moore doing a rendition of a Roy Buchanan classic My favourite young guitar hero with his version of a Warren Hayes/Gov't Mule tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAQm2qWnYw...feature=related Remember the Leonard Cohen tune from the movie " Shrek " ? The resemblance is remarkable but the guy can play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIXhS5KbP98 " The blues is the roots... everything else is the fruits " Wiillie Dixon

This is exactly what my wife and I have found. Use one of the metal carafe makers now, keeps it warm enough for a long time and nuke it a little if it cools. For coffee, we really have enjoyed the Costco Kirkland Brand 100% Columbian for about 8 years now, you can make it good and strong without it getting bitter, price is quite good as well for a 100% Columbian.

They are still pretty common Niagara way, try the Niagara River or the mouth area of tribs that way.

Just asking, what really are the advantages of power loading? I've had a 18 foot aluminum with a V4 outboard for over 25 years, never power loaded or felt the need to. Just back in as close to the dock as you can, barely submerge the rear rollers/bunks, pull out winch line to about 1/2 way down the trailer, go to boat, untie, from dock centre hull between the rollers, keeping tension on the lead line off the bow go to the rear of the vehicle, hitch the line around the winch mast if you need to, hop on the centre beam of the trailer and attach the winch line, winch boat onto trailer removing the lead line just before the hull buries the ring in the masthead, hook up safety chain and go to the tow vehicle and clear the launch area before doing anything else so to not keep anyone waiting. I usually launch by myself. With an open mind I'm asking if there are any real advantages other than a few turns of the winch handle. I always viewed it as a potentially risky method, possibly some macho male rite of passage inspired by TV shows. Edit: as others mentioned while i was typing, too deep is a problem, you want the hull firmly on the trailer when you pull it out, I rarely get my feet wet standing at the winch at most launches.

I too, grew up in Niagara. My experience farming, hunting and as a naturalist go back to the fifties, my dad an avid hunter go back further. During the 50's and early 60's, reports of coyotes or as they were reported then, brush wolves, were about like the cougar reports of today. They were almost non existent. Deer populations then were but a fraction of what they are today, same with Canada Geese, resident Mallard populations were a fraction of today. Possums even were a rarity, though they seemed to spike in population in the 80's and now levelled off. On the other hand, populations of Ruffed Grouse, Woodcock and Ringedneck Pheasants in Niagara have plummetted. Controlled hunter number shotgun deer hunts in WMU 89 did not start till the mid 70's, when the population could support it. I tramped the countryside extensively during my teens from my parents house in Pelham Township, the same woodlots now have deer and coyotes were there was none back then. The increase in the deer, coyote and Canada Goose population in Niagara probably surpasses the increase in human population in the past 50 or so years. Even beavers are returning to Niagara, so much has changed in my years. The biggest change, is the in the behaviour of the animals themselves, far bolder, little fear of man. This combined with expanding human population into previously open areas and the increase in the population of deer, goose and coyote at the same time has created today's problem. The coyote explosion is very similar to the cormorant explosion, historically they may always have been here, but never in the numbers of today. I bet some of those who question the ethics of those hunting coyotes would be first in line calling for a cull of cormorants when they decimate the fish stocks of one of their favourite lakes.

Curiously, one of the commentators mentioned that the Leafs lead or are very close to leading the league in shots on goal per game, now what does that tell you? Looked like a replay of the opening game of the season. Out shot them that game too and still lost

You generally have the option of recording anywhere from 2 to 6 hours on a DVD RW with a DVD recorder. The 2 hour option will be indistingushable from the original TV program, the 4 and 6 hour option will be more on the quality of your VHS machine, increasing image degradation with increased time. If you can afford it , the hard drive option would be nice though.

Maybe you could cut a hole with a Slap Chop ? Why have a boring life ?

Try TSC, Tractor Supply Company not The Shopping Channel

I was faced with the same problem several months ago, our old Panasonic DVD recorder died. I actually have a Bell HD receiver that all you have to do is add a external hard drive to and it becomes a PVR. I went for another DVD recorder instead of the hard drive, specfically this one http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetai...8436&catid= because.... 1. Still have a bunch of commercial and recorded DVD's I want to watch 2. I can transfer my digital pictures to a DVD/CD for viewing on the HD TV, it also has a usb port so you can transfer them to a usb thumb drive as well 3. Sometimes we miss recording a program or 2 come on at the same time, I will download a DivX .avi of the show we need on the internet and put it on the thumb drive or a rewritable DVD for viewing on the TV 4 Got a video camera? You can record the camera to a DVD to save the video, even if you make the DVD of the camera material on the computer you can't play it on a PVR if you want to watch it on the TV 5 I like to save some TV programs, specifically concerts, with the DVD I can bring them to a computer to edit commercials or add menues, can't do that with a PVR, even one with an external hard drive as a computer will not recognize the format. 6. Of specific concern to me was the ability to play PAL formatted DVD of European origin in addition to NTSC format standard here, this machine will play them. 7. Got your sound system hooked up to the TV, need it to play cd's and mp3 disks Most people still will need a good DVD machine.

My high school had a rifle range, know of another that did as well. Mine was only used by cadets but the other school had a rifle club for students.