dave524

I remember my first visit to Honest Eds. First year student living near Varsity Stadium, Sept 1969, the one thing I remember getting was a toaster that trip, not a popup but one of those with the flip flap doors on each side that you had to flip the toast when one side was done and take it out before it got burned and unplug it to turn it off. Unlike Bigugli, I wasn't with grandma, we used to stop at the Brunswick House for a couple of 20 cent drafts, that is another fine old establishment in the same area.

Strangely looks like a Moray Eel crossed with an Atlantic

There was a few years before the pin caught on, back in the 70's, where the superstar status was to be using a long noodle rod, usually some Lamiglass S-glass blank and a Shakespeare 1810 underspin closed face reel. We were all disciples of the Dick Swan school of float fishing for steelhead.

I beleive the late Lee Wulff used to catch Atlantics on dry flies at times and they are not unlike our steelhead. My best bet is that he would have used the Lee Wulff pattterns of dry flies, bushy high riders, often variations of existing patterns. For those inclined to try for steelies on a dry fly I would investigate his techniques. When I was a teen the man was a living legend, remember old B&W TV shows featuring his exploits with very short fly rods.

OK, here is the way I'm wired up, have a DVD recorder now but it worked with the VCR before that. Take the HDMI output off the sat receiver and run a HDMI cable direct to the input on TV, it will probably be input HDMI #1 on your TV remote, you this for normal TV viewing, if you have hi definition I believe you would have to use this to get hi def. Also on the back of the sat receiver, you will see 3 outputs , one yellow (video) and a black and a red which are the left and right stereo channels, run these to the VCR inputs and then run from the same from the VCR outputs to the same inputs on the TV, this will probably be input AV#1 on the TV remote. OK, when you want to record, turn on the VCR the sat receiver and go to input AV# 1 on the TV. Set the timer on the VCR, if it works you should have the onscreen menu, also need to set the desired channel on the sat receiver and leave it there. Now you can turn off the TV, but you have to leave the sat receiver on and on the desired channel, If I remember right my VCR had to be turned off for timer recording, yours may be different, I'll leave you to read your manual for that. That should get you going. NOTE: you can't watch one channel while recording another unless you have one of the dual tuner receivers.

Sounds suspiciously like the same problem I had with my 97 GMC Safari. The computer was telling the transmission to shift, it would try but then go back to second, 2nd was the only gear to work. They hooked it up to the computer and verified that the computer was telling the tranny to shift, at that point they figured it was an electronic switch on the transmission that was fried, had them replace that as it all seemed to make sense. It actually worked fine for a day or two and started it again, finally figured out that it was just crud in the tranny fluid, try getting it serviced and changed if it has been a while.

I've used felts and they have the tungsten studs, they are good on smooth rocks even with some algae covering, what they are not good for is sub freezing weather. Step out of the water and the waterlogged felt freezes then you are in even more trouble. I don't wear them in the cold any more, getting too old to take a header.

Remember a guy had a Bolens I think it was , back in the late 60's, maybe early 70's, you sat on a sledlike seat behind the power unit which was kind of like a small tank with a steering handle out the back, it was an idea that didn't catch on. edit: was a Bolens, here is an old advertisement I googled http://www.adclassix.com/ads/67bolensdiablo.htm guy we used to ice fish with on Erie had one, hauled stuff well as I remember

You fellows would probably all be interested in this and maybe unaware that The Ministry of Natural Resources, ( back then it was the Department of Lands and Forests ) previous to 1968 used to do all their own training at a facility on Lake St. Nora near Minden, generally called the Forest Ranger School but in later years officially named the Leslie Frost Centre. I have many fond memories of this older facilty, not as a student of the program there but as a student of the undergraduate forestry program at the University of Toronto. Each spring, after the final exams, we would all head off there for a 3 week spring camp for practical field work. The undergraduate Forestry program was closed at U of T some years ago but a post grad program still continues. I completed my B.Sc.F in 1974. Some of you fellows may work with alumni of mine or maybe like me they are retired For those of you interested this link give some of the early history of Forestry and Fish and Widlife education for Ontario. http://www.frostcentreinstitute.com/history.html

Braided type lines seem best for this , what I do is carry a small dispenser of dental floss in my float fishing vest, it is handy and works well. Haven't come to any firm conclusion about whether the waxed or unwaxed is better. Also , The tip of my float rod, I wound a guide on it as opposed to a regular tip top for the increased diameter, this was a common practice at one time.

The population is cyclic, right now the coyote population is very high, it will crash and then the rabbits will increase, then the coyotes will come back because of abundant food and the rabbits will go down again , and so on and so on. Cottontails and jackrabbits ( European Hares ) don't really compete with each other, cottontails prefer brushy areas and jacks are more of an open field animal. Best place I found to jump jacks were open ploughed fields, they get nestled down in between the furrows and let the snow drift in over them. You could try looking for them in that type of field as well as in the hedgerows.

Is it not illegal to use an artificial light to attract fish? The cameras with lights could be seen as attracting fish if you have a baited line down as well. Maybe something for those with these units to research.

Nice pictures Rick. The biggest drawback of the point and shoot and I cut my teeth on the Nikon F's of the seventies, is the ability to selective focus. I guess maybe any autofocus, even a slr, locks on to components of a picture that are not the actual subject, leaving the main subject out of focus. I don't know if it is my 60 year old eyes or the limitations of the digital screen or viewfinder on a point and shoot, but I just can't seem to nail the point of focus even manually with a point and shoot that I could with the older ground glass screens of a film slr. Still the point and shoots of today, especially the high ratio zooms, are incredible pieces of technology to some one who started with manual focus , centre the needle exposure SLR's of the past. The biggest hurdle to using a point and shoot, is realizing where their limitations exist and then avoiding the situation or finding a way to overcome it.

Nice fish, that male in the centre is a football. The hat..... bet it's warm

Some other article it was said they can eat 40% of their body weight a day, a bit more beleiveable. Reporters

Initially I think you are going to find wing shooting a very humbling experience. Your best bet would be to go to a gun club, the guys are very good there for the most part and you would learn more in a couple of visits than you would in many frustrating attempts at learning on your own. At the very least, try to find a mentor that has experience, the learning curve will not be as steep.

The model airplane stuff is very stretchy, just like a small diameter surgical tubing, it actually makes very good slingshots. I have never sampled the wares of Princess in this dept but I know black stuff that is used for vacuum lines is not quite the same, just make sure it is the very stretchy material. Originally the model stuff was like a yellow covered surgical tubing , last batch was a clear blue like fluoroescent blue Stren. I wouldn't be surprised if it wouldn't make good snubbers for dipsey divers as well.

I use the slip floats with the small bead, for a stop I carry a small container of dental floss and just tie a mutliple wrap overhand knot after a couple of turns around the line above the bead at the depth I want and trim the ends, goes through the guides fine and will slide if needed. Edit: Also for elastics for postioning fixed floats I go to a hobby shop that caters to model airplane builders, the ones with the gas engines, and get a section of the fuel line they sell, chop it up with a razor blade into a few years supply of elastics.

It would still be a bit of a drive and I have never been there only had friends with favourable reports, but look at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, New York State and a town called Pulaski and the Salmon River, it is probably the closest good steelhead river that remains open as the flow is regulated for hydro power production.

Years later, I find individual good steelhead , the fish , the drift, the fight remain in my memory far more vividly than a good bass. Guess you can guess where I would be going. A big resident brown is the only other fish to permanently etch the memory. Never caught a really big musky, but I suspect that would do it too.

Good going on the fish. Waders?? At one time I used to swear by the Seal-Dry moulded latex seamless waders, yeah they were hot in summer and cold in winter but had some give and didn't give a lot of leak problems, haven't seen them in quite a few years.

That is a very nice buck, congratulations. Reading the story I was expecting to see a small spike or forkhorn when I got to the pics. Hope you get a chance at the real big guy next year.

Its probably older than most on this board but a Mann's Little George tipped with a piece of dewy works very well for this type of presentation.

It's really the municpal bylaw that is the deciding factor on where you can hunt and not hunt and what you can use, the only stipulation in the Game and Fish Act pertains to shooting across roads and rifles of greater than .275 in southern WMU's. Federal Regulations pertain to registration and the Migratory Game Bird Act. Some municipal bylaws downright prohibit the discharge of anything and some limit firearms to shotguns only. Some are really progressive and allow different firearms in different areas depending on the conditions like land use and population. This .pdf for the Town of Fort Erie show a lot of thought and could be a model for other regions rather than blanket rules for the whole area. I would urge anyone to actually check their own municipal bylaw for the actual wording and defintion of firearm. Fort Erie Discharge Bylaw http://www.town.forterie.ca/WebSite/tofewe...nting_bylaw.pdf

The wearing of life jackets from Nov1 to May 1 is a state law, The reciprocal agreement between countries is a federal thing and I assume on federally mandated safety equipment, I think you would have a hard time if stopped and not wearing your pfd.