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    Been a few robins here all winter but this morning I heard my first Red Wing Blackbird and a few Grackles are back too
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    Yep, great lakes troller here , farther forward the better, that front platform was just a handy place to store a big cooler and the front seat hole in the floor a place for a planer board mast
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    Reminds me of the controversy of a record Rainbow, an escaped triploid in Lake Diefenbacher , years ago. Some stuff needs to be disqualified. edit: https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/lake-diefenbaker/
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    They have these safe injection sites where druggies can shoot up with fear of prosecution , maybe they could have an abandoned warehouse where the gangs could go to shoot it out and settle their differences without endangering the public, heck , they even supply free needles to the druggies maybe they could give free ammo to the gangs to help increase the body count.
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    Heard it said, maybe 30 years ago in the US, if the FBI was really serious about getting rid of the drug problem, the next time they grab a big shipment of drugs they would lace it with cyanide and let it back out on the street, simple supply and demand, no users ->no dealers. On the gun crime thing, since the 70's I was involved in protesting useless gun control, one figure that always stood out was 51% of murderers were previously known or had records with the police and 49% of victims also had records, probably not too different today, bad guys shooting bad guys.
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    They forgot to mention the Moon River Basin, back in the 70's a guy I worked with, won the old Molson's Big Fish Contest with one at 17 and change. Lot of big ones in the top ten from the Moon River back then.
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    One of these in your budget ? https://dirtwheelsmag.com/polaris-releases-the-rampage-a-truly-amphibious-machine/amp/?fbclid=IwAR3YjsVS-KiWAvIkc12Uq0TOnkmWvBD-v1ViaJZ536eebzII7Vw6-ZWU7U0
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    Just wait until cormorant season opens and a bag limit of 50 and you can let them rot, the press will have fun when a couple of guys dump a hundred cormorants and someone finds them 🤯
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    Years ago we hunted behind Niagara Christian College on the Parkway just north of the Marina at Millers Creek.
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    Had a '97 , the only mini van that was actually a truck. That 4.3 pulled like a small V8, I really don't see why they discontinued them , make more sense than these $50,000 plus Yuppie pickups that are all cabin space and no box.
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    Had it's cousin, an '88 with the same 2.8 V6, wasn't quick but looked cool with the T Top. Bought it for $3500 in '99 from the old gent neighbour behind me, sold it in 2007 to a friend of my stepdaughters, I must of got a good one, no complaints here.
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    Must have been different in Canada. we had both large and small block V-8's. In 64, there were 283 and 327's in small blocks, they increased them shortly after '64 to 305' and 350's. My 79 GMC van had the 350 small block with the 4 barrel Quadrajet and 4 bolt mains, dad has a '79 pickup with the 305. In '64 full size Pontiacs had 3 trim levels, base was the Strato Chief, mid trim was the Laurentian and top was the Parisienne. Full size Chevs were Belair, Biscayne and Impala in that era. Big blocks I seem to recall 454's and 427's, maybe a 396 too. GM in St. Catharines made most of the engines for the Canadian market back then. Before the '64 wagon dad had a 61 Pontiac 4 door , think it had a 232 six.
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    Not a match to the paperwork , that reel looks low end as Ohio said , I grew up with direct drive knuckle busters, Langley's and Inglis/Shakespeares mostly.
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    We'd go camping as a kid with a '64 Pontiac Wagon , loaded with gear, 14' Fibreglass with a 28hp out behind and a 16' canoe on top, 283 cu.in 8 cyl. with one of those 2 speed powerglide auto transmissions. My personal tow vehicles were a 79 GMC Van with a 350 cu in. , a 88 Chevy pickup with a 4.3 V6 and a 97 Astro Van with the same 4.3 V6, boat was a little over a ton with gear, 18 1/2 foot tinner with a 90 v4., never felt the need for a 4x4 .
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    Yep, lived at Long Point on Lake Erie for a few years, all those species were a pretty easy catch from shore .
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    You're dating yourself 😀 and welcome to the board 👍
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    Even Go Pros create the same illusion with perspective and distort straight lines, I find curved horizons extremely annoying, grrrr
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    Just take your trophy pics with an extra wide angle lens, no arm's length shenanigans required.
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    Do we really have to listen to this for 4 1/2 more years ?
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    Wow, haven't done that since DOS came on floppy discs, back thirty years ago there were shops everywhere.
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    55 F here in Grimsby when I let the dogs out at 7AM, must be a record.
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    Well known locally here, my generation, couple of years younger than me. https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/whatson-story/9804404-neil-peart-in-his-own-words-growing-up-in-st-catharines/?fbclid=iwar2_ban799mbjtfghnyhcotrbu8f4dpf99tnepjkb8edagzr0f_gg_tzpiq
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    let the dogs out after supper, anyone need dew worms they are out in my backyard, lots of them too.
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    Had to bust out the snowblower in Nov, thought it was a bad omen, but only a few dustings since then 👍. Think late Nov was colder than the past weeks since Christmas, maybe spring is just around the corner. They are harvesting the Icewine I see on the news this morning.
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    Lots of ideas and selection here, getting one of them up in Canada could be a problem though. Building one out of marine ply and getting it professionally covered could be good way to go. https://www.google.com/search?q=Pontoon+Steering+Console&rlz=1C1CHBF_enCA806CA806&sxsrf=ACYBGNT-rO9e3NYC1n8yqtXkfnjGHSbfxQ:1577899638923&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=c_N0NLRLn3kt9M%3A%2CbBYbmq37GobB8M%2C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQbFWcA9fO_Fd9b4Va4Xw3MdXpK3Q&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjliOCb9uLmAhURSN8KHSrJBnsQ9QEwAXoECAkQKQ
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