dave524

Wait and see how the wind is, often the deciding factor on Erie, Turkey Pt. and the Inner Bay at Long Pt. being more sheltered on a SW wind. It's Sept. deeper would be better so I would lean Tecumseh if it is doable.

I had a green 4 and a beige 3, think the beige one was an Abu not an original Zebco, lost both in a break in to my van at Queenston, Had to replace them with the same Abu black ones you got with the skirted spools and that infernal line clip that quickly got removed.

Before the dinosaur age , steelheaders used Zebco Cardinal 3's and 4's.

Moved to Grimsby in '84 and a couple of guys here got me into centre pins. It was probably that first autumn that I got a Grice and Young , Avon Royal Supreme ( supreme POS ?) , next fall I had a non anodized clickerless Stanton which I loved and still use and the following year I got a Smith and Smith 2nd generation Stream Master. I still kick myself for not putting out the 4 bills or so for a Clough in the late 80's, those thing go for over 2 grand today to collectors. We had good Canadian made reels by '91, the Stream Master is mine.

Is it an air cooled engine ?, hope the heater works better than my old '68 bug ?

Got step daughters, grand kids , inlaws and outlaws all in the Port Charlotte/ Punta Gorda area, they took a direct hit from Charlie about 15 years ago, seeing this one is making land on the other side they should be OK. No citizenship but I let my wife know I'm pro Trump every chance I get ?.

I let mine drive all the time, I enjoy the peace and quiet ?

They are still at it, racking up a lot of flight time, working on Old Irons neck of the woods today.

Seems you are correct https://globalnews.ca/news/5782966/rabies-vaccine-bait-drop-southern-ontario/

Wasn't aware you could look at past history for an certain plane, seems they been doing the whole peninsula over the past few days, guessing they are spraying for gypsy moth or possibly dropping those rabies vaccine baits. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/c-fopj

Just heard a fairly loud plane go over low, checked to see if it was the rescue plane out of Trenton, nope, the MNR flying some kind of grid search pattern, any ideas what they are up to ?

Often if you look a little closer at the specs you will see the higher horsepower comes at a higher rpm when they are the same displacement, they tune them to run a bit faster for the increase in HP. which does very little for acceleration and time to get up on plane.

sorry about the disco, my wife is 7 years younger than me , Totally different music for her generation, wild costumes and god awful silly hair.

No , no performers, met a few that went and were in the audience on campus, was 19 that summer. One guy still had his ticket, cool memento.

In my years with the Dept of Lands and Forests , then the Ministry of Natural Resources, not really sure of the new name, think Forests worked it''s way back into the name. It was my impression that under a Conservative Government they viewed hunters and fishermen as allies while the environmentalists that supported Liberal government policies tended to view hunters and fishermen as the enemy, just saying . Be careful what you wish for.

I have found that sometimes an increase in HP when both engines are built on the same block is marginal in reality compared to the same increase if there is a corresponding increase in displacement.

https://www.cabelas.ca/product/82464/shimano-stradic-fk-spinning-reels 140 yds of 4 lb. and only 7 lbs of drag, that's pretty tiny, I'd feel better with the 2500 or 3000 with 20 lbs of drag and heavier line.

Works best when you have heavy current like the upper Niagara. When snagged, clip the snap swivel on your line at the rod tip, work the stick downstream of the snag while you remain upstream , once the stick is at the snag feed some slack so when you tug it is pulling from the opposite direction and usually that will free it, if it don't and you break it off the stick is gone so carry a spare, but with Cleo's going for $5 a pop it's worth a try. No different than getting snagged when trolling from a boat, in most cases if you go back in the direction you came and pull from the opposite direction , it will easily come free.

When I worked for the ministry O.I. in the '70's you had a big MNR office in Simcoe and another in Fonthill in Niagara, I believe both are gone now, this downsizing has been going on long before the recent change in provincial government.

News about this has died down the past few years, I recall maybe ten or so years ago they were wanting you to report dead birds, Blue Jays and Crows were especially susceptible as they were an intermediate host for the disease. Guess it reared it's head again. Edit: SVS, oldtimers acting up had it confused with West Nile well maybe they are quite similar, O.I. here is what your local goobermint has on the subject https://hnhu.org/health-topic/eastern-equine-encephalitis-eee/

The pier at the end of Elizabeth , at the old pump house is closed here in Grimsby , the water is every bit as high now as it was when I moved here in '84, and was higher a few months ago. The piers at Port Dalhousie in St. Kitts are also closed due to active reconstruction I believe. Not my fish , but the Grimsby pier has produced some slob browns in the past

Them and Zebco Cardinal 3's and 4's were hung on every serious steelheaders rods in the 80's?

In years gone by he was a frequent contributor here with lots of St.Clair musky pics, guess not enough time like Solopaddler. He is still around https://www.handlebarzfishing.com/

I always carried a foot or so length of 2"x 2" with a screw eye and snap swivel on one end when chucking spoons in that stretch of river. When the inevitable snag came, you clipped it on your line gave enough slack so it drifted downstream of the snag and a few sharp tugs and it usually would come off, saved a lot of lures that way.

Yeah , you gotta get bandwidth. We cut the Bell/Cogeco, C note a month TV cord a year ago, right now between Live Net TV as a free IPTV and Cyberflix for binge watching TV shows and movies we don't miss a thing, even get all the SportsNet and TSN channels for live sports.