dave524

When I am all caught up with a thread the dot goes away and the text of the name of the thread goes from bold to regular, could it just be you have read all the thread ?

R.I.P. Matt "Guitar" Murphy

Never got too many deer flies down here on Erie and Ontario but the buggers that got me were the housefly looking ones that bit, think they were stable flies and they always seemed worse when rain was on the way. Could never figure out why stable flies were 5 miles offshore

Ditto what Craig said and use only body hair, save your bucktails for jigs as it is not hollow and won't float as well as the hollow body hair. Scrounge all the white belly hair you can get during hunting season as it is the best for dyeing.

Guys were treating their turkey hunting camo clothes with this for ticks mainly, not for use on humans but seems ok for horses maybe dogs too, read the label , your call . https://www.tscstores.com/UltraShield-EX-950ml-P17980.aspx

RIP Danny Kirwan from the real Fleetwood Mac

No question about it fish can be released and caught again, especially those that are immediately released where they are caught as opposed to tournaments were they are bounced around in a livewell and culled and released often many miles from their home territory. Maybe it is because I hunted for almost as long as I fished and felt remorse at a unrecovered cripple but none when a fish is released and swims away but that is not always a guarantee of survival. I think we have to examine the motives behind why we fish again, everyone would say hunting/killing for sport not for the table is wrong but turn around and turn a blind eye to those who catch far in excess of their limit on a catch and release basis for sport, is it ethically / morally right? Also, I think many are placing too much credit on C and R for the improved fisheries while , especially in the Great Lakes it has to do with water quality, reduction of commercial fishing and increased forage fish ( Gobies grow bigger Bass )

I felt the introduction of tournament fishing with the culling and livewells took a lot away from the sport of fishing over the simple big fish derbies of my youth where you took the prizewinner home and ate it, they probably have an even greater impact on a body of water too, IMHO. I often ask myself why do people fish if they aren't planning on taking a meal home ? hypocrites jump all over hunters for not utilizing their kill and there is a kill factor to catch and release fishing. The whole social media forum/Instagram/Facebook hero shot thing is taking the sport to new lows . I was guilty of some pretty obscene catch and release numbers steelheading in the 80's and now older would call it a day much sooner and not run the numbers up when the fish are extremely vulnerable. Maybe , although it couldn't be enforced, the catch limit should be the first limit of legal fish caught whether kept or released.

looks like he uses spinning gear, I suspect this is our man, my apologies if not.

Built a lot of rods in the 70's and 80's on Fenwick Woodstream blanks out of Niagara Falls, not there anymore edit: as a kid going north late 50's /60's I recall Shakespeare had a plant somewhere around Barrie, might have been on Hwy 27, don't know if they made rods there though.

Loved the blues band " Fleetwood Mac " when I was in high school, when Peter Green left and they morphed into a Abba like pop band with the chicks, not so much.

Make them here again.

This is why we need to level the playing field with tariffs or be willing to give up a lot of what we take for granted. Most of my life Canada ran a very healthy trade surplus. Recalled more Canadian boat names and these are aluminum too. Growing up in Niagara I saw a lot of Fleet Industry tinners. a good friend's dad ran a Thornes , a few Harbercrafts and everyone had a red Springbok cartopper in the 60's. The Fleets were made in Fort Erie by an aircraft manufacturer.

I welcome the tariffs, maybe we can build own again with Canadian labour, old enough to remember names like Peterboro, Grew, Wilker and OMC outboards made in Peterboro.

it is reported , they got a smaller one there last year too.

Stepdaughter caught a nice eel down by the lighthouse at DalHousie, she let it go. It's bigger then any I've ever got, last one i got was at the mouth of the Forty here over 20 years ago,

Bow season is open and it's tomato planting time.

For Memorial Day, saw this earlier on the tube.

Been fishing Lake Erie since the late 50's and my dad before that , most of the recovery of Erie is about water quality IMHO, it is far better than the late 60's. Bass fishing this side there is a lot of catch and release but the boats trolling for Pickerel is pretty much a catch and keep crowd, same with the Perchers. Edit: The good old days are the past twenty years, fishing on Erie has never been better than anyone currently living can remember

Looks like a great trip, love the vintage Stanton's.

Thank's Rick, saw them at that hockey rink on Carleton back about ''74, " Tales from Topographic Oceans " was the current album, Wakeman was a beast on keyboards, played the crap out his " Six Wives of Henry the 8th " album. Joe played with that 3 piece lineup lineup longer than any lineup of the last 10 years, there is 4 years between those shows I posted.

Just one more, an cover of an early 70's " Yes " tune,

Keep going back to early Joe, I liked the trio with Eric Czar better than the last ten years

I don't do well looking over my shoulder because I normally use the mirrors and everything is backwards over the shoulder. The worst thing to back up are those landscape trailers that are 10 foot at the most from the hitch to the axle and disappear behind the vehicle when you are going straight.

A lot of the hunting regs are from the Migratory Game Bird Regulations, watch for the boys with the yellow stripes down their legs, " They always get their man " , . I believe in some provinces they are the police in rural areas.