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I'll even let Dawg attend, :wallbash:

I have been hunting since...........................well.....................lets just say a long time. Mostly grouse, deer, and moose. Did the waterfowl hunting thing way back when, but too many bluebird sunny days with no wind on the weekends with no results, just gave it up and sold all the decoys(not the gun though).

Happy birthday Monsieur, you and J have a great trip.

I agree, a 5 gallon bucket is way too big. Get a 2.5 gallon bucket like one you would use to have soapy water in to wash your car. They work perfectly. Have used them for over 10 yrs. on canoes and 14 ft. boats. Even backtrolling in a 14 ft. with a 9.9 hp we toss a bucket off the nose to slow it down. We have only ever had need to use one bucket. And, you can toss stuff into it to carry over a portage or a trail into a lake with no trailer launch.

Looks good Brian. I see there is no bow mount seat for Terry though.

Another link from CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/07/10/...s-manitoba.html

thats all I know of right now, if further info surfaces on this, I will add it to this thread. What grt1 said may be the best explanation, we do get occasional tornadoes up here, but nothing like in the US. they are much smaller, localized, but quite powerful nontheless.

I know Ben Beattie and Limeyangler are not near where this happened, but they are not that far away. Please chime in guys to let us know you are OK. Condolences to the families for the loss of their loved ones. http://www.chroniclejournal.com/top_story.php?id=198046 http://www.tbnewswatch.com/news/Default.aspx?cid=60688

Sorry to hear of your sister's passing Wayne, my condolences to you and your family.

I do not remember seeing the "Silver Bullet" when I was there last year, but this boat that they own that was on that dock could probably outdo it regardless. and, it was parked on the opposite side the the same dock, all the paint on the front end had been worn off. Take a closer look at the boat behind it. That's one of their work boats. All steel hull, no amenities, goes really fast from point A to point B, :lol: Pikie has probably had a ride in it. Here is where he is working, poor lad.

Where's the Kaboom, there should have been an Earth shattering Kaboom.......................oh well, back to the drawing board. Marvin the Martian. Have a great 4th of July Joe and Art. And if you need fireworks, just let Rocket loose!

Yup, great pic Rob, was it you who took a very similar picture last year at Lakair?

Dara, that's almost exclusively how I fish for walleye in summer up here. I snell the first hook, but I use a clinch knot for the last hook. I can't tie two snells to the proper length I like, I like to keep the two hooks about 3" apart. I like to tie my worm harnesses at 18" lengths, easier to store in small ziplock bags that I get from work and can be carried in CD cases. And if I require more length behind the bottom bouncer, I have 18" leaders made up with a swivel on one end, and a snap swivel on the other end. Some of the lakes I fish are rocky, its best to keep the worm harness close to the bottom bouncer to avoid snags. Other lakes with sand/mud bottom, its better to have a longer presentation behind the bouncer. Sometimes I have two 18" leaders in behind the bouncer and the harness, which makes for a 48" length behind the bouncer. It all depends on the depth, as we up here catch them in sometimes 6 ft. of water down to 25 ft. of water. Sometimes that's necessary, other times not. In the rocky lakes, I like to use floats on the worm harnesses, keeps them up off bottom. The bouncer may get occasionally snagged, but they usually can be un-snagged by backing up. The floats on the harness will keep them up off bottom from getting snagged up usually, but not always. As for tying off the lead of the harness, as stated above, a simple fisherman's loop or surgeons knot is all that is needed. BTW, I tie my harnesses with 10 lb. flourocarbon line. As Rob(Kickingfrog, said above) I used to just use plain mono in the 10 lb. range, but I switched to flourocarbon a few years ago. I have noticed a definate durability of the harnesses with regards to pike hitting them. For my main line to the bouncer, I am running 20 lb. Power Pro. Helps to get the bouncer out of serious snags, and if its really, really snagged, wrap the power pro around a stick(I have a section of a hockey stick cut to 18.1" long, used as a fish club, and a measuring stick) and pull really hard. Don't try to use your hands to break it loose. You will cut your fingers and hands if you try that. I was fishing for lake trout 3 yrs. ago in the spring, and got snagged badly with a bouncer. I almost pulled the gunwale of my 12 ft. boat under the water line trying to break it loose before the Power Pro broke!!!!!!

I believe that to be true. I kept a couple of ling a couple of years ago, caught in a river system. Kept ling before from deep lake trout lakes and no issue, they tasted great. But the two I caught in 6 ft. of water in this river had a definitely muddy taste to them. The tail ends were fine, the main body of them had the muddy taste.

Do you mean the fireworks here on OFC, or in La Belle Provence? :lol: Have a great Canada Day everyone.

Elderly fisherman recovered from Lake Erie waters after nine-hour search By THE CANADIAN PRESS Saturday, June 13, 2009 LAKE ERIE, Ont. - A provincial police dive team has recovered the body of an elderly missing boater. Working with the coast guard, they recovered the body around 8:30 p.m. Friday following a nine-hour search. Vince Bourdeau, 75, of Chatham-Kent, was trapped underneath the 18-foot aluminum boat when it capsized around 11 a.m. Boudreau and another Chatham man, 77, had been fishing in Lake Erie, just off Pelee Island, when the boat turned over. Both had been wearing life-jackets. A nearby boater rescued one man, but was unable to locate the other.

Doubt that will work, :lol: :lol:

I know this sounds crazy, but check for a stuck shock. A bud of mine used to be a mechanic for AVIS, and they came across something similar. Changed everything in the front end, and to no avail. Finally someone was looking at the truck from a bit of a distance, and said, the front end isn't quite even, one side is higher than the other. They walked back, took a look, and found a shock on side was seized(up, down, cannot remember). It never occurred to them to look at the shocks. Changed the shock, and everything was alright(after all the bushing changes, alignments, tire re-balancing, etc.etc. lol).

Yeah, us up here in the Great White North always chuckle at bear siting posts from southern Ontario, and the generation of posts and news reports that follow. Its commonplace up here, even before the spring bear hunt was canceled. We have a lot of green space directly bordering us, and our city,.Thunder Bay is built up following the shoreline of Lake Superior. Some new development areas are backing onto green space, and as such, animals wander in at times. Its not uncommon for one bear to have multiple reports from those areas to have calls into the BearWise hotline. It is one bear, walking along the treeline at the edge of those peoples back yards, just going wherever it wants to go, yard to yard, not doing anything, not destroying anything, not threatening anything, but, people see it, and panic sets in. I quite frankly find it hilarious. Too bad the MNR bear techs have to deal with the multiple calls for just one bear just roaming around at the edge of a green space.

I think he's telling you, if you want a bigger one like me, troll with the rope. Add a leader of course. Seriously, its teeth just got caught up in the rope fibres, people fish for gar with short lengths of stranded rope or something similar. Their teeth get caught up in them, without even getting hooked.

Nice Dara.

Simple solution, don't own so may rods. Ummmhnhh.....................head shake......................................what was I thinking??

Dara!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A fishing report?????????? WOW, heh, heh, heh, hows it going guy? Any more wood creations you want to share with us?? And, congrats on the new boat, and the whitefish.

Nice looking boat there Lew, congratulations, one quick question: Do you think it will be a bit easier, or a bit more challenging, to land Musky by yourself in the new boat?