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A lot less than I would like

Yikes. Amazing power the wind has. Thanks for the pics. Shame about the church - always thought that was a very striking building. Town will never look the same - lots of those buildings will have to be demolished.

We all get those days . Still beats a good day at work.

That's a brute . Great sharing our relaxation time with our kids

Don't I know that feeling! Everyone else (it seems) has a box full and my lures are untouched by the toothy critters. Next time Misfish, the shoe will doubtless be on the other foot. Tightlines buddy.

Yes, the stars were truly aligned in my favour yesterday - Steph is the registrar for our local synchro swimming team, and she had to spend her b-day in the mall at one of those booths to attract new participants. Today I am Honey-do-man (plus, being the cook of the household) I always get brownies poinits for surf and turf AND helping the kids with the dishes

G and I made our weekend warrior outing to the usual haunt, arriving just before dawn. Third in line; and recognized the 2 before us from previous outings. Had the boat rigged and on the water as the sun crested the horizon. . There was a light breeze as we set up at our usual spot. Since finding my bow-ling alley, we have been pretty well guaranteed success with the bows and the small salmon every outing. This has meant that having fun with bows kept us in the alley, especially if I am out with G. I was hoping it would produce some decent Salmon (King), but no such luck. So this was the weekend that, weather permitting I planned to head into deeper water. With a 16 fter and only a 50 on the back, picking days is essential. Twice this year I have been blown off the water. We trolled out well past our usual turning point and all of a sudden the breakfast bell rang. We banged off a couple bows and a couple small salmon, landing some and loosing a couple within sight of the boat – net in hand. The wind was picking up it was getting choppy when a rigger went off and the drag began to sing. Grabbed it and brought in the biggest of the day – 32 incher. Right after releasing it G was getting nervous and asked we head out to shallow water till the wind settled down. I REALLY didn't want to as the bite was on and I had found a zone – but the fish will be there another day, and I don't want to make G feel uncomfortable out in the boat. Confidence is built in small steps and destroyed in one easy mis-step. It was 9:00 and we had six in the boat and 9 on. We ended up 15 for 18. Had a triple header at one point, but by the time we got to the third rod he had shaken it off (didn't count that one). Species for the for the day was 1 Atlantic (our first) 5 chinook, 2 cohoe (? I think, hard to tell when they are that small, and mostly I wanted to get them back in the water quickly as opposed to determine what they were) and the rest bows. To end the day we had a fantastic bow off the DR wrap around the Leadore and shake it off - looked to be at least 30" plus. Lots of fish we just didn't have time to snap as we wanted to release everything,. So with the exception of 1 salmon for smoking, (selected by his exhaustion by the time we got him released) and of one very small chinook (who hit a 5 inch spoon almost as big as him, and I think was on the rigger for a few minutes) that we couldn't revive everyone was went back to play another day. Anyway, the few pics we could take between weather and fish do the rest of the talking. By 11:00 G was saying – my arms are sore (some of the fights took him 10 minutes (10 colours core or a wire dispsey, or even the Atlantic who was pretty scrappy and over 150 back) to get in "You want me to help?" "NO WAY". Ata boy ) To close out the day, it was my wife's birthday: her choice for supper – surf and turf, asparagus and risotto with wine. Life doesn't get much better

That is a succesful trip! Thanks for sharing

awesome shots as always Brandon. Love the first one the contracts between the foreground and the shooting stars (?) is fantastc.

Condolences on your loss Shawn. Unfortunately it sounds like this person doesn't "get it". Probably never will. Respect your grandmothers memory by thinking if she would want a family fight over it. I doubt it somehow from what I have seen of your character. As difficult as it may be, the best course of action maybe to ignore this. As a great man once said, All things must pass. And this will too. Make your memories of your grandmothers life, not some insensitive clod's internet foibles. Keep your head high.

Yeah, thought you might.

its the government white paper on doing away with the long form census. Where else would it go? A Walmart parking lot?

wow where'd that bucket list go. Your reports are always a great read. Thanks for sharing. That takes your breathe away - and those char are simply beautiful.

littering is just a complete lack of respect. I share your sentiments Frank -

Nice shooting

Maybe a bunch of us can buy a place (or more) together and turn it into an OFC timeshare / resort for GTGs?. Then every time Simon goes out to fish he'll have a convoy of boats behind him As always Simon - nice Fish - need that jeaous Icon with druel down its chin. Frankie65 is taking this real hard - gold is his fave

Gonna need it if that UN 21 poopoopeedoop comes anywhere close to happening. Loonies.

very nice Joey - where'd you get the spit? I've been looking for one long enough for ours.

MMMM prosciutto wrapped asparugus an the barbee - one of my faves. what's for desert?

was kinda, wasnt it? Came that way.

nice fish - and beauty lake. Congrats

Soma anyone?

Welcome - nice fish - and one seriously long rod

Nice fish - love those feeding frenzies - no time for pics when they're hitting like that.