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Hery cool - nice stretch of water and scenery there

For me: When I'm paying someone to guide or charter, I dont expect them to be fishing - I do expect to boat some fish - and at least as big as I can do by myself in comparable conditions. I also expect to come away with some knowledge I didnt have before. oh and what pikeslayer said would do too if the fish werent biting that day....

Wow - that is fantastic! Jen could be the poster girl for the Fish a thon - she is living proof we can beat this disease! I am so happy for you guys

nice selction there Tyler - thanks for the report

great report Simon- you got a real peice of heaven there! (but that net looks like it has seen better days)

it was indeed an awesome day. That first 60 minutes was frantic. Never got more than 2 lines set before we were yelling "fish on". Tired this poor old man right out! What a day - Congrats on the PB! Lake E is calling ... August long weekend?

having seen what a hook in the finger can do (a few hours more and I could have lost mine) my advice is keep alcohol wipes, polysporin crazy glue, gauze and tape in your boat at all times. You can get kits almost anywhere for less than the cost of a days trolling. Truck stops for instance have them. I am never without mine after watching my finger swell to the point it cut off the circulation to the the top half of my finger - and that was from a litttle 1lb bass who decided to jump just as I was grabbing him with my 4" inch storm bodybait in his mouth. front treble up the the "u" all the way - by myself and 5 miles up a back bay in Temagami. owwww.

Awesome news Wayne. Cant knock down the Fighting Irish!

Congrats - he's looks pretty proud!Great to get the kids hooked .. I hear ya on the being out-fished thing.......

but at least you didnt have to chew your arm off when you found out what you woke up next to...

"Good thing they aren't fighting against diarrhea... I'd hate to see that campain." Thanks - I needed that.

nice step up Vince - and the daughter's gift is great ummm, can I ask how the exhaust is on this one?

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looks like a great (if somewhat sideways) day Congrats - great to get out with the family and catch some fish

This kids killing me! a 29 and a 261/2. I had 2 25's. Nice going G, and happy birthday

Ha! Mum's a teacher .........gotta go through the editor

great day on the lake - Nice Walter

love it Lifes too short to take seriously.

So, as the old joke goes about the wife who comes down at midnight and sees her husband holding a beer and looking sad at the kitchen table (husband --remember that day 20 years ago your Dad caught us in the back of the car, and he said "Well, you're gonna marry her or you'll have to kill me" and she says.. "yes, I remember" and he replies, I would have been out for good behaviour today, ...) This year is our 20th wedded together (about 8 more before that as practice).... and when we married we had 0 money as I was 5 years into opening my busness and had just bought a house, so our honeymoon was paying for our family and friends to come to the wedding in a small inn in Bracebridge... so we decided to put our honeymoon and 20th together and start working on our bucket list --- this year was a cruise to Alaska. We booked a 7 day cruise leaving Seattle going to Juneau Alaska, Glacier National Park, Sitka, Ketchikan and Victoria BC. I cant remember the exact distance of the cruise, but it was in between 2500 and 3000 miles. I do remember one of the stats was the deisel motors used 50,000 gallons of deisel a day and there was also a gas turnibe that consumed a similarly mind blowing amount of fuel a day....Anyway to say Alaska has scenery is an understatement. So, I will try and let some of the pictures we took convey the sense. Unfortunatley these are taken with point and shoot cameras, so they are nowhere near as spectacular as the eye or some of the photos we see in the Photography forum here. If you havent been to Seattle, its incredible. You fly in over the rockies and all of a sudden there it is. This is the view from the ship as we set sail. Note the mountain in the background and this is what you see when you watch one of the crusie ships sail away. we sailed for a day and a half, the second day in force seven on the Beaufort scale. Made for some interesting walks. Glacier bay National Park is amazing: The Reece Glacier - longer and taller than our cruise ship, at first I thought we were only a football field away, then I realilsed we were over a mile away The Iceberg in the foreground on the shot below on right hand side is about the size of a tractor trailer. The scale of the landscape is outstanding At various point along the cruise if you look the whales are everywhere. They are very hard to capture on film, but one morning 1 saw 9 sightings in less than an hour, the closest probably only 150 yards from the ship You can watch your progress on your TV and at various points on the ship. This one is actually from the last day when we are on our way back Juneau has a great back yard with a population of only 30,000 approximately, when the cruise ships come for a visit, the polupation can nearly double. Our ship was the smallest with just under 2000 people. Rumour had it the large Princess ship and the Norwiegen Pearl could hold about 7000 each. Thats our prop wash in the foreground as we pull away It gets to the point where you say, oh, another one of those? And quit taking pics. At one point a young young one (head wasnt white yet) flew over the pool deck when we had a BBQ on the go. It took about 5 minutes as he just sailed along, but as much as you stop taking pics, you never stop watching and they watch you Junea also has the Mendenhall Glacier just up the road. We went for a raft trip down the river, and there were some houses along the side of the river. I asked the guide how much these would cost approximately. He said, oh about 600 K. He then turned the raft around and said - because every morning you can sit on your deck with your coffee and look at this and you can kayak / canoe / raft in this Did I mention the scenery in Alaska is awesome? - Sailing out of Juneau: and into Sitka the next morning: For sheer beauty, Sitka won it for me: some nice shacks too I took a 4 hour charter just a few minutes from where this was taken. There were 4 of us and in three and a bit hours we boated 6 and lost 4. Nothing spectacular, but they were a lot of fun These guys have learned that if they follow a charter boat, they can get an easy lunch. this guy dogged us and another boat the whole time we were out Next stop was Ketchikan, which didnt do quite so much for me. But we did take a cruise on the Aleetian Balad, which those of you who watch the deadliest catch may recognise as the boat that was hit by the rogue wave on film and flipped on her side. They take you out a bit of a nature tour. waiting for lunch to swim up the channel some selections from the lunch buffett what all the exitement is about on the deadliest catch bringing in the dungeness some box crabs - no meat on these babies and some entertainment some perspective as I said - the glacier dwarfed us some people were back on the 4th trip. They mentioned that this time as compared to a few years ago we had to go much further up glacier Bay National Park to see the glacier. This one is pretty much gone And that ends my story. Thanks for reading if you got this far.

positive thoughts and wishes for your Pop, you and your family. Its terribly hard when we see those who were so strong all our lives turn so frail so fast.

Been away for a few days and not able to log on - this is great news Wayne, very happy for all your family!

WOW beauty fish

congrats Simon - nice outing

excellent use of a day! Nice going..