Rod Caster

wow, that makes me angry. What a meathead that guy is. "poop happens"? He endangered your life. Not sure how I would have reacted in that situation.

great read. Another vote for bass. I've had a few "mystery" fish that still haunt me!

This is the only reason I have to look forward to blackfly season out here.haha. If you make it out this way to the fish the other rivers you've marked out, let me know, I'd love to show you around and absorb some information...and maybe study the river a bit too.

Now that is a bush cord. My Mazda takes half of that. Lots of people are telling me to get a hydraulic splitter as if splitting by hand is the worst thing ever. I'll pass on a splitter at least for the first couple years... I'll need a big tire for those 24' oak sections I have haha. Good idea for non-hardwoods. I gotta smack and move around the yellow birch pieces like 5 or 6 times each. Two weeks ago they were brutal, but they are essentially non-existant since. Only mosquitos bugging me now...usually starting at around 8pm. Feel like doing some trail riding after work sometime this week?

Thanks for the kind words! My wife says she loves the outdoors, but she's been doing nothing but cleaning since we got here Fine by me as I'd rather swing the axe than swing a swiffer. At 11:00 this morning, after 100 swings at a knotted piece of fresh oak with an 8lbs head, I felt like I wouldn't reach 31 haha. You have no idea how much I would like the free labour...errrr, I mean meet and greet I'll keep the stomach ache warning in mind...I think most wild-edible mushrooms cause negative reactions in some people, although like you said it's not the rule rather the exception. hahaha, You are the only person I'm gonna make wear a helmet.

Since I've moved into my new house, it's been nothing but extremes. Either working extremely hard or having way too much fun. TV is no longer a part of our household and therefore the firepit has become our new viewing screen. My main objective is to prepare enough wood for the coming winter season; I know its late to get started so I'm trying that much harder. A new chainsaw, $300 three wheeler, my trusty Mazda Truck, several axes and splitters have become my new best friends, although the saw has a terrible attitude and I get the feeling it's in a bad place in life, it just keeps breaking down. I build a holz hausen (round house) to dry my wood quicker. I'm separating the remaining split pieces into single cords on pallets. This is the first time in years I yearn for a drought....dry wood, dry! As per one of my last topics, I DID "lease" out my land to a hunter. I really lucked out with this guy as he has a very good reputation and infact has been on hunting shows on WildTV. He only wants bear, a game I'm not yet interested in. After many meetings, phone conversations and on-going emails, we came to a written "barter" agreement clearly stated out expectations. I don't even have my hunting license yet (sept 22 I'm booked in) so its a perfect time to try this out...although I'm hoping we can make this a long term thing, as does he. So far, I've seen a fisher, several partridge, bear cubs, deer and tons of rabbits on the property. It's total heaven here; so much mixed forest, most of it very dense and completely unexplored. I also managed to find the river, which is quite far back there. No trails called for bark-etching as I found my way deep into the bush. I brought my rod and a small panther martin spinner, but didn't see any brook trout action. Hoping to get back there again soon for a more thorough fishing excursion. what do you think? Does this look like brookie waters? There are very few homes backing onto the entire river system. One thing I've been doing is foraging to mushrooms. I bought a field guide, read it up, down, sideways and cross-referenced every piece of information I could. Chantrelles are a great addition to dinner, they fetch a lot of money at high-end restaurants (they aint getting mine ) and seem to be quite abundant around here. I've been having a blast finding my side-dish in my back-yard between cutting/stacking wood. Thanks for reading; now I'm gonna go pick to raspberries to put into my cereal, then I'm gonna go visit the wood pile.

You should work for the bank. You've got this collateral thing down to a science haha

Wow. Those fish are just ridiculous. Good thing your a reliable net man!

Sweet saw. Got me an echo 670 and it's a torque monster too. Very nice of Art to give you a hand!

I'd be in the same position. Looking at my bait bucket, looking at my butter, looking at bait bucket, looking at cast iron frying pan...

you should have put the photo of Alex walking near the kayak after the one where he is holding the beer.... hahaha Nice scenery out there for sure, I intend to return many times myself

Nothing beats a good buddy tournament with low stakes. Too bad about the equipment failures though.

sturgeon is closed all year on the Ottawa as far as I know... Good job catching them walleyes...I've always had a tough time figuring out that river except at river inlets or dams.

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He holds the fish just like his old man. Great report. Fantastic.

I was cutting/flattening some hunting lanes today too! Looks like a nice spot out there, especially with bass fishing from shore like that.

Great fish indeed!!

maybe it's a northern thing. I can't say crawfish without a southern drawl

Oh, and no one has mentioned this yet, but in Canada, we call them craYfish!

Go bolo, you'll get a little more chopping power and it's still very versatile/easy.

Great stuff to read. A worthwhile cause and a worthwhile purchase for winning crew!

Glad to see you removed the company names... beyond that, I enjoy reading your reports a lot and hope you keep posting!!! The more fish pictures and fishing stories this site gets the better it is for everyone Wacky-rig is definitely one of my go-to bass techniques... saw a few big walleye get caught with this system too.

shut up Dave. ...... .... this heat makes me cranky. I prefer weather where you can wear one of these At least my beer is cold.