Beans

Youse is a good man Steve, tells your mother !!! besides, you need another rod and reel like you need another hole in your head...

Bluegill/carp...Can you just imagine the fight from a ten-pounder...?

It makes good kindling and the odd log now and then with some hardwood doesn't hurt...

Thanks GB...I'm afraid they are a bit too expensive for me...my truck cost me less than what they want for some of the used ones...

I wonder who was the proudest ??? I remember seeing the smile on my granddad's face when I caught my first big bass back in the 40's using one of his old bamboo poles (he never did own a rod and reel)...

Maybe sooner than I want to this year... Normally, I take the boat out of the water around the 15th October but I had a bit of a health set-back 2 1/2 weeks ago and am not allowed to drive until after I see the neourologist on the 24th Sept then, who knows what he will have to say ... My boys from London are coming here to fish tomorrow...I hope there is not too much water in the "Tin of Beans" as it is too far for me to walk to the dock where she is parked to empty her...mind you it won't take too long if there is as I built a portable bilge with a motorcycle battery and it works great...I also use the same battery for a stern night light... I guess if I'm prohibited from driving and they lift my license, I'll look into getting a good used electric mobility scooter or golf cart... I could use my lawn tractor to get down to the lake but if I run out of gas...then what ? I might have to rig up sumpin' to carry a jerry can with me... Don't get old...It hurts too much !!! BTW...Where would one look for a used golf cart or electric scooter ???

Oh Cripes !!!...Here I am, a day late and a buck short... Hope you had a good one Paul...

An English bloke over for a month last year bought his corn at a pet store...boy was it nice and clean...sometimes the maize from the feed stores is clean but you have to ask for it if not you get chunks of chaffe etc...

My thoughts and prayers are with all of you... Jen sure makes my piddly health probs seem insignificant...

Great report Mo... good to hear your steak and shrimp dinner turned out well...

Our new rates effective 1st Sept 2012 in Galway Cavendish Harvey townships: $100.00 up to 3.65m...each add'nl meter or part thereof $75.00 Aluminum boats are free as they fall under scrap metal which is free disposal Sound like it would be cheaper to tow it out to the middle of Lake Ontario, then take an axe to her and sink it (don't get caught)

"Out comes the shotgun" One more month! Then the shotgun comes out.. Well, thats one way of getting some fish...shoot the buggers !!!

Geeze Brian, I hope it was "Happy Birthday"...I'd hate to have to ask my first wife to find out for sure...

What about this Phase Four stuff ??? any good ?

Ya...What he said...!

Bass Lake...one west of Orillia and one north of Bobcaygeon...

What a wonderful bird the frog are... Whata wonderful bird the frog are! When he stand he sit almost; When he hop he fly almost. He ain't got no sense hardly; He ain't got no tail hardly either. When he sit, he sit on what he ain't got almost. Great post Steve...

Yikes !!!...that's a big "un too...congrats !

Motv8tr, her brother, and her cousin (our grandson) are all celebrating their birthdays today... Have fun guys !!!

Have you been told yet today ?...and I don't mean "Happy Birthday"

Geeze...thanks Roy...you are all heart... I noticed yesterday that I had a bottle of acetaminophin in my truck...

I heard they lose their teeth during the warm water... N'est pas ?

Done and Did...

After my trip to the lab for some blood work-up last Wednesday morning, I took a run over to one of my favorite "carp swims" seeing as I was half-way there... 11:30 am I get my what must be my personal best...a 25 to 30 lbr...had a hell of a time getting it into my net as I had to bring it in sitting on my chair as my back was giving me grief and I was on my own Don't know what my buddy is feeding those carp but they seem bigger this season over last...I was using a tiger nut boilie combined with a pineapple Monster Maize on my "hair" 01:00pm I'm developing a headache and thinking of packing it in when my alarm goes off (love that song !) This one took off like it was going over to the far shore but when I get it in, the netting was much easier (18 to 20 lbs)... 02:00 pm I give up as the headache is worse even though I put my brollie up and sat in the shade all the while I was there...must have been the glare off the water...besides all I had after the second carp was a tremendous line bump that gave me a birds-nest (maybe my "free spool" is set too "free") Sorry no pics...gotta remember my camera and scale next time...

Throwing this out there for anybody heading to Apsley or Bancroft... The new tackle store in Bobcaygeon has a sign for worms $1.90 a dozen... Just east of the four-way stop signs at the north end of town on the north side of Hwy 36...