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That looks like a blast! thanks for posting! HH

***UPDATE**** Our cottage at Perfect Vue is booked, with our happy little gorup of 7 confirmed anglers and Lincoln. As mentioned, we will be arriving on Nov. 18th and departing on Nov. 20th. HH

Glad your ok Gerritt! Pepperettes! HH

Nice! Now go back and draw a net around that fish, so it feels more like home! HH

Care to elaborate? Or is this simply a typo? HH

Just yanking yer chain Bro LOL... Take your time, keep your eyes peeled, especially for vehicles that have these four letters on the roof...TAXI! Im my many years of driving, I can say that these professional drivers are the one's you really have to watch out for... HH

Driving in the GTA on the 401, where the weak are killed and eaten! Seriously dude, if you are already in semi-freak mode, just considering driving through T.O., then perhaps you should re-consider your trip... And if you find that you must, avoid any and all day light hours... and don't look at the other drivers... you may be their next meal! muah ha ha ha! HH

Thanks for this Ron... I canonly imagine the inconvenience this has added to your already busy life... add me to the list of folks willing to contribute to any kind of defense fund... HH

Skeeter, wear the leather this time... the whips and ball gager could also use a cleaning... just sayin. HH

yUp... it looks like we have two dates, with our little "group" arriving on Nov 18th, 19th and 20th. LLoyd, I had no idea that you were having health concerns and I am genuinely pleased that things are good now. I will be booking our little love nest at Perfect Vue some time today... Terry, Wayne and Lloyd... sorry it's not working out, but at this point, it is what it is. To the guys who have been pm'ing me about this trip, I need to know numbers so I can reserve a cottage suitable for our needs... I also need to let the dominatrix know the dates so she can get her various accoutrements tuned up and in proper working order. Young-one... get yer mom to stock up on noodles... HH

The secret bait was very much up for debate... we had to decide whether to show the bait or the location in the pics... we decided that we simply could not keep that highly successful bait, out of our OFC brother's arsenal, hence the pics with the fish. That said, I am somewhat disappointed that CCMT did not blur out the background on some of those pics as the combination of "secret lure" and location would be deadly to the local anglers as well any comercial endevours on the lake. I know that Cliff will do the right thing and re-visit some of those pics! HH

Thanks for doing the report Cliff... well since you were the only one taking pics, I guess that by default, the job is yours! As usual, I had a great time... good friends, good eats, the occasional fish, a bottle of vodka in the freezer and we are good to go! What I learned this weekend... -just because the dog eats 'em, I shouldn't eat pine cones! -marshmellows don't have to be fresh, to work! -if Gerritt tries to get you to eat something, be very sure that in it's native form, it will pass light... otherwise, you may be in for a world of hurt -carling makes a breakfast beer -NASCAR drivers don't use signals to indicate a left turn! -it's a fun game, if you play it slow -one rod to rule them all! Thanks again Bernie... it takes a special kind of guy to invite a group of asses up to their cottage every year... we all appreciate it. So, how does "Brown Eyed Girl" start again... HH

I have been in a four year feud with Toronto Hydro over our constant blackouts. Since I moved into the house, four years ago, we have had a steady stream of outages. some lasting hours, some lasting minutes. My greatest fear re the outages stems from the power surges that proceed and follow outages. There are spikes when the power goes out and when it comes back on. I have connected with Toronto Hydo numerous times and have kept a running log of the outages. I have spoken with many techs at T.H and the answer is always the same. "there are a number of trees in your neighbourhood and they, plus animals can cause lines to be broken. This answer was unacceptable to me, as all our hydro lines are... buried! So, after much calling, sniffing and generally being a pain in the anus, I have found out the following... Historically, before the amalgamation of Toronto Hydro and Scarborough Hydo, Scrborough Hydro had a team of workers, who's sole job was to climb into the ground based transformers and clean out any debres (leaves, trash)from the bottom of the vault, to ensure that the drain in the vault was clear. Well, our good friends at Toronto Hydro deemed that function to be redundent and killed the job. So, when ever it rains, there's a good chance that I will lose power. T.H. has told me to put a UPS (uninteruptable power supply) on every circuit in my house, to ensure that I don't loose any electronic equipment. The cost of each unit is in the $200 to $300 range. I have already had to replace my TV once... but Hydro says that if I have a receipt, they will give me the depreciation value of the TV... it was 15 years old!!!! So, in answering the O.P.'s question, yah, we here in Toronto have to put up with the same crap, only we don't get to know when the power is going to go out... atleast they give you a heads up! HH

Ok... so lets try this again... it's like herding freakin cats here!... Is everybody ok with the 18th, 19th and 20th? HH

Well isn't that great for youse guys... never really occured to any of you to perhaps let the rest of the class in on the little secret? (Dam Roy, you were so right!) Ok, so in an effort to build a consensus, do we stay with the 11th, 12th and 13th or move to the following weekend so we can watch/hear Lloyd blow his air horn at the morons trolling in his way? HH

I know... no worries, I like wet socks! HH

Ya know Chris, we could put you on to some spotted carp that weekend... I know where they hide! But then, you'd be stuck reeling in something that in no way resembles a big wet sock and you might get too tired! HH

You are absolutely correct Roy and I'll "third" Fil's suggestion of Nov. 11th, 12th and 13th. SO, the next big question is... WHERE ARE WE GOING TO STAY!!!!! This should get fun fast! HH

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Hey folks, Well, we are fast approaching that time of year again and as such, I was hoping that we could establish a date for our November GTG. I know it's too early to be posting a sticky, but in order to secure accomadation, we should start thinkin about a date. HH

I call photoshop! Skeeter never kisses on the first date! HH Edit for clarification... He doesn't kiss on the first date... on the lips!

I was at work in downtown T.O.. At that time, my employer had just laid off the entire company, well everyone but me! So, there I am, in a huge office working by myself when my mother in law called me to tell me that a plane had just crashed into the tower. I ran down to a coffee shop on the ground floor, just in time to see the 2nd plane hit. People were obviously very concerned. Rumours started that perhaps Toronto was going to be a target as well and company's began sending people home. At around 11:30am I called my new boss to find out what my instructions were only to be told that they had shut the company down for the day and "geez, I completely forgot about you there by yerself!" "Get out of there as people are saying the First Canadian Place could be a target and you aer only half a block from there...". I really didn't want to have FCP and it's 72 stories land on my head, so I got outta there! I was home by noon and like many others I'm sure, spent the rest of the day watching the news and wondering how our happy little world had gone to hell in a hand basket. HH

It's all part of the service Brian! HH

Brian, you are trying too hard to keep up the pace of today's life... you should go fishing with Terry... his trials and tribulations will negate your own personal demons because... how bad can you feel when you are laughing yer arse off! (Assuming for the moment you actually make it, out on the water and/or back to shore!) HH

Steve, it's called a Pickereye! HH