SirCranksalot

I have had to eat crow a few times but never drink it!!

1 for the fly guys--Merry Xmas one and all---tight lines in the New Year.

No kidding. Here's Nov water levels for Collingwood. The variation is about .6m or 2 ft.

Ok, but you can collect CT points at any gas bar when you use the CTC card.

I hear their craft beer is quite good but their mass produced stuff is 'canoe beer' in the worse sense. Pilsner originated in the Czech lands (town/city of Plzn) so when I feel like a pilsner I buy some Czech stuff from LCBO.

Notice on that site that typical American beers like Miller apparently aspire to being OK....many, if not most, are rated as being awful!! Call me a beer snob if you like but I'd rather pay a bit extra for something with a good flavor( but I've never thrown out any beer---well, apart from Coors Lite)

No longer in business? I guess their luck ran out.

I think it would be a good idea to pin the regs to the top of the board---maybe in the 'extra resources' section.

I get a chuckle out of the Lucky Driving School too!

Really--I thought it was just a percentage on the volume. You mean NOT buy 20 l at a time?

I think we need to form a research team to sample all the possible candidates for a replacement beer!

I remember seeing the Forget Me Not dog kennel somewhere in my travels.

Speaking of great names, is the "Fryer Truck" still in Ajax?

Most of the cards mentioned on here have no annual fee, so we are not handing over any money.

I earn more $ on my Options card than I do on my bank account which, with current interest rates, is not saying very much I guess. Twice now I've gotten notice that I can spend my points and get them refunded on my next statement. Once was for $50, once for $75. So these days I keep a good balance in case I get a similar offer.

Ok, picky, picky! dam nice fish either way

I don't know how the Uptown in Barrie can make a profit. 1 theater has big recliner chairs better than my Lazy Boy at home and still charge the same low price as their other theaters. The drawback for some of older folks is that the movie had better be good or it's snooze time!

Ahh, it would be ok if it was wearing a seat belt!!!

Went to the Uptown in Barrie last nite. Cost us $10 for the both of us. Boy oh boy, a buck sure doesn't go too far these days!!!

My trap started off as galvanized but by now is brown with silt and/or rust. For those who know the area I tried: 1 Marl 'Lake', which is a small shallow body of water. 2 Two different spots on the Notty---1 with a fair bit of current, 1 with very little. 3 a small creek with very little current running into the Notty. 4 the upper part of the Mad with little current but did not set trap----just tried with small piece of worm on hook but didn't get any bites. There are other small creeks in the area that I can try. Apart from that it's mostly water traps on golf courses! I have heard that some of them have bass but I don't know if they would have any sort of minnows. Presumably any bass were dumped into those water traps but I couldn't see anyone dropping minnows in there.

So this year I thought I'd give it a try for bows on local rivers. There are quite a few spots where you can fish near the vehicle so lugging a pail is not much of a concern. Our local bait shop didn't have minnows when I was there so I figured it would be fairly easy do do. Apparently not. I have tried several local places incl 1 where my granddaughter and I C & R'ed about $20 of minnows, mostly suckers, last year. I have tried the river and a creek as well as a quite shallow lake known to hold bass, pike etc. I assumed that there would be bait fish in there for those bass and pike to feed on but NOPE! I was using stale bread and a few crackers as bait as that was what I was told to use. Anybody else trap minnows? Any suggestions? (I know there are restrictions on the number and type I can keep---I've checked the regs) Thx

I don't think the Garmin maps are worth the $ they charge. Navionics are much cheaper.

The one by Dr. Tang is good too. Maybe use a combo i.e the Poon-Tang diet!!

It also depends on the individual's metabolism. Some people will get, say, 500 cal out of a meal whereas another will get 400 out of the same meal. The calories quoted for given amounts of food are just averages.

The drawback I find with tying a leader-to-hook Palomar is that it uses more line than some of the other knots. I can do the improved cinch on a limp line like braid but on fine mono or fluoro I loose track of where I'm supposed to thread it back thru or that little 'gap' closes up. I guess it's the combo of my big clumsy fingers and my eyesight. I wouldn't mind trying that Orvis knot but I can't fancy carrying that chair around!!