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Sunday morning coffee while watching Simon pound Walleye. I need to go fishing.... 😆

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A slab of OS Spring King, cedar planked, butter and fresh dill basted with home made Coleslaw and foil wrapped taters, Mmmm, Mmmmmm.....delish!

The "innards of the handle" are the rod blank itself, everything over top of that, grips, seats, etc provide functional usability as well as cosmetic appeal for the consumer.

Well I did buy a 4 pack of them Albert for a spur of the moment trip north. I was asked to bring a meal for dinner, I opted in for the steaks and baked Taters. However in my rush to grocery shop and get back home to pack up gear and boat and hit the road I hit the local Freshco for supplies (not steaks) and sadly they had no Russets (the best for foil wrapping and BBQ'ing imo), so in my rush I bought a 4 pack of foil wrapped spuds (I never buy pre wrapped cause I am frugal ). Then once home and still in a rush to pack up and get on the road I blew out my back and ended staying in bed for several days. Going forward when I went to use the foil wrapped spuds at home several days later I unwrapped them to split, season and butter them pre grilling I found them all to be less than edible, so I tossed them, but the unused foil was there and I had been asked to come up with an all gold seat cast in clear acrylic so I thought......hmmmm, why not. I do like trying new and creative designs in the shop and sometimes I get a winner and sometimes I don't as seen by the numerous failures laying about the shop. So there you have the background story. I do have a buyer though for the reel seat. I'll bet those big Cats down Dunnville way don't give a damn about reel seat colours. 🤣

Perhaps you need a little more of the back ground story Albert before jumping to conclusions. 😜

Good Lord, you're not one of these guys are you Phil? 😆

For what it's worth in regards to ethanol in fuel I have run only 87 octane fuel in my boat for years always using the appropriate amount of fuel stabilizer. As I noted earlier in this thread last year I was running a good portion of the year on three year old fuel. So yesterday I changed the filter on the fuel/water separator that had approximately 100 hours of use over the last couple of years. Given the difficulty I had in removing it I will now most certainly change it annually regardless of seasonal hours of use. So the point of this post is that while the filter had seen only gas with ethanol and old gas at that I truly expected to see some water in the fuel I drained out of it. The pictures below were taken this morning after settling for some 20 hours and there is no sign of water but there was plenty of sediment/dirt/crud at the bottom of the container. I presume, hope that it came from the input side of the filter thus showing water or no water it's a definite asset to have a good fuel filtration system onboard.

Thanks folks I greatly appreciate your comments. Like most of you it's not to my taste either but the young crowd eats this stuff up. The market is full of gold & gold black anodized reel seats and of course reels but I've not yet seen a gold ergonomically shaped reel seat for the center pin crowd so I'm playing about hoping to create something unique to the long rod steelhead crowd. And if you thought that seat a little blingy check out these two I made using some 40 year old salmon spoon prism tape I had laying about.

I've been playing around in the shop thinking on how I might repurpose the gold foil off of store wrapped baking potatoes, don't ask me why.... lol It's still a little raw and unpolished but I'm thinking it could work. Thoughts?

You're spoiled Simon and I'm envious.

Livin da dream

There is simply no logical reason to have ethanol in our fuel, full stop. You and I know that Wayne as do many other sentient beings. It's totally BS virtue signalling nonsense!

Prepping and planning is one of my favourite pre trip activities Cliff, it keeps the excitement level at max. I hope you and Ken have a wonderful trip pal.

Absolutely Rob, naturally occurring or stocked I believe they should be recognized in a separate category, after all they existed.

I whole heartedly concur Bill, while they do occasionally occur naturally in the wild if the fish in question is a potential record and is from a known body of water stocked with triploids it should be immediately ineligible for record status. ie, Lake Diefenbaker

My 2006 Merc EFI 75~4 stroke clearly states in the owners manual not to run anything over 87 octane, given that ethanol free is not an option in that grade I had my marine mechanic install a fuel/water separator on the gas line just ahead of the engine, many years ago. That along with always using stabilizer I've never had an issue and last year I was running on 3 year old gas without a hiccup for a better part of the summer. I believe it was money well spent.

While I'm no expert here tech wise Cliff, what I have found is that it's the result of an IP address that has been flagged in the past as suspicious. Reach out to BlueEyes via PM and he should be able to help you. What I can say is that your not being hacked, I don't think there's any need for concern in that regard.

My friend built something similar back in the 80's and we used to run on Lake Ontario behind his house on the Burlington Beach Strip. It had a 25 Johnson Seahorse on it and it went like stink, good times. However, I once strapped a 15 Evinrude on the back of my 16' square back Sportspal (early 80's) and in a straight line it was much, much quicker. 😄 It was literally like a dragster, turning it at full throttle though was a big...NO, NO........ 🤣 It amazes me that I'm still here to share some of these stories. 🤪 So, if you ever get 'er done Barry, we'll want pictures,, or better yet.....video.

Exactly like that! 😆

He absolutely gives me the legs Doug, I've only used them thus far for soup stock. Actually I did smoke a couple legs a few years ago, wasn't great. I may take you up on your offer once the goods have been delivered.

I don't hunt but I do have two birds being delivered right to my door by my buddy who just filled his second tag this morning. He shoots 'em, I smoke 'em then we split the finished meat. It's a good arrangement.

Stellar, simply stellar!

Cliff sure does get around, solid dude he is.

That's hilarious, good girl Zoe. FYI....some damn fine fish there too CM.