Spiel

PS....I have seen this live several times 

and on it goes........
 

and then this followed, ya, I'm that old........
 

I love it.......
and I'm old. 

 

I'd be checking out Lake Belwood myself.
Launches are available at both ends of the lake.
Walleye, Pike, Bass and Perch are in the lake.

3 hours ago, Headhunter said:

Invasive puke would leave a nasty scum... and smell!

HH

I concur wholeheartedly. I have no idea how one would go about cleaning and filleting "puke."     🤣

And ya, "Black Bass" was also a familiar term from youth. 

To add to the confusion they still refer to Brookies and Lakers as trout, they're not.

And further more, Walleye are not Pickerel even though I grew thinking they were.  😆

Am I wrong or are you sporting just a touch of grey on those side burns young man.  😁

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

👎

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

 

25 minutes ago, Weeds said:

Do the innards of the handle contribute at all to the strength of the structure or is it basically just a void and filled for cosmetics? You could do one inspired by the Rambo survival knife I had as a kid. Had a compass on the bottom that didn’t work, matches that wouldn’t light inside and a wire saw that broke the first time it was unfolded. Or a flask! Booze for emergencies and medicinal uses only naturally….

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.

23 minutes ago, HTHM said:

Enlighten us then... I'm certain you have a valid reason for whatever it is that you do. 

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.   🤣

6 minutes ago, HTHM said:

Kind of Trumpian in my opinion. Also a thumbs down from me. 

And stop buying prewrapped potatoes, they are no different that the ones in the 10 pound bag. Just more expensive. 

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

13 minutes ago, pics said:

Lol.. the fish are going to love the sparkle on a sunny day 

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  

2 hours ago, irishfield said:

I don't care what it says on their pump. Prior to this new mandate that everything has to have renewable fuel in it I bought regular at Shell for misc items in the yard while I was also getting premium for my old cars. That regular damn near destroyed my 3 year old Kubota mower. As you can see further up in this thread I know full well how to test for Ethanol, the regular I got had about 21% in it !

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!

3 hours ago, Big Cliff said:

Now the excitement builds, checking our gear, planning the food, the trip itself, reviewing maps of the lake, the route....

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.

 

36 minutes ago, kickingfrog said:

I'm ok with them being recognized in their own category but not against natural fish.

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