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  1. Traffic in Toronto starts to get bad in about 1977. Never quite got over it.
  2. I had a bad incident with a bottle of Glenlivet when I was in the Army. Sad result is that virtually all Scotch gives me a gag reflex now. But thankfully there's an exception to the rule: Laphroaig. It's from the Western Isles and has a reputation for being "peaty" and somewhat of an aquired tastte. I have a bottle left over from a trip to Scotland in '94 -- and a buddy of mine who knows I drink the stuff who's still in the Army grabbed on in the US Army PX in Guam (imagine that) on his way home from Afghanistan in '02. I've seen Laphroaig at LCBO in the past couple years -- didn't notice the price. 10 year and 15 year stuff, I think. I have the 10 year stuff. It's fine. Suits a good cigar and fireplace nicely. Sitting here in the middle of the Southern Ontario blizzard -- I might just do that.... As far as the post about SCREECH goes -- from my time Down East I can tell you -- Screech is fine. I even find it palatable if I mix about an ounce of screech with two litres of lime soda!!!
  3. Deeper = shorter. In summer I rig in over 100 FOW for chinooks with very short leads. Under 10 feet. Early summer, not so deep -- maybe 50 FOW -- much longer leads. 20-30 feet. It's not the rigger ball I worry about -- but rigging shallow 10 feet behind the boat and motor can't be good. In real early spring when we don't bother with teh riggers, we use super long leads and inline boards to keep teh lures as far away as possible. I've got lakers off the bottom, and a few odd rainbows with short leads down deep. But mostly salmon. Good mix of chinook and coho. I don't know if it matters much. If I had to give a hunch -- I would say longer leads for coho, shorter for chinook. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm going to make some notes next season and see... I run worm harnesses up to 200 feet behind the balls in Erie for walleye in 50-60 FOW. When gobies pop the riggers after setting THAT up, I get a bit furious...
  4. Finally replaced the flipped over boat from the salmon derby. Went a bit bigger. Stuck with Legend -- but went from 16 feet to 19 feet -- and from 40hp up to 115 hp. A bit more appropriate sort of boat for what we use it for. Deeper hull. Got us some big electric riggers from Bill's Bait and Tackle in Hamilton, too. Thanks again Iceguy. You made the capsizing and rescue less of a hassle than the insurance battle over the next month. If it weren't for you - my wife and magnum's wife might have been making different sorts of insurance claims!! Two pics -- upside down one is the old. 2nd pic is new boat parked at William's Coffee in the harbour. Just thinking about that -- Coffee shop with docking for customers is pretty civilized, don't you think? Too bad it's not a Timmy's.
  5. LAke ontario this morning... 40-45 feet down over 119 feet of water, offshore from perhaps Walker's Line (??) Downrigger cable down 80 feet didn't hit anything - but a dipsey with 100 feet of line out to the flank sure did. Stopped cold. Cut the motor to keep my line. 200 feet out before I knew it. Thought maybe a HUGE laker -- it was like a boot on the bottom. I started horsing it up to the top -- but no action at all - just dead weight. Not a fish. I started thinking maybe a body (!!!!) or an underwater cable. (Except the rigger and our other lines were clear - and the dipsey was only perhaps 45 feet under the surface.) Got within 20 feet of surface and couldn't budge it after that. Still couldn't see it. Tried to break it off, but my braided line wouldn't snap. Before I thought of just cutting the damn line, the rod shattered and I ended up on my arse in the bottom of the boat. (Always wear glasses in the boat - if it's not hooks in the face, it's fiberglass shrapnel) Any ideas what this might have been? I'm thinking submerged tree, perhaps. Something that washed out of one of the rivers in the spring and has been drifting around. Then the two rigger lines tangled because we were stationary so long and the lines just hanging off the clips got into mischief. That took some work to free up. The downrigger cables themselves were the only things I didn't need to cut. Basically a bad day fishing. Still better than work, I think.
  6. Bronte launch was open. They were working putting in the docks and the river was chocolate soup FULL of debris at the mouth -- but the lake was nice. No fish, though.
  7. Going to launch tomorrow afternoon, and ran out of time today to drive around and check... What launches are open at this end of Lake O? Does anyone know about Bronte? Hamilton Bayfront or Lasalle? Last time I was near the Harbour, bayfront launch was still frozen. I'll drive to Port D if I have to, fishing is supposed to be better along the South shore, anyway -- but I was looking for a shorter trip trolling around the Petro Canada Pier in Burlington. Thaks in advance for any info.
  8. 6 lb flouro -- Not as thick as it looks-- and in the photo it sure looks thick -- I was wondering the same, too -- but when I was out there I could barely see the stuff to bait up. Maybe the flash of the camera??? This was in Lake O
  9. Just dying to try out my new survival suit and do some winter boating. Nice Lake ontario Brown this morning. Suit was toasty.
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