Grimace

1 month ago I witnessed 2 york cops ( aged 25 years about ) street racing each other in 2 cop cars, they would pass each other back and forth smiling and laughing and doing 170-200 on the 407 across the top of Toronto. Makes me sick

Very Impressive season!!

I have mine under my front windshield works perfect. Have heard of lake mappers putting them as close to the transducer as possible so the gps points are right on top of the contour lines, but i don't make maps i just follow them so under my windshield it goes.

The grey bars look pretty thick, not like the 3 or 5 colour light system that comes with the flashers. I dont know for sure but because I havent seen them in action, but in my opinion nothing beats a good ole classic flasher

Taking the Green Riders because nobody loves cfl more than there fans, Those fans deserve the party.

I have a fl-18 and it is incredible. Having said that, I have seen an lx-5 in action and it is even better!!. I am not sure about and lcd screen if you do not have a hut. so I am unsure about the Lowrance. Try the lx-3 if you dont want to spend the big bucks, it is an awesome machine

Should we get Mel Lastman to call the Army???

Wiki says that Belleville made a fortune hustling booze during Prohibition. Now THATS good Canadian history!!!!

Great Report. The Bay has been cruel to me many a time. But you guys still boated fish on a tough week-end. Good on you.. Thats a wicked boat man. Cheers

Happy Birthday. I always like reading your musky reports. Cheers

Mine just expired. thx for the reminder

Thx everyone. I started taking the graph pics and gps pics so that I can put them in the fishing journal with a link to the pics. Should tell a lot such as water temp, where the fish were holding. I figure a journal in the computer with a link to a few telling pics could really bring back the memory and feel of the day along with the nuts and bolts information. I have no Idea yet for next spring Dano, there are just so many opportunities in our fine province it is baffling. I think fishing with your father is even better when your a grown man than it was when you where a kid. Cheers

Thx. I am very happy to fish with my dad. We met Dano in NW Ontario this spring. Solid guy. Cheers.

Hello everyone, I haven't been around for a bit. Me and the old man were back in action at Quinte again. This week-end was fruitful. We arrived late Friday night launched the boat and got the room. I decided to throw in the line at Picton Harbour at midnight before I went to bed. 4 casts and I got a 10 pound eye. No pic as the camera was in the sonar bag in the room. Threw em back and went to bed. Next Morning started trolling cranks just past the ferry and on the first pass I get this nice 12 lb 3 oz er. My new PB by half a pound. Then a couple passes later my father hooked into this 11 lb 10 ozer his new PB by a pound and a half. Then we continued to pick up a fish an hour for the rest of the day. Pretty good fishing, for the size. The fish fought well compared to other years and seemed very spunky. Not seeming like the wet socks you tend to get. Cigars and walleye. Gotta love it. The key seemed to be finding the scattered bait balls, I would think that means they are scattering for a reason and that being the walleye are feeding on them. Surface temps were around 50 and that is always a good sign. A charter dude said that last week he put his depth raider down 40 feet and it was still reading 55 like the surface. Tight Bait. With some keen observers. Bait getting slaughtered by walleye. Sunday started off slow no wind, sun came higher stirred up the wind and the old man was off to the races. He had the hot hand catching 5, and me, well none. At the end of the day we had a double header of big fish and lost them both. mine was better than 10 pounds and was lost boat side and we didnt see dads as it got of while he tried to net mine. Can't have your cake and eat it i guess. Amazing how small 3 and a half pounders look compared to the others. We kept the small ones for eating. A pound of delicious walleye We went into Picton bay flats for the latter fish and the lost double header. Fish were stacked after the wind change. Anyway, the old man put a tuning on me Sunday, and we had a great week-end. Fishing is looking good for you guys on the week-end. Go get em Cheers

That was as cool as it gets

Subject: British newspaper salutes Canada A British newspaper salutes Canada . . . this is a good read. It is funny how it took someone in England to put it into words... Sunday Telegraph Article From today's UK wires: Salute to a brave and modest nation - Kevin Myers, The Sunday Telegraph LONDON - Until the deaths of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops are deployed in the region. And as always, Canada will bury its dead, just as the rest of the world, as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does. It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out; she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again. That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts. For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions. It seemed to be a part of the Old World, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved. Yet its purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle. Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, its unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular Memory as somehow or other the work of the "British." The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone. Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth largest air force in the world. The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time. Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity. So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British. It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers. Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces. Canadian soldiers in the past half-century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth - in 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia. Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular on-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia, in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit. So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbour has given it in Afghanistan? Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac, Canada repeatedly does honourable things for honourable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun. It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honour comes at a high cost. This past year more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well. ********************* Please pass this on to any of your friends or relatives who served in the Canadian Forces or anyone who is proud to be Canadian; it is a wonderful tribute to those who choose to serve their country and the world in our quiet Canadian way. Stephen Ottridge

That is so Illegal. and dangerous, and funny

I have never had to eat the ass out of my shorts when i called a cab. Cheers

good info. I was thinking of maybe getting some tire covers for my trailer like the winnebago people do. keep the sun off them when its sitting. does that have anything to do with trailer tires cracking faster maybe? sitting in the sun in the same place longer?

This dude is obviously a good human. He should have been the last man off the island though as the supervisor of the trip. It's tough but it was his mistake not the CO's and they should not be seen as the bad guy in this, they did there job and did it well.

Pro X

Great looking fish. Nice job man

Poachers should be eaten

Only thing missing is a smoke hanging from the mouth. Great fish

The Nicest boat launch I have ever seen is in La Salle ON. just south of Windsor. It is like two airplane runways, tons and tons of parking, and lots of space to prep your boat without getting in anybody's way. anyone else have a favorite boat launch in Ontario???