"Brian Hill" wrote:

| Good luck Steve. you bum!

Let's see, going to put new fifteen - pound
test on the reels in the morning, then it's off
to Gander Mountain for some nightcrawlers,
and I'll put up a Thermos of hot coffee tomorrow
night, then it's up at 3 a.m. to catch some fish!

I *could* do this for a living, but I doubt it
would pay very well.

And yes, you hit the nail on the head:
If a bum I be, I'll be a bum well!

73,


--
Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

(NOTE: My email address has only one "dot."
You'll have to edit out the one between the "7"
and the "3" in my email address if you wish to
reply via email)


---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.634 / Virus Database: 406 - Release Date: 3/18/04

"Jackie" wrote:
| Hey, good luck! Hope you get a bunch of them. I was down by Lake Pepin
last
| month and saw about a half-dozen bald eagles in the area.

I was driving along the East (Wisconsin) side, and saw plenty
of eagles' nests in the trees at the edge of the road, actually,
but no eagles. That sure is a nice drive (Except for the fact that
a police car followed me for about 8 miles - that was some
perfect driving!

| Walleye, now that
| is some great eating-- for some reason, I've never had too much luck
| catching them.

They're cagey as heck - when they bite, they all seem to bite
in the same spot, maybe they run in loose schools, kind of
like crappies? Anyway, I've always run hot or cold on
walleyes, feast or famine.

| Maybe it is because I try to avoid the premiere walleye lake
| in central Minnesota, Mille Lacs, because it seems like every other
| fisherperson and their entire extended family is on that lake from May to
| November, and no one's telling where they're biting. Bah.

That's a closely - garded secret, on the same plane as morels.

| My star catch was a 7 lb. largemouth bass that I caught out of a lake just
| north of Bemidji. That was some fun. It took 45 minutes for me to tire
that
| guy out, and I was only using 8 lb. test line! It bit me for my trouble.
| Bass are great fighters, so much fun to catch, and they can be good eating
| if you keep the smaller ones and cook 'em fresh. No scaling and just
remove
| the backbone, voila, you're good to go.

Bass are a fine eating fish, that's for sure. I grew up in Dubuque, Iowa,
on the Mississippi, and we used to catch whopping striped bass down
on the river, at the power plant discharge, and I remember very fondly
some nice fish dinners from our efforts.

| So many of my childhood memories have to do with fishing. You almost can't
| help that if you grow up here. I was raised in St. Paul, close to the
| Mississippi, so fishing the Old Muddy was a staple activity on many
weekends
| of our young lives in those pre-Internet, pre-VCR and pre-computer game
| days.

That's precisely how I grew up. I can remember - no kidding - probably
3 or 4 summers when I fished at *least* half of the days of summer. Used
to catch my own nightcrawlers with a flashlight and bucket, every night
after (and sometimes during) a rain. Those are truly happy memories.

| We used to catch catfish, carp and buffalo fish out of the Mississippi.
| Those things would bite on anything, and I mean anything, like even pieces
| of tinfoil. My dad would lend us some of his fishing equipment (usually
the
| crap that got stuck to the bottom of his tackle box) but insisted that we
| leave his good lures* alone if we were going catfishing.

I remember the day I lost my Dad's Lazy Ike Leopard Frog lure.
He was disappointed in me - I almost felt like crying. I think I was
twelve. I learned from that experience that, if I didn't buy it, and
I didn't work for it, I should keep my hands off of it.

| So we'd hop on our
| bikes and start off downhill to the river, our fishing poles strapped to
our
| backs next to backpacks filled with lunches, pop, sunscreen, OFF bug
| repellent, and a can of Green Giant corn kernals. We would string a bunch
of
| corn kernals on a hook, toss it into the river and voila, a big, ugly ten
| pounder'd be on your line before you know it. After several hours of
landing
| big ones from the Old Muddy, we'd hop back on our bikes and head uphill
all
| the way home; sunburnt, mosquito-bitten and full of fish stories for our
| folks. Life's good here, you betcha!

Another Dubuque memory: I must have been 12, and those were in the
good old days when kids could do just what you're talking about: Hike
or bike down to the river. I brought two cans of corn, opened one and
threw it in (I didn't know "chumming" was illegal then). I baited my hook,
and cast it into the area about 40 feet from the bank where the corn landed.
I seem to remember that Buffalo Carp weighed at around 40 pounds.
The tomatoes tasted mighty GOOD that summer! (Fertilizer)

| Who is really looking forward to Minnesota's Holy Day of Obligation:
Fishing
| Opener.

I'm a bit of a claim - jumper, as I'm getting into the walleye
water before opening day - legally, of course!

73,

Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

(NOTE: My email address has only one "dot."
You'll have to edit out the one between the "7"
and the "3" in my email address if you wish to
reply via email)


---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.634 / Virus Database: 406 - Release Date: 3/18/04

"Jackie" wrote:
|
| "Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote in message
|
| Oh, yeah, I'm taking the old FRG-7 along, with 100
| feet of wire, and a big bunch of "D" sized batteries.
| Just think: Two of my favorite pastimes, and I get
| to combine them all at once!
|
| There you go! Ah yes. I am often able to combine stargazing and DXing in
one
| night too. Let us know what catches you get-- both fish and radio
stations!!
|
| Jackie

I hope I can find a decent tree to hold the wire. I'm hoping I can get
KTNN-660 in the log one more time before Summer gets here. Last
time I heard the station was in January, parked in front of work at about
6:45 a.m., well before sunup.

73,

Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

(NOTE: My email address has only one "dot."
You'll have to edit out the one between the "7"
and the "3" in my email address if you wish to
reply via email)


---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.634 / Virus Database: 406 - Release Date: 3/18/04

In article hc9kc.288418$Pk3.160909@pd7tw1no,
"Brian Colwell" wrote:

"Telamon" wrote in message
...
In article SE_jc.300307$oR5.162617@pd7tw3no,
"Brian Colwell" wrote:

"N8KDV" wrote in message
...
When are we going to wake up and see the menace right on our border to
the north? When are we going to wake up and realise they are not our
friends? When are we going to wake up and realise they harbour those
who
wish us harm?

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-break...2826-6669r.htm

**** CANADA

Do not buy Canadian, do not tour Canada, do not cross Canada to save a
few hours travel time.

BOYCOTT CANADA!

Have you ever traveled anywhere, beyond your own back yard ? You could
do a
helluva lot worse than having Canada as your neighbor !

So you don't want to buy our oil or natural gas :-(( !!

No we are thinking of invading Canada and taking it instead.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Think you could put up with the snow and ice ? :-))

I've thought about this and decided I'm not going. I'm sending Steve
instead. He's used to the cold.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

"Telamon" wrote:
| I've thought about this and decided I'm not going. I'm sending Steve
| instead. He's used to the cold.
|
| --
| Telamon
| Ventura, California

Which Steve? 'Cause if I'm going, I want Manitoba -
Lare can have Ontario.

Sounds like a fair division to me!



73,

Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

(NOTE: My email address has only one "dot."
You'll have to edit out the one between the "7"
and the "3" in my email address if you wish to
reply via email)


---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.634 / Virus Database: 406 - Release Date: 3/18/04

Look, you're just not fully informed, and I can understand that. What is
proposed is simply something that is already going on in both U.S. and
Canada - arbitration, whose purpose is to help free the courts to deal with
more serious cases. There are already other groups doing this, and allowing
Islamic groups the same opportunity really changes nothing. It's
understandable that people who read only part of the reporting, or who rely
on the superficial VOA-like reporting on U.S. cable news channels are going
to be misled about what is really happening. It is NOT a situation where
fundamentalist Islamic law will become the law of the land. It's just a
dispute resolution mechanism, not really much different than having people
agree to go before a TV judge and to abide by that celebrity judge's
decision. The principle is exactly the same.



"N8KDV" wrote in message
...


Pierre L wrote:

Sounds like you would be a good candidate to have your own shortwave
radio
talk show

I accept PayPal donations!

is the account!

We'll see what happens!



"N8KDV" wrote in message
...
When are we going to wake up and see the menace right on our border to
the north? When are we going to wake up and realise they are not our
friends? When are we going to wake up and realise they harbour those
who
wish us harm?

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-break...2826-6669r.htm

**** CANADA

Do not buy Canadian, do not tour Canada, do not cross Canada to save a
few hours travel time.

BOYCOTT CANADA!

"Telamon" wrote in message
...
In article hc9kc.288418$Pk3.160909@pd7tw1no,
"Brian Colwell" wrote:

"Telamon" wrote in message
...
In article SE_jc.300307$oR5.162617@pd7tw3no,
"Brian Colwell" wrote:

"N8KDV" wrote in message
...
When are we going to wake up and see the menace right on our
border to
the north? When are we going to wake up and realise they are not
our
friends? When are we going to wake up and realise they harbour
those
who
wish us harm?

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-break...2826-6669r.htm

**** CANADA

Do not buy Canadian, do not tour Canada, do not cross Canada to
save a
few hours travel time.

BOYCOTT CANADA!

Have you ever traveled anywhere, beyond your own back yard ? You
could
do a
helluva lot worse than having Canada as your neighbor !

So you don't want to buy our oil or natural gas :-(( !!

No we are thinking of invading Canada and taking it instead.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Think you could put up with the snow and ice ? :-))

I've thought about this and decided I'm not going. I'm sending Steve
instead. He's used to the cold.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Steve.....His alias is not N8KDV is it ? You couldn't be that cruel, just
keep him at home ! We give in :-))

BMC (also on the West Coast)

Pierre L wrote:

Look, you're just not fully informed, and I can understand that.

You understand nothing, retard!

[rest of your crap snipped and not even read!]

"N8KDV" wrote in message
...


Pierre L wrote:

Look, you're just not fully informed, and I can understand that.

You understand nothing, retard!

[rest of your crap snipped and not even read!]



You've really gone over the top.. you don't WANT to know the truth, or even
another side of an issue. The poster is right, the situation that was talked
about in the article is precisely the same as someone going to Judge Wapner
or Judge Judy. Why is it that some people think that Sharia law
automatically means stoning? Our system of law is based loosely on the
Hammurabic Code, which was far more harsh than Sharia Law. The system here
will use only those parts of Sharia Law that pertain to business and family
relationships, and has no force in civil law, nor can they try criminal
cases.

Hey,

We're not ALL bad - just the politicians
--
Take Care
Abb N
VE3003SWL
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

"N8KDV" wrote in message
...
When are we going to wake up and see the menace right on our border to
the north? When are we going to wake up and realise they are not our
friends? When are we going to wake up and realise they harbour those who
wish us harm?

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-break...2826-6669r.htm

**** CANADA

Do not buy Canadian, do not tour Canada, do not cross Canada to save a
few hours travel time.

BOYCOTT CANADA!