jimmar wrote on Dec 21^st, 2009 at 8:05pm:
Sooo fun.  I had a boot sucked off there once ong ago. 
I used to use mid-calf no-lace rubber boots that kept you nice and dry -- until the water got above them or one got pulled off.  In this case I tried to hop on one foot with an aluminum canoe on my back & re-insert my foot without getting it wet.  I don't recall being very successful at that & but I think it looked entertaining to the guys I was with.

Anyway, what time of year was this?  It's on my route for August 2010 & I'm interested if I can expect as much slop as many years ago.

Thanks -Tom

Nice bait! First bait pic we've had in a while...

Truth be told, db, I was too engrossed trying to figure out what the heck the green and orange stuff was on those plates.

I should have recognized it as salad (it seems so obvious now) but in the context of a canoe, I was confused.

I mean, I would assume that picture wasn't taken in somebody's backyard but in the north country, thus shouldn't that be hardtack and bannock and maybe fish leavings?

If I pulled a head of lettuce, some carrots and a cucumber out of my Duluth pack, I'd be roundly mocked.

heh heh.

Merry (almost) Christmas, y'all.

-- kypaddler

See attached.

I looked at it as I processed it for the POD and looked at it again when I set the order, one more time to make sure there was a picture displaying around midnight. I saw it yet again when I loaded the 1/1/10 image and two screens later it hit finally me. Hey, wait a minute, let's back up a minute....

My excuse is the salad was unusual enough and then I probably thought cool, red dressing, alright! (It does look good doesn't it?) I'm just surprised a couple hundred people saw it and no one even asked about the bottle.

It's a bottle of food IMO. You can legally bring in stuff like OFF in an aerosol spray can but not PAM - at least the way I interpret the rules. My brain just assumed salad dressing wasn't food I guess. When I realized it even could possibly be considered a bottle of food I made it go away.

I know the BW allows beer in plastic bottles but you can't burn your empties. Peanut butter is obviously food but those 'jars'   would be considered acceptable -IMO- perhaps reusable? Salad dressing also comes in packets though so I'd prefer a POD wasn't somehow 'suggesting' bottles for that purpose. Maple syrup? I don't know, I always splurge and get the real stuff and repackage into more conveniently shaped bottles for group trips.

I asked and brought in a glass bottle of Buckley's once with blessings from the staff - because that's not considered food I guess.

Don't take my word for anything though. I could easily be wrong and or over complicating things - and I'm certainly not judging the photographer. It's just my well reasoned and insightful, personal opinion while thinking of my own safest, easiest, best path options.  

Way to go Spartan2. Now my brain hurts.  

Anyone know for sure how certain things fall under the rules?

Agree...looks like a WHITEFISH.

Redhorse are a member of the "sucker family".  Hmmm...perhaps the namesake of my spring solo....Thompson lake down Redhorse creek to Redhorse lake to Redhorse bay of Namakan.

db...all I saw was a plastic bottle of salad dressing