so you know "irish", eh? i would shop over at conneaut once in awhile also. the gentleman there had another choc. lab. spent more time petting that dog than buying. hey, i remember russ talking about fishing at lake simcoe or rice lake for perch through the ice and really doing good. he said he and his buddies kept the perch on ice at the motel that he stayed at. also said that they couldn't go back to the same hotel the next year. wasn't you, was it? laughed pretty hard. russ got me into wading in the late 70s when we used to have no problem limiting out (8 fish) on nice sized fish. we never quite kept limits, but sure had fun with silver #11 rapalas painted with clear finger nail polish. if you should see him, tell me that you chatted with the duckhunter from youngstown. he and the old police chief and i were buddies.