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Potjiekos (pronounced POI-KEY) is a traditional South African stew cooked a long time over the fire in a cast iron pot. It's a little insane to carry a cast iron pot but it's doable with light weight pots. If you pre-chop all the ingredients it makes it really easy to put together. Sample recipe (tweaked from another website): Oxtail Potjie INGREDIENTS 500g Oxtails cut 2 inches thick pieces ½ cup Flour seasoned with salt and pepper 10 slices Bacon cut in 1 inch pieces 1 litre beef stock (water can work too) 1 can tomato paste 6 large leeks, chopped coarsely 2 large onions, chopped coarsely 6 large carrots, chopped coarsely 20 button mushrooms 1 Bay leaf 6 black peppercorns 1 bouquet garni 1 cup red wine ½ cup sherry ½ cup cream 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons crushed garlic If you want to cheat and get a close imitation, you can exclude the ingredients from the mushrooms down with one-two cans of Campbell's cream of mushroom. If oxtails are not your thing, bone in chicken will do fine. The alcohol might be difficult to carry but you can use a can of beer too for a different flavour. 1. Dry oxtails with paper towel. 2. Put seasoned flour in a Ziplock bag, then add the Oxtail and shake to coat with flour. 3. Sauté bacon pieces. 4. Remove bacon and brown Oxtail in resulting fat, remove and drain. 5. Finely dice 4 of the carrots. Coarsely chop the onions and the leeks. 6. Add the finely diced carrots, leeks, onions and sauté until softened 7. Add Oxtail, bacon, bouquet garni, bay leaf, peppercorns, garlic, tomato sauce, red wine, sherry. (or the cans of creamed mushroom) 8. Bring slowly to a boil and cook slowly for 3 - 4 hours. 9. 1 hour before serving cut the remaining carrots into 1 inch pieces, add them and mushrooms and continue cooking slowly. 10. Just prior to serving, add cream and stir in. 11. If you want to thicken the sauce mix some cornstarch with the cream before adding. And before any South Africans here yell at the can of mushroom cheat, I learned that trick from fellow South Africans that immigrated here The real secret to the recipe is letting it cook for a long time so that the meat flavours infuse into the liquid. And it's even better reheated the next day if you actually have any left, although you have to somehow chill it overnight if it gets real cold or keep it warm on the fire overnight.

I assume you mean Dewitt's Pond near Airdrie. The coordinates is the "parking" lot at the pond. http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=...mp;t=h&z=16

If the Google map waypoints can be converted to GPS then there's already a list that hundreds have contributed to, just PM me. BTW I take offense on the "Redneck Forum" statement, if you were joking, then my mistake. I've met much more AO members than FFC members and everyone I've met shares the love of the outdoors and fishing. You'd get lots of nasty comments for posting a improper fish handling photo like you would if you did the same on this board, both boards have their share of idiots too. Hopefully you can sort out a GPS list Mpon, I know there's lots of common knowledge locations that others might not know so it's nice to be able to share for those that can't dedicate 4 days a week to exploring new locations....

If it's too big to ship with USPS, and you have to use UPS then get it international expedited as it includes all customs fees upfront so you don't get a nasty shock when it arrives at the door. Plus those fees are usually cheaper compared to paying them at your door.

Has anyone used this new product yet? http://www.insectdefendpatch.ca I'm getting sick of using DEET stuff and the alternative oils I've tried don't work for very long.

Well done, you just owned up for drunk driving (unless I guess the campground is within stumbling distance) Not sure I 100% agree with the ban but bad apples screw up everything. Imagine how simple our fishing regs would be without bad apples....

Vancouver and Toronto!

I would check out the lakes around Jaffray, they are not that secret but at the same time not that convenient to get to so you won't get large crowds. There's also a provincial park up at Norbury but I've never been there so have no comment other than it looks like a nice place.

I've been to the Koocanusa campgrounds near Fernie and they were pretty good and much better maintained than the Alberta campgrounds, even though they are a bit of a zoo during long weekends. There's a few more private campsites at the smaller lakes near Koocanausa too. Great bass fishing on the fly. I venture to the more remote campgrounds north of Kamloops and they are incredible and usually the fishing is good since there's so much more water to choose from. I've been to some small campsites in BC where you basically have a private lake at your disposal since there's only one camping site

As of right now there is nothing that comes close to the energy density of oil. That is the ultimate key for any alternative energy, the portability of something that energy dense. Until we discover something as dense and portable, we are unfortunately stuck with using oil. What a lot of people don't realize about the alternative technologies is that it takes oil to produce them. Solar panels/wind generators/nuclear uranium/hydro, something has to mine those minerals out of the ground to manufacture them and transport those materials. Don't get me wrong I'm a pretty diehard greenie but I also realize the realities/limitations of the current world. I do believe that oil reserves won't run out due to advances in technology for at least a century but all that means is we're as bad as the previous generation to leave all the crap for the future inhabitants to deal with.

Spend $50 in gas money to get to the nearest lake each week or walk down to the lake for a swim/fish... It's definitely a nice alternative, I can't wait to move into Lake Bonavista. Doesn't mean I still won't head out to fish but gives me an cheaper option. I know when gas prices were at the peak, it was getting tougher to swallow the cost of gas just to get out to camp/fish. The really scary part of high oil prices is the affect on transport, truckers had a hard time with the fuel costs and we pretty much rely on everything being transported in. If the high prices had continued for a few years we really would have seen an impact on our food and our beloved fishing gear. I wish Alberta would invest more into getting more refineries started in this province, it's annoying to see our raw product get shipped to the US to get refined only to have it shipped back up here. If we were more self sufficient, we would be partially insulated from any huge oil spike. Unfortunately that's how our country seems to operate, rape our raw resources for pennies to have a foreign country add huge value so we can buy it back.....

I'd second this as the amount of water that some courses use is obscene but unfortunately I'd bet that golf courses make a crap load more money for the city than anglers do, and don't get me started on people who insist on watering sidewalks. Our city seems to revolve around money instead of doing what's right most of the time.... :derby racer:

It's the total zen focus you can attain where you can feel time stopping. For me its when trying to do the perfect presentation to stubborn fish or getting into the perfect flow of a downhill singletrack, all about getting into the mental "zone".

If you want quality and durability definitely go with the Panasonic. I have the original TS-1 and it's been through -40C (even though it's not rated for cold). I've even used it to film HD underwater by tying on an old fly line and lowering it down the ice hole into 30 feet of water. The photos are awesome but the HD recording is even better. When I bought mine, I went to the Camera Store and had them price match a online Best Buy sale.

Sweet thanks! Good flurry of bidding at the end Fishpro, I was worried that you were going to get another bid in before the minute. That completes my ensemble, Kiwi waders, fly rod and now the net.

$180 on #10

$160 on #10

$120 on #10 please

Both decent cameras but the Panasonic won out for me for the build quality. Lots of reviewers have actually said that the old W60 was better than the new W80 (here's a very indepth underwater camera review: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/Q209waterproofgroup/). So far the Panasonic has been exactly what I hoped for, compact, durable, great photos, waterproof (I haven't gone diving with it yet though) but I've taken some underwater stream shots without any issues. It's been great in the cold so far as well. Here's some shots I took with it. The underwater shots aren't great as I was still learning how to use it underwater. http://s677.photobucket.com/albums/vv137/l...taract%20Creek/ http://s677.photobucket.com/albums/vv137/l...20Vegas%20Food/

We've used the truck so much to get to remote fishing places and having a tent to crash in is a big bonus. My dream vehicle if they would ever bring them here like the Hilux:

Good to see someone else in the same obnoxious club Canadensis! Studded tires were one of the best $80 investments I put into my truck. I just wish I could put a big neon sign that would point and laugh at those idiots that were still on summer tires. BTW All-season Tires=spring, summer, fall NOT winter. "All"-seasons are meant for places where people think they get winter when the mercury drops to 0.

I really can't understand what the elitist attitude toward spin casting comes from. Still love my spinning gear and while I don't use it on the Bow anymore I still miss it many times when I'm getting skunked on the fly rod. The thrill of a fish on with spinning gear, fly or Tenkara rod are all just as exciting and gets my heart racing just the same. I enjoy fly fishing but I also enjoy sitting on a shoreline baitfishing or sitting in a shack jigging a smelt up and down, nothing wrong with any of them as long as I'm following the rules. I'm glad we never encountered anyone like that when I was growing up and fishing with my dad. Thought you handled it very well considering the situation, I probably would have taken down his licence plate and reported him to the CRA for tax evasion, people never see that coming . Judging from the educated posts on this board, I highly doubt that idiot is part of these forums so don't let that one bad apple make a stereotype out of all of us. I found my old 1983 fishing regulations (in mint condition too!) and on the front cover it's got a really great statement. Wish they would put it again on the new regs.

Technically you are gambling that the government doesn't collapse into a black hole like Zimbabwe

For those that believe that raising your own food is not economically sound, have a look at the concept of food miles. Sure when oil is cheap, transport is cheap and the cost of transporting food is cheap but when it gets expensive even transporting food from BC becomes fairly expensive. Just ask any trucker/trucking company how they were hurting when oil prices went up over $100, not to mention the farmers paying for highly inflated fertilizer prices all based on oil. http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ I don't agree 100% with all the points in the website but there's lots of stuff that you have to think about and it's hard to sweep all the issues under the carpet. I'm not a hippy, eco-warrior, I drive a truck, don't car pool in my truck, work for a company that primarily works with oil companies BUT I also compost, recycle everything I can, grow a lot of my own food, eat mostly organic and local when possible and I do not preach the green values to everyone I meet as a religion. I hate it when people automatically lump people that do simple things like composting into the eco-fanatic crazy Greenpeace diehard category. My dad used to compost and raise his own veggies decades ago, but other than that he was as un-green as you can get.

I love the farmers market but I wish there was one everyday and have you ever seen some of the overinflated prices at the CFM?!? I do applaud the efforts of the local farmers though and how much more local good ingredients are available now and really don't mind paying more for the food. Just have to be wary at the CFM as there are vendors there that take advantage of the high prices there to supply a substandard product. And damn I guess Finland, UK, Australia and NZ are pretty nasty, guess I didn't notice when I was living there and luckily I didn't catch anything there. And places in LA, San Francisco, Connecticut, Utah must be pretty nasty too....although some of that is probably true due to the people living there lol Yup, I agree with the hunting your own meat and that's why I'm all for hunting http://www.urbanchickens.net/2009/04/defan...inst-urban.html