Tilt Muskie madness mesmerizes ami dollars and twenty five cents I exclaimed incredulously Yes sir uh thats right the young lady behind the counter said a little nervous at my reaction It s a good price too They cost more at the other manna further down the lake Well I guess you can tell that it been quite a while since I ve bought cigarettes These are for a friend don t smoke myself I continued but I remember paying three dollars and change for a car ton of when I used to buy them for Dad That s a long time ago the lady said smiling and not trying to conceal her habit as she took a long puff on her own cigarette Yeah long time thank God he stopped eh Too expensive and bad for your health Hey you should stop too you know I remarked Again the lady just smiled Will that be all then she asked Well how are the muskie this year I inquired I only see two on the Big Fish Scoreboard here Thats right the lady answered The bass are biting like crazy though Yes and there s some pickerel entered Very nice one there an eight pounder Very few muskie however I thought to myself so it looked as if my work was certainly cut out for me After all it is said that even the most ardent muskie angler must devote one hundred hours in the water between legal or keeper sizelfish Anything three feet is considered a baby and should be released Een larger fish are set free by the true lunge fanatic who realizes how frail is the existence of mighty golden warrior Ah yes the muskel lunge the fish of one hundred hours the fish of ten thousand ha e to be a 1 it tie crazy I thanked the lad she wished me good luck and I gazed upon the beautiful and rugged shoreline of Lake with its pine maple oak and birch providing an apron like effect for the white cliffs of nephelme syenite in the background The sky was filled with dark thick clouds the wind was from the northwest and it was getting cool a little relief after several days of searing heat Cold front approaching I thought I don t have much time A cold front will knock stuffin s out of the fishing Nope my best shot is right now I sure hope that Amy isn t prone to nicotine withdrawal fits cause its going to take another half hour to troll across the lake Maybe longer if I have any luck along the heh heh hen Since my troll to the manna had been unproductive I decided to switch lures and reached for a trusty old floating Magnum silver and black nicknamed Pontiac Remember those old commer You got it Pontaic Yep this old lure had caught me almost all of my Lake muskies over the years and it deserved the title like I say you have to be a little crazy I placed the cigarettes Du Mauner Special Mild or something like that on the bench beside me The lure Pontiac was smothered with a little Berkeley s Attractant and the hunt was on About twenty yards from the last manna dock and in twenty feet of dark water ad to a rocky shoal claimed another prize After several minutes of give and take battling and some exciting surface thrashing and splashing a beautifully coloured legal was landed and unhooked Before being set free it received the man datory lecture on how not to be fooled again by anybody until it grew up to be a pounder or so and then Pontiac and would a again Crazy ou bet continued my troll along a shallow channel then past a promising and finally found myself in front of the rocky ledge across from the cottage the water here was about ten feet deep but dropped off quickly to at least fifty or sixty feet I could see my family on the shore a couple of hundred yards iway and Sulla Lennon and Rita were near the beach along vih Amy and Matthew Murdy and Donna Morrison Wouldn it be nice I thought to catch a lunge just about now so that my family and some friends would see exactly how exciting that it can be Nah I thought That would be Dressing my luck a bit Another hundred hours coming up I guess now where did those cigarettes go Amy s probably got the shakes and as I headed boat into the deep channel water in order to cross my lure just ticked on that underwater unseen rock ledge thedinnerbell eh Pontiat I spotted the cigarettes on the floor of the boat and reached down to get them At that moment was stopped cold dead in its tracks by something big To Be Continued Autohaus Georgetown Inc 1 99 Guelph Street Georgetown Ont L7G PAINT BODY SHOP All Make Leasing All Make Service Telephone4l6877 5285 Toronto 846 0910 Norm Armstrong Sales Manager PAVING Asphalt Concrete A I Industrial J Commercially I GEORGETOWN LIMO SERVICE ELEGANT CARS FOR ELEGANT PEOPLE AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE 8732022 Driving Test offers some surprises KEEPING YOUR CAR ALIVE By Peter Bohr Contributing Editor Road Track You re calmly cruising down the highway listening to some tunes on your stereo when suddenly you real ize the accelerator pedal is stuck open Besides watching your life flash before you what can you do Or your cars enveloped in fog and you can set more than a few feet ahead of the hood You turn on your headlights but do you have the foggt est idea of which to use the high beams or low beams These are just a couple of the you 11 be asked to answer if you watch the Valvoline National Dnv ing Test hosted by actor Christopher Reeve The program airs Tuesday Aug 29 On CBS You II be horrified to find out all the things you don know promised Susan Winston the program creator and producer help needed Two recreation programs this fall need your heln Seniors TV Magazine is a monthly show on Cable and has recently purchased a variety of video equip ment to help in the production of the show Your help ideas and sug would be welcomed Call Ron Masim for more in formation Special Needs drop in will operate every Wednesday 30 m starting in September out of the Acton Legion Anyone and everyone from Halton Hills is welcome to attend and volunteers are always needed to assist with crafts games publicity and refreshments Whether you can help once a week or once a month or once a year your support would be welcomed Call Shirley for more information The test itself was designtd by a who s who of automotive safety groups such as the National Safety Council the Department of Transpor the Automobile Association of America Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety And in trial runs of the test respon dents including a group of highway patrol officers t do too well cording to Winston For instance nearly percent of the test takers thought that high beams were appropriate in dense fog In fact fog tends to reflect the light back from high beams so low beams are actually more effective in the way Winston was also astounded to learn the remedy proposed by many of the test takers for the stuck pedal They said you should bend down under the dash and loosen the pedal with your hand But taking your eyes off the road and your hands off the steering wheel when you re speeding down the highway is never a good idea The correct answer You should apply the brakes shift into neutral if necessary work your way over to the side of the road and shut off the igm The brakes on modern cars are almost always powerful enough to override an accelerating engine It s not a boring passive TV pro gram said Winston We 11 put view ers in the driver s seat They be able to measure their reaction times in emergency situations Well even give them a test on their TV screen for night blindness Heres a sneak preview of some other often mis answered questions from the Valvoline National Driving Test Question You re on a twolane road and an oncoming car wanders What should you do Wrong Answer Swerve over into the other lane or just stop Correct Answer Pull off the road its better to chance hitting a tree than other cars Question What happens when your cars tires are Wrong Answer They II give a soft ride Correct Answer They will give a softer ride but they 11 also wear out faster increase the cars fuel con sumption and most important great ly increase the cars stopping distances Question 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