I got a call from Dale earlier today. I've "mentioned" him on some other threads and made him out to be an outrageous character. Well, he is real and he's more than outrageous. He wanted to know why I wasn't up country for the long weekend and he was pretty excited.

Late yesterday, he guided an American sport from New York to a record black bear. He couldn't even get it out with his old toyota truck and he was calling from a ranger station in a small town waiting to get it weighed. He figures it might beat the world record, also taken in New Brunswick, of 902 pounds dressed.

Bobert, if you ever meet up with one that big, you have my deepest sympathies.