{"id":528,"date":"2011-02-14T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gordellis.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2023-02-13T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:46:59","slug":"killing-off-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordellis.com\/killing-off-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing off February"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"528\" class=\"elementor elementor-528\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8d8870a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8d8870a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-70e8704\" data-id=\"70e8704\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7720991 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7720991\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It turns out I\u2019m brutal at updating my blog. Funny since, I\u2019ve spent much of the last 25 years doing nothing but writing! In fact, I\u2019m averaging about a post every month, which is pretty bad. I\u2019m going to try and\u00a0do better.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>The winter has been busy, as usual.I\u2019ve been doing\u00a0a lot of ice fishing, and have been getting some nice specs.\u00a0I\u2019m hoping to go out for lake trout this week, as the February weather is moderating here in northwestern Ontario.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>My outdoor seminar schedule is pretty packed. This coming weekend I\u2019ll be in Marathon as part of the Marathon Rod and Gun Club Outdoor Adventure Series. It all takes place on Saturday February 19.\u00a0 The following weekend I\u2019ll be in Thunder Bay at the Central Canada\u00a0 Outdoor Show Feb 25 to 27. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tb-chamber.on.ca\/?pgid=199\">Here\u2019s a link to the web site<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0I\u2019ll also be helping out North Country Cycle and\u00a0 Sports at the boat show that runs concurrent at the CLE coliseum.\u00a0I\u2019m the Lund\/Mercury pro staff at\u00a0North Country. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>And once again this year, I\u2019ll be representing Ontario Out of Doors magazine at the Toronto Sportman Show March 16 -20. I\u2019ll be doing seminars on both the hunting and fishing stages.I also usually do some time sitting in the Out of Doors booth as well, so come by and say hi.<\/p><p>\u00a0Hope you are enjoying your winter. Tight lines.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out I\u2019m brutal at updating my blog. Funny since, I\u2019ve spent much of the last 25 years doing nothing but writing! In fact, I\u2019m averaging about a post every month, which is pretty bad. I\u2019m going to try and\u00a0do better.\u00a0\u00a0 The winter has been busy, as usual.I\u2019ve been doing\u00a0a lot of ice fishing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Killing off February - Gord Ellis Outdoors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I\u2019m a writer, broadcaster, journalist, photographer, professional angler \u0003and guide living in Thunder Bay Ontario.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gordellis.com\/killing-off-february\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Killing off February - 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