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So I did buy the Minnkota Terrova 12v with a foot pedal and remote control. So if you see a bearded old fart on a Kingston area lake cursing at his bow-mount electric, and the gizmos, that will be me! 😉

Looked out the window this morning and really starting to notice that the leeks are up pretty good, right on schedule. Cant wait until they get a bit larger so I can at least get a taste from the stems until the bulbs start to form

Just wanted to wish everyone who's fishing it a good opening weekend. Rain supposed to clear out this aft., river conditions looking like they'll be dropping back to almost prime by Saturday in my area. Enjoy, pick up after the bums where you can and don't be the guy fishing them on their redd's. Cheers. R

100% brother. Today things are built and monitored with one thing in mind. Planned obsolescence!!!! Dan...

I grew up in Panama City Florida. The Godfather came out my senior year in high school and at that time there was a senior movie that was always after the prom and mine was The Godfather. Godfather2 is actually better to me, but still hard to beat the original. One of my security questions with Scotia is "What is your favorite movie" Godfather is my answer.

Yes I know that but their website is made for Americans this is why they advertise it us bucks even thou they are in Canada i prefer to give my Canadian money to a business that directs their business to me

Let's hope 99% of the fish are headed back to the lake. I'll be fishing residents.

Patience, Grasshopper! 😉

I know you were not asking for fix suggestions, but try a replacement throttle body unit. There are three throttle position sensors for the system. There are two redundant sensors on the pedal assembly and one feedback on the throttle body. All three must match as the accelerator is moved. Now if the throttle does not stay in sync due to the throttle blade binding in worn bushings or the stepper motor has an intermittent electrical fault stopping it for a second; the PCM will see this and throws the engine into limp-in mode. This is not a sure thing without catching the issue while test equipment is attached to record the event, but I have had to replace hundreds while I was going after this same type of customer complaint. Dan.

NAH, they built the pyramids faster!!!! 😜

Even with those wheels I put a bit of anti seize where the hubs and wheels come together to prevent them seizing, definitely on the steel ones. You have a torque wrench? make sure you check at least 2-3 times that the wheel nuts are still tight, for some reason on the steel rims the nuts never loosen, on those ones I have had to retorque them. almost lost one a few years ago.

When I went to public school, many moons ago, (Oxenden), one room school, one teacher, grade one up to and including grade eight we couldn't wait for the leeks as we would eat a couple on the way to school as the teacher couldn't stand them and would send us home. Lol. I need a fresh feed of morels is what I am craving and stock up the freezer. To me they're better than steak.

Grayling are a hoot. As Bill says, most of the rivers in the far north have them. Find fast water and you're usually into grayling pretty quickly. Anyplace where rivers flow into or out of lakes usually has loads of them. Easiest way to catch grayling is with an ultra-light spinning outfit and little spinners .... size 0 Mepps or a little Panther Martin is very tough to beat. Small hair jigs are also good. Don't bother with twist tails up north, they get destroyed quickly and are more fuss than they're worth. You'll catch just as many fish on hair jigs, and they're far more durable. Size matters more than anything else, so nothing bigger than you would throw for crappies. Fortunately, grayling aren't exactly shy, so you don't need to make long casts. To my mind, the best way to catch them is to fly fish with small (size 10 - 14) dry flies (any colour). The way grayling crush floating flies is just incredible, they're some of the most ferocious topwater hits you'll ever see in your life! I'm not a big fly fisherman, most days I can barely make a cast without hooking my own ear, but it's so much fun that's become pretty much the only way I fish for grayling now. It's easy, and it's a riot. A basic 5-weight outfit you would use for stream trout down here works just fine, and if you can cast even 15 or 20 feet then you're good to go. I became completely enamoured with grayling at one point and built a 6-foot, 3-weight G Loomis just for them. It works great - at least until a lake trout comes along (yes, they will also hit small dry flies at times) so the heavier outfit is probably more sensible overall. Most grayling you catch will be around 12 to 14 inches. Anything around 16 inches is a really good fish, and one over 18 is a monster. They fight like a whitefish, except that they're in fast water so it's a lot more intense. When they extend that big dorsal fin in the current it's like someone opened an umbrella underwater, and the fish just suddenly takes off on you. It's not unusual to have to chase the bigger ones downstream, especially when you're fishing in strong currents. Finally, grayling are superb eating fish, especially fresh-caught and fried up for shore lunch. Eat the average-sized guys and release the big ones. This picture is from my first-ever grayling experience in Manitoba, many years ago. We kept two fish for a shore lunch, and I wanted a selfie. With one hand on the camera, what's a guy to do? I will say it was a lot more rewarding about 20 minutes later after the things got cooked. Go do it - those northern trips are pricey but you will remember the experience for the rest of your life.