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Guys, like that old Seinfield episode "Anyone can take a reservation, but can you keep a reservation?". Apparently anyone can remove a lower end on a Mercury 115 but putting it back in is another story. Took lower end off to fix leak and ready to re-install. I have watched youtubes all day and just can't re-attach. I have the remote in neutral, I have the drive shaft in the splines, just need the shifter to engage.. Sooo close but hours in... and a kitchen reno going at the same time so you know priorities... I try to softly get needle-nose pliers in and set shifter to neutral but just can't engage. Its embarrassing, bought the used boat and replaced fuel gauges, fuel sensor, shifter seals, electrical, and now stuck 5 minutes from end of job... May need to just bring to mechanic but hoping someone on the Hamilton Mountain that knows what their doing could help. (Would make it worth their time). I am available 24/7 and located 1km from Westcliff mall.

hard winter this year especially in the less open areas, we had a ton of ice and a ton of snow and then a cold wet spring. Water temperatures are weeks behind normal, hence the weedgrowth is too. We had snow still in the bush on easter this year, thats a major contrast to previous years. Heck, the water was legimately 35 degrees on May 5th this year up in Parry sound...no weeds growing in that!

When I used to fish muskies on Nipissing's West Arm I mostly fished in 8 FOW and by mid June the cabbage was nearly always right up to the surface but I remember one year there wasn't a piece of green to be found anywhere. Following year it was all back to normal. Strange how Mother Nature works sometimes.

Weed growth is brutal this year. The spots we fished last year on opener that still had old weed growth from the previous year were vacant this year. Nothing to keep those fish shallow.. No cover, no fish. Worst spring season I've had in a while (At least for pike) We saw bass up in a foot of water and some fish on beds the 3rd weekend in May. Water temps were high 60s in the back bays depending on the area.

Just did this on my old man’s 150 Yamaha, took two hours to finally get the damn lower back in. I first realized that the shifter had somehow turned…I still don’t know how? Anyways was able to turn the shifter back to neutral and then grease the heck out of all of the connection points and it finally went back In but it took my dad with a flashlight trying to align the connection points while I pushed to get the damn thing back in.

Wait…no more loony toons ???

actually toning it back this year, but hoping to do more stuff now that I have a motor (blew mine end of june and didnt have a motor till september) Ill be hopping all over the province fishing NGTA derbies, i encourage anyone thats thinking of dabbling in tournament bass fishing, but wants to learn/do it at a low price to try it out, boater or not reach out. We have a blast, good group of guys and no drama.

you got very unlucky, the lake was on fire on May 31st and then that heat up last week brought the water temperatures up 8 degrees over the course of 4 days and it shut everything right down. You could see the change in the lake, I went from catching laketrout up relatively shallow and OOS smallmouth that were still staging in 45 fow to them being right up in the pencil reeds roaming waiting for the girlies to arrive. The pike had lock jaw, theyd follow and not commit and were seemingly out of sorts. Even fished some deeper older cabbage beds where the weed was still standing and not a sniff. Not a skiff of new vegetation growth anywhere yet. We have finally arrived at the spring/summer transition, water temperatures are finally catching up and it has the fish on the move. I think this years bass opener is going to be one for the books if we can keep it from getting too too hot before the 21st and this weekend's upcoming "cool" forecast seems to have things dialed in on keeping that water cold. Considering the fish hadnt even started spawning yet this weekend theres going to a be a heck of a lot of fish up shallow in less than 2 weeks. What a friggin incredible contrast to last year where I was fishing May 4th and there were smallmouth guarding beds everywhere. I didn spot a single bed this weekend, just kept running into the damn things when they went ballistic on a big 8 inch magdraft. hooked and quickly released 1 big ol girl that as soon as i quickly released her had two males nipping at her butt and she cruised away. Clearly not on her way to the bed, just out roaming around looking for boyfriends.

Bringing back an old thread, but Arrow Fuels in Curve Lake is selling Marine 91 fuel at Pump 11 again. Only 1 pump has it. 140.9 last Sunday.

Can we keep the politics out if this discussion, otherwise it will go south quickly