RangerGuy

40 big ones OUCH!..

man that's a nice lookin tiger congrats

NICE! When I retire I will have a ranger again , new!

I store mine wrapped around lengths of pool noodles. I store 2 per big zip lock bag. That's the best method I've found for keeping everything from tangling. I stick 1/2 a tooth pick into the pool noodle on an angle and put the swivel on that then wrap it tightly and stick both hooks into the noodle to hold it in place. I found that the tubes sold in fishing stores are to small and put tight coils into your line. With the noodles you have larger diameter wraps and the harnesses alway come off with no coiling.

Those are some huge bass!!! if I didn't see the colour of the leaves, I would have thought you were down south somewhere.. Truely trophy largies & smallies! Thanks for sharing

MAN!!! that is awesome walleye action and all from shore to crazy!

Great! Post man!... what a beautiful area. Nice job on the steps. Man that's a monster pike! You certainly are in paradise! One day I will fish temagami, it'll give me an excuse to get some more toys..errr tools for the boat Thanks for the great post

Awesome! Thank you everyone for putting me at ease! Like I said before I tend to need equipement to prove it self before I trust it. I gotta feel'n this motor is gonna be a good one I certainly like the performace and mileage.

Sounds like we did miss the migration. Very strange since Thanksgiving is a week early this year LOL! Good luck this weekend Those little fighter jets are fun cause they come in so quick and are not to shy, unlike the local mallards this time of year. The mallards are all parnoid now LOL!.. so much I expect them to be flying around with tinfoil hats HAHAH! Can't wait for them to start migrating

We were in the last cabin #12 (boat or walk to) It was good because I could let my dogs run around a bit, it was a nice stay but I'm not gonna lie.. I missed the atmosphere and the group fires we normally have I was hoping the walleye were just slow the last time 2-3 yrs ago we were up there for them, but it looks like the rumours may be correct. Saturday and Sunday we were only pulling 1 from each spot. Monday was the only day we could actually pattern them and get any kind of consistent bite.

ah man! that sucks LOL! I couldn't believe how well our little suzuki handled the Alaskan.. I wouldn't tow with it regularly but i did a fine job

Was a great weekend, I forgot to mention we fished until almost dark Monday and while I was cleaning the fish. Tina & Jackie got the fire started and cooked a Turkey dinner. So we got to have a real thankgiving dinner it was late like 9:30 but was awesome because we sat by the fire laughing then went in for a turkey dinner and back out to finish the night full and warm by a fire Tina also caught a 24" pike that went in the freezer, because I forgot my fillet knife and the ladies want to learn how to fillet pike

We finally got back up to the West Arm after a 2 year hiatus with no fishing boat. This time is was my wife Tina, sister-in-law Jackie, myself and Suzy & Tango our labs. Saturday was cold and windy, we were expecting a great walleye day but they were hard to come by. This was still a great 1/2 day fishing because Jackie caught her first walleye and it was a nice 35cm eye So she got to keep it for the pan mmmm.. no picture of this one we weren't thinking. We were to excite that she caught the first walleye in the new boat and her first walleye ever! That was the only walleye we saw Saturday..it was very slow! We got up Sunday at 4 am to go hit the ducks, this proved to be slow as well. We have not been up for 2 years but the last time we hunted our spot, we filled our limits no problem. We ended the morning with 1 ringneck which Tina took with a fantastic shot! Suzy lauched herself out of the boat and picked the bird up without a hitch. I missed my only opportunity on a ringneck LOL! We packed up at 9 and head back to the cabin for eggs & bacon. Then back out on the water looking for walter! We got 4 more walleye on Sunday and Jackie's first pike. Monday we got up early 4:30 (which really isn't early for me I'm used to 3 or early back home LOL! ) to try for ducks again but I was feeling really under the weather. So the girls talked and played with the dogs then at 6 they cooked eggs & bacon for breakfast again. This did the trick and I was ready to go, I'm the luckiest guy in the world We were on the water for around 7:30, Monday was the best day within the first 1/2 hour of fishing Jackie caught a nice eye just shy of 60cm. Not bad for walleye rookie LOL! Looks like Tina and I were left to catch the keepers while Jackie caught all the big fish HAHA! I caught a few more keepers and 1 in the low end of the slot limit that was returned to swim another day. We found a windy spot and I picked up 3 more eyes one around 30cm and 2 were very small. We broke for lunch, after lunch tried a few spots then checked the windy spot again, we trolled further up the channel this time. Which was a good idea because we spent the next few hours catching an eye on almost every pass, it was a long stretch that took about 20-30 mins to drift/troll completely. Then later in the afternoon Tina caught a nice one just a bit smaller than Jackie's, she wasn't happy with the picture so I'm not allowed to post it HAHA! but she did catch this one. and Jackie with another nice one. After a few hours my Suzy (the chocolate lab) was snoring curled up in her fav spot at the bow and Tango confused our boat bumpers with training bumpers and was quite frusturated that she couldn't get the bumper in the boat. All things concidering this very high energy pup was very good in the boat for her first real fishing trip in cold weather. She keep us entertained while things were slow and only needed a few bathroom breaks. We were not worried about Suzy because she's an old hat at this and took her spot right away. Only popping up for a quick look and stretch to see where we were and sniff the wind. Unless one of us were snacking then she'd jumped up to come mooch a snack as well Suzy's the best boat dog you could wish for! We actually ended the day with a 3 person limit including the slot fish. Truth be told the ladies caught the bulk of the fish this year and I'm glad, it was fun to watch them enjoy it so much! Job well done for the guide

Awesome report Joey, some really cool pics. Looks like I just missed U & Paul again DOH! We got up there on Saturday morning.

WOW! Maybe this is why the ringnecks sucked up on nip this weekend, they are already down. Good job man! We had 2 commit this Sunday and that's it.. last time at this spot 2 years ago we were done in 1/2 hour on 2 limits. Guess we missed the migration this time. Good to see you got'm tho

OH GOOD! LOL! Thanks for clear'n that Yes.. I'm a bit of a worry wart HAHA!

Good job!..

Maybe the 75's run hotter than the 150's maybe that's why I see the exhaust and Lew doesn't. My wife did smell some minor exhaust for a second or 2 but that was the only time all weekend.

That's what I've always heard... it has me concerned! I know I was very careful with the break in, followed the procedure exactly as the manual instructed. Less than 20 hours on the motor, if something is wrong I will not be very happy

I probably should just start trusting this motor LOL!.. I've always heard how yamaha's don't smoke. So when I saw this I got a little worried. We were up on the West Arm for Thanksgiving and ran about 5-10mins full out. When I stopped to start fishing while the motor was idling I notices it was smoking. I'm wondering if it was just because it was cold out or should this raise concern? The smoke was white/grey it had no blue colouring like when you are burning oil. Here's a video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9As4EW6LeY Other than this it performed really well, this was our first full weekend of fishing in the new boat and we had a full crew. My wife, sister-in-law, 2 65lbs labs and myself. Also all the fishing gear and batteres,. I don't think I could be happier with this boat It never felt crowded with 3 adults and 2 dogs. We had probably a dozen 5 mile runs at wide open. Did some back trolling when the wind kicked up. Fished Saturday, Sunday & Monday and only burned 3/4 of a 19 US Gallon tank. I lost only 1 mph of the top speed when I'm alone. We had 3 adults, 2 65lbs dogs and all fishing gear and still got 35.2 mph as our top speed! This motor seems to be burning even less gas now, I'm just hoping the smoke in the video is due to air /water temp not something off with the outboard

So I used to fish walleye/musky quite late in my old ranger. The motor a 89 60hp Johnson stroke was very good at self draining. After pulling the boat out for the day I would leave the motor down for a few minutes and pull the kill switch, turn her over a few times. It would drain or kick out all the water no problem. It seems to me my new yamaha holds much more water in the passages. I can pull the boat out, leave the motor down while packing everything up and then put the transom support bar and tow it home. When I get home and put the motor down again it dumps a lot of water out of this little hole in the front facing edge of the lower unit. So I'm curious what everybody does late season once ice/snow starts to build up to prevent thier yamaha's from freezing and splitting s over night OR while anchored in sub zero temperatures?

Man! I wish we heard stories like this more often! Thanks for sharing Lew!

Nice pup!..gotta luv the brown labs, got one myself and she's awesome

thanks guys

I'm heading the the west arm