Rizzo

well maybe I will read the manual some time (maybe)

funny you should post this....I just happened to be checking mine out and here is an annoying little glitch: To turn the whole unit on you must use the remote/foot control (as far as I can tell!). The little battery (dime shaped thing) in my remote seems to be dead...so now I can't turn the unit on! Since I am heading out tomorrow 5 am looks like I will be without a trolling motor until I can find time to replace this unique little battery. As far as the communication between the remote and the unit when I have a battery...I would say it is ok, not great. You eventually get used to how sensitive it works. I will be honest, sometimes I don't bother with the control at all (other than to turn it on). I just manually grab the thing by the "head" and point it in the direction I want, after all I am standing right at the front of the boat beside it.

good stuff. Plan to head to St Clair tomorrow, hope we can find a couple!

I can troll for hours. I can cast for hours. But jigging? Ten minutes and I'm done. Not sure why, just can't do it

I hate warm fall weather for musky fishing. Although its a beautiful comfortable day on the water I think the rising water temps throw the fish right off. Gimme a nasty day any day in the fall and I like my odds better

if I was in the US I could not vote for either. 2 terrible candidates in my opinion. Hard to believe that there isn't someone other than an egomaniac or a pathological liar to select from.

on a worm you say...gotta add that to the arsenal apparently

Great picture and congratulations to the 2 of you. I am only on lucky 13

I second Natural Sports if its large walleye bait you want. You want musky bait? Different story...use the walleye you catch

sounds like an awesome trip

Did it once for one day in early June at Head Lake near Norland. This was mid week maybe 10 years ago and there was nobody around, but we did set up a respectable distance from the launch and it was just one tent and one car. Somebody must have ratted us out because cops came to "evict" us around 11 pm. The officer was great, even apologetic. He saw we were polite, neat and quiet. Asked if we had been drinking, which we hadn't. He then rephrased the question..."You've been drinking right....because if you have I can't force you to leave". We understood. Spent the night, then headed to Pigeon bright and early and found the gem called "Big Island". Stayed there for the next two days of our three day trip.

as a kid I would fish the humber in the spring, and like someone already said, all I ever got were suckers and lamprey eels. Used to wade the river in my shorts and sneakers specifically targetting lampreys...found many many babies that met their demise.

awesome!

With the value put on those antlers I would rather have the insurance money than the antlers back! "We found your antlers"....that would be the worst news I could hear!

always nice to get one when trying a new lake

dang jacks, can't stop em

Nice looking fish! Casting? trolling? lure? Lets hear the story! I also opened this hoping to see a "no pike" siting report. Its been a while since I have fished up there but hope to go to Balsam soon. Hopefully the musky fishing has not started to suffer there yet

probably some musky in the river by now too

...if you go fishing the weather will be horrible. Its only when you stay home the weatherman is wrong...at least that it works for me

I have fished mitchells but only in the spring for pike. We caught a wack of pike trolling in the weeds not too far from the xe2 marker...basically we looked for where the boats are and went there. It paid off...we got a bunch of stinky jacks and even lucked into a 7 lb pickerel. The weeds we found were in 8 fow if I remember correctly

which Head Lake? Near Norland or Haliburton?

Well we did get out there...HOT, sunny and no breeze. Felt like the most painful summer day on the water. Did manage to land 2 and lost 3 more. Major sunburn to boot...didn't think I needed sunscreen on Sept 19

I have used it this summer the few times I have fished Lake O. My buddies were there, and it was past 6 am on Saturday...she was all locked up

Had some buddies try to launch there Saturday and they said it was closed. Is that normal that they shut down for the season? Or maybe did they simply arrive too early? They ended up leaving and heading to Bronte to launch instead.