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My crew. Photo's are a year apart and I don't think they ever moved!

Nice, glad it all came together!

Another Great Lake transplant from the south. Hydra Sports 1800cc with a Mariner 150 both 1989 from Fla. Great little fishing boat that will handle more wave than most guests can take:)

Some where along the way the boy learned how to catch fish.

Also and truly memorable. My new boat crew. And a year later, they have not moved!

Memorable Firsts in the outdoors- Candace "Candy" Hanlon. mmmm Sorry to bust a thread, but this really stuck with me and was the first memory to come to mind.😈

I would suggest you try from Port Franks 15 min. south of the Bend. Troll the cut on rough days and on calmer days you can venture out a bit to the shoals on the lake. You will find them with some work. Cheers.

White kitchen cutting boards, sold at Canadian tire. Cut em to size, use 5200 adhesive, they work great.

Fish caught #'s were down, but fish size were way up this year. Pretty well took a 17 pounder to get on the top 25 board. That means they are eating something out there!

Dome over Springfield.

Funny stuff

Yes the salmon on Huron are getting to be ghosts of the past. The changing water conditions and forage are at least bringing back native species along our shore of Huron. Walleye are coming along north from Sarnia and we are getting more in the Bayfield- Goderich waters. Starting to spend more time learning to target them. Just not quite the same thrill as getting a good screaming 20 lb king on the line.

Great smiles son and pop time!

We do well with rainbows.My Buddy Big Larry 2015 Chantry derby biggest bow 16+lbs. My sons 2016 Chantry entry 11lbs, Larry entered a 12 on the first day and won biggest bow 2 years running. When asked by guys in the derby how we catch big bows, we tell them we just try and catch a big salmon:) We have not caught a decent salmon during the derby for a number of years:( Seriously, pull some orange for bows shallow. Blue and silver tricked some kings earlier this year north east end. Or go out to the islands for some lakers. Hope you get some nice weather and have good luck! Enjoy, it is a beautiful bay to tour and spend time on the water.

A few thousand for the shiny lure that caught the sucker that married me.

Thank you. It was the best weather day of fishing we have had this year. I hope for the sake of the sport fishing in the area, some efforts can be made to enforce some changes. Changes with respect owed to the sport fishing clubs that work so hard to put fish back into the water.

Easterly winds are the worst for Colpoys. Mornings and evenings can be surprisingly better than the Georgian marine forecast. It can whip up fast mid day, but can lay down a lot quicker than the open lake. With the bluffs, the north to south side conditions can be a night and day difference sometimes as well. My boat is on Huron. My fishing buddy is on Colpoys. We are on one boat or the other on the water almost every weekend, on one side or the other depending on wind/conditons. I would not say Colpoys has been good fishing this year, bar a short early stint.

No Fish to be found in the bay. There is however fishing nets in place from each shore out to the center islands at the entrance to the bay. The "self policing" is working really well.

Fight the good fight sir!

Count me in for 30 as well. Customer brought in some steel Toyota wheels to mount on his brand new $80000.00 Suburban. I told him they will not fit because the bolt pattern is different on the wheels. He asked if we could change the bolt pattern on the truck to fit the wheels.... Reminding myself that there is no such thing as a stupid question, I was able to sell him some alloy wheels. I become acquainted with a lot of KIJi buyers that have purchased misrepresented wheel/tire deals. There is not a lot of recourse, buyer beware.

This year was the year of the blue and silver 2oz Cleo. To the point it got to be a running joke with my family and fishing friends this past year. Steelhead, Lake trout, Coho, Walleye, Yellow perch, Smallmouth Bass, and Pike. The "big fish" story" was my personal best 42" pike at camp on Manitoulin in June. The big girl followed a slow moving 7" jointed rap up to the boat twice before retreating to her personal weed lair. On a lark and a laugh, I grabbed a lighter rod that had "the Cleo" on, 6lb test tied direct, that had taken numerous smallies that morning. Of course,the strike occurred as soon as the spoon "plopped". Three times it ran about 60 yards down the bay and then came back to hide under the boat. Each time my 85 year old father in law jumping like a monkey in the front of tinny to scare her out from under. His net job, while breathtakingly crude, proved effective. We jumped out on shore, I handed him the camera, to which he held lens first- backwards to his eye and tried to frame a portrait of me and she. I sighed, handed him the fish in trade for the camera , and snapped a quick picture of the proud old angler. He then released her with a satisfied smile on his face, and watched as she swam away.

Loving the old SRX! My good ol' 6 speed stick Caddy V tops runs up to 165mph pretty quick still.

Very cool!

When we are not fishin, we are sleddin. Chris Brock may like by son's '79 ET 300 vintage drag sled.

We have luck with blade bait lures trolling from canoes while touring the park. Get into about 60' of water and even paddling into the wind, the top connection of the blade lure to the line gives an almost vertical slow presentation. Have picked up a nice laker or two many times mid day while moving from one camp site to another.