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An absolutely beautiful fish for sure. I understand when he says about being alone in the boat. Those are the kinds of moments best shared. Glad he had a digicam with him though! BEAUTY! Thanks for posting Lew.

Noone has access to passwords but the member himself. And I MEAN NOONE!

Hey Bud...I can't see the pics. I guess you know that you need to use both hands to post pics?

Thanks for the link, Marc. Some of the internet arguments seem so petty when you read things like this. Good on Lawrence Euteneier.

Yeah, You can checkout any time you like, But you can NEVER leave!(Guitar solo here)

Welcome back, Slowhand errrr, Want. Glad to have you back and looking forward to your input.

When you first posted, there was nothing in your avatar. Great pic, Bud.

No passing mark on that one, Bud.

Peter, the way I see it is this. Navionics is good stuff but it's basically offered in two main categories, marine charts and lake maps. At the begining there were just marine charts. At that time, not every Tom, Dick and Harry had a chartplotter. Consequently, they were offering the marine charts to people using "navigable waters" which for North America included the entire west coast (Pacific) and the entire East coast (Atlantic). This also included main inland waterways such as the St Lawrence to the Great Lakes. In our case, there were three usable chips for Ontario and Quebec. The 900, 901 and 902 chips which covered some of the great Lakes and the Larry all the way out to the Maritimes. The middle chip, the 901, has Lake Ontario the Rideau System (navigable) the Trent System (navigable) which includes the Kawarthas. Georgian Bay and Lake simcoe was/is on that one as well. Well, wouldn't you know it, the powers that be saw fit to remove the errors in satelite transmission making reception of more accurate location available to everyone. Plotters came down in price and we now had folks screaming to have their favorite lakes available....not an easy task. So, Navionics adds another series of maps to their lineup and call them lake maps. These are more or less an addendum chip to the marine charts because of customer demand. These lake chips were available for 5 or 6 sections of the States and one section for Canada. The Canadian lakes chip had (very approximate numbers) 40 lakes in BC, a few in Alberta, 4 in Saskatchewan, 80-90 in Ontario and about 120 in Quebec. The maps of the main navigable waterways (marine charts) were the same maps you were buying for $20 or so for a very small section from the Canadian government. Today, they are adding maps as demand warrants and as they are available to them from what I can see. So, today, if you buy a lakes map, there are chances that there won't be any waters that are contained in the marine charts. That should be fairly clear......it's only 6:30PM :-)

Sounds great Sam. Glad you were able to get away from work for a bit. Some nice looking fish there.

Good answer Mark. Most people who know you guys would pay the entry fee no problem.

But if you don't like fish, why do you want to eat it? Do they really want you to add fish to your diet or do they want you to cut out something else? There are alternatives. If the doc told me that I had to add haggis to my diet or die...it would be a difficult choice for me.

Very informative, Perodimi. Welcome aboard flight OFC!

Let's not confuse spool tension with brakes.

Thanks Dawg....but I was more interested in the stomach contents.

BTW Glen, you didn't happen to take a gander at the stomach contents didja? Minners?

I don't know why you'd need to adjust the brakes more than once in a reel's life. Maybe I'm missing something here.

The one on the bottom row, second from the right....he might need glasses Bubba.

Clive is correct...BPS only. I should have mentioned that.

I really like your fence Bubba! Looks like a good meal in the works too! Glad you had a good time. edit: Glad it was coolish too...after supper is a bad time to be gawkin' at nipple pics.

C'mon Dan...tell the sock story...You tell a joke so much better'n I do!

Good one....still not as good as your sock story though....few are......

Where's the report? You must have at least caught ONE fish with the bird finder you have!

Good thought Kerry but this clown' had nothing to do with the ministry. His job would be more akin to president of the OFAH.

I like Shimano products but if you're after muskie, IMO you'd be better off with the 6501 C3. The Cardiff won't cut it and the record is having problems. The Cardiff and the Record are both decent reels but not for what you want to do with it. Again, I'm no expert but it's my opinion. edit: In fact, for that price range, I'd be tempted to ask you to take a look at the Pete Maina reel.