Old Ironmaker

I had to work in the rain for many years, no matter how hard it was blowing or how cold. Now if I get wet I am bound to get sick, even got pneumonia. I would never fish in the rain even when I was young and fit, no way. Same with golf unless I was in a team format tourney.

This is the fishing community. I don't think it's fair to slam an entire group without explanation.

Without telling us the budget you have it is pretty tough to send you in the right direction. We can talk about Stratos, Tritons, Lunds and Star Crafts all day long and if you have a Tracker budget everyone is wasting there time and yours.

Kind of like saying what vehicle should I buy. All basically have 4 wheels like all boats float. It is entirely up to you what suits your needs best and above all BUDJET. Make a budget and go from there. Now the difference between your 30 horse 16 foot tinny and a 20 foot glass fish and ski is like a compact car vs. a 4 wheel drive 1/2 ton truck. And the difference in the cost to operate it too. There are days I wished I had a plastic tub and when I tow and fill mine with fuel I am happy to have my 19' aluminum StarCraft. The truck will do everything the car can, and more, the more is when you pay. Personally if I wanted to do what you want to with the family I would go with an aluminum at least 18' with 115HP minimum for both affordability of operating cost and versatility. Unless you intend on playing and fishing in rough waters like the Great Lakes for stability. When you get into glass fish and ski you are talking big bucks new and used like Rangers and Stratos. Most glass bowriders are fantastic for the ski and cruise boater but can suck fishing from just like a 2 man Bass boat sucks for cruising and skiing. Actually not a versatile fishing boat either for many species.

32" from eye to eye, must be a Great White. You have them in LOW now?

Why didn't you tell us earlier before we all wasted our time skick? The problem with that Mr.G is this. The county is submitted a brief legal description of your property at the time of sale by your lawyer each buyer agrees to, ome of those 10 pages we don't read. When the paperwork is submitted to the county/city/town for a sale a brief legal description is then given. i.e. the property was sold in 84 and it was filed as a 1 story single family dwelling on a lot ABC with a single garage, including an out building of XYZ and 3 bedrooms and 1 bath, etc. etc. You don't get any permits since you bought and the legal description drastically changes, a 2 story 2 family home with a deck with egress of X feet by Y feet, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths 3 outbuildings and an in ground pool and a hot tub, 200 amp service etc. etc. etc. Guess who is going to explain themselves to the county? You. It's starting to happen around here. They wll get their coin no matter what, believe me. A neighbour had to do a lot of explaining to do last year, the deal fell through. Now he has a choice, put it back the way it was or go through a Nightmare getting it all inspected after the fact and beg forgiveness after paying fines up the yinga yanga.

You weren't invited either TJ?

We launched at the marina in Georgina in May and no one there to take any money at he marina, but the pay and display parking lot wasn't cheap. Especially since the first time money was put in the machine no ticket came out so we had to pay twice, I think it was 40 bucks that my 1st mate finally paid. Ouch. We were told by the nice lady at the bait shop around the corner it was the only launch. Off topic, what a surprise from me! One guys asking us to sign looks at me and asks if I worked in the Steel Industry? Yes, turns out he was an engineer and we worked a Blast Furnace reline 27 years ago. And that was well before I got old and shrived up. Big political brew haha there in Georgina over the sale of the marina and sale of the public park for Condos. We couldn't walk 20 feet without someone asking us to sign a petition. One guy actually pulled his boat next to ours to ask to sign. I eventually had to ask him to leave us be as we were there to fish not talk politics. I mod que'd the guy.

Put all the suggestions here together and someone can do an informative seminar. M2B2 can hold his hands apart to show how big the Bass were, from eye to eye!!!

Those guys and gals sure have big Corleone's. Had to Google Martin Mars, impressive since the 40's. I am not a climate change denier nor think there as is much fake news as purported to be by some. What there is now is 24 hour live TV and there are many more individuals wanting to live in the middle of nature beauty or off the grid and clear a small area and build McMansions smack dab in the middle of high risk fire zones. Where there were once an evac of 500 now it's 10,000 people. Most of these McMansions can't even be insured for fire loss yet they still insist on building. It's like us living on the waters edge and then complaining when we get swept into the lake. Then once a fire rages on many good men and women need to risk their lives to save these shacks and taxpayers fund the efforts. You won't get me to contribute to a Fund Me page when people insist on spitting in Mom Natures face. Sorry, maybe harsh but thems the facts.

When you are talking about septic systems and building on a property it's all about permits. We need a stinking permit here to change a toilet that is 100 bucks. Need to put in a temporary foam ring, remove the toilet for inspection and reinstall said toilet with a wax ring.

Well here we go again, Deja Vu all over again. Worked for a few hours yesterday checking the boat over and cleaning it. Organized tackle, changed some leaders, added some Leadcore to a few reels, checked drags, made sure all electronics worked and went through my boxes and decided what to start with. Up at 05:00 and Steve showed up at 5:30. A perfect Walleye roll, little to zero wind. Sat and had a pre job meeting (he was my Manager way back when) over a coffee with a splash of Zoom Zoom in them. OK, lets get going. Loading up the boat it starts sprinkling and a thunder boomer wakes us. The wind picks up and within 15 minutes the flags are straight out and whitecaps 5 miles out. We went for breakfast and called it a day at 08:00. Now it's perfect, a nice Walleye chop and overcast. Tomorrow will try again but I told him to be here at 08:00 at unless it's obvious it's a no go. The speed and direction of the wind turbines are better than any wind prediction sites.

Thanks Sterling. I talked to a guy yesterday that is a serious long liner and he told us that his buddy ought 2 and they are not as advertised. The electronics broke down after a season of use so they were just 400 bucks of plastic. Enough info for me. Like all my expensive lures I would be so afraid of loosing them I wouldn't even take them on the boat. My goodness I am turning into my Father, that's both his and my Moms logic.

From MNR watch. If anyone hasn't signed up for these news letters you should. It is independent of the Ont. Ministry of Natural Resources. Besides reports like this one they also report on all Ontario Hunting and Fishing related charges, and news . http://mnrwatch.com/northern-ontario-firefighters-en-route-to-help-fight-b-c-wildfires/

The loan company will notify the MOT for any loan where a registered vehicle is used as collateral. If they don't the owner can sell and they may never get there money. That I know. If the MOT says it is clear that would be good for me.

Wouldn't the MOT show a lien on the title. That was the way it used to be. No title, no sale. Read my bi line at the bottom of this page.

Some of the shallower areas may just not hold fish because of lack of O2. Sounds like a neat place to have all to your own. Try a C.I.L. Wobbler in the shallows.

Again G. Mech is 110% bang on. 20 years ago one could build anything on 6 Nations reserve any way they wanted. Not today all codes apply from the North American Building Code, OBC and all the way to individual County Codes and regs. I wouldn't want to open a can of worms over a small shed and if I were I wouldn't risk a bed not performing or even failing over a stinkin' shed to hold a mower and a few shovels. Reward not worth the risk.

What business isn't Rick? I have learned that 80% of all small businesses in Ontario don't make it through year 2, 80% of those don't make it to 4 years. The biggest problem I see today with small business in Ontario is that the rules are the same if it's a Mom and Pop operation or an international conglomerate that owns it, from a Health and Safety Committee and WHIMIS training for a receptionist to use Windex to paying 17 bucks an hour soon for someone serving a bottomless cup of coffee, that's a lot of Joe to cover an hours wages in a small resort. How many pages was your business plan? It should be no more than 2. Operational plan and SOP's maybe is several chapters. People get the 2 confused.

The businessman that does exactly what you want to do is challenged immensely. With the property being somewhat remote he has to have someone on site in the long offseason for security as well as peruse the cabins to ensure they aren't destroyed by varmints. His office is a 2 hour or so drive away in Rochester NY. The main problem is finding someone responsible to do it. He has gone through more than a few "caretaker/managers" in the years he has had it. It seems when someone feels they are carrying the ball 24/7 and an absentee owner is reaping the rewards, whether real or imagined, people have a tendency to slack off or skim from the top. It is a daunting task and I wish you the best of luck. But I do not agree it can be done part time and be successful as well. A quick Google search shows many of these places are for sale across Canada. Many have sold and people bulldoze and build McMansions on the former camps.

How about close enough that someone trolls on the inside of your huge planner board with a huge red flag on it and cuts off the line. Then has the audacity to ask for help to get a huge spool of 50 pound test unwrapped from his prop. Wowza. Sorry pal I would love to help but I have to go chase down my freeking board and by the way you owe me a few hundred yards of line, the line on your prop you can keep is what I would have said most likely (Italian hothead some days.) Happened to a buddy a few years ago. Steve being Steve did go back once he found the board and helped him (actually law in Canada to aid a disabled boater). The guy did apologize and it was just a mistake. He had just started trolling out here and didn't have a clue what he was doing. Offered Steve 50 bucks. Says a lot about the man and Steve and how I can just loose it before thinking and getting the facts. Just thinking, it is actually a law for Canadians to be nice.

HH, if you set the kids up with live bait under a bobber have them twitch it every minute or so.

With all the game fish we have at our beckoned call why Silver Bass may I ask? When they are on the bite not really challenging. Good to eat that day or the next at the most. Then they are fertilizer. Never freeze them, they go off.

Well put Art. I just did the math. 35 years of 2 weeks a year average. From ice fishing in Finland to off shore in the Florida Keys. That's over 70 weeks of fishing slash Golf weeks. The last thing I would want is the workload and hours I have seen outfitters put in.

A big heavy plastic bath tub is nice here when needed, otherwise you just can't get out, like me. Calling for 65KPH winds next week. Even Ore boats have a bad time of it then.