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Another test..

Man, the first guy to tap out seemed a little off..lol.. the Canadian girl has the best shelter by far.. she has the skills but I don't know about her mental toughness..

Boat graveyards exist but where would you find one??

I spend much more at Sail than I do at BPS.. the prices on the BPS site are in American and that kind of turns me off.. Smaller stores still tend to get most of my business..

I was thinking about getting a hydrofoil..the ones that don't bolt on though.. a prop change could be the ticket too..

I see all the boats suggested have been sold already so it looks like the market is hot right now which is to be expected at this time of year..

I used to have the same boat with a 30 hp Yamaha and loved it.. when I saw a Sylvan recently in Windsor I was pretty sure that I was buying it if it was in as good of shape as the pictures indicated so I brought some cash and a money order and took it home right away..

I have a 16 foot with a 50 on it and I can easily get up on plane by myself ..32 mph.. when I have 3 in the boat I have to move people to the front or it struggles .. top speed is 24 to 25 mph with 4 of us.. a 25 might be fine for cottage fishing though..

I love sail.. Canadian owned and operated.. I will also support our smaller local stores when possible..

This will make thing easier!!!

And no harrassment from "the authorities " .. unlike some other areas..

We can almost drive to the fly in lakes.. the roads and trails are actually gated during the summer fishing season but you can fish the off season. It's a long drive better suited for an ATV than a truck... we aren't as ambitious as we used to be and if you want your honey hole to remain great you don't tell a soul about it... that being said a fly-in is a whole lot less physically demanding..

All the Lakes we fish up north are empty besides us so it feels like we're on a fly-in.. one day I will try to bushwhack into the lake that produced 60 or 70 fish for three of us in just over a couple of hours..the MNR thought it was wise to start restricting access to some of the Old Logging roads so they took out 13 culverts and bridges but you can still get in by ATV..

I'd love to do a fly in but finding 3 other people that are reliable enough to commit could be a problem for me. Not to mention the cost.. my trips consist of drive-to locations but there are a few gems where we can get into fishing that would rival a fly-in. Total costs for a week with food, lodging and gas are around 400 each but the level of work involved is much higher..

I am not familiar with the regulations but they are considered a species at risk in Ontario..

I have a lot of friends that think it's all a big conspiracy. In the future it will be clearer what steps worked and what didn't and which countries messed it up. What we should take from this is we can't expect other countries to bail us out in crisis. Made in Canada really does matter...

I still hope to head north in June but I may have to stay at a friends property in town and make day trips into the back lakes.. not ideal but it will be better than staying home..

Sadly the competition between States and the Federal government has driven up the price of ppe

This needs to happen more often..

Stelco is considered essential so we are working. My department has 4 or 5 in isolation and we can't find cleaning supplies or gloves. A few of our orders have been diverted to medical facilities but if they want to run they need to come up with a solution. The old Stelco attitude is on full display on the frontline..

Hamilton Conservation authority is closing all parks and trails on Wednesday.. I expect Niagara to do the same soon..

Mountsberg is now closed. Anyone found on the property will be charged with trespassing..

The battery top is in bad shape and each time we hot idle it gets worse. Lake Erie is on the verge of a total battery failure and is currently running at less than 50 percent.. repairs are somewhere in the range of 140 million and counting..

Yeah, cheap gas will definitely cost us later. Fishing season is coming... slowly..🤔😜

My wife is off and has applied for EI.. we are plodding along at Stelco and we have had to convince the company to take it seriously. The office staff has been doing it for a while now but some of the managers in the plant are acting like the old school bosses we used to have. It took a public shaming for them to act. Shutting down could cause catastrophic damage to the coke ovens and furnaces..