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4 hours ago, HTHM said:

Black thing with the silver end. 

Water sensor perhaps, just a wild guess.

With rain and showers all night around here there won't be anything to see unfortunately.

16 hours ago, Fisherman said:

Went and checked the leek patch on thursday, they're up but need a bit more heat to plump up the bulbs.  Picked a few and roasted them with oil in the oven, mixed with pasta and left over chicken and mushroom,  yum.

Yea mine here are just barely starting to swell a bit, it will be a while yet before main pick but still getting the odd treat fresh dipped in salt. The soil is very dry and will slow down growth without any rain in the near future. I've never tried them roasted like that, I'll have to try that tonight with steak.

Tons of older 9.9 OMC engines out there that are still running fine. Save yourself a ton of coin and find one that still has good compression and it will still last you for life. Still lots of parts for them available too like impellers, coils, lower unit seals etc. from what I know but might still be a good idea to check with a marina to be sure.

2 hours ago, wkrp said:

Canadian Tire sells nothing other than made in China products anymore. May as well call it China Tire

I have no idea where you would get that idea. A quick search for treble hooks shows anything but China crap.

https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/search-results.html

4 hours ago, akaShag said:

Yep, not sure if I have one tub left in the freezer or not.  We had two inches of snow today (and so did you, probably) and I have not even looked to see if the ramps are out and about yet.

Doug

You can be sure they're up down your way. Right now they are basically the only green in the bush so easy to spot.

6 hours ago, misfish said:

Waiting for the Fiddles.

That too for sure. I have 3 or 4 spots out this way where I pick. I make this fabulous leek and fiddlehead cream soup that is to die for. Also has mushrooms and green onions in it. Supposedly it came from an old Harrowsmith article but I've never been able to find it. It's called Wild Country Cream Soup. I may have shared it here in the past but not sure.

Down to my last 3 logs of leek butter too so I'm just going to make it till mid May. Dougie did you end up making some last year?

Looked out the window this morning and really starting to notice that the leeks are up pretty good, right on schedule. Cant wait until they get a bit larger so I can at least get a taste from the stems until the bulbs start to form

11 hours ago, NSXNeal said:

I owned a new 14' Lund (SSV-14) and matched a 20 hp tiller Honda 4 stroke to it.  The Honda 20 had pwr tilt/trim.

Now I may be wrong and am here to learn.  But you've described your "home" lake as rocky and lots of submerged reefs, etc, making for treacherous navigation.  With my Honda 20 tilt/trim the motor was basically locked down, unable to "flip up" if/when it hit an object.  In my two trips into ONT (Missinaibi Lake and White Lake) it scared the bejusus outta me to not be able to flip up, risking the entire lower unit somewhere remote.

I sold the rig after a year, thinking my next boat buy will be tiller with no tilt/trim for this  reason.

Thoughts? ?

That's an excellent point I never would have thought of having never owned a power trim engine, so my knowledge is limited.  I never lock down my outboards unless I was back trolling into a good wind.  Nothing bigger than 20hp. I definitely will admit to having more than once being forced to quickly lift it out of the water as an unexpected hump magically appeared while exploring new runs on windy days.

Cheers

7 minutes ago, Terry said:

It’s a 16 ft boat, go with the 25

The only issue I see with a 25 over a 20 is the 25 might not troll down slow enough without a trolling plate or drift sock. For instance I like to troll lead core or copper and gang trolls for Lakers where the optimum speed is 1 mph and I doubt a 25 would go that slow, although with the newer 4 strokes it might with the right pitch prop.

6 hours ago, Fisherman said:

I don't know why they are blaming the price of oil/gas going up on the current state of the world.  We should blame our own asylum for not having adequate means of producing and refining.

That makes far too much sense lmao. The asylum  moniker is perfect hehe...

On 2/13/2022 at 10:50 PM, chris.brock said:

gonna call you out here Bunk, do you think vaccinating and masking 5 year olds is good practice? you're a medical front line person, I've got my back up with what's going on with my family and mandates, show me the studies for masking and vaxing my 6 year old and I'll show you what I've found, it's time to chose what side of history you wanna be on

Chris I get it that you're pretty wound up here lately, and if I still had young kids I'd likely agree a lot with you.

But listen man, your thread got locked up fast, you should realize that there is a low tolerance level here for threads going sideways and anything political. So please don't bring that crap to Bunks thread, hijacking it makes no sense and is totally inconsiderate and disrespectful to Drew. Hopefully mods just remove your posts, no need to lock it.

Unless Win11 has features you absolutely need I wouldn't change. Pretty well every new OS from MS ends up needing more memory and faster speeds. Plus, beware of scams. https://www.pcworld.com/article/613508/hp-researchers-spotted-malware-in-fake-windows-11-upgrades.html

If you have a meter you could use a fine pin to poke through the insulation on the black wire and see which pin it relates to, that will be negative.

Jeff I would suggest you join or peruse the Ontario Black Bear Hunters group. Quite a few outfitters post there and tons of members to ask questions. https://www.facebook.com/groups/225827837965816/

Cheers

3 hours ago, akaShag said:

Thanks!  I spoke with my son and granddaughter this evening, and we are planning to go there on Saturday.  And if we catch a fish or two, that will be a bonus!  😁

Doug

Doug if you can, try and stick around until dark, it's often a later bite when the Crappie turn on out there.

On 1/17/2022 at 5:21 PM, scuro2 said:

Good thing there's youtube. Those climate experts are trying to pulling the wool over our eyes!

That's not what you originally posted is it? Typical leftist response, when faced with facts just resort to insulting remarks. You should check out OOD, you'd fit in nicely there. Btw I've seen plenty of posts with those reports and not one of them was on youtube so you shouldn't make assumptions because you know what that does eh?
That's my last response, no use wasting my time on you

On 1/15/2022 at 3:19 PM, glen said:

Worst part is fishing outside.  The holes freezing over and the line is freezing in.  

They have floating bubblers that help a lot with the hole freezing up.

Here's a study from Carleton University back in 2013 done on Charleston lake. Pretty alarming.  I posted this study back then on a Fish-Hawk thread about discarded plastics and made the mistake of pointing out that it was mostly bass fisherman by far that used plastics. Well some of the bass guys freaked out big time getting on my case saying I didn't like bass fishermen and was picking on them lol. Talk about overly sensitive and easily offended bunch of guys, it was wild the comments they were coming out with. Fortunately the owner and some other members recognized that I was just posting facts and stuck up for me. Dougie I think you were around there back then. There have been plenty of studies since then, there was talk in some states about banning them unless they were biodegradable.

https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/exploring-the-potential-effects-of-lost-or-discarded-soft-plastic-nqTiq8ccjj

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260525998_Exploring_the_Potential_Effects_of_Lost_or_Discarded_Soft_Plastic_Fishing_Lures_on_Fish_and_the_Environment

15 hours ago, Weeds said:

If you don’t care what people think why would you spend 20 minutes making your case?

     Sure, the weather/climate has been historically subject to erratic extremes but that doesn’t mean climate change isn’t at least a possibility. 

I said I didn't care what he believed, but I did respond to his comment with facts other than one hot summer in BC. Yea what I said is that climate change is always happening but it's not because of human activity compared to other effects.

10 hours ago, scuro2 said:

Tell that to the people in the interior of BC where the all time Canadian heat record was shattered at  just a touch under 50 degrees. 

Seriously dude, if your older then 30 you know winters have changed. Here we are in mid Jan and for most of this winter I've seen some grass sticking out on my lawn.

Yea right. Meanwhile the poles have more ice than ever in a long time. Many places in the world are getting record low temps. Arctic air is now reaching the gulf of Mexico last week and California was getting record snowfalls with 122 inches of snow in the last week alone. Jet streams are all over the place. So how do you explain that? If you really cared to do some research instead of falling for all the climate change alarmists you would realize that most of Earths weather is influenced by solar flare activity and El Nino and La Nina. as well as the tilt of the earths axis which can be affected by volcanoes even. The earth has just hit one of the five coldest Novembers in history.
And yes I'm over 60 and for sure weather has always been in a state of flux as it still is but it's not because of human activity and a little bit of extra CO2 in the atmosphere. Every major climate emergency these alarmist have screamed about have proven to be unfounded, sea levels aren't rising, the poles aren't melting, polar bears are going extinct, blah blah blah.
Believe whatever you want, I really couldn't care less.

On 1/8/2022 at 10:07 PM, scuro2 said:

Working on that, solar panels installed. Another 6 years and I'll have cheap free usable electricity

My neighbour up the road went with solar in an off grid home and after 7 years had to replace all his batteries which was around $7K. Plus now having a baby he found that the solar didn't provide enough power so he is now hooked up to the grid.

If anyone is looking for pork loin halves Freshco has them on at half price fro $2.77/lb. I looked at them yesterday and most were around the $12 to $13 range so a decent deal.

Happy New Year

 I saw a post yesterday saying that 4 of the 5 coldest places on earth were in Canada. So much for global warming.