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That was a great day Norm, really enjoyed spending the day with you. Unfortunately I lost a whole whack of pictures from my computer a couple years ago and the ones from that day were among them.

I always try to buy my fishing gear from the small shops but sometimes it just doesn't work out. I want for a power handle for one of my Shimano musky reels and have called several shops around southern Ontario and even the States. Nobody has them in stock but everyone can order it for me. Price is in the $50 range plus tax plus $20-$25 shipping. I'm only about 25 miles north of Shimano in Peterboro and decided to call them. They get them from their California office and it'll only cost me $40 plus $6 to ship it all the way up here. Not a huge difference money wise, but it's better in my pocket that someone elses.

No sneaking required Bill, we'll try and make it work this year for sure.

I've fished it a couple times but without too much success. I've been going to the West Arm for 10 years or so now and know the area well and usually do good with the muskies, so that's the reason I keep going back.

As I do every year, I'll be chasing muskies on the West Arm of Nipissing for a week in June and another 2 weeks in August. I've fished in a lot of places but have never found a place I like better.

Sad day for both of us.

Today, April 23rd, would be my son's 47th birthday, sadly though he was killed nearly 10 years ago and I figure he got ripped off for a whole bunch of living he should have had. Today, April 23rd, is also the 17th anniversary of my dad's death, yup, he died on his grandsons birthday, and was buried 2 days later on April 25th, his own birthday. Today's kind of a crummy day for me.

I hear you Shane, but I spose these days the majority of folks don't want bare bones anymore and want at least a few basics like automatics, power doors and windows and air conditioning. Probably not much market for a basic truck anymore and not worth it for the truck manufactures to build them.

Yeah, I'm only a few miles from there and get over that way quite often.

My 2013 pick-up is just about fully loaded up with all the toys available and listed at $60,000 Shane. I buy a new vehicle every 3 years or so, as I've done for many years and their always nice ones. I'm not a yuppie citiot and I don't look cool no matter what I'm driving, but myself, along with thousands of other guys, just happen to like the extra comforts on a truck we worked long and hard to be able to afford. Doesn't make us bad guys.

I bought a new Skeeter/Yamaha 5 years ago and wanted an SS prop and to be sure I got the best one possible for my rig I phoned Skeeter in Texas and told them how I wanted to use the boat. They told me which prop would best suit my needs and that's the one I had the dealer install and it works perfectly. It was probably a bit easier in my situation seeing as Yamaha owns Skeeter and it wasn't difficult for them to figure which prop would be best, but I'm sure in your case either Smokercraft or Merc should be able to figure out what would give you the optimal performance. If you don't have a tach, you'll need one to know what your rev's are at top end to be sure everything is trimmed properly.

Also a waste of a beautiful animal.

My neighbor down the road stores his 20' boat in his boat house for the winter but hoists it up on slings to keep it out of the ice. Now the water is rising so high (Clear Lake) that the boat is floating and the water is pushing it closer to the roof of the boat house. Trouble is the ice is only a couple feet outside the boat house and he can't get the boat out. Gonna be a tense few more days until hopefully the water level drops a bit.

Well Joey, if it's in the Toronto Sun, it must be true

Go and see him Matt and tell him what you just told us. Forget the past and start over now. Dad's are very good at forgiving.

Yeah, I seem good now too, thanks Roy.

Same at my end.

Seems as if Bancroft is always far cheaper than anyone else.

I'm only about 8 miles from a reserve up this way Dave, maybe I should start buying over there.

Happy B-Day Brian, sounds like you found a great way to enjoy it.

That's what I was thinking as well, as I imagine recovering that boat and getting it back to shore is gonna be quite expensive and the OP should definitely be compensated for that along with everything else .

You've got a good memory Cliff. Here's the same place a year ago and it's alot calmer And just for comparison, here it is mid-winter

We used to run those rapids on an air mattress 50 odd years ago, course it wasn't quite as rough LOL Thanks for that link chris

Maybe I'll go up in a few days when the waters higher and see if I can figure how to work the video on my camera.

It's too bad the camera doesn't capture the power or size of the waves cause it's actually far rougher than it looks here.