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Was a fun afternoon for sure Bob and good seeing you & the Mrs. again.

At the very least he should lose that boat permanently, morons like that don't deserve any mercy and it's only by pure luck he didn't kill one of those innocent fishermen just out trying to enjoy the day.

Sounds to me like the wee man has a great Dad who's taking the time to teach him the good stuff !

Atta Boy to your nephew bud !!

Thanks Dan, the garage is definitely a nice place to hang out.

Nope, not since I sold it LOL

Who doesn't love this time of year !! Just took these a few minutes ago.

Yeah, we used to have some fun camping/fishing trips Phil, I miss them too.

Years ago I took my bud's young son (14 ??) out casting for muskies up on Nip and although he was an excellent fisherman he'd never netted a bigger musky. I made a cast and hooked this girl and jokingly told my young friend that if he messed up the net job he'd be swimming back to camp. I knew he was nervous and he even said he was afraid he'd lose it on me but he did and excellent job and got her in the boat but I'm sure I heard him let out a sigh of relief LOL

It happened so fast I never even saw the fish but my partner did & said it was a goodun.

A dozen years ago a musky tore this Believer apart and spit the pieces back at me. I emailed this picture to Drifter Tackle and within a couple days they sent me 2 new lures as replacements with a letter of apology for the bad lure. Good companies look after their customers, maybe try the same thing with Rapala.

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Welcome back, I remember your name from back in the day and congrats on beating the bad stuff. Some nice fish there, that 1st. 50 inch musky is the hardest to get then they get easier after that, just keep plugging away.

Have you checked Elim Lodge on the east side Pigeon Lake John, I just looked at their website and it says they've got 3 sites available but I don't know how current it is. It's only a couple miles from Cody too LOL https://elimlodge.com/

If your looking for beautiful scenery it doesn't get much better than Burleigh Falls at the west end of Stoney but I could be biased as I only live a few minutes south of there but it's definitely a go-to spot for a lot of folks. Petroglyphs Provincial Park is just north of the lake and is really interesting and a great spot to take the whole family as just about anyone would find the rock carvings really interesting. https://www.ontarioparks.com/park/petroglyphs Peterboro has some really nice parkland along all their waterways and the Lift Locks are definitely worth the 40 minute or so drive to go see them. That's just a few things in the area that I find interesting anyways

++++++The fortrex is a bow mount minnkota cable steer electric 😉. I use it while casting. ++++++ I had an 80# 60" Fortrex on my last boat and it was by far the best trolling motor I ever used.

Always enjoy reading whatever you write Drew, whether it's fishing reports or just yakking about boats, it's always a good & interesting read.

Myself, my wife, my daughter, all of the rest of our family and all of our friends avoided the virus so for me it was a great summer.

I've heard it said that a stainless prop doesn't really improve performance over an aluminum prop until your HP is at least 150 but I have no official info on that.

I have no idea what the name of the dump is Wayne, it's off hwy 64 south of Lavigne and I've never been into it but what does it matter. The place is open on weekends, infact the owner of this camp took a load there a couple days ago. As far as tipping fees go I have no clue about that either. The point this post was these slobs fire their crap into any nearby ditch they come across rather than drive 5 minutes up the road and put it where it belongs.

Just curious, did you have an aluminum prop 1st then switch to stainless and if so, what speeds did you see with the aluminum ?

Like so many others you just assume that some slob that throws his garbage in the ditch has to be from the city and that nobody that lives in the country would ever do such a thing. Very pathetic mentality. As for the dump being closed on weekends, the one I referenced being just up the road is open every day.

I used to have the same boat with a 90 HP Merc 4 stroke and would get about 43 mph with just me in the boat and drop to around 39 with a passenger. Motor had an aluminum prop but don't recall the specs. You should for sure get lots more speed with your set-up.

Morning boys We're up on the West Arm of Nippissing where we come a couple times a year. The camp is 2 miles down a dirt road from the hiway and most mornings I go for a 4 mile hike. This area is gorgeous and loaded with wildlife and I see plenty of it. Last year I came nose to nose with this big moose. The day before there were 2 more on the road. 2 years ago I came within 50 feet of a momma bear and 2 cubs. Lots of tracks everywhere and this morning I came across what I think may be a wolf track just because of the size of it Just down the road was fresh moose tracks. This is just a normal everyday occurrence but this morning it got bad. Not far from the moose tracks some pig decided to dump a load of roofing shingles. And another 1/2 mile up the road somebody decided it was easier to unload his leftover vinyl siding rather than drive 3 miles up the hiway to the local dump. This is just a rant but it pizzes me me off everytime I see this sorta crap in a gorgeous location like this and it just proves that all the filthy slobs don't live in the big cities.

My daughter just spent the last 3 days at Niagara Falls (Ontario) and she said she couldn't believe the number of American cars parked there. No idea why but I didn't think the border was open for tourists.