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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.

Actually it was caught in August 1974 and that picture was a snowmobile I used to own, a 1984 SkiDoo ss25 but neither has anything to do with the other and I just needed a place to stick the SkiDoo picture LOL

Another skin mount still in great shape that I had mounted way back in '74 Fish was 45" and it cost me $125.25 to have it done. I hate the fact that I intentionally killed that musky but it was the 1st one I ever caught and sadly killing them back then was just the norm and I never killed another one. This mount now hangs at a buds fishing lodge up on Nippissing.

You won't be sorry for adding it to your box, but try trolling it at different distances from your boat, even real close, like 5' back of the transom and you may be very happy you did.

Anytime I was going to troll, a Jailbird Believer was nearly always the 1st bait I clipped on and they're an excellent musky bait..

Your a good man to have around Dan 👍

We have great friends from Pennsylvania who come up every year and a small group of us holiday together on Nipissing and we sure did miss them this year. Hopefully things get back to normal next year.

Big fish Bud, way to go !!

Gonna look good when it's done Brian & congrats to your son for getting certified. Very easy to remember when I got my 1st tattoo, myself and my 3 buds went up to the Navy recruiting office at Young & St. Clair and joined the Navy then drove down to Jarvis & Dundas and all got tattooed. While we were sitting in the tat shop it came over the radio that JFK had just been shot. Nov. 22 1963 Long time ago now.

My wife picked me up a new mask from the local pharmacy today and when I opened it and read the label I found out it was made in China. Found that pretty ironic....or maybe it's just me.

You can always camp in my backyard John, I can give you a decent rate LOL

No interest in SpringRock John, it'd be good to have you guys 5 minutes away ?

As I've mentioned here before, my son was an iron worker for 20 years before being killed in a fall on the job. Apart from putting up skyscrapers, his company also erected and dismantled those huge tower cranes like the 2 that have collapsed in the last couple weeks. Years ago I knew my son was dismantling a tower crane in downtown Toronto but I didn't know exactly where. I had the noon news on and they reported a crane had collapsed and one of the guys working on it had been killed. I called the police station closest to where the accident was and told the person on the desk I was trying to find out if it was my son that was killed. They transferred me to the officer in charge of the station and he told me he wasn't allowed to give out the name of the deceased until next-of-kin were notified, but said to give him my son's name and he could tell me yes or no. Thankfully it wasn't Jim but to this day I think of that every time one of these cranes come down. Those guys do a job most would never have the nerve to do.

Glad to hear everyone agrees with me that it turned out good, it cost me $55.00 but to me anyways I think it was well worth the price.

I've been telling you guys for years that IS my smile 😁