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Happy belated Birthday my friend, you deserve all the good things that I'm sure came your way yesterday.

That's a crazy number of huge fish !!

Nice one Joey & a great way to spend a day off !!

4 strokes are the ticket for trolling Randy. No oil mixed in with your gas to foul your plugs. Also nice and quiet, good on fuel and no more blue exhaust smoke to breath in all day.

Al, you'll find the GPS really shines when your moving slow and want to maintain a low troling speed, infact their so accurate they give your speed while your just drifting along with the wind. Your speedo works off water pressure and won't even register a speed until your moving fairly fast, I think my boat is close to 10 MPH before the needle moves.

Actually I think you'll find it's just the opposite. The speedo isn't too accurate but the GPS should be bang on.

And therein lies the really sad truth John.....

Yeah Paul, and if you buy a Merc you'll need to be towed back to the dock everyday

Pretty sure we were already paying taxes on gasoline tax so now we're paying a tax on a tax on the taxes. I'm just glad I can HONESTLY say I didn't vote for these thieves that imposed this on us.

Happy Birthday Jacques & all the best to ya !! Looks like you had a great day out with your daughter!!

Tom, whenever I get a musky next week I'll paint a big red X on the water to mark the spot for you guys Good luck to you & Mike !!

Some nice fish there CC and a good start to your season. Is that the bass boat you were talkin about buying ??

Sounds like your really enjoying yourself up there Pikeie....keep on doing that !! Looks like your having a great season so far.....keep on doing that too

Great stuff all around guys, thanks for that !!

Thanks for the report BB, sounds like the fishing has been kinda tough all over the lake so far this year. I'm heading for the West Arm on Saturday for a week so hopefully things pick up. Weather reports for the next couple weeks look favorable, at least down here, so that may turn them on.

Without a doubt the greatest country on earth !! Enjoy the holiday folks

I had a longshaft 6 HP Merc kicker on a 16' Crestliner, although their a pretty wide boat at 87". 15 HP is alot bigger and it may be a tight squeeze on a 16 footer

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I have a one year old 150 Yamaha 4 stroke and the manual says to use a MINIMUM of 86 octane but says nothing about using higher grades, so by that I'd assume the high octane is perfectly safe Life used to be so simple before the world went hi-tech

If your motor is an older MinnKota PowerDrive the problem is probably in the circuit board under the foot control. Their famous for not working and have been a source of problems for year.

Pete, my brother was a great bass & pickeral fisherman but hardly ever fished for musky and had no gear for them. I invited him out one morning and as we pulled into a little bay that I have a lotta luck in I gave him a rod and a favorite musky bait of mine. He clipped it on, went to the back deck and on the very 1st cast of the morning he got a musky. I hadn't even put the troll motor in the water yet. He said, "well, there's nuthin to catching these things, let's go try for something else" Oh, nice musky for you too BTW Pete , sorry for the hijack

WTG, some really nice fish there. Luv the shot of the goats !!

I'm pretty sure Tightlines on Brock Rd. in Pickering carries the Triumph Just south of the 401

Yeah, it was Bill. Almost like they couldn't fix it under warranty as I broke it thru my own stupidity but they had to charge me something, so it's like OK...gimme 5 bucks

Kevin's a master with a frypan & bonfire !!