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Sounds like an outstanding trip for you guys and great pictures. The West Bay is one of my favorite places in this entire universe !!

Probably 30 years ago my daughter and a girlfriend were standing on the sidewalk talking when another friend came by on his motorcycle. He stopped at the curb for awhile and yakked then said he had to go. For whatever reason he gave the bike too much throttle and it jumped the curbed and pinned him against a wooden fence and tore his leg off right in front of the girls. My daughter was in hysterics as she knelt beside him trying to stop the blood pouring out. The ambulance got him to the hospital and the doctors kept him alive but the leg was lost. I knew the guy and he was very nice and sensible so the accident wasn't caused by stupidness and was probably just a freak thing...but I don't know. I've never been on a motorcycle in my life but have nothing against them, I just feel safer inside a car.

I may be missing something in your reply here Dan and if so I apologize but in a previous reply I said I put 100% of the blame for this entire fiasco completely in the lap of Ford. I gave the mechanics and everyone else at the dealership a BIG thank you for everything they did to help, infact we bought each & every person involved a $50 Timmies gift card as a small gesture of our gratitude.

And it wasn't even the oil usage they called normal jimmer, a lot of those 5.0 motors developed a very loud knock...including mine... and they said that was also normal even though not all engines did it.

The really sad part though was Ford saying a quart every 3000 miles is normal. And Dan, thanks for the early morning laugh LOL

Looks like you'll probably be getting a new engine Wayne but it'll be one built in 2019...hopefully. From what I'm reading most guys are happy with the new engines and not reporting any issues so good luck to you if you go that route.

100 % correct Terry, dealership gave me a great trade-in price plus a huge pile of cash discounts and Ford will supply them a new 5.0 engine to put in it and the dealership is gonna ship it down to Georgia to a wholesaler they deal with. Ford just called the dealership day before yesterday with a cash offer which I obviously took. I wish all this crap had never happened and ALL the blame from me goes straight to Ford who in my opinion is currently producing an inferior 8 cylinder motor. As I said above, life is too short to dwell on crap and I now have an amazing truck that I know I'm gonna enjoy.

Good luck with the Tacoma, I don't think there's a vehicle made....at least not North American....that doesn't have issues.

Paul, that link you put up describes what's happening pretty well exactly with the 2018 5.0 engines. That was the issue with my 1st engine but the new replacement engine was totally different. Long story short......The day after they replaced my motor, I picked my truck up and with the new engine only having gone 40 miles...yup FORTY MILES...the engine started rattling like crazy. I took it back to the dealer and they couldn't figure what was causing it. They had a Ford engineer come and look at it and he determined it was down in the bottom of the engine but he wanted it driven more to add some miles on it and that's when I said NO WAY did I want this truck back. When I picked up my new truck yesterday I talked to the mechanic who did the replacement and he said they pulled the oil pan and filter and found metal filings in both and figure it's coming from a rod bearing. Would any of you guys go for a 3rd 5.0 engine ???....no, I didn't think so.

Thanks Dan & Art, yeah I could have fought Ford for more money but I'm sure their lawyers are much bigger than mine and they could drag this thing on for years. As mentioned above my dealership was unbelievable in what they did for me and the money they saved me and if anyone is looking for a fantastic FORD dealer go to Boyer Ford in Bobcaygeon

Thanks guys Wayne, Ford made some changes to the 5.0 in 2018 and since then many of them are going thru crazy amounts of oil including mine that was using a quart of oil every couple thousand miles. Ford denied there was a problem at first saying that was normal then changed their mind and said if any 5.0 engines were using a quart in less than 3000 miles the engines would be replaced. I got a new engine and that was worse than the 1st one so I made the decision to get rid of the truck. Ford offered to put in a 3rd engine but I wanted nothing to do with it As far as I know though, Ford still won't say what the actual problem is. I've had a 5.4 and a 3.5 Eco and both were great and then way too much trouble with the 5.0 so I've gone back to the 3.5 It cost me a few bucks to upgrade but as stated above my dealership was absolutely unbelievable and saved me a LOT of money and even Ford threw in some. Life is too short to worry about things and rather than fighting FORD for more I moved on and am very happy with my decision.

I bought a new F150 Lariat last year and absolutely loved the truck but there was a serious issue with the 5 litre engine so Ford installed another engine recently and that one had issues too. I told them I was done with the 5 litre and didn't want the truck back. I wanted to replace the truck and get one with the 3.5 EcoBoost instead and I've never seen a dealership do so much to make a customer happy. There's already a great "Employee Discount" thing going on which knocks a pile of $$$$ off the price and then my dealership discounted so much more money for me I was almost embarrased. On top of that they got FORD to toss in more cash and today I'm a happy man again. This thing has more bells & whistles than the Space Shuttle and pretty well every option available including full roof skylight and retractable running boards. My 2018 Lariat that I had to give up....sadly .....and then the new 2019

Outstanding Brian, really nice to hear !!

They were good boats Brian, I had a couple Starcrafts.

14' Starcraft with a 9.9 Johnson

Did you notice my leather shoes with gold buckles, who wears those to go fishing anymore ? LOL

I actually killed & ate the 1st musky I ever caught way back in the early 70's as that's just what folks did back then...unfortunately. I've caught & released many 100's of muskies in the decades since then but to this day I still wish I'd released it. I had it mounted and hung on the wall of my trailer for a very long time but then I gave it to a friend who owns a fishing camp up on Nippising who now has it hung in his office.

We used to have some great discussions here a few years back about keeping or releasing muskies and I don't think anyone ever won the argument LOL

Depends how you garnish them before putting them on the BBQ.

2 of my most productive lures ever were Bumblebee. One was a 10" Believer that I removed the rattles from and the other was a Double "D" twitch bait that I hand painted. Strawberry Sledge was another great bait that also put many nice fish in my boat. Both incredible colours for sure.

Nice pictures from a great place, we'll be in PEI in September

Not really sure what your talking about when you refer to "incredible looking baits" as there are so many different baits on the market you couldn't count them all. Many of them work extremely well and many just catch fishermen. I had boxes full of baits but I knew what worked for me on the waters I was going to be fishing on a certain day and time of day or night. As for muskies being the hardest fish to catch, that's more to do with the the skill of the angler in a lot of cases. In the Kawarthas they're relatively easy to catch when you know where and when to fish for them and getting multiple fish in a day is very common. For many years I kept a log and usually caught between about 80-100 fish per season and my best year was 115 fish in the boat not even counting the ones my fishing partners caught. One morning I went out at 7:30 and by 10:00 I'd boated 9 fish. Bigger bodies of water like the St. Lawrence or Nippising don't hold as many fish but if you know what your doing and where & when to go you can still do well. The "fish of 10,000 casts" is only for those that don't understand the fish.

If it ain't broke don't fix it. I said it for years, you don't need fancy to catch muskies and some of my favorite baits were the ones with most of the paint worn off or the big spinnerbaits with hardly any hair left on them.

Fantastic Dan and good to hear the trip was as much fun as you'd hoped for.

WOW, that picture is incredible, definitely frame worthy !! And it looks like a Killer Whale at the bottom LOL