Cast-Away

Wayne, I read all of you stories before replying now. We don't know each other, other than through a few past PM's, but I wanted to say I am very sorry to read about the passing of both your sister and your Mother. It truly was the summer from hell. On a lighter note, I had a quite a few laughs as well when reading the posts. Here are some of the funnies: Sanding dust on face Arriving home to a Fisher petting farm! Your Daughter eating a monster Rocky Lifejacket hat Second arrival home to a turkey petting farm! Other stuff: Pop down canoe off of plane Taking your Mom fishing which turned out to be the last time Being able to take a train from the big smoke to your summer escape Celebrating your Mom's life by taking your Daughter fishing before packing up to go home for the funeral Moosebunk being the first reply to part one with "Doood!! You get only the coolest guests visit." HA what a riot!

I was driving east on Hwy 7 today where Hwy 35 meets it just south of Lindsay and I saw Lew's old Crestliner being towed by me in the other direction. I new it was his boat because of the Merc on the back and the OFC sticker!

Is it called a "Fun Guy"?

Great report. The latter part sounded like Deliverance! Did he tell you that you had a pertie mawth?

Hi folks. My wife and I took our two kids to the east at the end of August. It was the first time for all of us and was a wonderful trip! Of the 400 plus pictures that we took, these were the best three. Here is the Blue Nose II The famous Hope Rocks at the Bay of Fundy. The tide fluctuation is 40 to 45 feet every 13 hours. I saved my favourite shot for the end. I just love the natural colours of the rocks in the water.

Don't forget to plug the overflow hole as well. Sometimes water washes in there.

Harry's Bait and Tackle in Keswick rents boats. 905-476-0441

That is too funny! I was the one futher up this thread that suggested that you go here. What did your buddy lose around dinner time Friday night? It looked like he had a big fish on the line. I think I heard you say something about 60 ryes when you were going out on the boat one morning. You were likely repeating what one of us said by the campfire one night right? Did you read my post a few pages down about the bear? When it comes to posting pictures, you can post them on this side and then create the link. Here is the link to the instructions: Posting Photos

Hey tightline, was there a green Legend across the channel from you all weekend and the guys stayed up really late each night partying?

I personally would stick with Eagle or Lowrance which are one in the same anyway. The problem with Humminbird finders is that the transducer has a flat bottom verus the torpedo shape of Eagle/Lowrance products. The flat bottom style does not work once your boat is up on plane, so you get no reading when you are moving across a lake and won't see shallow water coming up and could end up hitting some underwater structure.

Well I just got back from our worst trip in 19 years going to the same area. It rained on and off for the full 5 days. Every time we went out we got chased back in by a storm. We did very little fishing in 5 days. We had a new bass and small pike but nothing worth bragging about and no pics. We did have a couple of 2+ pound SM Bass out at a shoal in open Georgian Bay. The highlight of the trip was when we had a small adult bear on our site during the first day. We chased it off but it came back that night while we were out and got at some of our food. Once it got a taste of the food it became much more aggressive and stalked our campsite all night long. We had to put all of our food in the boat. Thankfully I have an Anchor Buddy to keep the boat well away from shore! We did not see him again after that night. The park rangers can’t do anything other than come by to scare it off.

The only part of the Moon River where you can camp is the mouth. You have to enter through the Massasauga PP.

Is your real name Dick Shrivels from Coldwater? I would think so after swimming out to try and salvage the boat! Seriousely, glad that you are okay.

My buddy and I are doing our annual trek to the park for 5 days of fishing, camping, beer rental (on the site of course), great fires at night, star gazing and a bit of bocce ball while dinner is cooking! I took up the accoustic guitar back in January, so this year we are also going to do a bit of jamming. Man we have a blast every year. Every year my wife says "why don't you take me up there?" We catch mostly bass and pike with the odd walleye (avatar). Any fellow OFNer's going to be there next week?

Hey Joe, did you see how close the clown came to us just to check out what I had on the line? What a "BASSHOLE"!

His toupe after a thunder storm!

Geez Wayne, I am really sorry about your loss. Your poor sister, what a terrible thing to happen.

I have to disagree with you here. Canada Day is a celebration of our great nation and the freedom that we enjoy and are privilaged to have. If anything I don't think that Canadians are patriotic enough. If you drive through any community in the United States, you see the American flag flying on at least one in five homes. It would be nice to see more of that here. The pictures that you posted are a great encouragement to the younger generation of Canadians like the kids shown, to celebrate our great country! Stand up and be proud. Don't roll over and be another one of those complacant Canucks.

Amazing fish! What body of water did you catch it on?

He may have been a great entertainer and a great song writer, but he lost my vote back in the 90's over all of the court cases with the children. He was a guilty as OJ Simpson.

Ziki, pass the can of worms would you? Thanks for opening it first!

Try wetting it first before sticking it on. If the boat is out of the water and drym, spit into the cup and then press it on real hard. I use to have the same problem with my tinny that you are experiencing. This tip worked for me.

TJ, the picture on the way into the camp looks like a photo from the movie Outbreak with the Bio suits!

If you want to make a trip to the toy store BPS, their deep cycle batteries are excellent. I am on year 3 with mine and it still holds a good charge and runs my Minnkota for hours on end.

I am #25000!