johnnyb

Happy Birthday G-MAN!!!!

Terry used to have a Portabote....pretty sure he had good things to say about it. Folds right up to the size of a surfboard.

I think that must be the inventor of the Alabama Rig

Nice little getaway with good weather, fishing and relaxation. I like it!

Well no WONDER Lew has thick skin

Yep, that's the ticket! Nice work....great pics and fish

I think you should rub the green/white spoon all over it to increase its value

Awesome stuff!!! Can't wait to get out and chase lakers again....haven't touched'em since the end of May. You are sitting on a pretty nice honey hole there....keep up the good work!

SOunds like a good morning on the water....gonna have to bring your photgrapher along next time

Aikman's x2

I wonder if you can find individual letters for sale at a hobby shop or something, and put it together yourself?

Sheeeeeesh! That's gotta be close to 100 pounds of perch in fillets alone! What a haul...great day for the kids

I never use mine either....BUT....there are some people that actually back-reel when fighting a fish, as a way to give it line instead of letting the drag slip.

Huh! All of a sudden, carp fishing just got a lot more interesting......

I think Chapleau must mean "teeming with walleye" or something.....great report!!!

Nice tank right there....good job!!

Sounds like a great time away....congrats on the PB and the TRUE daily double

Hey guys....just got a text from Wayne...exactly one year from the date of her surgery, Jen takes a 20' stroll with NO CRUTCHES. They think it is quite possibly the first time someone has done this....ever! Trying to embed it.....it appears to work when I'm in "edit mode"...but then disappears when I post... [media][/media] Well...here's at least a link to it:

Just think....somewhere on a pleasure boater's forum, there is a thread about idiot fishermen that don't get out of the way and think they own the water....

Okay, bad enough that you're mentioning that spot at all.,......but TWICE?!?!?!?!

I hope they're not bringing one of those high speed bass boats!!!

Very very cool!! Good luck and have fun....looking forward to the report(s)

WOW!!!!! I absolutely love this post....well done sir!!!! Online lake trout calculator puts that beast at 46 pounds!!!! http://www.laketrout.org/lake-trout-weight-calculator.htm Definitely clip that spoon to the boat in a special spot...love the hook damage. Congrats on a gorgeous fish....can't get over how massive that gut is.

It's crazy how people are really hatin' on the bass boats this year. It's a different (far more efficient, in my mind) style of fishing when you are using a bass boat. There's no time wasted if you want to hit a bunch of spots on the lake. You have an incredible vantage poing from the casting deck, and it's ridiculously stable. Cruising along a weedline with the trolling motor...being able to stop, hover, back up, all without making a sound absolutely blows a tinner away. I'm not saying I'll catch more fish out of a bass boat....but I sure as heck will keep my lure in the water longer, with less effort. No oars to pull out and muck around with....no bobbing up and down in the waves while I'm standing on the bench of my tinner. The whole speed thing really is no different than any other boat. Who cares if you go fast....as long as you are courteous. Are they practical for every style of fishing? Of course not. Should every boat out there be able to handle every kind of fishing situation? I guess that's up to you....in my mind the answer is no. In a perfect world I would have a nice big salmon boat for the Great Lakes.....a big deep-V for Temagami, Muskoka's big 3, etc, a bass boat for, well, BASS fishing and weekend tournaments for fun, and of course a couple tinners, one big one and one small one, light enough to drag through the woods to back lakes. Don't forget the canoe and float tube.....maybe a kayak.....maybe. Most of us don't have the means or selfishness to have all those boats though....so we gotta pick one or two. Some of us pick bass boats....because yeah, bass are easy and fun to catch, and there's the challenge of pulling in a limit of all 5 pounders....and the chance of dinging a true monster, or the next Ontario record. Look at the 6.4lb'er that was just caught on Rice....anyone who thinks that the lakes are polluted with fish like that is living in a dream world. I've seen people keep a limit of 6 fish that wouldn't outweigh that bass. Anyway. I told myself I'd leave these bassboat threads alone....but you dragged it out of me Now I have to go bail out my tinner.

Yep, they are looking for the biggest fish. Interesting way they do it --- they score it based on one point per gram, and one point per millimeter. So a 4lb fish is 1814.4 grams and measures 406 mm the total score is 2220.4. They pay out $2500 for 1st, $1000 for 2nd, $500 for 3rd place (for bass), and also have $100 prizes for biggest pike, crappie and perch. Still looking for the 2nd and 3rd place fish, but can't find them.....really not a bad little tournament I think.