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Says the guy who is working 24 hour shifts right now............. a PICNIC? Maybe a picnic where you are attacked by a mother bear and her three yearlings..........😉

We were three, of whom one had no driver's licence and the second (as it turned out) was a TERRIBLE driver and was falling asleep after two hours in the saddle. Driving through the night would have killed all of us, I am sure. BTW I don't plan to go on a major fishing trip with either of those guys EVER AGAIN. 🙄

Pictures show a solid splashwell, yes, but methinks the outboard is going to wallow in the waves. That was on an 18 foot tiller model for sale by some marina. Funny enough, every once in a while I think I might let my beloved Sylvan go and get something newer. Stanley sure looks attractive, and thanks for that. Doug

Interesting boats, but they appear to have a very shallow transom? I'd be worried about waves coming in over the transom, especially if back-trolling? Doug

I wrote f a r t not jerk, BTW...

I was going to reply until I saw Bunk had done so already, with his in-depth review (and with which I agreed when I read it and probably still would). And yes, I have owned a pile of boats, various hulls and designs, and would not have a boat unless it was a tiller. But then again, I am an old cranky jerk like Fisherman..........😉 Doug

Three of us flew out of Nakina. We drove up from southeastern Ontario in my F250 diesel Super Duty extended cab with an 8 foot box. Lots of room for cargo, but........... I would NEVER make that drive again, unless I had a minimum of three days, preferably four. It's too hard on the body, and even with good buddies, all that time cooped up in a truck is hard on the nerves. And an extra night or two in a motel, with meals on the road, adds up as well. The extra few hundred bucks to fly would have been well worth it. Doug

WOO HOO!!!!! Anyways, I missed both...........

I missed those specials! What store was that, out of curiosity? Doug

Very cool, Dave, and thanks for sharing. Doug

Who knew that a tattoo parlour was such a lucrative business! 🙄 Or I suppose there are OTHER ways to finance such a boat................

tagged to see outcome............

Life is about sacrifices, for sure. But remember, vegetables are what FOOD eats! Doug

Amazing indeed. But WAYYYYYYYY too many veggies on that plate! 😉 Doug

So a number of weeks ago I decide to make pho with a couple wild turkey legs. I even remembered to take photos, and saw them today on my phone and hope I can transfer them here. It was a resounding success, even if I do say so myself. A lot of folks just breast out their wild turkey, but the legs make an exceptional soup, and with the spices like star anise make an excellent, flavourful pho. So I covered the legs with water and the various spices, then simmered them for a few hours. Then I let them cool and removed the meat from the bones and tendons. I added the rest of the ingredients except the rice noodles, then added the meat and the rice noodles and let the flavours all meld together. And it it was a real treat! It also freezes well, and I have had a couple servings since then. Nice and meaty, just the way I like it! Doug

I had bought a dozen of the 11" rolls. But the diameter of the roll is too big to fit in my Food Saver!!! So luckily I had kept an empty cardboard roll and rolled a bunch of the bag material onto it so it would fit....

Dan, that looks AWESOME!!!!! Doug

Possum Lake Lodge....................😁

I am not familiar with any modern lures of this design, but yes that was surely the case with the Power Rattle. It was pricey and had the negative issues I mentioned earlier. I had TWO of them (different colours of course) and threw them both out years ago. And FWIW I do not recall them being particularly effective. In my memory, an original floating Rapala or a white Big O fished the pants off the Power Rattle in the same body of water at the same time. Doug PS) Then I really re-discovered jigs (and jig-like techniques like Texas rigged worms) and never looked back....................

Sounds like you and I had similar experiences with them..............😉 Doug

And the plastic replacement tails were hard to find, generally not available in colours one would use, and they dried out quickly, even in a sealed bag. On the other hand, the wet lure tail turned almost slimy...............

Good luck finding the replacement tails. They were a PITA and I am guessing most folks threw them out, like I did...............

Here's one for you, OIM. Doug

But he has an off-grid cabin on this one, so he probably would like to figure it out.... or yes check out a more productive lake in that area if Wollaston continues to be a bust. I used to go to a hunt camp on a lake in that same general area. The bathymetry was probably similar, it was a very deep lake in the middle, over a hundred feet deep. The Ministry used to stock it with trout - first rainbows, and then speckles, and in good numbers for the surface area of the lake. It was nearly impossible to catch those trout, and it took me probably a decade to figure out why. There was so much forage in the lake (mostly minnows) that the trout had their fill any time they felt like eating. Every trout we caught was round like a football. So anyways what I did was jig very aggressively for them, both open water and ice season, and that seemed to attract at least a few fat trout. It may be that Wollaston Lake is also very fertile, with a huge forage base. One way to test this theory would be to put out a few minow traps (if legal in that FMZ) and if you haul in a trap full of minnows after a couple hours soak, there is possibly the answer to the question. But how to catch fish that are already stuffed like piggies, I do not know the answer to that question. I would tend to go reallly aggressive with presentations, based on where the graph tells me there are at least some fish. I will be interested to hear what happens here. Doug

Old FART learns new trick.....................😁