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handling 5lb bass can be a handful, IMO you just did him a favor helping him legally releasing them haha

skin cancer is the real deal anywhere doesnt matter south or not. Its the #1 form of cancer in Canada as well. I personally have also started taking sun protection much more seriously. When you spend that much time baking in a boat fishing all summer its a must. I need to do more though, i put sunscreen on everything now, but my hands still get baked...I go full sleeves, hat and buff now though. You pretty much have to.

MNR TIPS Line 1-877-TIPS MNR (1-877-847-7667) Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Offices Crimestoppers 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) Ol you should have called the MNR immediately. The response you got from the cop is friggin ridiculous... A couple years back i was at severn falls and sure enough there was a polish guy blatantly poaching in the heavily marked "no fishing" sanctuary. I called the MNR and we were able to provide them with his description and license plate. You never end up finding out what happens to these folks but maybe a stop by and a freezer check happened on buddy? I am sure if there is an actual CO nearby they would have no problem swinging by.

been following all of these on the gram. Really cool stuff.

if you are really into lowrance, the hook 7 is a good affordable model to look at. HDS might be a bit too complex and out of your price range depending on generation and features youd want.

you can get a humminbird 700 series GPS Sonar with down imaging for like $400 from the US bass boards easily. A lot more reliable then navionics on your phone, plus you will have a really excellent sonar.

Coming from a guy whos fishing gear is almost 100% used...ive had a lot more positive experiences than bad buying used...obviously ive had a couple of issues, but they were nothing that a service didnt fix. How in the hell am i supposed to afford the 1000's of dollars i have spent on gear if I was buying new! i simply cant afford the $600+ it costs to get a set up these days. Dont even get me started on fly fishing...some resident board members have helped me out immensely...Ill tell you right now buying a new Winston Fly rod is a friggin pipe dream for a kid in their 20's. Luckily i somehow manage to own one...im thankful to this day to the guys that have helped me out.

back bays in Pointe Au baril are still iced up. We lost our main ice last thursday, but anywhere that doesnt have a lot of current are still locked. Might be a few more weeks before ice out in sudbury.

The river has a whole pile of 12x12 deadheads...im not sure how they got there but there are about 5 of them that I am aware off that stick kind of out of the water. Mysteriously there are also other ones scattered throughout the area...I have never understood how they go there or what caused them to stick perfectly out of the water like they do.

This is really actually funny you mention this. I went for a stroll through the bush into a shallow bay near my cottage last weekend to try find some spawning pans and sure enough on my walk i found a pretty nice boogie board and a kids life jacket washed up on shore. Both came back with me...so even though I didnt catch a fish i caught a couple of other cool things lol.

gotta love all the deadheads the guys with shacks leave out there! Saw a guy pull his shack off this year, drove off and left 8 1 foot lengths of 2x6 ..perfect for mangling my prop.

if you had both brian and terry were in your boat, youd probably purposely leave the plug out hahaha

like most jobs that dont rely on looks or physical talent...you make more money the harder you work. If Babcock is the highest paid coach in the league, then you know hes also the hardest working.

thats why i cant do it now...i couldnt show everyone where the heck i catch my big bass, especially when people like to eat 14 year old fish. My dad is bloody bad enough as it is. Him and my brother went out to my best honey hole and started keeping the smallies to eat, i had to tell them to bugger off and find their own damn spots then. The agreed that they would stop eating bass so that I would continue to take them fishing and putting them on fish lol

LMAOOO stolen from another forum posted today ahahha Its been over a week so I have recovered and can talk about it without feeling the pain. So I am taking out on a small 1 lane ramp in South Florida last week. I arrive at the ramp and two guys have sunk their 15 to 17 fiberglass boat with roughly a 25 hp motor on it. Motor looks relatively new and is totally under water. So I don't have much choice but to help them. Looks like a 85 year old guy and son if I was guessing. Said they forgot to put drain plug in. So we are waist deep in gator water trying to get the nose of the boat on the end of the trailer. I ask the older guy to back the trailer in a bit deeper. He starts to pull out I'm screaming stop when the entire trailer comes loose from the hitch. They did not latch the hitch closed. After 45min of straining, we get enough water out of the boat where the bilge gives us some help and we got drain plug in. By this time the 85 year old has told me he is 92 can't hear, can't feel his feet and does not drive well. I relieved him from duty and pulled out. As I got out of car, I see water pouring from the side of the boat. 4 inch hole in the boat. Apparently glue did not repair the hole Now I see how the boat sunk so quickly. In the process of getting the boat Out, I got their life jackets out and used them to help float the backend of the boat. They were hard for me to get out. Both of these guys may have drowned had they gotten out on the lake before the boat sunk. They thanked me and said it was the maiden voyage. I hurt for 4 days from all the lifting. I won't soon forget them drivng off with water still pouring out port side. I kid you not, anything can happen in Florida; and does.

I would be doing some part time guiding myself if it wasnt for the insurance costs...its insane how high they are. A board member here that I am buddies with just went through the process from guiding his friends to actually full on guiding and i couldnt believe the kinds of costs that he was telling me about. Good on him for taking the plunge...i think I will hold off until the future when I have no one to fish with anymore. With fuel and insurnace costs you can see why it can cost up to $700 a day to get out with a guide.

really when you think about it...it makes sense although it sucks. Navionics had a phone app that 2 years ago i was 100% guilty of coming up with a system in my boat of simply using my phone as my chart plotter...so there you go I had a navionics equipped chart plotter for the price of the $15 APP. Eventually I decided to upgrade to a full blown si chartplotter and didnt even blink an eye when navionics charged me $200 to get the charts again for my plotter. They know where the money is and they realized that they had given away too much. This is them toning back their $15 app so that you have to go out and blow the big bucks on a full blown chartplotter system. Not surprising really.

lmao Listen to all of the guys on overdrive plus ray ferraro...they all hated their coaches while they played for them...You think a single player on columbus likes torts? You think anyone on NE like billicheck? Look at the guy, hes never smiled in his entire life I am pretty sure. A coach pushes and pushes and pushes you, especially in the NHL..you wanna make 6 million a year, your coach is going to be a drill sergeant. You think navy seals are a best friends with their officers? you need a guy that is going to get the most out of you and keep you disciplined, not a guy that you party with. Also, the whole thing about Babcock is that he commands respect from his players due to his tireless work ethic. Think of how hard Mike Babcock works...the players have 4 jobs, go to practice, go to games and watch film and go to therapy. Bacock has to also attend all of those things, while at the same time, develop and monitor the entire system. He literally tries to outwork his players, and thats why they cant complain because no one is working harder than he is to win.

yup doesnt work on my phone at all anymore...i was not impressed to say the least. Shouldnt it be illegal to purchase something and then someone retroactively takes away the service that you paid for...like you cant force someone into a lesser service after theyve purchased the service, unless we somehow agreed to it?

weve only ever caught two bowfin, both times while deadsticking minnows. More impressively two years in a row we have had bowfin pay us a visit while ice fishing. both times the fish came right up our hole and stared at us lol

Correct me if I am wrong, but not leaving your charger/battery area open while charging is actually extremely dangerous due to the potential build up of hydrogen gas...like you are never supposed to air tight seal something while it is charging.

id also be concerned about this...I have a 14 foot aluminum Starcraft with a two stroke 15...after installing the TM and casting deck, with a buddy and our gear...thats about all youd want weight wise in the boat. My 15 two stroke really starts losing speed at that point, you throw a few extra pounds in and shes pooched.

being a northern Manitoba Boy when i first started fishing more seriously in Ontario, i remember the first time i caught a bowfin and I was confused as hell...same as when i caught a trophy white bass. I had no idea what the the hell they were. Unfortunately I didnt even bother to snap a photo of the white bass, i figured it was just a common spieces that I was unaware of. turns out they are somewhat difficult to catch unless you really know what you are doing, and further more the one I caught was an absolute giant...like Ontario record caliber for sure.

a 50 for 2,500...depending on how much it got used...id say thats a solid deal man. Outboards aint cheap at all, and a 50 will get a lot of boats around really well. Im slightly wary of mid 2000's 2 strokes from when the new emmissions standards took over requiring direct injection rather than carbureted 2 strokes of the late 90's...im sure it will be fine though.

im hoping they bring dubas in as GM and keep hunter scouting...Thats what hes the best at the game in, keep him doing that job. You are the leafs you can afford to pay him whatever he wants to keep doing what he does best.