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Haha bill, you think im a maniac? lol Im running the latest navionics software, you cant drive that lake without it!. If you think that stuff is accurate unless you are driving main drive lines, you have a death wish ahaha. Huge swaths of the lake are either A) totally uncharted see example below or B ) just very sparsely charted aka missing entire shoals, rocks and other fun things that will destroy your boat lol Its probably a good thing i spent 15 years driving a boat that couldnt go over 20kmh...kept the leg on the bottom of my outboard. hey...im not complaining cause this slows the flood of citiots down...I could probably sell the autocharting that ive done in the area lol...but this way my fishing spots dont get ruined as easily.

Art this is actually one interesting point because what used to take me a very very long time to drive to wont take me very long anymore. Plus in a 14 foot tinny your one 25 litre jerry can is a small reservoir in comparison to a boats fuel storage. Same plan as normal, decide where you are going, and then never exceed that distance, only hit spots that are on the way home if you want to change it up. your boat burns over 4 litres of fuel per minute???!!! how much power are you pushing holy cow. On G bay, if I see a problem going fast....i may as well brace for impact cause its game over for sure. This is one thing my old man taught me, you only drive the boat fast on your 10th pass over the same spot and even then, you dont drive fast because you never know what can be floating in the water. Grimsby is 100% correct about how stupid Gbay is...in fact one of my favourite fishing spots is on the side of an island that is about 400 meters long. The first 100 meters of shoreline is a flat area with a shoal thats 10 fow 50 meteres out from shore but then drops to 60FOW basically instantly... the next 100 meters and you can hop out of the boat onto shore and your boat is sitting in 60FOW, the next 100 meters is a 15 foot deep set of flats that juts out 200 meters from shore, but if you get within 20 meters of shore theres just a random shelf that comes up to 2fow is almost like a natural wave break because on the other inside of the 20 meter rock wall its still 10 FOW right up to shore, and then the final 100 meters of shoreline is a giant 12 foot deep weed bed that spans out from the island 500 meters out into the middle of the lake, and the weed clumps all have open channels of exposed rock....if thats doesnt describe how georgian bay works....then i dont know what does... Lucky for me Pointe au baril's main drive paths are very very well charted and marked, so it allows you to easily get to a generalized area safely when running a good GPS and following the bouoys...typically when going to new areas and due to the complete lack of charting on Gbay i drive where I am going on the driveline and then pull the motor up and drop the bow mount to figure out the rest. Luckily G bay has some very very clear water as well so typically its easy to spot rocks when driving slow like that or being on the bow mount. Excellent details from an experienced boater, these tips are gold. From my visits with the boat, the gelcoat looks really really good, the thing is a garage queen, got dropped in a lake, fished for a day and then was taken home. boat was waxed etc regularily...not a single mark of dock rash or anything on it. Im still torn about my storage situation, I have a boat house that i can park it in, or I can throw it on a trailer but then I wont have anything to neccesarily keep it out of the sun and elements...thats a whole other debate...to park in the water inside a boat house, or to put on trailer outside weekly. The hull is going to get stained regardless unfortuntatly for me, the inside of channel of pointe au baril is tea stained due to the sediment at the bottom of the lake, i dont get the benefit of that gin clear water 2 kilometers away. yup, definitely need to get a pile of fuses to throw in the boat I got offered 4.5% on the Heloc...I think youve shown us bunk, the boat doesnt catch the fish, the fisherman does.

sorry i keep saying misfish, its grimsby that was talking about opening up the lake! Grimsby, you are saying that theres a guage that actually measures the water pressure on newer boats. I honestly have never seen one! I know that mine didnt come with one. im stuck with the standard tack, volt and speedo (doesnt even have a trim guage) had the boat running, idling and going when i went to check it out...everything appeared to be working perfectly. New hydraulics on the trim as well replaced last year. I do indeed want to figure out what height to get the motor mounted to. Who knows what level he has the motor at currently. From what im reading online guys like to run the prop to pad at 3 1/2 but im sure the guys on BBC would have some input I will definitely post up about it. I like your comment about not using an autoinflate while running...rumours are now saying that may have been the issue down on okeechobee...nothing confirmed yet.

For the most part Ohio, I have never fished distances exceeding 14 kilometers from home base as fuel supply and simply the time it takes painfully driving my short arm tiller make it not worth it. There is obviously really good fishing to be had within this range from base camp. With a boat that does 50mph instead of 12....the lake really starts to open up, just like misfish said. The only limitation now will be weather due to exposure once you head 20+ k to the south or 16k to the west. Pick your days!

winter aint done yet, dont be fooled, its still february. I guaratnee theres some snow ahead for us. Once April hits though, lets get out on the water, ive got a new boat and chasing some crappies will do me just fine until pickerel and Pike opens up again.

This is great...seems a lot like driving my buddies under powered Legend. You have to really trim down to get it out of the hole shot and then slowly trim up till you hit the sweet spot that you are on plane but not porpousing like crazy. As mentioned by Misfish, i am really looking forward to the expansion of the lake territory that I can now access in reasonable time. I can easily fish the entire Shawanaga Inlet with ease now. Theres almost more fishing opportunities than you could cover in an entire lifetime in that area. Should be fun, just gotta remember im in a fibreglass not an aluminum!

i love watching our rivals make bad trades go leafs go!

jesus ohio...i dont know if i necessarily believe it...but after moving the boat by hand last night its gotta be close. You can move the boat around easily by yourself. With a 130 two stroke, shes gonna zip for sure.

nash quite literally might be the most overrated player in NHL history...anyone else care to chime in on this one? He had one season with 79 points...aside from that he hasnt done anything close to classifying himself as an "elite player" in the NHL. Lol i love watching boston get even slower than they already are....i personally think if the leafs get matched up against them in the playoffs that the buds have the upper hand...Boston has no chance of containing the speed of the leafs.

Any tips on driving a bass boat? Im pretty darn cautious and not one to rip it full tilt very often, but from what Ive read around the internet, this set up will do mid 50's with a half tank of gas and the livewells empty. Thats a little different then the 29kmh my tinner topped out at lol.

Plekky is gonna be so thankful to get out of that dumpster fire hes gonna play awesome for the leafs. Guy was expected to be a top of the line player in Montreal, and in Toronto hes our 4th centre Watch what him and kappanen get up to on the fourth line..

damn well done jim lol can be frustrating when you cant even catch perch, but then you go and hammer whities. Right on, i think the whole season has turned the corner..after a ridiculously slow January and start to February, i went out this weekend and had a double header tip up bite and non stop action on the perch and walleye.

4th line centre...babs doesnt really like moore that much with option to resign for a bozak replacement in 2019

I really wonder if bozak is being packaged up...

the plekky deal was a steal for the leafs...montreal is keeping half of his salary too. Notice he is playing on an absolutely abysmal habs team, yet he still has a positive +/- Say hello to your new 4th, and next year 3rd line centre...I think we should force him to play without the dicky though. Him and kapenen are gonna friggin light it up in the playoffs, watch.

would installing a decent capacitor perhaps assist with smoothing out the load? Just speaking from my car audio days.

exactly, imaging a 6 foot long musky/smallmouth hybrid that literally jumps like a dolphin...its insane

Well, the deal that I was looking for came up this weekend and I ended up buying a boat on saturday! 1997 skeeter 140 SS with a 2000 Yamaha 130 2 stroke. Boat is garage kept and doesnt have a single mark of boat rash or scratches on the hull. Carpet looks totally brand new. The guy I bought from absolutely babied the boat, properly stored it every winter, new plugs and gear oil every season, boat was his pre-fish boat because his tournament partner has a big 21 foot triton. Hes upgrading now though to his own 21 footer. 2 livewells, rod locker, bank charger, 24 v cabledrive bow mount. Deal was too good to pass up! for the first time ever I am now praying that the ice breaks up immediately!

we are due for our every decade recession, the best plays IMO at the moment are in natural gas and online shopping...amazon is friggin expensive though.

Im not insulting those that partake, i juts dont think that I can agree with it when as you have mentioned we have decimated any potential habitat for them south of what highway 11? There is a whole boat load of deer and vermin down here but not a lot of large predators to control the population. Really though what it boils down to is that IMO hunting for the sake of anything aside from feeding yourself is not something that I can agree with. It's like taking trophy fish to get mounts made out of them, i dont agree with that either. Eat what you kill.

jesus christ...I wasnt using very heavy tackle for mine either just a medium heavy rod and a standard 4000 series reel. My snag started making my line cut through the water from the front of to the back of the boat at 100kmh and then proceeded to jump 10 feet into the air.

ahahaha...oh man just be prepared to literally ruin freshwater fishing for yourself lol First tarpon i hooked into a "juvenile" all 20lbs of it... me - "im snagged" guide - "hold on"

have you fished tarpon before? if not...ha ha....oh what a treat

I disagree with Schloim about the 1 vs 2 piece. I find a huge part of the battle out on the ice is staying warm, especially if you like to move around and not fish from a hut. I also like being able to wear a tshirt and a pair of long johns as my base layer to stay nice and light. There is guaranteed to be more days out on the ice where its cold then when its warm. You will be thankful for the one piece when you are sitting out in -25 and the wind. Thats my 2cents Ive got a nautilus 1 piece float suit, one of the best investments ive ever made.

Bingo I think everything is going to work out...I might be working on closing a deal on a boat by sunday afternoon, we shall see! Also after punching all of the numbers...for a guy that doesnt even drink coffee, you can buy a boat for the cost of your tims every day...this all was a reality check for me and im a little upset i didnt buy a boat sooner! lol I should have bought a boat last year damnit!