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Ngl, when I fish tournaments, I’ve been fishing my worms rigged neko more often. It’s a bit pricier and finesse but I’ve found they get bit even more.

could be a confidence things but I think the bait standing up the way it does on bottom gets the attention of a few more fish

Buckeye flickit with a O ringed yamamoto senko rigged whacky is absolutely deadly in the spring and summer. Fish it like a tube jig and hold on.

Notable by catch caught on this set up, pike, walleye, musky and spotted gar!

4 hours ago, CrowMan said:

I'd put my money on eastern Lake O for the next record Smallmouth. Between the Gobies, Alewife and Gizzard Shad they just keep getting bigger every year. This spring, during the new C&R season, the number of big tanks we hooked was incredible.

the pre-spawn reg unfortunately makes it impossible to break the record. You aren't even allowed to weigh the fish in your boat never mind get it certified.

With the amount of 8's that people catch these days its no surprise someone finally hit a DD. 

Im fairly sure Nick Cousivs caught a 9+lber a couple of years back on Lake O, he simply has the go pro footage and released it in alignment with the regs.

22 hours ago, CrowMan said:

This pretty little kitty showed up on a trail cam by my place in Eastern Ontario a couple of weeks ago. These cats are certainly secretive...none of my neighbours ever see Bobcats, but obviously they're around...

Really really cool shot crow man. I know there’s plenty of bobcats around in Ontario. 
 

the government doesn’t like talking about coogars because there are too many rednecks around that would love to poach one up if they admit that they are abundantly around in X location. 
 

hard enough to protect the plentiful animals never mind the ones that are critically endangered.

Subscription block. Copy and paste the story into here!

even more suprising, that area is not heavily wooded, its primarily farmers fields. My assumption is that there are plenty of deer for it to eat.

4 hours ago, lew said:

Stack up some 4 x 4's instead and you'll have nothing to worry about.

Have you seen the price of lumber 😅

i have a concern about jack stands...I personally spend the winter working inside the boat doing wiring etc. Wouldn't jackstands be very susceptible to tipping if I am moving around inside of the boat?

quicksilver or amsoil.

I use a Turkey baster to pump plumbing antifreeze through my livewell and dump some so that my bilge can suck up some as well. 
 

spray fogging oil in the spark plug holes and blip the motor over to send it through the exhaust ports. 
 

lower end oil change

and prior to the end of the year I ensure that I’m running 100% ethanol free gas at all times with stabilizer in it. 
 

top all of my fluids to the brim and then disconnect the batteries except for the charger. I then charge everything once a month through the winter.

i keep myself sane by making projects for myself to give myself some boat therapy time. This year I’m going to do the water pump, and reconfigure the terminal ends of my electronics to put in a system of more accessible fuses and a total cut off for my electronics so that any time the boats in the garage nothing will be live on the batteries. 
 

last winter I swapped the vst filter, fuel filter and water separator. And totally rewired the electronics on the boat. Those garage sessions can sometimes be as therapeutic as fishing itself.

of course I ice fish. But it’s still not the same as working on the boat.

2 hours ago, BillM said:

No need to fog a 4 stroke. 

Some guys like to spray a little oil right in the spark plug holes just to ensure that everywhere has a nice thin layer of oil to stop corrosion.

personally what’s far more important is to ensure that you have no ethanol in your system at all. The damage it does corroding and eating gaskets after long storage is ridiculous.

11 hours ago, Musky Plug said:

The boat I’m leaning towards is an fsx with a 150 Yamaha sho. 
 

Have you experienced any other issues with quality?
 

 

Absolutely not, the reason we bought the alumacraft was because we wanted that top of the line kind of quality at a lower price point, plus the ability to easily run a yamaha…that’s what we went with and it’s been bulletproof.

the 2xb hull is right there with the best aluminum hull ride qualities I have experienced. That includes lund tyee and north river.

I think my old man has one other complaint actually, the port side storage compartment on the Gunnal tends to take on a little bit of water when it rains. They didn’t do a good job at diverting water from getting into it. In the same light, I’ve never had a boat that’s kept compartments bone dry when you put them out in the rain. I typically end up having to open up my compartments to dry out the boat after a hard rain anyways.

the issue here is that the boat cover that he has doesn’t perfectly cover that storage compartment and therefore he gets some water in it.

I think if you leave any boat out in the rain full time the compartments are going to get wet.

maybe someone wants to counter me on this one? But I’m on my third fishing boat a skeeter, and now a stratos and the alumacraft and they have all been the same as far as I’m concerned. 

I think sometimes that’s related to the level of humidity that builds in them when they are left shut. The areas of carpet that Are squeezed together in the compartment areas stays wet unless you open them.

Can’t speak to them now but my family owns a 2015 trophy 185 and it’s been nearly flawless. only complaint thus far has been that one of the side storage areas covering came unglued/stapled but it was easily repaired. 
 

Ours has a yamaha 150 so obviously in that regard it’s been flawless.

after riding around in some lunds I can honestly say there used to be literally no distinguishing differences between the quality and ride of the boats.

I don’t have any faith in BRP’s marine division, the last set of rude motors were a joke.

Turns out one of them is a convicted wife abuser. Sounds like he’s going to be spending a few years behind bars

5 hours ago, Rattletrap2 said:

It wasn’t until a couple of years ago that I learned you can damage a lead acid deep cycle battery by discharging below 50 %!! I have had trolling motor and RV batteries for like 35 years, but somehow missed this point! DOH!! So your 90 amp hour battery is really only good for 45 amp hours. I am very careful about this now! Especially with the RV!!

I use my electric bow mount probably way more than the gas engine, but do not run the battery down. It goes on charge as soon as I get done with the boat and stays on charge till next outing. I have a “Guest” two bank onboard charger.

This is the number one reason to splurge and go AGM 

they handle deep discharge much better. For guy that like to put long days in especially in bad weather, there’s an expectation of deep discharge on the batteries. 
 

you should always plug the boat back in ASAP 

5 hours ago, JoePa said:

Why anyone would want this type of dog around children is hard to imagine - https://www.foxnews.com/us/dogs-fatally-mauled-tennessee-toddlers-injured-mom-never-violent-friend-says - the dogs have  bad rep - why take a chance

Like all dogs…the owners are to blame 

the point is that pit bulls attract a certain type of owner

9 hours ago, Hack_Fisherman said:

Or “fresh” maple syrup on the side of the road in the first Feb thaw of the year

Lol i worked for a local pick your own farm…they loaded up the trucks for the farmers market every weekend…none of the produce was grown on the farm lol.

1 hour ago, BillM said:

How much money have those guys won in the past?  

apparently hundreds of thousands of dollars all time plus a boat....yeesh

On 9/29/2022 at 12:59 PM, BillM said:

Definitely time and place with the Vibrato.   Not the first lure I take out when vertical jigging lake trout (Or anything else for that matter)

That’s what’s neat about fishing. Being in a bass club this year you see guys throwing the exact same lures as you but in so many different ways. 
 

For example, if I’m vertical like I’m ice fishing then I don’t want to use the vibrato at all, I’d much rather throw a lipless crank or even a paddle tail.

On 9/20/2022 at 11:54 PM, Chuck Enwinde said:

For me it's the Vibrato.  When they say lures are made to catch fishermen, they must've been talking about this lure.  It will catch your float suit, pant leg, even the inside of your rod case. 

Would I blow your mind if I told you that during open water season, literally the only lure I use to catch lake trout is a vibrato. I’ve switched it up and nothing catches them as consistently as one. I’ve dialed in a little presentation with them in conjunction with panoptix that I absolutely smash laketrout on them in the spring and it works every day until they finally move out to the deeper parts of the lake in their later spring/summer pattern. 
 

and once again when they start staging up in September they eat them just like they did in the spring.

I had a battery that was “bad” I would turn over the boat and my electronics would all cut out due to the voltage drop. I refilled them and put them on a smart charger and sure enough I ended up getting 2 more years out of it. There is still hope.

If you do end up buying a charger, I’ve had incredible luck with the noco genius line. Never had a single issue with one in over 5 years.

Used to catch ‘em froggin in the pads a lot. When you get a big one you think you’ve caught your PB largemouth

as always an incredible fish with an even better story to accompany them. Thanks for the write up once again.

41 minutes ago, Podric said:

What high school are you teaching at today?

man, for a guy with 39 posts to your credit, you sure have a way of going about things. Lets not let this thread get locked as well.

10 minutes ago, Podric said:

Look at the picture in the original post.

Exactly my question…you are either encouraging the behaviour? Or are being sarcastic, which unfortunately does not translate over plain text.

may want to clarify with an emoji? Or leave it as is if you want it interpreted the same way I did.