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....not harsh enough...not even close

you get two options as it relates to navionics for Canada. You can buy "north america" or you can buy "Canada and Alaska" unfortunately the smaller map options or as they call them "Navionics regions" are only available for areas of the United States. Lakemaster also has charted the American side of some of the great lakes but unfrotunately, also not an option for Canadians. So for the Helix your two options are buy "north america" or buy "canada and alaska" To find them used can be difficult unless you find someone that is upgrading to platinum and you can get their standard card. I Tried but had to bite the bullet and just buy new. The chips come on a standard SD card with a micro SD slide out...no need to transfer data over they give you what you need. I used navionics on my phone for the past couple of years, its ok if you know your way around...but to navigate properly for an extended period of time, or to use while fishing...not a chance. Kills your battery far too fast.

had a couple of morons park between us and a rock wall that we were only about 20 feet away from...buddy proceeded to drop his rod in the lake...and then i caught my PB pickerel at the time while they continued to get skunked...karma is a Bish

this is when all of my used plastics would be thrown one by one at them...freshly dipped in gulp alive juice

im guessing there are pike in this lake...i wouldnt run anything under 15lb fluro. i fish clear water smallies and they never seem to mind. I mind losing lures though.

first thing if its calm, top water...they will get you a long way to determining where the fish are at. Once that bite dies down when the light gets higher, chatterbaits tailed with a swimbait tail. if you need to slow it down you can throw a straight swimbait paddletails...i like x zones or even bass pro tournament series will do. Throw them with a J-will swimbait head. Then if you need to slow it down mid day, drop shotting gulp alive, jackall crosstail shads off of the sharp edges will get em. For a jig bit to throw around sholes i use owner stand up jigs with either psycho dads or OSP crayfish...anything with floating claws works. Pop pop and let it rest, the smallies eat em up.

you should have seen Pointe Au Baril this weekend...the water was the highest I have ever seen it in the 12 years we have been there. The wind was absolutely howling off of the bay all weekend, took a quick boat trip to go see the main bay and promptly turned around before even getting close to the big water...the rollers were coming right into the channel...calmed down somewhat but you could see the 10+footers out on the main bay...ugly.

had my first experience with this a few weeks back, except this wasnt a marina it was simply a smaller alcove with a cottage in it. I guess the guy was not used of boats coming by his place. I even respected him and stayed and the entrance casting into his small bay...sure enough i hooked up and brought the fish in..as I was unhooking the fish the guy comes down to his dock and starts yelling at me and then says "theres no fish here get lost!" to which i held up the smallie I just caught lol It is my understanding that it is impossible to own water no matter what, unless of course its your private pond. The only thing that can be purchased is the shore allowance which you purchase directly from the crown. My neighbors purchased theirs after a group decided that they wanted to camp on his front lawn? pretty crazy.

cliff thanks for taking the time to do this write up. I know how long they can take and it is much appreciated. Im glad you guys at least got to eat some picks!

last night i made some musky carp stew...deeeeeelish

the leafs arent looking for a goalie at all? in fact anderson had 4 less wins than price did last year, playing in front of a team of rookies with no defense...for less than half the cost. so ya

i dont run anything less than 15lbs...i dont like losing all of my lures and the 20lb bags seem to indicate that the smallies dont mind.

spooks, chatterbaits, jerkbaits and then slow dragged brown crayfish/gobys if the sun is high, cast em right on shore...they havent moved yet...keep your drag tight, theirs 5lbers sitting in less than 4 FOW.

im guessing you are chasing musky? but in pointe au baril, the water is still below 65-69 meaning the fish are still up shallow and easy to spot...weve been sight fishing smallies its been a riot.

id be dragging brown colours baits all over the place...smallies smash em!

went through an issue with my dog a couple of years ago...he ended up being ok, but we got him CT scanned the whole deal...basically put myself into some debt but it was worth it. it always is I couldnt imagine life without my buddy.

pops munches on the odd clearwater smallie outta gbay, says they taste no different than a perch. Cant say i dont believe him when all they eat are crawdads and shiners and basically never live near weeds.

eating largies outta heart or island lake...passssssssss

we marked blue gills a small hooks no problem at all. Not a dot, an actual line hook.

funny cause i literally had an experience this past weekend, 30FOW we DI marked a pile of ruble with hooks all over it...drop shotted and boom hooked up repetedly...switch to standard sonar and hardly anything was marking at all... also in the kawarthas drive over a total clump of weeds...look at standard sonar...just looks like a bunch of garbage...switch to DI and turn down sensitivity the weeds begin to disappear and you begin to actually see a picture of the bottom including rocks and other crap laying amognst the weeds. Also in order to chart with the helix you need to purchase the autochart Z line card, unfortunately as mentioned with the 7 you dont get two memory slots so you have to choose between running navionics or running autocharts...on the 9 and above you can run both at the same time.

uhhh... BLUE BOX PROGRAM PLAN Produced by Waste Diversion Ontario In cooperation with Stewardship Ontario http://stewardshipontario.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/BBPP-Feb28-FINAL_wappendices.pdf Through his Program Request Letter, the Minister directed the WDO to develop a waste diversion program for Blue Box wastes (Appendix II). In the addendum to the letter the Minister identified twelve specific issues that must be addressed within the Program Plan to be developed. The addendum reads as follows: Bill 91, Waste Reduction Act, 2013 Bradley, Hon James J. Minister of the Environment Current Status: Second Reading Debate http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/bills/bills_detail.do?locale=en&BillID=2818&detailPage=bills_detail_the_bill Iron, there is incentive to not overpackage things, the more packaging manufacturers and brand owners produce the more they pay...the problem is that they pass the cost of the packaging off to you...the consumer...dont think for a second you arent paying for the packaging associated with your products. If you want it to go away, stop buying that product...thats the free market economy.

just got myself a helix 7 and definitely have noticed a little bit of lag when switching views, but no issues what so ever while driving. I have actually heard worse about the lag issue with the hook 7 and that was a major reason why i was swayed over to the helix... Finally perhaps the biggest selling feature of the Helix 7 for me...and to be honest probably you after reading your self description is Autochart Live. You would know that the charts for Georgian Bay are inaccurate to poor at best. In large part due to the fact that Georgian Bay is not necessarily a major shipping port, and even more so due to the fact that the terrain is just so expansive and complex. For 140 bucks you can get autochart zero line and start making your own charts entirely. The downfall of the 7 vs the 9 is that the 9 and up of the Helix have a dual memory slot that allow you to run navionics, plus autochart...this will allow you to literally turn down the opacity on your autochart grid to see navionics, while still using your autocharts. My personal experience with down imagining and side imaging, is that side imaging is over rated...but down imaging is incredible...i actually regret going without down imaging now in hind sight after seeing how it really works. The target separation by adjusting intensity on down imaging is frigging incredible. Its a shame these things all cost so much bloody money, I wasnt even looking to go close to top of the line and im still missing all sorts of features.

From what I have heard the big tournament "pre-fishing" OOS involves a lot of just throwing hookless senkos to see if they can get a bite. Two points to this is that you cant target bass...and why would you wanna sting a bass if you plan on catching it tomorrow? I think if i was fishing a big tournament id fish hookless the day before too anyways? if such is the case...who cares. The fish bite a senko and thats the end of it. I went and scoped the lake out friday we spent a heck of a lot of time just driving shorelines getting a feel for where the weeds were, finding rubble piles and visually spotting bass in shallow water areas.

ive never had a double uni fail on me yet in 3 years...dunno what the heck you guys are doing...ive definitely had imroved cinch and palomars fail at the lure but never tying two lines together. im also heavily of the opinion that the more complex the knot the more likely it is to fail simply because you are very likely to mess up. I basically stopped tying improved cinch knots because if i didnt cinch it just so and lock it just so it would fail on me, it was a crap shoot and to this day i have no idea what i was doing wrong because the majority of the time it worked perfectly, but every so often one would just totally come undone.