AKRISONER

21 hours ago, Podric said:

Yep.   I have caught 2.  A giant claw through the head is the only thing a bowfin understands.

Are you saying that when you catch them you kill them?

21 minutes ago, Fisherman said:

You will be glad to know that the 1500 RAMS will no longer be getting the spaghetti motor after Jan 2023,

not sure it matters anyways, none of us except the richest men in the world will be able to afford a pickup truck by the time my current ram dies in 2030. By that point Diesel will most likely be $5 a litre and trucks will cost $500,000

good practice for duck season indeed. My take on the cull is there has to be some form of use for the birds, the problem might be that we end up with a lot of rotting birds from guys that shoot and just leave them. Which then brings about disease and other issues.

Kudos to you for being a good steward and actually following the rules. Guys calling ducks and shooting at them out of season shouldnt be hard to figure out, its not like shotgun shots are quiet. The problem is that there may not be enough CO's to keep this kinda garbage from happening, just as it always is.

19 hours ago, Snidley said:

When i was living in Oakville I saw a massive news report, breaking news if you will, dealing with a potentially catastrophic front end issue with F150 pickups. The front end would wobble so badly the truck could potentially topple over. The reporters tracked down the customer relations talking head for Ford at the Oakville head office. He ran away from  the reporters and locked the door refusing to come out and take questions. When they got him on the phone and asked why he was avoiding them he answered truthfully. Why would he subject himself to tough questions from reporters? In the end Ford claimed the problem was a faulty front end suspension, a parts issue from a supplier. Their suggested solution. The truck owners should take their beefs to the supplier as it was out of Fords hands. I never followed up on what the final result of the issue was but I could not believe the Ford customer relations guy would A) hide from reporters and B  suggest the faulty part was not Fords issue and that customers should take it up with a supplier directly..

Had it been a Chrysler issue they would have sold a bogus warranty and then the customer could take their beef to a parts supplier and a warranty provider. It would have been an automotive double header.

 

One of the things I have gotten to do in my career is engage with multiple of the automotive manufacturers in Canada along with many of Canada's largest companies i.e. Loblaws, Coke, Walmart etc.

Lets just say, seeing how they operate at Ford Corporate was enough to ensure that I never buy one of their vehicles.

This reminds me so much of the issues I had with my Dodge Ram and the Egr cooler leaking raw exhaust directly into the cab of my truck, me subsequently bringing the truck in 5 separate times under warranty for them to not fix the issue while I continued to get poisoned…until I ran out of warranty and took my truck to my local diese mechanic who immediately identified the problem and sent me back to the dealership to have the recall work on the EGR cooler completed.

my case has massive law suit written all over it, but it’s effectively  impossible to take to court.

On 9/2/2022 at 7:14 PM, msp said:

Hi Bill. Will this unit run on a UNiversal sonar Minn kota ? 

sounds like misfish ended up grabbing it.

If its still for sale it will indeed run the universal sonar but youd need the "adapter plug" i see them for $40 at sail. Not sure if it will fit the old 9 units still though? I think they went from a female plug to a male? But I could be wrong.

It’s almost like people have given up on pigeon lake…just an observation but I see so few people fishing it for musky compared to a few years back…I’m not sure why the tri lakes are loaded with skis! I seem to hook or catch one every trip there bass fishing these days!

Do a diy pole if you are concerned about costs. I made one for ice fishing for under $50.
 

mount it with a long arm ram mount. Easily the most cost effective way to do it.

i personally hate using the pole because it requires moving the deucer  with your hands while you are trying to fish, but I run a force trolling motor so the steering is extremely responsive to be able to dial in on the fish with my foot while I’m handling the fishing with my hands.

Good to see the smallmouth eating again, she was a little lean a few weeks back. I’ve been out of province for a few weeks so I’m geared up to get football season fired up when I return!

On 8/30/2022 at 7:57 PM, JonnyButts said:

Was up there this past weekend. Stop in at the bait shop on the highway , the owner is a great source of information. If you are towing your boat be prepared to pay . Cost us $75.00 each day to pull in and out and park. Fishing was alright but it’s much better up there in the fall. Any questions shoot me a pm 

 

I’ve got a much better launch and parking option for you for next time. I’m assuming you were taken by one of the big marinas in the area. 
 

shoot me a dm if you’d like

Yup if you aren’t charging your batteries regularly and that cranking battery is hooked up to the accessories in your boat, that’s the problem right there. 
 

im going to suggest installing a onboard charger and charging your boat after every trip

Esso/imperial oil premium is not ethanol free…so take them saying that their premium is ethanol free with a grain of salt.

23 minutes ago, captpierre said:

I’m thinking a refinery is a $100 million plus operation. Having a hard time imagining natives own one. 

My bad. It’s original traders energy, they blend and distribute fuel. I don’t know the specifics of how the fuel industry works personally, but I know their supplier is native owned and operated. I wouldn’t know who actually refines the fuel

Pm misfish I think he ships

6 hours ago, captpierre said:

Neither Gen 7 or Terry had premium. Only regular. I didn’t check the third station. There is a native refinery?  Are you sure about your facts?

Yes…I can’t think of the supplier off of the top of my head but they operate their own refinery now and supply fuel under one brand to all of the reserve gas stations across the province. 

Sounds like he’s talking about Gen 7

if you go across to Terry’s typically their premium is actually ethanol free because it’s supplied by shell rather than the native refinery.

On 8/17/2022 at 10:35 AM, siwash said:

I've heard the bass fishing is decent.. and pike. Assuming walleye will be thought bite unless we are out at night. 
 

Are there a lot of rock hazards?

 

thanks

its very "shieldy" in that area...idle everywhere until you find your safe path.

if you can afford it always go with more power. Thats my two cents, you never regret having more motor.

its cute that evinrude thinks they are going to sell motors after how garbage their last generation of outboards were. Let sleeping dogs lie.

even cheap electronics in 2022 are high grade. You can get yourself a helix unit with side and down imaging used for a couple hundred bucks these days. They should be wired correctly. This is the game you play with fishing, there is a way to do things correct without breaking the bank, how far you want to take it is up to person.

Clean power runs for all electronics! It’s the only way! You can run a really heavy guage run to a shut off and then run your lines off of that but you want that run to be for electronics only!

a tip for siwash, get yourself a resettable breaker for your trolling motor off of Amazon. Bass pro sells identical ones for literally 3x the price.

marine grade wire and marine grade terminal ends only! Corrosion is a disaster in the marine environment and is impossible to stop. You would be blown away how fast raw copper corrodes. Tinned everything!

16 minutes ago, siwash said:

I was gonna ask you guys about that.  My TM is a clamp on. I intend to mount it off the stern (port side). If my transducer is positioned in that area, will the TM interfere with the readings/signal?

I'm heading up to cabelas in the morning. They are holding a Basspro group 27 deep cycle for me. I forgot I had a gift certificate for that place! Bonus...   I've decided that that will be my TM battery. I will either stick to the  tractor battery for a cranking source and run my depth finder off of it too or maybe get myself a dual purpose battery (24?) for the main motor/finder. If I ever set up lights I can use that battery for that. I'll keep the  TM on its own battery since it seems to be the big energy eater 

You’ll be fine, consider the fact that all new trolling motors come with a transducer literally mounted on the head of the trolling motor. The interference is caused by electrical pulses…for example by having your trolling motor on the same battery, you will see the draw of the trolling motor on your electronics. No different than when people hook their electronics to their boats terminal bus, your lights livewells etc will project interference. 
 

although gypsy says he doesn’t see it, he may not even know what he’s looking for, or have electronics sensitive enough that it’s noticeable. I can assure you, there’s a very noted difference between high end electronics that are installed correctly vs not.

I’ll tell you right now, you won’t find a single guy that’s running $10,000+ worth of electronics on their boat with the electronics hooked to their trolling motor battery.

8 hours ago, GYPSY400 said:

You can run the fish finder off either battery,  it draws hardly any power... but id run it off the tractor battery if it were me.

 

You don’t want to run your electronics with your trolling motor battery you are going to experience massive interference effectively wasting the investment you make in your electronics.

On 8/11/2022 at 11:14 AM, Terry said:

You’re asking too little for it 

i think its a totally fair price, i sold a fortrex 80 this spring for the same price. Hes in the right ballpark for it to actually move.

7 minutes ago, siwash said:

Thanks Akrisoner. But if I'm running the finder off of one battery and and the trolling motor off another, what am I starting the motor with? And are the nautilus batteries from CTC deep cycle? Thanks. 

your electronics battery is your starting battery. Hence you want enough juice to do both. A group 27 easily provides that. If you are really hardcore running livescope and 3 units, livewells for 13 hours all day and trying to turn over a 200+hp engine you need a group 31.

AGM batteries are a different tech, they provide huge reserve capacity and big time cold cranking amps. The best of both worlds. The Canadian Tire Nautilus AGM batteries are made by east penn deka battery...they are the absolute top of the line battery you can buy with a really great price and warranty.

For reference on my skeeter last year due to space limitations I was tournament fishing running livescope two 9 inch garmins a helix 7 and livewells with the xd group 27...did multiple 13 hour days like that without issue.

Heres a thread explaining my entire journey researching batteries at the end I explain my findings about Canadian Tire AGM's