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Any plans to up the HP? My 15 two stroke was fine with 2 people and some gear but really started to suffer with an extra body

Lol these guys really want to kill the ICB, even funnier is they are trying to kill our motors when electric options aren’t even on the market yet.

Apparently it’s something related to them turning their metabolism back on, feeding and getting ready to do the dance. Water temperatures are obviously highest in the shallows turning them back on after hibernating all winter.

I think you should give the regs an even more thorough once over for bass, youd be shocked at the opportunities available to you closer to home than you think! Crow we were talking to one of the scientists from Queens University last week at the NGTA bass anglers meeting and he described seemingly what you came across with those smallies. They have done tracking studies and have noted that on one of the first calm hot days of the year seemingly the majority of the largest bass all go shallow together at the same time to the same place. Pretty neat stuff.

These look exactly like the ones i purchased from a company out of the states called "heavy metal tungsten" they dont seem to be around anymore. the photos literally look identical to the stuff I have in my terminal box right now. The Drop shot, flipping bullet weights and nail weights were great. No complaints at all. However the shakey heads and anything with a weed guard were complete junk. The screw ins and weed guards literally fell off constantly.

You guys are making me sad, something on my 06 seemingly breaks every trip I take lol my spring routine is simply blowing out the engine fogger letting the motor run for a bit to clean it out and then putting new plugs in, checking my tire pressure everything else was done back in the fall. I did an electronics overhaul this winter but that was finished in February, but I have some tweaking to do, small gremlins with my trolling motor transducer not appearing on my marine network. ive been out twice this year, I’ve had to completely replace my drain plug, one of my taillights literally vanished somewhere between Virginia and New York Replaced all of those and noticed that left rear corner marker is toast, not to mention my trailer brakes need a total clean out and bleed, maybe more…and then noticed my bunks need replacing. I mean it’s all minor stuff at the end of the day, as long as the hull and more importantly the outboard are singing, I don’t complain! Saturday was a gem

Count me in if you figure anything out

At minimum you should be able to catch a whack load of bass and like on effectively any lake in Ontario that has em. may just need to adjust your approach dependant on the time of year.

My old bear cash is 15 years old, at the begining of the pandemic my parents moved permanently to cashes obvious favourite place in the world, the lake. Me living in a condo at the time thought it would be best for him to spend some time up there while we were locked down down here…cash has never come “home” he’s my mom’s daily bush walk companion (gets her up every morning to make sure they both walk), bear deterrent (treed a bear last year) both of our neighbors also had bear break ins last summer, we haven’t seen a single sign of a bear on our property and all around class clown. cash loves the boat, and loves swimming with anyone who will go with him. More importantly though, cash loves when my niece comes up to visit him, he follows the kids around all day and will not leave Ashley’s side. been a few weeks since I’ve been up north but I can’t wait to go for a walk and a boat ride with him when I get up there!

I don’t think it will be for all models immediately. it certainly is starting with the ultrex though, they have to, there’s 3 competitors in the market that have brushless motors and two of them have had them for 4+ years. the terrova line is ready for a new Gen model, and probably the ulterra too. The problem you unfortunately are running into is that the demand for the terrova is so extreme still that there’s not enough supply of them, hence absolutely 0 discount on buying a terrova even though a new generational model is due to come out. By the way don’t be too sad too quick, have you looked at the price of a Garmin force? I’m willing to bet the new brushless terrova will be $1000+ more than the current.

Holy shikto

Can’t wait to get up there…one of my favourite times of the year for fishing…and the weather this weekend…holy cow

That might be your cracked lower end from freezing…😕 hopefully not

Also, don’t forget to throw some grease on the gear shaft when reinserting it up into the top end, it will make your life a hell of a lot easier!

As mentioned above, this most certainly looks like a failed prop shaft seal. Just out of curiousity, what would be the problem with leaving the lower end without oil over the winter. Not that I’ve personally done it, I think one time my bottle pump broke so I was stuck for a day with no oil, but just curious as to why a sitting motor lower end that obviously still got a film of oil all over it would be damaged by sitting for a couple of months with no oil. either way siwash, lesson learned, at minimum undo that screw at the end of the year, no matter what get the years gear oil the hell out of there even if it’s nowhere near as watery as this. Being fair this is some of the worst looking oil I have ever seen, that crank case was completely full of water as far as I can tell. You may get really lucky and have no other damage. My buddies merc used to leak water too not anywhere close to this extent but if you’re lucky the water didn’t expand and crack your Lower end. if you’re like my buddy you might get away with it for a year. this kinda stuff haunts me when I think about the fact my boat is used, who knows what kind of maintenance or lack thereof people do at the end of the year. I’m not as much of a nutcase to be changing my prop shaft seal every 2 years as referenced above, but I sure as hell change the lower end oil, fog the motor, change fuel filters every 100 hours, stabilize my ethanol free fuel etc etc hopefully worth it in the long run, high performance engines ain’t cheap in 2023!

Ya we stayed in chickahominy shores, I linked up with a guy from bass boat central that came out fishing with us for the day, he told us to that the river was fishing bear in the top end so we heeded his advice and stayed right in the thick of it. Chickahominy riverfront park was the perfect place for us to camp out. We hired one of their rustic cabins that essentially was a bunk bed and a double bed with a table, microwave and very small fridge. This gave us a place to hideout from the weather and get a good nights sleep in the cold. We’d then drive to Williamsburg to grab chow after fishing all day. apparently the guys down south don’t really kick their fishing season off until mid April and hence the river remained quiet all week. We only had 1 boat on a spot we wanted to fish the entire week.

Hey guys, a bit of fishy pronz for your Wednesday viewing. the boys and I towed down to the James river for some warm weather and spring bass fishing. Virginia might be my new favourite state. There’s just something about spring in the south, the blooms on the trees down there are incredible. once again I love driving out of the mountains and entering the south to it in full bloom after driving all night. The sun comes up and it’s like you’ve been put into a Time Machine that jumps you from early April in canada to the middle of June. we’ve done a few of these trips over the years prior to the pandemic, and finally got our things back and order and let’s just say the chick outshone santee and guntersville by a country mile. The fishing was damn good, the river was quiet, the scenery was beautiful and the barbecue was delicious. We will be going back next year for sure weather the first two days had it hit 30 degrees with a breeze and a bit of cloud cover just beautiful out and felt so good to be in shorts again on the deck of the boat. Then a big front came through and it dropped to 8 degrees with wind and rain, that didn’t seem to stop the fish from moving to the bank. our last day we managed to sack up a 20lb limit, now that’s an indication of how things are working down there. Our first time on a tidal fishery, on a new body of water a simple spot tip from a friendly local at the tackle shop pointed us to the right area, once we caught a few we realized the pattern and from there it was just find areas of the river that looked and had the same features, emerging submerged pads, amongst hard docks/wood structure, right near the channel drop off, cast till you catch, find the fish, knows there’s a bed somewhere hidden in the muddy water, and work work work the area. picked up a new personal best for myself and my first 6+lb fish. I was getting the big ones on an evergreen flat side in pre spawn magic. A pain in the butt throwing it into pad beds that I can’t see but every third cast I’d manage to rip through the pads clean and sure enough, hammering away at it proved to get the bigger bites than the finesse worm presentations. lil bit of language in the video…viewer beware! IMG_6944.MOV

I livescope em and then cast and bounce bottom with vibratos…put a hurtin on them every spring

Let’s ban outboards and trolling motors, they do far more to put fishermen on fish than livescope ever has.

Randy blauket write this? 😂

Funny you mention that, but honestly In 20 years Id just drive a bit slower! Going 40mph over white caps is actually totally smooth in a bass boat while the aluminums tend to beat the heck out of you! I find in average boating conditions, glass boats when you get them on pad are a way easier ride. You just skip along and don’t feel much of anything.

Gussy’s entire game plan from the jump just like when he won in 2021, catch 15lbs a day. He got lucky he had a really good bag on day 2. when he won in 2021 he actually was able to head to weigh in at 11am on the final day to make sure his fish all stayed alive and that he could take the 100k run back to weigh in easy.

I’ve got an update to this one unfortunately. went to Los Angeles a couple of weeks back, hotel prices are ridiculous however I dug hard and found what I thought was a decent deal in east Hollywood. $280 us per night. get to the hotel, the front door is locked, we eventually get in, the place is essentially under permanent lock down. get to our room, it’s clean enough I guess but the glob of someone’s hair on the wall is whatever, the what looks to be blood stains on the towels, ok…then my wife notices some ants making their way across the ceiling following along the wall. I think whatever it’s a few ants passing through it’s not the end of the world we will manage, we get ready for bed and that’s when the “ghetto birds” start chirping, non stop LAPD helicopter pass overs at low altitude, hovering around directly by our hotel for a couple of hours, finally they buzz off, I can try to sleep on the rock hard double that they called a queen. 3:30am I wake up in a daze and I feel something crawling on me, I’m thinking I’m just delusional, I turn on my phone flashlight and there’s an ant crawling down my arm. I then notice the bites all over my hand, I stand up and ants have taken over our bed! I wake dawn up and say let’s get the absolute hell out of here, we pack up and go to the desk to explain that we are leaving and that we would like to cancel the rest of our stay and the guy at the desk tells me he’s not giving me any of my $1000 for the rest of our stay back. Had to go through my credit card, but still had to pay for my 4 hours of sleep with the ants.

Would be working the show myself as a volunteer for NGTA but I’m headed down to Virginia to go fishin!

To clean up the bottom, toilet bowl cleaner will strip any iron deposits and old coatings off of the boat. id then suggest at minimum a claybar, or at best a very light high speed polish with compound. After that’s done coat the thing with turtle wax hybrid solutions ceramic coating. Then wipe down after use with hybrid solutions ceramic quick detailer. wax is a waste of time in 2023, the new ceramic and graphene products are much better in every performance aspect. Trust me I was a super skeptic, until I used them, I’ll never go back.