AKRISONER

drop shot gulp alives off drop offs at night for eyes swimbaits and whacky rigs off weed edges for the bass

as with most things, some people should partake while others should not...i wouldnt advise a 60 year old man to hop on a skateboard either...people still make them know what you are getting yourself into and be prepared for the consequences.

Then I say go for it! if you need any further details, pm me and i can provide you with as many tips as possible from what i can remember

I did exactly this, its very very simple to do and I personally would highly recommend it...on the following conditions 1. You have a 12 foot tinner, not entirely sure what kind of hull you are on, but unless your hull is over 60 inches wide I would be very very wary of doing it. I fished a small 12 footer like this free image host and it was sketchy as hell to even stand up in the hull never mind up on a platform. My suggestion, try standing up on your seats and fish it...if you dont feel safe, then dont put in a casting deck. 2. Dont let anyone over the age of 50 try fish from it or anyone who you dont consider to have a good set of balance. my dad is 65 and he just doesnt have the same balance that he used to, its not safe for someone like him to fish from. 3. if you do it...do not make the same mistake me and a buddy did. The casting deck has absolutely no issues at all in my 14 foot starcraft...its totally stable, we fish white caps standing up no problem at all. However last fall we had a close call where we had just landed a beauty 4.5lb smallmouth, Dave reached over to net the fish and I was sitting closer to the side while he was netting it...sure enough the boat hit a wave and rolled and we nearly capsized...i jumped across the seats just in time to stop the boat from flipping, but dave ended up going in the drink...luckily he has his witts about him, was able to simply swim back to the boat and climb in...but it could have been ugly. Novemeber fishing...he doesnt wear a lifejacket (stupid i know lol) and ended up ruining his phone and lost his fishing rod to the deep. Material crap, he still has his life. We now coordinate our movements around the boat to avoid this from happening again, regardless of season. Only time we crouch is if a big boat wake passes, or we are moving very quickly through chop from one spot to the next. Heres how I did it and it works absolutely perfectly My boat came with a small platform at the very front of the boat this was pretty darn close to level with the first row of seats in the boat. I took a 1/8ths...possibly less? sheet of plywood and drew a jig out of the front of the boat ensuring that i took measurements of dimensions at various points for accuracy. I cut the jig and ensured the fitment was accurate. I then took a 3/4 inch sheet of plywood (you can go marine grade, id argue its not neccesary for a removeable casting deck that can be dried out easily.) I traced the jig onto the 3/4 plywood and took a jigsaw and cut it out. I then took an electric sander and rounded all of the corners on the wood and smoothed the top surface out as much as possible to remove any weird spots. Rounding the edges made the carpeting a breeze and also stops the edges from cutting anything from vibration. I then bought some outdoor grade carpet from home depot (looked at marine but it was wayyyyy too expensive) cut out my material, took 3m spray glue and glued the top surface on and then folded the carpet over the edges and stapled it to the back. what you are left with is something that looks like this. I then placed the deck into my boat and measured where the edge of the front seat would rest and strapped a 2x2 along the bottom to stop the deck from being allowed to slide backwards. Its wedged against the front and the 2x2 is resting against the edge of the front seat. It literally doesnt budge while going through the worst chop. Its also totally removeable and only weighs about 20 lbs. I also considering boxing in the back of the boat, but it became very quickly apparent that two guys, a trolling motor, battery, casting deck, gas tank, safety equipment and fishing gear really weighed down the boat a lot. I quickly realized that adding a rear casting deck was now out of the question due to the amount of weight it would entail. As a rule of thumb the battery is installed underneath the casting deck and ive left a gap at the very nose of the boat that allows me to run both my power cables, sonar cable and even tuck excess foot pedal cable below the casting deck. You are left with a pretty clean install that has turned my 14 foot tinner into a true fishing machine. Now i just need a chartplotter Here is me fishing it last weekend image sharing

last night driving home from the lake on the 400 just south of parry sound a very tired trucker nodded off and came halfway into my lane squeezing me onto the inside shoulder... i was also side swiped last winter by another trucker who then proceeded to hit and run me. Such is life on the highways, its just the risk we take...sad but true. Last fall arrived on the scene of a moose strike on a BMW X5 the front grill was touching the windshield....ugly.

cant wait to watch phaneuf raise krusty's number into the rafters for doing nothing

rod holders and dipsey divers...youll be on fish. Last time i fished lake O we had the riggers out and all the expensive gear, but wouldnt you know it, we caught all of our fish on a crappy rod, in a rod holder with a dipsey and fly.

damn manitou how many episodes you listened to already lol! also...the site is down? or my internet is whack one of the two

thats some honking chrome

i dont have a problem with it not being 100% accurate as long as its not in a main navigation path. In fact some of my best fishing spots are not charted at all, and i would prefer to keep it that way.

i would double check your claim about not requiring a license for ocean fishing...in British Columbia licenses are required for all salt water fishing. They are issued by the federal government.

sorry all my info relates to smallies...although the same applies for largies off weed edges, especially when the water is this hot.

cliff, how old are these couches...are they living room material or ice shack material lol?

there is absolutely no debate amognst anyone that this year is a wager the farm year. You will not retain both jose and eddy if either of them, you will not have this kind of starting pitching forever, nor will you be able field the kind of line up that allows you to sit saunders or martin just so that they can rest up for the post season. This is the year, years like this you disregard the future and think now. Remember, winning records come and go, but banners stay up forever. So happy to be back in Toronto while this is happening.

caught a smallie on a owner stand up jig this weekend off a 50 foot ledge. I almost couldnt believe it.

my rule is that no matter what, fish will always relate to structure...and sometimes its not the fish you are targetting, but the bait that is. This weekend provided me a perfect example of how being aware can get you onto fish. fishing in 25fow, i see a hump with a school of bait on the unit. I think to myself "that much bait, you know theres fish nearby" go about 10 meters away with the swimbait and sure enough i find the fish and watch as 3 smallies follow the swimbait to the boat. My pattern lately has been to toss swimbaits while moving from structure to structure (top water in the morning) and then once i find a hump or something interesting on the sonar or seeing an edge i switch to a drop shot or crayfish presentation. Ill tell you right now that 90% of the time if you mark a fish on your unit and drop a drop shot on its head it will bite.

drop shots with jackall cross tail shad or gulp alive...owner stand up jigs with psycho dads or OSP craws...all damn day

even though this is your 8th post, this is how you do an introduction post folks. Frig i need to get up to your place! and you to mine! congrats again

only downer for pike is that they can get a little gross later in the summer, but that basically goes for all fish anyways. If you are catching pike in the spring or fall, you cant tell the difference between eyes and pike...Id challenge anyone to a blind taste test. What you guys are going to end up with is a pile of ridiculously huge pike. With the size of panfish in the kawarthas those pike are gonna have a smorgasbord.

i prefer to call em "chodes"

oh man this is painful white people need to be stopped lol

do fish eat jellies? good question?

theres no doubt that the kawartha eyes get long as hell. What that chart doesnt talk about is the absolute fatties we get up further north. Ive seen 25 inch fish that would put kawartha 30's to shame.