AKRISONER

ive always said the fish fly hatch is the end of the spring fishing bonanza. Its usually ok though because bass opens in a few weeks.

jeeeez, dont even need to launch the boat.

how do you determine the weight of a 184 lbs fish, im assuming rapala digital scale? 🤣 seriously unreal though. What an experience.

they arent burnt off, the second wave is on now. Im down in the GTA and just got swarmed on my front lawn and its hot out. God bless canada, 7 months of the cold trying to kill us, it finally gets warm enough to survive outside all day without devine intervention and the bugs come down and try to carry us away lol....at least our fishing is good.

i forgot about nip's whacky bass season. Catching them off of the dock? They are geared up and ready to go. That full moon mid june is going to be a firecracker with the cold spring weve had. Water temps were far too low up north to get things going on the last full moon.

kayaks especially, all you need is public land like a park of some sort, not even a launch. Simple simple.

if you are looking to avoid boat traffic, leave the kawarthas entirely and head north. Theres a public boat launch near emily park. Go out on a Tuesday morning early and you should be able to easily avoid any crowds. Bass doesnt open anywhere for a few more weeks. Check the regs where you plan to fish for bass. Staggered opening weeks depending on what lake you fish.

pigeon river

i mentioned this earlier in the thread, and ill bump it again, you high speed polish that top coat (make sure to move the polisher quickly or it burns the gel coat! ask me how i know 😁) You will literally be blown away with the results. The previous owner probably thought the boat was showing its wear, he didnt realize that for $100 he could make the boat look brand new again. Want proof? Heres two pictures from my annual report thread after I did it on my 98 skeeter

i keep a very close eye on the boat market Flex. Treat the motor and hull as two separate things. His pricing is probably in the correct ballpark for a quality boat if it is indeed an 06 115hp. You cant go by the "well i paid 22k for a boat in 2010" logic. The pricing has gone completely out of whack because of covid. A perfect example, Imagine you could buy a brand new 20 foot glass boat, with a trolling motor, electronics and a 200 horsepower engine on it for $27,000...youd buy it right now without question, well in the year 2006 you could. Thats how out of whack pricing is. My boat is literally selling right now for more than the new retail price from 2006. 2 things you 1000% need to do before buying the boat, 1. Take it for a test drive, a 115 on a 16 foot aluminum the thing should be powerful as all hell, in fact is that even a legal amount of power for that boat? Im a bit concerned that the motor is actually rated for more power than the hull is legally allowed to have. As such you wont be able to get insurance. Check the stamp. During your test drive keep an eye on the bilge area. Is the boat filling with water? Your hull may have a blown rivet. 2. Walk away immediately if the seller is not open to you compression testing the motor (google how to do this its very straight forward) and second of all, get him to start the motor from cold. Lots of motors will run once they've been got running. Finally, you want my personal opinion? My best friend ditched their 04 smoker craft 2 years ago because the thing blew its rivets. That boat was the worst riding boat I have ever ridden in. Second of all, a 15 year old evinrude...There arent literal memes all over the internet about rolling the dice buying used evinrudes without reason. We also just had another board member post an entire thread about the fact that he could not get parts to fix the hydraulics on his 15? year old evinrude. Finally Evinrude shut down for a reason... Im sure this post is going to absolutely bug the heck out of someone here thats driving a smoker with a rude on it, so be it. As i said to the guy with the evinrude, and trust me on this one having bought two used boats in the past 5 years, boats and specifically 15-20 year old used boats are a money pit and a total PITA, at minimum if things are going to go wrong, you at least want to be able to get parts to fix the problems. Knock on wood, at minimum you hope that your used motor you buy wont blow any time soon, the rest is just maintenance.

It will be interesting to see how far tampa goes. It will be telling of how well the leafs actually played. of note, tampa does not make major mistakes. There’s no kerfoot no look drop passes in their repertoire.

Reminds me of the time a group of 6 at the causeway launch on chemong decided that the most appropriate way to launch their dinghy was to offload it off the top of their car and onto the boat ramp. Fine whatever, but then rather than launching they just shuffled it slightly to the side while they proceeded to load their gear into it and stand around it If you have used this launch you will know that the approach is at a 90 degree angle, so sure enough I’m swinging the boat in and I realize that it’s impossible to not hit the dinghy and their fishing rods that are all sticking out of it. i make eye contact with one of the 6 and say, excuse me can you move that thing off of the ramp…stunned, no reaction what so ever from the group. I then proceed to back the trailer right up to the dinghy slowly hoping that one of the group will surely notice that I’m about to hit the thing, there are 4 of them standing right there after all…nope. I give up, I proceed to get out of my truck with my buddy, we walk up the dinghy. Pick it up and literally physically carry the dinghy to an appropriate place out of the frigging way and seemingly the crew continues their conversation in their mother tongue as if we don’t even exist. They literally don’t even look at us as we are standing 2 feet away from them picking up their boat and carrying it. i go back and finish launching and they carry on as though absolutely nothing happened.

So it is a glass boat, what an interesting lay out, I don’t know if ive ever seen anything like it. It’s almost like the designer couldn’t decide if he wanted a bass boat, tiller or deep V lol no joke, get yourself a high speed polisher and some mcguiars polishing compound and go quickly over that thing and then finish it off with a title wax hybrid solutions ceramic coat it will shine like brand friggin new. You will literally be blown away by the results.

What an incredibly fast warm up, I’m thinking that hot water is a very thin layer

I always make a stop when I fish tri lakes, I take every single Jerry can I own with me for that ethanol free gas

Dirt and dust are easily taken care of. Good for you for being able to get into the market even during this economy/market. I’ve spent the last 7 months cleaning up my new to me boat as well. Of course she’s thrown a few curveballs at me already, batteries, winch strap, a trolling motor rewire, but that’s part of what makes you feel like the boat is yours. I remember the first time I saw my boat vs what it’s like now, a little TLC and now my boat turns heads as I drive down the highway! the shape/layout of this boat looks really intriguing, almost west coast meets bass boat. Care to share some pics of the interior when you get err vacuumed and scrubbed out. a recommendation after reading into it for a while, simple green extra strength (the purple stuff) and a scrub brush makes any boat interior look new. If you have carpet at all scrub on a diagonal and it brings old carpet totally back to life.

If there is one thing that the US lakes get right, it’s their access to water. Every lake has multiple public launches. This greed is getting outrageous. It’s not as if the launch/parking lot isn’t paid for by the local ratepayers anyways. At minimum if you pay taxes locally you should be exempt from being charged for accessing your own park.

pick up an old stradic, get it serviced or do it yourself and have a reel for the rest of your life

still stop in peterborough pro tackle every single time im in town. I think the traditional tackle stores are dead because they are not specialized enough. You arent going to get far if your competing to sell canadian tire tackle with canadian tire. The way to survive is to cater to the crowd that takes fishing to another level, which is the exact business model of a peterborough pro tackle or a gagnons.

cant beat this weather weve been having for fishing lately.

Still personally a believer that buying a quality reel is a far better investment as it will basically last you 30+ years.

until you see an actual dip in the demand, the price will continue to soar.

I’m gonna say, stay the hell away from evinrude Johnson no matter what. we’ve already had one board member now confirm that parts for them are an issue with them no longer being in business. Stay clear. also, you don’t go out of business making great products…

i wouldnt eat anything out of there though...I worked for the town of halton hills once upon a time, that lake is gross lol. Also can confirm island lake allows electric only motors

pike opens the second saturday in May on island lake. (before venturing into any new water, always read the regs!) You will catch a bunch of perch and small panfish probably fishing with bobbers and worms. For something more exciting learn how to cast spoons to catch pike. The fish this time of year will be moving towards the warmest water closest to the deeper parts of the lake. If you are into getting serious about fishing, Id suggest just doing a load of googling about how to target whatever species you are looking to catch. Its a life long learning process that gets more and more detailed the more serious you take it. You can decide to be a worm and bobber fisherman and that suits some people just fine to go out in a boat toss out a worm and wait for a bite while relaxing, or you step your game up a bit and make things more involved, but also some would argue have more fun doing it. Or you can be stupid like me and spend all of your expendable income to stare at panoptix for 8 hours straight chasing laketrout around. I was also once a kid throwing spoons for pike from a tinner too. We all start somewhere. Let us know how you fare!