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yes you can manitou

not a lot of hip hop heads around here but for those that are, or at least like a tribe called quest http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/a-tribe-called-quests-phife-dawg-dead-at-45-20160323 "styles upon styles upon styles is what I have, you wanna diss the phifer but you still dont know the half" Rest in Power Malik!

i was just thinking the same thing, its been -15 at night up on GB the last few nights, not 100% sure about severn, but i do know that Pointe au baril is still locked up and guys are on the ice still.

make sure you are reading the regs and only fishing what you should be

my experience with Georgian Bay fishing for walleye is that it will take you finding the spots...once you find the spots they will produce...but move 30 feet to one side or the other and you will get skunked. big pike? Read a chart and find drop offs with deep weeds. Finding the deep weeds will take spending hours on the lake and snagging them to find them. If you find deep weeds, you will find big fish.

spent a lot of time fishing out of theona trailer park...you lucky devil, the bass hop in your boat on that lake.

what a fatty, congrats

envious...dude is a beast

pops has the cottage record on a number 2 mepps with 6lb mono and a medium shimano crucial. go figure, i hooked into a 20+lber 2 weeks ago using 20lb braide and 20lb leader...the damn thing literally snapped my braid at the hole! Manitou, the reason you never get bit off is cause you only catch dinks

i got crocs for christmas and am sooooo excited to use them in the boat...so functional and comfy!

I guess if you like losing gear a lot, for those of us on a budget it hurts when you get cut off every hour. The pointe au baril area is infested with big pike, i personally dont have the patience or budget to retie all my gear every hour. The pike are no joke! to each his own though for sure, maybe in a tournament situation I would be different.

lots of great info here, I am a little different than a lot of these guys, but the results speak for themselves. First of all I fish Georgian Bay, which means that 5-10lb pike run ins are an ever day occurance so I run a much beefier set up. If there are pike in the lake you are fishing, I would stay the heck away from bothering with the finesse test. The water is also Gin clear and its absolutely normal to be able to see 30 feet down like looking through a window. I have no issues using heavier gear in water like this so the whole finesse deal is Bull to me...these are bass we are talking about, not browns. This past year I would argue that i fished a drop shot nearly 80% of the time while hunting for smallies. In the fall I also used a drop shot 95% of the time while fishing for walleye. The only exception was morning top water, spring spinner baits and fall swimbaits on deep suspended fish chasing bait. My go to rig is 20lb power pro, uni knotted to a 3 foot long 20lb fluro leader. I have been using TTI stand out hooks https://www.ttiblakemore.com/product-category/standout-hooks/typically half way up the leader (can adjust all of this depending on where you are marking fish) I like the TTI stand up hooks because the hook keeps the bait on a perfect profile but also provides some meat to your hookset, typically the fish hit it and dont come off to pencil or regular drop shot weights as long as they have a swivel. Whatever you do, i suggest you use as little weight as possible while still allowing you to get down and stay still. If its windy like it is on GB nearly every single day or you are fishing current, you have to go a little heavier with the weight to stay put. My favourite technique is to literally deadstick the bait...then wiggle it ever so slightly, then put it right back to dead stick. Keep your weight sitting on bottom but put tension on the rod...your line needs to be tight, but your weight still needs to be on bottom. When a bass hits your rod will set the fish itself and typically wont come off. Baits...pretty much your preference, i had luck this year with live bait, berkley hollow bodies and jackall cross tail shads (personal fave) Also looking forward to trying out some Gulp alive on the drop as well.

this photo is incredible.

i honestly believe that he was too drunk to even know. Its no excuse obviously because hes responsible for being that drunk in the first place, but holy crap hes lucky no one died.

this jays season is going to be one for the books. Im predicting sell outs every weekend all weekend as long as they are still competitive. I suspect they will be and its gonna be a fun ride because of it. Been watching the jays for years now and to finally see some playoff ball for the first time in my life was incredible. Game 4 of the ALDS was a joy to watch in person even though we lost, it was one of the best experiences of my life.

I work for the company that does all of the other hazardous waste www.makethedrop.ca we dont do bulbs thats a different company, but your local landfill/transfer station will most definitely have a hazardous waste drop off. To the people that said "we just toss them out" I dont know why you are advertising your lack of care for the environment?

been wanting to get this tattooed forever, even did the consultation but i couldnt justify the cost had the artist picked out too that could do it without line work There is so much meaning behind getting that tattoo that I know I still want it, and will most likely get it some day when the funds are a bit right lol

+1 to Run the Jewels...you will like it i can pretty much guarantee it. Also please do not discount Section 80 by Kendrick Lamar...listen to his lyrics you might think hes a gangster rapper...but boy oh boy he is anything but...hes a god loving observationalist that speaks to the decline of african american society and society in general due to the forces of peer pressure, racism, social media and substance abuse...incredible.

ive caught one white bass in my life...and at the time i was new to fishing georgian bay so i didnt think too much of it...in hindsight if the ontario record is 19 inches and 3 lbs...the one that I caught was pretty big and definitely worth a photo (not this big though, that things a pig)...if only I had knew at the time!

ya...jay z and Eminem...ouch if you like oldschool rap we would get along, and i could put you on some "newschool rap" that you would actually like just ask manitou

this usually translates to "my taste in music sucks"

let me guess...you either hate country or rap

its a total shame im moving away, you live close by, we are close in age, we both own boats and already have two big time things in common...we coulda been best friends lolll i gotta ask...music preference? and be honest im not judgemental and dont say "i listen to everything"

its an important lesson to learn that the internet is not somewhere to take offense to what people say. Indeed new contributing blood is always good...but the laughs are worth half the thread anyways lol