AKRISONER

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!

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

always go as high as you can that will still allow you to get out of the hole. Once on plane then you want as much bow lift as possible without cavitating. will take trying it with different loads and conditions to find the sweet spot.

you dont want your trolling motor running on your starting battery, nor do you want your marine electronics running on the same battery as your trolling motor. I would run a couple of nautilus group 27 agm's from canadian tire and call it a day.

Or throw an evergreen jackhammer was fishing santee Cooper a few years back and one followed my jackhammer boatside and was up against the length of my boat. I couldn’t believe my friggin eyes while also being extremely terrified of the 8 foot long monster swimming after my bait. At least the big gators down there don’t chase your baits!

I know it sounds like doom and gloom, but here's a real life scenario, I crossed the land border during the border closed period in November of 2021. I was so excited about getting my new boat and being as organized as possible to get over the US border that I completely forgot to do the arrivecanada app upon my return with my new to me boat. I was required to go in anyways to pay the taxes for the boat importation, the agent asked about my use of the app and i explained that I had totally forgotten but literally had my negative PCR test and vaccine receipts with my passport, I ended up getting "randomly selected" to get a covid test upon arrival (at no cost to me except my time) It wasnt that big of a deal.

yes, a single shot of J&J is classified as "fully vaccinated" The arrive canada App isnt that difficult to use.

I need to pick your brain about gar fishing some time, I’ve got a couple of spots where I know some giants live and I just have no real clue what it takes to make the big ones bite and stay on.

Bunks still the goat! Great stuff as always