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I am slightly worried we wouldnt have an invoice...we might also just barely exceed two years...yes its 2 years old, but we didnt use the thing for almost a year while we attempted to rig a good mount for it on our fibreglass boat. I would say the motor has been used less than 20 times.

good to see you have a good guide to control to trolling motor to make sure you actually fish the good spots

Hey guys, My dad and I are fairly new to the world of trolling motors, but our new new minnkota powerdrive V2 with i-pilot that we got last year decided to start acting wonky this weekend. The unit appears to have awareness of the controller, reads as charged, beeps when started and even will turn...however no matter what we try we cant get the propeller to engage. At first we considered if it was a shear pin, but from what we can see there is no shear pin in this model, we also haven't used the troller for any shallow fishing recently so it definitely hasn't hit anything. The thing is still mint, yet for some reason you can set the speed and hit the propeller button, and nothing... Anyone have any ideas or similar experience? Ive read some stuff about the brains in these things are garbage? I was wondering if this is a common problem and maybe have some insight before we go out and spend another 100 bucks trying to fix it. Thanks,

ahaha wow, that fish is as wide as him! Can i ask, what type of set up do you have him using? It would be good to get my nephew something that he can actually learn to fish on now. He can cast and reel etc, he just doesnt have anything that is easy for him to handle for his size.

guys with the seafoam suggestion... ive seafoamed a car, never an outboard...where are you dumping the stuff? my old 15 gunked up this weekend and left me stranded out on the lake this weekend. Weve taken the carburetor apart and cleaned it out. Where are you dumping it while its running?

Success! A small piece of worm covering the hook worked the best, ditched the bobber and jigged away...caught 12 fish, mixture of sunfish, rock bass, perch and blue gills. Now ive got him asking me to go fishing! He is still nervous about touching and holding them so i spent the time taking a lot of fish off. we collected them in a big tupperware container full of lake water and he was mesmerized! His small rod wasnt the best due to the crappy mono with crazy memory on it. Was having a hard time keeping the line tight for hook sets. Now with a little practice on his jigging we will have to get him going for the fall pickerel run!

nothing like being able to go for a run at 2 in the afternoon and be totally comfortable. Even better is sleeping at night and riding my bike to and from work in the mornings without being a sweaty pig by the time i get to work or home.

Pointe au baril for the weekend, Largies tomorrow morning (hehehe start the weekend off early)...pike during the day...and either back to largies for the evening or out for some walleye in the shawanaga river with my dad if hes up for it. Dock fishing for pike and largies saturday morning and then I will probably take my nephews out in the tinner for largemouth and pike in the evening. Next weekend though is what I am really excited for, my dad and I are heading to parry sound harbour to run the sunset lakers...staying the night in the boat and trying again at dawn.

hahah that photo of him at 4 holding the bass...just looking like an old pro. Awesome

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/03/22/bald_eagles_return_to_lake_ontario_shore.html Does anyone know what came of this?

that cat was massive...I hope its real...and this all makes sense. Just because we dont have a photo of one of them doesnt mean that they are around. There have been so many sightings that you know that it had to come true eventually. I love hearing stories about previously "area extinct" animals now reclaiming habitat e.i. bald eagles in the GTA, cougars etc. Hopefully we continue our efforts on reducing our impact on our environment.

Sounds like a good plan when you now have an excuse for your wife to be fishing all the time "honey i'm doing it for the kids!"

This is super encouraging to hear, im amazed that the 5 year old can already bait a hook and take fish off, thats bloody awesome. My nephew is a little high strung yet to bait a hook that's for sure. He is a super well behaved kid and always listens etc. He just really gets pumped up when cool things happen, I.E. if he catches a fish hes going to lose his mind ahahhaa I am actually really looking forward to trying this. @imperial angler: Its easy to have 24 year old girlfriends when you are 26 lol I hope his tiny mickey mouse rod can handle a sunfish!

hmmm the idea of the blue gills and sunfish in a bucket sounds very cool.

Hey guys, I have a nephew who is 5 years old, he loves to come out on the dock (lifejacket always on of course) with me while I am fishing. he brings his little Mickey Mouse special rod with a jig weight with the hook removed and will spend a fair amount of time with me out on the dock casting away. Typically, his imagination is so vivid that it keeps him entertained, however I am wondering what techniques and tips you guys might have for keeping the young guy calm but interested. There are tonnes of panfish around for him to definitely reel in on a bobber or the like. The biggest challenge is that he is a pretty intense little guy so swinging hooks around isn't necessarily the safest thing for him to be engaging in... (you should see him cast, he outcasts my 24 year old girlfriend)

i need to start teaching my nephew to fish. So far we have only allowed him to use a weight with no hook because he is a total madman...I wonder if I got him to catch a sun fish on a bobber if it would calm him down enough....

stunningly huge and beautiful fish. Unbelievable the sheer quantity of 40+ inch fish...great report.

So after starting to fish more regularly over the past 4 years, this past year I started to get more and more into fishing. Last fall I purchased a new Abu Garcia Revo spinning reel and needless to say I was ultra excited to use my first $100+ reel set up. Having fished my entire life with ultra cheap gear, to have a decent qualtity name brand reel was a treat. First day on the water, i take a cast and immediately I can just tell, something isnt quiet right... Go figure, I go and finally spend a decent amount of money on a reel and it doesn't work quiet right. I begin to wonder, is it all in my head, or is the very very slight clicking, and stiff points in my reeling actually happening. I fish the entire fall, and spring, i take the reel apart and can see no problems, to make matters worse, when i take the reel off of the rod, theres hardly any noticeable problem at all. I must be going crazy Finally after much self speculation, i call Rocky's tackle and they tell em to send my reel in. Off it goes... The weekend while my reel is gone, i head to the kawarthas to do some bass fishing with friends, and my friend is nice enough to lend me 2 of his set ups. The first reel I use feels buttery smooth, and i start to feel a bit better about myself, because maybe not all reels have a slight click and drag and in them, but then i pick up rod 2 and my confidence is totally wavered as his second reel seems to have the exact same feel as mine After fishing all weekend I return to work, and my reel returns, I unpackage the reel and rocky's notes that they have replaced the gearing and greased the reel. Off the rod the reel feels the same...a torturous week ensues with my self doubt growing every higher, until finally i arrive at the cottage on Friday evening, I cant even wait to get set up, I ditch my stuff in the car and run down to the lake to try out my fixed reel.... Its the smoothest reel I have personally ever used....maybe I am not crazy afterall?

imagine what would happen if the grocery store shut down and the power went out...oh boy I take a lot of pride in the fact that i could easily supply myself with food, shelter and vegetables...the winters would be a little tougher, but id definitely just eat a lot more fish.

live bait all day. Al Flahertys has a solid selection of crank baits and the like without the absolutely gigantic size. As far as cheap though and in a week. Too late to shop online...

These are the same people that call "going up north" going to wasaga beach. I wouldnt complain, more wild raspberries for you...delicious.

Is the standing deck in your tinner removable? This has me thinking.....