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I was marking a bunch in 48 fow on a ledge that goes from 17 to 85 fow

And that’s exactly why their stuff is so gosh darn reliable. They don’t try to re-invent the wheel, they just try to perfect what they have. They are also never the flashiest for fastest either but damnit do they work. I wish I knew the hours on my 2 stroke. I think gas prices will be what kills my motor, not anything mechanical that’s too expensive to fix. and yes they had a total recall on the 2010-16??? 250 and 200 SHO because they were blowing heads. Full factory replacement though was made available to everyone that had them.

You know you have absurd space when you are like, to hell with it, I want to mount the TM straight to reduce air drag hahaha the stance of that boat is just absolutely insane to me. Ahhhh if money was no object eh? Lol

To this day, this is the sickest boat I have ever seen

Find me a mad yamaha owner challenge...

There’s a guy in my town that actually did a full refurb on a gambler...kinda weird, the guy just left the thing out in shambles, uncovered through the winter, batteries laying in the driveway a stainless prop laying on the ground in his garden. Kinda funny like a hidden gem, I’d walk by and see the prop and laugh cause if people only knew how much that prop was worth to the right person...anyways I’d walk past it every day walking my dog and at one point was honestly gathering up the courage to leave a note to the guy saying “hey I’d like to know more about the boat and whether you’d like me clear up the space in your driveway” to me if the pro xs on the back ran I could easily sell my skeeter and find myself in a 20 foot gambler with a pro xs and be up money. this plan quickly folded when all of a sudden the console was ripped apart and compartment doors were missing. I wasn’t sure if he was gutting it or what. But then all of a sudden a ultrex with livescope showed up on the front of it and then all of the compartment doors came back re-carpeted. The guy totally refurbed the thing and it’s beautiful. Oh well that was the end of my dream lol

For burbot dead stick a minnow on bottom deep edges was marking a bunch in 45fow on the weekend. They haven’t quite moved up to spawn yet.

I’m guessing there’s plenty of ice to walk on. Might be slushy with all of the snow though

funny how in december/early january the boys and I were wondering if we would ever even get out on the snowmobiles to fish yet her we are with a foot of the best ice ive ever seen and a fresh massive dumping of snow. It doesnt take much does it!

By the way, I went from a flooded interstate battery in my boat to the Motomaster ultra AGM (yes I went all out) the thing quite literally made it sound like I installed some kind of super magneto in my boat. It turns over like machine gun fire now.

Canadian tire AGM batteries are made by east penn deka i did a pile of research on this tracing private label batteries back to the manufacturer. east penn is widely agreed upon to be the best manufacturer of batteries. as mentioned pay attention to the cold cranking amps and amp hour ratings. The warranty on motor master AGM is full replacement for varying lengths of time depending on level of battery you purchase. No pro-rating, no questions. It’s by far the best warranty in the industry. After a season running them in my boat I can attest to how powerful and awesome they are.

those giant boats with 12000000000 horsepower always make me laugh because their top end is rarely over 70mph. Theres a point where the weight and drag/hull design cant gain anymore speed. Hull matters so much more than power once you get going over 70mph. Thats why bullet bass boats will do over 100mph while a ranger struggles to get over 80 with the same motor. Speaking of going fast, wanna see something terrifying?

Honest question to the club here who here is someone with a bad evinrude or mercury story? I personally am and then who here is someone that has a bad Yamaha or Honda story? I own both, but I have nothing bad to tell lol

You get what you pay for

Stick with the yammy...just saying

Absolutely, we use em on a modified Carolina rig with a float on tip ups for walleye and crappies

Is this effective immediately? Wow

You should see the squalls going on at my parents place. It’s basically a full blown blizzard

It just did that in parry sound harbour. People are out skating, it’s really neat. Snowing today though so it’s gone now

You are like me...i find ice fishing the complete opposite of open water. Open water season give me stormy cloudy weather any day. As long as it’s not a “cold” storm where it rains for days. Unsettled stormy weather is the best. Meanwhile ice fishing, give me the sunniest calmest blue bird day you can find and I’ll always catch more fish.

I bring this up because I am conscious of the fact that if my 68 year old father with a bad shoulder goes in...I’m not certain he’d get out. Wasn’t there a guy a few years ago that was 300lbs and went in with a floater and just couldn’t manage to get himself out? Good god I couldn’t imagine going that way...wow

lol you would be shocked at what you can walk around on when it comes to ice. Last year when i rescued my dog i was walking on <1" and it was shattering underneath my boots as i walked. When i finally went through i was basically on "puddle ice" like im talking less than a quarter of an inch. So little that I dont specifically remember there even being ice chunks from me falling through. Ive also walked on what I wouldnt even call ice..it was more like 8 inches of heavy snow that had piled up on a skim of ice. Im talking so bad that if you stood your spud up on it and went through never mind needed to hit or break anything. That time though I was specifically doing it to see if I would fall through. I was 40 yards from my house wearing a rope, floater and with picks in hand ready to fall in. Crazily i didnt. We then decided that we would fish it. We set tip ups and you couldnt run to them because your feet would go through, you had to shuffle your way to them. When you sat in you chair if you sat too hard the legs went through. Youd also slowly sink as you sat jigging. Heres the point in all of this, the guys that fish two inches of ice on simcoe that are actually prepared with the right equipment are far safer than the guy that comes to the lake totally unprepared to fall in because he punches a hole and sees 6+ inches of ice. Ice is 100% unpredictable, it cracks, currents push water up, it does all sorts of stuff meaning that its totally unpredictable and inconsistent. The only way to be on it safely is assume you are going to fall through basically no matter what. To me the 250+lb 50+ year old guy that doesnt wear a floater or carry picks that goes out on 5-6 inches is way crazier than the 20 year old 180lb guy thats carrying a spud, wearing a floater and carrying picks. Ill ask the 50+ crowd here, how many of you are confident that you can do a body weight pull up?

yup, try to be courteous on the water...and honestly always ask if the people mind if you fish there.

well personally i prefer my cow "smoked" rather than "alive" while I eat it on a sandwich.

Oh god don’t try to access the sound from parry sound side, if there is ice it only showed up two days ago. Where I was fishing you could see open water Saturday