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Hey guys, ive got a tournament out of honey harbour coming up and was planning on doing some scouting next week. Does anyone have any recommended launches/parking either in honey harbour itself or near severn? Let me know! Thanks

those 3lb smallies just arent going to cut it anymore lol

Theres smallmouth around. My brother lives in grand valley and I know that his kid used to go down with a worms and catch smallies. No trout that far up from what I know...but i could be totally wrong.

that fish is an absolute cow. Unreal. IMO you just ruined fishing for your kid for life. 6.4 is going to take a long long time for him to beat ahaha 😄 Unreal man. Plenty of anglers will fish their entire lives in Ontario and never run into a bass that big. I still havent! and I live in the area!

what hasnt been confirmed yet is...did the guy eat them 🤢

Not sure I’d sink a ton into a 1975 if you’ve got the outboard. lots of aluminum hulls to be found with no motor. especially any guys running those early 2000’s two strokes. They all blew and left the owners with no motor.

Those charters also troll using cheap ass stretchy mono cause it’s the cheapest line you can find.

Don’t feel nearly as bad, I was worried you were going to say 2005 “brand” which I’ve seen recently...

Do you mind sharing the make and year of your boat?

Ontario without a doubt has the best bass fishing anywhere in the world. Personally I would pick lakes where I can avoid crowds or if Im only running a 14 foot tinner where I can avoid getting swamped. Aside from that you can basically pick your poison.

some absolute sows there. Always wanted to give the Larry a go. Some day ill make it out.

Emily. Pigeon has really good largemouth down in the south end. Dece smallies up north too. A bit further but Sturgeon Bay has really good smallmouth fishing.

Ya trims been fixed, aside from the pump it’s had all new seals, new fluid and a new motor. If you can’t perfectly adjust the trim on my boat it doesn’t run right. Bass boats are different than Tinners because you have to run on pad and get as much of the boat out of the water as possible.

Definitely lower RPM on the top end. I know for a fact that I haven’t hit anything. And literally no one else drives my boat because they are scared of it lol. (It’s got a lot of power for its size and definitely needs to be “driven” as they say) i can easily rule the lower end damage idea out of it. There’s a small ding in the stainless prop but that’s been there since I’ve owned it so nothing has changed. i also took the lower end off last year to do the water pump and the spindles all looked to be in fantastic condition with no signs of wear or anything at all. the timing check thing might be interesting but tough for me to do with my limited knowledge.

guy is pretty well known on social media and connected to this site through 1 degree of separation. dudes also a hardcore fisherman so I don’t see why he’d get rid of the boat when he’d just need another one. Toronto and the GTA just keeps getting worse by the year for this crap as the city gets bigger and bigger

When smart people are talking, I’m listening. Those coils are getting changed for sure now. Really fantastic tip. $70 usd a pop, not bad...not cheap but much cheaper than a top end rebuild!

I believe they are original. I always thought that coil failure was very very noticeable though (I had them fail on my old car, the thing wouldn’t drive!) care to elighten me on how they could be the culprit? I’m totally open to totally replacing them and the wires! How would one go about testing them?

Hey Guys, Beginning this year I noticed something was a little bit off with my 98 two stroke yamaha TLRW130. The main thing is that I seem to have lost about 3-4mph off of the top end at WOT. The motor had also seemed to maybe lost a bit of pep that I was used to. I wasnt sure if I was just getting fatter and weighing the boat down with quarantine weight. But lately ive been working out and eating right and am back in shape so its not that anymore 😆 Anyways, immediately when dealing with carbureted two strokes I think, compression, air and fuel delivery. In order of price and worrisomeness, I figured there was a chance that I was losing compression and this was causing my motor to not deliver as much power as I was accustomed to. So yesterday I took it upon myself to do a proper compression test (warmed up the motor, removed the plugs and turned the motor over on each cylinder) and thank the lord, my compression was about as close to 130psi as a person with a 22 year old motor could hope to be. Needless to say the headgasket and rings are in good shape. So now after discussing with a few friends who are a bit more mechanically inclined I talked about what things I should consider to try and get the motor back up to speed. First obvious choice is the plugs, but I change those every year so the current set literally only has about 20 hours at most on them. One friend mentioned the gapping, but the plugs Im running are the plugs for my outboard. I dont see how they should need re-gapping? (feel free to tell me why im wrong here, im oblivious) Second, is bad/weird gas...I only run premium ethanol free fuel in the boat and regularly run seafoam through. No different gas has changed anything. One friend mentioned to check the reed valves for wear and seal. A good idea IMO, i may even upgrade these to a performance set manufactured by the top yamaha outboard performance shop in the United States. Doesnt seem like a difficult job to do once the carburetor is off. Another suggestion is to swap the fuel filter and inspect the fuel line/replace them. (I think I am going to do this immediately, especially the fuel filter) Finally, to simply clean and redo the gaskets on the carburetor with new gaskets using a carburetor repair kit and clean all of the jets and ports out. Ive done this on a small 15hp suzuki, with the right amount of time Im sure I could do it on the bigger yamaha. The one thing Id be scared of is simply adjusting the air and fuel spring screws once clean. Im not certain how the pros adjust these considering some are basically inaccessible while installed on the outboard. One thought is to simply count the rotations of the screws to "snug" from their current position and then try to repeat that backwards when re-installing. Perhaps they need adjustment though? Is there a bible on how to do this? Another idea I had just from experience with my old car was a potential vaccum leak? Im not sure if thats possible on this type of motor, but is there somewhere that can be considered a "trouble spot" for vaccum leaks on these types of motors? my experience is specifically with your standard DOHC 4 stroke car. My old mazda leaked like a seive lol. Does my train of thought seem logical? Is there anything else that you recommend that I check. At this point Im basically willing to do anything knowing that I was prepared to have the top end rebuilt, knowing that its in great shape leaves me with an almost wide open budget to tinker. Im all ears to those that surely know far more than I do! Shoot me your suggestions!

they should be starting to make moves now! Wont be long till they are up the creek and ready to be swung on with some flies.

I had a topwater hit in 55 fow on lake of bays a few years back if you can believe that

My guess is muskoka. Bill informed me of that deep jiggin pattern up there this time of year a few years back.

very very fair. The smallmouth bite is a grind this time of year but if you find the big ones, its wild.

recent trip to simcoe 2 weeks ago tells me the bass are getting educated. It was harder to catch them then anywhere else ive been recently, and that includes the kawarthas. Not surprising considering they get hammered witha lot of pressure. The bass in muskoka and georgian bay on the other hand...dumb as posts lol

do muskoka or even Georgian Bay. Its quieter and the fishing would be better for you in a rental boat. I spent a weekend fishing lake of bays at the beginning of September 2 years ago for the first time. I went in blind, looked at a some charts, Made some decisions on where I thought the bass would be related to the time of year and went out. it was dead quiet, i think i saw 2 other boats fishing the entire weekend on the whole lake and it seemed like the fishing was excellent and totally under pressured. Simcoe is a lake for the hardcore "I want to catch the bag/fish of a lifetime" for bass. You and your niece would have a much better time enjoying a quite lake surrounded by beautiful scenery catching crazy numbers of smallmouth.

and either one I partake in i end up with all of my money gone lol