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my 2 cents...which are probably worth closer to a penny 1. If you can afford it, get the panoptix livescope. Anyone that says anything else is comparable hasnt used it, or is attached to their lowrance, birds etc. Im a humminbird guy, my boat has 3 of them in it. My old man got panoptix livescope a month ago, simply put, its a total game changer. its expensive as hell. Thats all that should be considered when making up your mind. Know the livescope is the best by far (not even close) but know that it comes with very steep price. 2. Maximize your HP on your outboard. If you can get the bigger boat, but that comes at the sacrifice of having max hp on your boat...go with the 18 foot and get the max hp rating. 3. Trolling motors, ive ran a motorguide tour cable steer, ive ran the powerdrives both v1 and v2, ive ran the terrova v1 and terrova v2, ive ran an edge and ive ran a fortrex, ive got multiple friends with ultrex's heres the straight dope. The foretrex is the most reliable and best cable steer on the market...but and heres a huge huge but, it doesnt have ipilot. For us fishermen on the great lakes..thats a deal breaker. Until you realize the power of using spot lock and Auto pilot on an ipilot enabled trolling motor, you cant fairly comment on it. The ultrex has had major major issues with the cable mechanism breaking on them leaving guys that have them without a trolling motor that steers on tournament day. Ive heard that the newer generation of them has fixed the issue, but I have heard absolutely nothing but complaints. Here it is simply put, you fish the great lakes, the wind is really blowing and you want to cast a shoreline in a cross wind. Trust me you dont want to be dancing on your trolling motor foot pedal trying to constantly adjust for the wind. Furthermore, you get in some 3-4 foot waves, good luck running your footpedal in that. Cable steer motors are designed for how the bass guys down south use em, and they are 100% the best option for doing that kind of fishing, electric steers suck when you are in the slop. My suggestion, if you can once again afford it, get the Garmin Force if you can. Its an electric steer with the responsiveness of a cable steer. Is both an 80lb and a 110lb brushless motor in a single package. If its too expensive, then keep it simple, cheap right down to the terrova and never look back. Get ipilot, the day you decide to go jig up some fish in some strong wind or current, youll be forever grateful you did it. Theres nothing, and i mean nothing that compares to spotting a fish on your unit and hitting anchor and dropping your bait right on their heads and leaving the technology to handle your boat while you worry about catching the fish. Additional thought both motorguide and minkotta have been disappointing for me in regards to reliability...unfortunately in their respective price range, they are the only two players so you are basically screwed either way. I am hearing really really really bad stuff though about the motorguides and my visit to aikmans today to drop off our 10 year old powerdrive for service was troubling when the two guys in front of me were dropping off identical motorguides that were purchased in the last 4 months....yikes. Outboards...dont go evinrude, they are out of business for a reason and i still see dealers trying to pawn them off on people.

is there a specific reason you are gung ho on fishing stoney? There's such better fishing opportunities elsewhere nearby.

optima has recently changed who manufactures their batteries. Id honestly suggest Canadian tire AGM personally! Made by east pen deka...best warranty in the game and really competitive pricing. You can usually find them on sale too and save yourself the 15% tax.

ive told this story before but my old man put his rod down ice fishing one time and a pike immediately bit his line and took his rod down the hole gone. 5 minutes later my dad jumped up and shoved his arm down his hole, the fish had swam back past the hole and the rod floated up into his hole again, he grabbed the rod and landed the fish and ate it for dinner.

I went group 24 ultra AGM from canadian tire for the size savings while maintaining huge reserve capacity and cranking amps Industry leading 4 year all encompassing full replacement warranty and I have absolutely loved mine so far. Thing turns my two stroke over like its firing a machine gun.

https://covid-19.ontario.ca/covid-19-epidemiologic-summaries-public-health-ontario page 8

i run 3 graphs, +livewells fishing tournaments on my group 24 and have never had an issue. Something seems up!

did some reading today and this stat blew me out of the water... According to the Ontario Epidemilogical Summary 9.4% of people aged 60-79 Die after contracting covid. That number is wayyyyy higher than i ever expected. The death rate obviously falls off a cliff when looking at younger age groups, but both of my parents fall into this demographic. Meaning if they hypothetically contract covid they would face a 20% chance of one of them dying.

thread hijack but good to see you again chris

pump a 30 should have no problem pushing you around. Heck when i put my 55lber on my 14 foot tinner with a casting deck the thing nearly threw me in the lake all of the time. You arent going to break the sound barrier, but it will get you where you need to go no problem at all.

yup, were healthy so far, definitely one of the crappier years but trying to look on the upside. Sorry to hear about your knees johnny, hopefully they get you sorted out.

we have a loony tooner 2

need to get out in the river this week and toss some flies around aimlessly

Hey Guys, Spent a few days on the water this past weekend and ive realized just through looking at photos from past years and a facebook memories reminder and what went on this past weekend that the smallmouth bass fishing is perhaps the best you will have all year right now. Reports i see from Simcoe say the same thing, the fish are up reasonably shallow, stacked up and feeding like absolute crazy. I had one of the best days on the water in my life on Thursday. The sunny calmer weather vs that weird crazy windy weather weve been having seems to be like a light switch. Get out there and have some fun if you can!

Theres gotta be a lot of factors involved with this, but ive got a 130 horse that does 55mph...that would be a weird outlier though but ya on a 90horse or smaller i dont see how much flex a prop would be getting to change the speed that much. Weight is really the important factor...power to weight ratios are everything, especially the smaller the power you have. Big one being mentioned here is batteries. No need for 3 group 31's in a 16 foot boat. I fish tournaments with 2 group 27's and a group 24. Run three graphs, livewells and a trolling motor hard this past weekend for 10 straight hours. Not a single issue.

that release was cringeworthy, why the heck didnt the guy tail it longer? He then comments "im surprised it survived" anyways not to thread hijack...sorry ahaha I would take note of what you see in that video, those guys are targeting an area near a major overpass, time to hop on google maps and use streetview to figure out the area they are fishing.

The new terrovas have a spring loading lift assist so they aren’t hard at all to lift anymore. You could lift one out with one hand

did you catch it ice fishing? Whats the story about the pinned snowmobile.

jesus dave, guys talk a lot about smallmouth being Footballs...that thing looks like it ate a bloody beach ball. It had to have been 8?

this is why i havent fished pigeon in a few years, Im 5 for 5 on musky days there, even trolling with multiple people in the boat, ive never been skunked. Cant say the same for the people ive been with, and they are far better musky fishermen than me. My luck has to run dry at some point right? Thats part of the reason ive probably been skunked every single time I try for musky on G bay. Ive caught 1 mid 30's fish in about 5 days of fishing now lol. Need to give it a run hard this fall though, its time for a real one.

1. Definitely doing the coils this winter 2. Do you mean rebuild/clean the carb or something else? I plan on redoing all of the gaskets and cleaning it this winter (I just bought a home with a garage!) 3. Its a glass boat, A possibility that the foam is getting saturated, however the boat doesnt get stored in the water. It spends most of its time on dry land but i guess its possible? But doesnt explain why the change was so drastic from one season to the next. My assumption is that after a winter sitting in the cold and dry it would be as light as it could ever be, yet the problem started right at the beginning of the season this year. In fact the boat didnt see water until the covid restrictions lifted...after sitting for 8 months. 4. Ive never ran anything but premium through the motor with periodic runs of seafoam. If it was a fuel issue I would have experienced this for the first two years driving the boat. 5. A plug I guess is theoretically possible, but I can see down into the hull of my boat from the battery compartment and theres no evidence of that much water sloshing around in there. Also the boat has a very very slow leak somewhere, maybe a litre of water builds up over the course of 4 days, but its far from anything catastrophic because at the end of the day its a glass boat, the hulls for the most part dont leak aside from places where things have been punched through the glass.

what P's me off about all of this is that if our tax dollars were spent on enforcement instead of making up all encompassing closure rules then we wouldnt have these rules blocking us from fishing everywhere. As it currently stands the reason these are all getting shut down is because we dont have enough enforcement to stop the A holes from doing what they do on the same stretches of river, every year, at the exact same time. We all know the total gongshow that happens every year during the same two week period, in the exact same spot, by the exact same people the problem is that theres not enough bylaw officers and CO's to stop it. The politicians are taking the simple route by putting in nonsensical all encompassing closure rules. Youd think it would be the easiest low hanging fruit to snatch of all time, heck in what other scenario do the criminals voluntarily agree to come to you at a specific time at a specific place to commit their crime in plain site right in front of you? The scumbag snaggers, litter bugs, and poachers are standing there in plain sight in 1 of the 4???? places to fish in the GTA on a stretch of river 500 meters long, yet somehow we cant figure out a way to make this work without a total gongshow. Madness has prevailed. Call me crazy but what would it take to park 10 guys at those rivers full time for a period of 3 weeks? Youd think theyd hand out enough tickets to pay the bill? No?

lol it may actually help, lifting twelve bundles onto that roof will make anyone lose weight hahaha Thats what I should probably do as well 😆 Reminds me of my thread where Im losing top end and was worried about compression and my buddy said, how much covid weight did you gain ahahaha

And the local corner store is going to have an over stock of Canadian classic darts

lol if only my boats problems could be fixed by me dieting and exercising....*sigh* that little leak doesnt even count. My tinner even brand new also always managed to get a little bit of water in it after a week on the water and I know for certain it wasnt leaking, I think the majority of it simply came from when you land fish, wet nets, morning dew etc etc.