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Depending on the era totally changes your options. If it’s pre-2001 two Stroke Yamaha four strokes in the 2000’s there’s a million Mercury’s out there kicking around. Those four stroke are bulletproof from my experience. 2010-2018 four stroke anything japanese. Too much power for you but those Honda Civic outboards are insanely reliable

A simple defense of “I was confused with the constantly changing laws that are literally changing day to day” would be an easy enough defense. we’ve talked about this at my work which is operated under environmental regulation. Covid has basically thrown a stick in the spokes of everything. We basically can’t do anything compliance wise because everyone’s situation is so unique and there is not way that we can expect everyone to keep up to date with the constantly changing rules. this is just my opinion. And once again not worth it unless you really got hammered with a fine over something so ridiculous.

if you got ticketed due to a Covid restriction, make sure you fight it in court if its worth your time. None of this stuff will actually ever hold up in court. I 100% understand the reasoning behind many of these rules, but they are intended as a deterrent..by definition they almost all violate the charter of rights and freedoms in Canada. If its $30 whatever, if its hundreds like ive heard Id be fighting it.

I got to see my nephew and niece for the first time since Christmas this weekend. My 7 year old nephew wanted to trampoline, then basketball then take me down to the forest to see his fort, then play hockey then play basketball...I’m tired lol

We will be crying for that cool weather come later this week. Bass opener is going to be a scorcher. I’m shaving the quarantine beard for it, no way In hell in wearing the sun buff with this big of facial hair lol

In my personal experience, I saved myself a hell of a lot of time and effort by just swapping the entire hub as a kit rather than doing the seals and bearings. I think I paid an extra $50? replacing the races with a race punch is a total PITA. Cracked one of my hubs one time trying to replace one. Said forget it forked over the little bit extra and it’s like plug and play, the races are all ready in when you buy the hub you drop the bearing in and put it on the spindle done deal.

That is what I’m curious about my guess is that the province is in so much debt that changing the fishing regulations isn’t a top priority. I always thought that at some point the guys would figure out which slot system worked best and would implement it across the board

Lol I’d let someone try and find you. I’m sure if you ran into anyone you could explain your mistake and be on your way.

Gord Pyzer spoke to this during his recent video podcast with the gents from fishn canada. i specifically asked about why fmz 14 had different regs than the kawarthas with an even stranger “closed” middle slot <16 >22 slot limit for walleye. What Gord explained was that the original concept for the “one over” keeper idea was to allow people who had caught a fish of a lifetime to be able to keep the fish in order to get a mount made. He indicated it was the exact same train of thought as the musky over keeper size. He then explained in hind sight it was in error and that if we truly care about our walleye populations people need to stop targeting over fish for consumption. You will even hear folks up in pointe au baril talking And celebrating about getting an over to keep. He explained that contrary to what some falsely believe, the best breeding fish are the largest. They have the biggest eggs and best genetics and therefore their populations should be protected. Gord also mentioned that there are very very few if any actual healthy self sustaining walleye populations in Ontario. As he indicated “stocking” is a reflection of failure of the fisheries management system. He truly believes that with better regulations the need for stocking walleye could be removed through some common sense approaches. i know my family has now vowed to never keep any over fish again in accordance with Gord’s advice and hopefully some others will follow suit. I’m not certain what it would take for the fishing regulations to change? But perhaps after 15 something + years a revision could be considered? i just know that when it was explained directly from the God himself’s mouth, that was enough to change my mind forever

That run down highway 144 from Timmins through gogama to Sudbury had me crying when I did it. I was on the work clock so no time to stop and throw a cast. It’d be cool to even tow a small aluminum fishing boat and just drop into lakes for a week to see what’s happening. Maybe some day would need to bring a boat load of fuel though, only gas at one station during that 3 and a half hour drive

you can bare to wait the extra week! You're nuts Bill! Tradition for me, but a little different due to covid. We have a family and friends derby on the tri lakes I do that for the weekend and then the following weekend I take the entire week off and crush G bay for a week straight. The fishing is quite literally world class in every sense of the word. You want to throw the lure, you will get bit with size. Large or smallmouth, its going off! Might be a little different this year than the past few with opener being a week later, its crazy to watch the transition happen during opener week from basically freshly off the bed but still shallow to post spawn. Top water smallmouth in <4fow. oh budddyy

as mentioned above, my old man leaves his batteries on the noco genius all winter in the garage as well. No issues to report. Directly from their website: Maintenance Plus. A powerful battery maintenance charge that actively monitors and manages charge cycles, but also provides a finishing charge every 24-hours, keeping batteries fully charged with zero overcharge. My understanding is that yes it does: Interactive. Dynamically alters the charging process based on organic battery feedback allowing for precision battery charging. You will note that when you run the charger, typically your starting battery will finish charging first, especially if you only head out for an hour or so. It treats each battery as its own bank entirely and charges it accordingly. Most impressively my Starting battery last year was getting tired and after coming out of winter storage I was experiencing a voltage drop when cranking the engine that was causing my electronics to shut off. I figured my battery was toast but I was down in south carolina camping and fishing so I figured I could live with the electronics blipping for the time being and get a battery when i got home...well a few cycles on the noco and the problem entirely went away. The reconditioning and desulfating process that they claim about actually works...pretty crazy. The batteries lasted me the entirety of last year and that included fishing tournaments running livewells and graphs all day and the voltage drop problem was gone!

see thats so strange that you got no warning. Tornado warning systems are far as I am aware are linked into the national emergency system. I.e. your phone will go off like an amber alert if you enter into a tornado warned region. Ive yet to have it happen up here in Canada, but have had it happen 2 out of the 4 times ive been down in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina in the spring (tornado season) I think one may have been a flash flood warning, but Guntersville was darn right scary. I didnt see any tornados but an outbreak happened and areas to both the north and south along the front line had damaging tornados. Its possible Iron that what you saw was so quickly developing that the weather service looking at their radar were not able to see it in time to give warning. They did however warn as early as Tuesday evening that Tornado's were strongly possible on Wednesday afternoon/evening as the front approached. Weathermen get a lot of critique but its pretty impressive IMO that they were able to warn of the tornados over 24 hours in advance simply by looking at the energy of the system and the potential for wind shear. Glad to hear you guys are safe! If you want to read an insane story read about the Joplin tornado. I think that tornado alone forced the government to invest even more into warning systems.

without a doubt a buzzbait would be deadly for early spring pike. Theres usually a time in the spring that happens every year where the big pike are cruising shallow and slow rolled surface baits gets them fired up. We had such strange weather here this year that the bite went from being so cold that I couldnt get anything going because the fish were still wintering, to the water being so hot that the fish just moved the heck out. I honestly didnt get a consistent bite going until last weekend for the first time this year! Even then the biggest fish had already seemed to have moved off into their summer patterns for the most part. What a strange strange year...I have absolutely no clue what the smallmouth are going to be doing on opener. I imagine its going to be July off edge stuff this year vs the typical super shallow really funny top water stuff that ive grown accustomed to on opener. I imagine the mid day shallow sand flats bite will be gone by the time opener hits in zone 14. A shame because last year it was a riot throwing chatterbaits across 4 foot sand bays and just hammering huge smallmouth and even more strange big 5+lb walleye as well. How is that for a pattern though? Walleye in <5fow on at noon on bluebird sunny days on chatterbaits!

as a rule of thumb I wouldnt stray from Minkotta, Marinco, Pro Mariner or Noco if you are looking for a new charger. Noco's are readily available on Amazon at competitive pricing. I love mine, its very low profile and fully sealed/waterproof. They also have the function to recondition batteries. They also specifically are designed to charge both flooded and gel and AGM batteries if you have them. Apparently each battery type has a "most effecient" way of charge cycle and the genius knows how to do it.

i cant count the number of times Pike have tboned small smallmouth and walleye on me lol. One time while jiggin walleye my buddy hooked into a perch and purposely fought it for a long time just to see if a pike would hit it and then it actually happened. The funniest bit was the timing...the MNR literally pulled up on him as it happened ahhaha. There was no problem but it was hilarious because you cant legally use perch as bait.

Just in time the elites come back and get the juices absolutely flowin! Been watching bass live all day! http://basscam.bassmaster.com/detail/videos/2020-dewalt-bassmaster-elite-at-lake-eufaula/video/6163119604001/live:-zaldain-s-insane-catch?autoStart=true This catch and that fish is making me itch like madddddd had to go out and do some work on the boat just to calm down. Were 10 days out! Where are you fishing on opener? Ill be on the tri-lakes hopefully flippin up some llamas!

boat looks to be in fantastic shape! very very nice. congrats again! Welcome to the world of taking care of a 20+ year old boat. There is basically always something to fix lol but honestly i sometimes enjoy it almost as much as the fishing itself...almost...Im a bit tired of it now though, bass season needs to just start lol

I have definitely gutted a few pike absolutely chocked full of small perch! They probably go down a lot easier than a big wide bluegill though!

Canadian tire specifically changed their nautilus line of AGM battery supplier last year to address this issue. The price of their batteries increased in accordance with this change. Prior to last year Exide was their supplier and was known to make poor batteries. I am not certain who makes their flooded lead acid batteries anymore as exide appears to have gone under. FYI Costco is now also now selling an "energizer" branded AGM made my Johnson controls thats really really cheap. Warranty is not as good though. Also, If you have having issues with that new of batteries its very very likely that you may have issues with your battery charger. My last set of batteries lasted 11 years 3 of them at the end of their life had me fishing them over 300+ hours a year. The key is to always charge the boat immediately when you get back and if they are flooded batteries, watch your water levels and ensure you maintain them by charging them every month or so through the winter while they are in storage. FYI AGM's are more conducive to deep discharges. So if you spend long days on the water an AGM is the way to go vs flooded.

I owned the house at the corner of dufferin and Rowan avenue for 7 years across from fairbank Park. I wouldn’t call the neighborhood a slum, it’s actually on the up and up, but definitely went through a really rough stretch in the 90’s. the area towards eglington and dufferin and st clair clair and dufferin has seen a major change in recent years however. I think a lot of the parkdale king and dufferin crowd moved north and parkdale gentrified. There is also now a methadone clinic at the Southwest corner of st clair and dufferin which brings a lot of characters around. the Eglinton problems have somewhat subsided with the cross town construction. The place is a giant disaster so the riff raff have found new haunches to frequent. Fairbank Park itself was great, the police took it upon themselves to keep that park and school safe. When I lived there there was almost a cop conducting “traffic” duty 100% of the time parked in front of the pool. They’d ticket people for illegally turning left off dufferin onto key west. What they truthfully were doing was keeping the dealers and fiends away from the school and park. living in fairbank was great. It was an oasis between two pretty rough spots. I never had any issues at my actual house. The worst was an unlocked bike stolen from my back yard. Nothing more than that. I miss that house a lot sometimes!

Congrats, that thing looks like it has a few fish catches left in it for sure. Post more pics!

Jeez that’s a big ol cat uncle Jeff caught! very nice

I’m saying sculpin

my time spent reading and researching is your gain. the last posts explain my conclusion and reasoning. Specifically that canadian tire is now selling the best quality battery on the market while offering the lowest possible price for batteries with the same specifications. They also offer the best warranty in the entire market. their batteries regularly go on sale further reducing the cost of their batteries.