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That’s exactly it Grimsby. I’ve been out on the big sound In parry sound riggin Lakers, did one pass across the bay on glass and by the time we turned around we were in 6 foot rollers and taking on water. scary scary stuff. It happens even when you are trying your best to be careful

thats what i heard, huge schools of fish over the weekend on the tri lakes all in <4fow. love is in the air! or the water lol I dealt with my dock issues 2 weeks ago...wasnt so fun lol We have a dry suit thank god, but after 10 hours of diving down 8 feet to hook into chains in 40 something degree water I was over it lol

I actually specifically clued into the “work from home movement” about 5 years ago when I saw a couple of Toronto’s biggest auditing firms move entirely to a hotelling based structure. Deloitte built an entire 40+ story office tower down near Bay Street within the last 6 years which literally does not have a single permanent office space in it. Every space is “bookable” for people to come in and have meetings or work if needed. The major group insurance firms in toronto have also closed their offices or removed entire floors within the last 2 years. They have forced their employees into working from home at least 3 days a week. all things considered the concept of commuting to a desk job is perhaps the biggest waste of time, money/resources and carbon emissions probably in existence in North America. Generally speaking, anything that is wasteful specifically monetarily is cut off once a solution is available. I thought it would take another 10-20 years for the boomer generation to totally retire before this movement really took off. Quite literally looking at the office I work at, the teams with older management want their employees in the office every day. Looking at their work habbits they are also the same people that use a pen and paper to take notes, keep a lot of files hanging around and will have meetings about things that could simply just be emailed. You can’t blame the guys this is just how things were done their entire careers. You wouldn’t want to be in the office printer industry either, paper is inherently very hard to “secure”, expensive and just outright wasteful/polluting. I’ve already been looking into “satalite” city based real-estate and looking at places like collingwood I think you can see the movement has already started. heck even living in parry sound, you are only 2.5 hours from the city, that’s not a bad commute to do once a week for a meeting if the real estate prices are pennies on the dollar compared to toronto. my company sent out an email on Friday with a survey outright asking “we are working very well from home, would you continue to do so even after the pandemic” just as mentioned above, I think management is taking notes and realizing the immediate cost savings of reducing toronto based office leases. this is a great thing for the environment and people’s mental health. Going to be a it on the oil and automotive industries! Cheap gas for everyone though!

Thats exactly the point. I totally understand people’s need to go outside...I think as fisherman we alllll get that one. but thinking about how to do so safely is what was missed. This was on another level. Not just being unsafe, but specifically piling in on each other for the purpose of being in a party atmosphere. such strange stupid ignorant behavior from a surprisingly large group of people.

That’s the problem, tournaments it’s now my rods and a partners rods in a boat where the rod locker just isn’t big enough. Even after taking a few rods out that I know I probably won’t use based on where I’m fishing and when. For example I don’t typically fish a ton of topwater in tournaments because by the time Im at my spot it’s not usually a bite I’m going to chase so then the frog rod is out of the boat. If I’m on the tri lakes in August then I’m not going to be finessing smallies that eliminates a couple of rods etc etc. with the rod buckles I may have a little better ability to run them the other way though. I agree it’s a pain in the you know what. see how this works? Now I want a 20 foot boat lol. I also just need to buy a big old house with a big old garage so I can work on this stuff when I’m not up at the lake lol. Anyone interested in throwing me a couple mill? Lol

I think my plan is to cut out a jig that basically matches the profile of the cutout and the area above the ridge like kicking frog suggested. I’ve bought a piece of plastic off of amazon. Simply cut out the piece and there will be a half inch ridge where the buckle is. If I’m extremely careful and basically “carve the thing out making sure to sand it nicely it should not look to bad. At least I hope!

the mechanism itself is about 2-3 inches deep hence needing open space behind it. Some quality ideas here. Pluma, i like your idea too, mayble i simply use a cutting board to allow it to sit flush with the lip. If i sanded it nicely it might make a nice flush bracket. Itd stick out 3/4 of an inch but that wouldnt even look much different than just the bracket itself. What I guess im not showing is that the mechanism with the belt behind it is nearly as wide as the mounting bracket itself. Not leaving too much room to chop the top and bottom of the plate off. Man I wish I was with the boat so I could play with some of these ideas.

Main reason for doing it the other way was spacing. I can bunch the tips together easier than I can 4 rods with reels taking up the front of the boat. Deck isn’t that wide at the very very front but it’s definitely one of my options. was going to mount them against the gunnel into the floor but there’s a rod locker door on that side and I believe the strip between the rod locker and the gunnel is too narrow! I can’t win lol man...What they say about the foot itis in boats is so true lol. I went from a 14 foot tinner to a 18 foot bass boat and Immediately I already wish my boat was bigger lol no hope in that though this is just the way things gotta be for now. Just need some way to come up with a solution.

Hey Guys, I just bought some boat buckle rod straps for the skeeter and I realized I may not be able to use them on my boat unless someone smarter than my idiot self has an idea on how to make this work for me. Ive been using the classic velcro style and needless to say, they do not like it when the boat is going 50+mph. Too many times ive seen $500+ combos almost fly out of the boat when the velcro releases mid drive. In fact i lost a G loomis last year and im not convinced that this is not exactly what happened to it. I just realized that my boat has a ridge in the fibreglass along the rail. As you can see the mounting plate flush mounts along the rail, but if theres a slight ridge is there any way to mount this thing? Heres a drawing and a photo of what my boat edge looks like and a real photo of it. Im seeking your thoughts, ideas, solutions or confirmation that im screwed lol Let me know what you guys think.

lol thank you for identifying yourself.

John Tory just did an interview with CP24. He actually went down there and talked to the people at bellwoods to try and gather some form of understanding of why they were doing what they were doing. He blasted them today and has confirmed that additional enforcement and ticketing is going to be done today. He even explained that there was ample room throughout the park to ensure distancing measures could be maintained, but instead these people purposely piled in on top of each other. Their explanation was simply that they didnt think that the dangers of Covid applied to their demographic. Absolutely brutal.

thats a lot of boat for a 25 horse to push around. Even more so for a 4 stroke. Ive got a 14 foot tinner with a two stroke 15, and once you throw 300lbs in it, it goes from ripping down the lake at 25 mph to crawling along at 10...You mention taking it out on lake O...sounds a little scary to me. The great lakes are big enough to produce significant lake breeze caused by day time heating. Youll go from Glass to large chop in literally 5-10 minutes very often. That 25 putting along through lake O rollers may not be something you want to experience.

I think a lot of what the older generation thinks of folks in my generation about being selfish and entitled is looking to ring true. I can’t help but notice that the footage has almost 100% of the people falling into one specific age demographic. Embarrassing is the only way to put it. what blows me away is peoples inability to use some basic logic that says “if I’m going to see my friends at least space ourselves out” no we will just all pile onto a bed sheet together...that’s needed.

Sad the selfishness of people. Just shows how human nature has always been, if we don’t see the immediate impact of our decisions we rarely make good choices. sad to think that large numbers of lives are going to be lost because of this. safe to say you will want to get your fishing in ASAP because it seems like things are going to be closing up again very soon. Luckily I have the option of launching out of my private property. Those that rely on public launches will be screwed once again...unfortunately what I though was a strong minority appears to actually be the general population. In some ways this entire thing is teaching me that much of what I thought of society in general is exactly as I assumed. I used to wonder if I was just a judgemental A Hole for thinking that the large majority of people were selfish ignorant morons and that my general dislike for almost everyone was somewhat unwarranted but it turns out it’s actually 100% reality. even people that are somewhat close to me have totally disappointed me. It’s pretty sad. im not even the type of person that believes that you should just permanently stay home, there are some pretty basic common sense approaches to being able to see your family members or closest friends. yesterday we visited very close friends, we brought camp chairs and sat out on their lawn and sat 20 feet away from eachother and chatted for a few hours. When we needed to pee we went home. Why people can’t conceptualize this, I will never know. Maybe a cull of our race is what we need at this point, I’m literally losing faith in humanity.

estimated 10,000 people just went to trinity bellwoods park in Toronto. Safe too say parks are getting closed again? Say goodbye to public boat launches if thats the case. if you look close enough, you can see covid wave 2...So many man buns, so little brains. https://www.cp24.com/video?clipId=1964368

I’ve got a few friends like that that I feel like they could easily fall into this lifestyle given the opportunity. They absolutely love fishing when I take them, I just wish I could push them over that edge that makes them interested enough to start buying gear and really take it on.

Supposed to be 30 come Tuesday...literally woke up to this 10 days ago?

I’m thinking the guy you are referencing at cabellas is buddies with that seabass outdoors guy and does his “podcast” with the guy. That guy knows what he’s talking about. The last time I went to bass pro I think I asked where I could find EWG hooks and the girl working the fishing section had no idea what I was talking about. the guys at sail in Vaughan are good especially once you start talking to them and they realize you know what you are talking about. A guy named James is top notch. You gotta be careful when you start talking to him though, too many times me and my buddies have gone in just after 6pm on our way up north on a Friday and we end up chatting with him until close at 9 lol

sail has the most competitive pricing and the staff actually know what the hell they are talking about. At least as much as they can...they also carry stuff that you actually want. I obviously prefer to shop at Pro J and keep it even smaller but Sail > cabellas or bass pro every time for damn sure.

The blackflies in pointe au baril on Monday we’re almost as bad as I’ve ever seen it. Weren’t biting too bad yet but the swarming was brutal.

Taking the boat out of storage this year I found that a mouse had made residence in the compartment under my seats. That called for a full vacuum and wash of the entire boat. Then the boat launches were closed, which meant even more cleaning and waxing to pass the time. I realized I didn’t have a photo of the boat with the new seats in it. its nice to know that if you take care of a even a 22 year old boat they can look nearly new.

Target ?

Yup, you can order more cards In fact when I lost my card they wanted to offer a deal on buying 4 vs 1. now I have a stack of cards at my place, one for each boat at the cottage and one in my wallet. I’m obviously very “forgetful” so stuff like this seems to have a way of finding itself missing on the regular. This way it never leaves my boat. honestly I wish they’d do the same for bloody fishing licenses. I constantly find myself without mine by accident. PITA I keep a copy on my phone for just that reason but who knows how much of a hardass the first CO I run into will be when I’ve forgotten my card in my pfd or in my boat when i hop in my dads boat.

Hey guys, just an update on this and to spread some knowledge at the expense of my many many many far too many hours of reading... as many already know there are basically 3 battery companies that manufacture the majority of both lead acid and AGM batteries in North America. typically the quality of them is considered by ranking them in the following order east penn/deka johnson controls expride you can throw Trojan and odyssey in the mix if you want but I would consider them to somewhat be in a total league of their own. I came to the conclusion that they were indeed out of my personal price range. $500+ tax was just a bit too much for me. After reading more and more and attempting to determine who makes what for who I finally was able to come to a conclusion of who owns what. Expride seems to have basically disappeared johnson controls makes Kirkland, energizer and optima batteries east penn/deka owns deka battery, USA battery, but within the last year and a half has now started manufacturing canadian Tire’s ultra AGM batteries. This was huge news and finally explained why the heck the nautilus AGM batteries were so bloody expensive. People have cross referenced and you’ll actually notice that the canadian tire batteries have an identical casing to deka batteries with the exact same ratings. Canadian tire now also offers an industry leading 4 year totally comprehensive replacement warranty for their ultra AGM line of batteries. And most crazy of all the specs of their smaller ultra AGM batteries actually exceeds the cranking amps and amp hour specs on larger batteries. Saving me some much needed weight and space. so the decision was made, lucky for me they actually are on sale right now too. i figured I would share this info with everyone because it saved me a few hundred bucks, got me a battery with an unparralled warranty and has some of the highest quality components in the market. good on canadian tire for stepping up and providing a quality option in the canadian market at a reasonable price. Unfortunately it seems the battery brands change hands frequently.

Definitely not as crazy as a typical long weekend up here. Partially due to the fact that a huge portion of visitors to PAB are American. There is 100% a very significant influx of people though compared to how insanely quiet it was just two weeks ago. water is bloody cold 49 in most places although I’m sure it’s warmed up a bit today with the sun. Fish are still out deep waiting for the shallows to heat up more. i spent the whole day swimming in a dry suit. Just came in after 10 hours out there. The ice in November broke up during a big storm, the water levels came up huge and carried our dock way out into the lake. Had to re lift all of the weights holding it in place...what a pain in the you know what. black flies are definitely out...cant believe we went from snow to insane blackfly season in 5 days. What a joke.