AKRISONER

play with the sensitivity and contrast settings while imaging. I specifically find that down and side imaging can be tuned very nicely dependent on the structure/bait you are attempting to image. you can come up with some very impressive stuff if you dial your settings in right See the bait, find the fish.

This is a hilarious thread from another forum that Im stealing. Heres my best one Wasnt for fishing but it was for the NHL winter classic in Anne Arbor. This still cracks me up to this day. My best friend is actually one of the smartest people I have ever met hes taken an IQ test and scored somewhere around 190 if I remember correctly. Anyways long story short, hes an investment wiz and when the winter classic was announced he immediately capitalized and bought up a bunch of rooms in Anne Arbour knowing that he would get a very nice return on investment by reselling the rooms to friends and people that he knew travelling down from Canada to watch the hockey game. I'm sure the folks at the Victory Inne and Suites were confused as hell when some canadian called up randomly in July to book 5 rooms for new years lol. Got to the hotel and as was arranged, I brought an air mattress and bedding to sleep on the floor of this room being shared between 6 people including my best friend Graeme who booked all of these rooms. The room seemed to have random furniture being stored in it (a random large armoir?) the shower literally had a vice grip to turn on the water and there was no shower curtain on the curtain rod ahahaha. All of these things considered heres the funniest bit. I asked my buddy what he paid for the room and he confidently and proudly said $70...to which I then clued him into the fact that he could have really splurged and spent an extra $30 split between 6 people to afford a shower curtain and a clean bed lol. Wasnt me, but my aunt, cousin and oldest brother stayed at a motel in The Pas Manitoba that had chainlink fence over the windows! ahahaha. Whats your best story?

if this is the face you make when you catch a big one Its probably time to sell the rods and boat 😄

How do you like the solixs vs the helixs

A nice cap to the ice season. Anyone else thinking boating ???

living in a neighborhood with a high gun violence rate...I wouldnt care if they only shot each other. live by the gun die by the gun so to speak. The problem is that they shot up the front door of my building. Then another time they had a big shootout across the street and hit a poor lady in the head in front of her 4 children 😔

beautiful place johnny. I wish I could buy it and live in it permanently

synthetic drugs crystal meth and fentanyl have basically put that group of society at the edge. The epidemic spread through the midwest of the United States in the early 2000's. Its just made its way to Canada. Theres really no end in sight to it unless we either enforce harsher drug trafficking laws or they all kill themselves off. I lived in the downtown east side of vancouver where they had close to 1,000 people die from fentanyl overdose in 2019. Theres only 20,000 users total in the area. If 1,000 die per year it seemingly cleans itself up. Crazy enough the death rate has actually finally started to decline in BC because the users have basically overdosed themselves off. Long gone are the days of the "local drunk" in small towns. Now you have guys that havent slept in a week with super human strength running around stealing and doing anything to ensure their next fix. Its scary as hell. The beauty of all of this is that Toronto's gun crime problems are also directly related to it. The guys selling all of this crap are the ones shooting each other on our streets.

lol if it takes them 8 years to send the first bill, id wait it out for the second "notice" lol Also how did they calculate the bill? I never told anyone what I paid for the boat, the province asked how much the trailer was worth and I paid up. The boat? not so sure.

Not the case...they cant legally require you to do that. Itd be like saying your warranty is voided if you use a saw and you are a tradesman carpenter. The reason I know? I have had far far too much warranty work done on the very truck that I do my own changes on since new. I do know that they have the ability to see that the oil changes were done in timely fashion without going over the appropriate intervals.

i remember when i bought my truck, the guy was trying to sell me on their "oil change package" because they were going to give me a discount? The dealership literally charges $320 to do an oil change on an eco diesel...and trust me ive done the oil changes on every single vehicle ive ever owned. There is absolutely 0 difference between a diesel oil change and a regular oil change aside from the fact that the oil filter is in a housing which screws off just like regular car oil filter and its an element style filter instead of one with steel housing. I just bought 19 litres of rotella T6 for $130 at canadian tire. The truck takes 10 Litres. and a filter for $30 (still insane)...so please explain Mr. Stealership where the other $210 comes from...because "diesel oil changes are complicated" Im still waiting on the class action suit to go through like it did in the states for their emissions cheating scandal. I dont want to wish the canadian employees of Dodge out of their jobs (I dont even think they do any canadian manufacturing here anymore anyways?) but seriously, i wouldnt mind if this law suit buried them, they friggin deserve it.

well we put the method Irish suggested to test and it worked until mother nature screwed us over. Really frustrating. I spent 7.5 hours first snowblowing, then shovelling then flooding and scraping and flooding and scraping again. The problem? 60kmh winds that kept drifting fine snow onto my flood creating crunchy slush which ruined my rink. I was annoyed but happy to at least learn something. I kept it simple. Once the rink was scraped off well. i drilled holes in the corners and proceeded to "pump" the auger flooding the rink. I then had my buddys push the water using shovels out away as far as you possible could. This simply caused all of the ice to get wet, but not really have standing water. any deeper ruts were typically difficult to scrape clean and the snow that collected in them got saturated and basically filled themselves in. The system was working beautifully until the wind had other ideas. We did have one maybe 10x10 section of ice that the snow wasnt blowing on and it was beautiful. we scraped some of the slush off too and still tried to skate for about a half hour out in the wind storm. If you stood still the wind would push you across the entire rink! A lesson for me though that now I know how to build a rink whenever I want even if the ice isnt perfect. As long as the wind is down and the air is cold!

gas prices were a lot cheaper back in the day 🙄

Mr Frostbite googan baits was handling the merchandising. His personality take it or leave it but kudos to the kid for turning this stuff into a real business. Kind of the polar opposite of Aaron who wants nothing to do with anything anymore except fishing and his wife. I think the fame has got to him a bit and hes not a big fan of it but hes keeping it up simply to make ends meet. Was cheering for Paul and Taro and I thought they really stood a chance but Manitoba just had one better period when team tacklebox blanked and that was the difference. Was good to see Paul and Taro a bit more engaged this time around, Taro explained to me that the first time they were literally just doing it as a favour to Aaron, but this time it seems like the sponsors made it worth their while to spend 4 straight days doing this. Looking forward to my trip with Taro in July to talk about it more in depth. Im sure season 3 will get done, but im slightly wary of it becoming overblown and sold out like a normal fishing show. The Konrads? What i love about them is they break the fishing down to simple trusted techniques. Dont over complicate it and just read water incredibly. Theres a reason they catch world record caliber fish across multiple species. I would definitely say that this was the best collection of multispecies anglers ever gathered for one "tournament"

an interesting concept to have an ice taxi...thats a new one to me. Ive heard of that for guys that have sketchy ice to cross with fan boats and hovercrafts but never just purely for the ice fishing. That bloody perch is insane.

Same logic as ducks unlimited people that don’t fish don’t give a damn about the fishery. Ask some of the local businesses in bridgenorth if they like having the tournaments come through. i don’t think anyone here is arguing that if we all just practiced occasional catch and release it would be better for the fish populations. But then you are literally proposing that the entire industry basically collapse. Bass fishing makes the freshwater fishing industry go round...it’s massive in the USA and is the reason we have big graphs, trolling motors etc etc on our boats. Much like F1 and tech that we have in our cars. as long as it’s within the confines of the law then so be it. If the laws need to be changed then we should be advocating for it as such.

I’m so happy to see that thing eat some snow

Might have to try this out...gotta be careful those pucks don’t go down the holes lol

been a weird year but every year i at least manage to get one weekend in with a solid rink built out on the lake. Thats at least the plan for this weekend. May need some adjustments to the ice though this year. For those that have used a sump pump to flood the lake...any tips? Ive had problems in the past with flooding creating shale ice rather than solidifying how you want it to. Any tips are greatly appreciated. Heres a photo from last year of one of many ODR's i built. I will post more photos after this weekend!

i gotta laugh and say i love seeing the old timers literally looking like a beer league team. Hilarious to see Lanny wearing pants from 10+ years ago.

the only time the heater is on all day is when its actually way below zero and my dads fishing with me. I typically venture out until i get cold and then come back in as well. Last saturday was the first day this year I even used the heater and ive been on the ice almost every weekend since the beginning of December! She was so damn cold though on saturday evening when the sun went down that in the hut with the heat cranked my line was still icing up!

My buddy brought up a 10lber this past weekend it was the width of a regular tank but flat like a saucer. Such a good idea the 20lber I lug around is overkill. I don’t need to carry 2 fishing seasons worth of propane with me lol

i think she thinks you cant see her because she is "hiding"

🤔 the fishing decline Couldn’t have anything to do with the population of southern Ontario increasing by 35%? Theres so many factors at play here specifically in the kawarthas, and that’s why you see other municipalities enforcing laws for the purposes of protecting shorelines and water quality. every cottage on the lakes basically has a giant retaining wall and have destroyed the majority of the natural shoreline on those lakes. The lakes are full of algae, The water levels are absolutely all over the place, Invasive species, guys running seadoos right over top of bedded fish non stop, increased fishing pressure etc etc the number 1 factor? Humans...humans are negatively impacting the lakes. The more humans, the more the lakes will suffer. im not saying Tournament fishing doesn’t have a negative effect on bass populations, anything that disturbs the fish does, but saying it’s all because of tournaments is basically pointing fingers. As far as I’m aware, everything done in tournaments is within the confines of the law and furthermore extreme care is taken to try to lower unintentional kills. i guess ya we could all go back to the methods of the 70’s...and kill every single fish we see and eat it. Musky is delicious.

for how friggin big moose are, they may be some of the dumbest animals out there. They literally act and move around like a 2 year old stuck in andre the giants body lol. My dad had one decide to fight his car in Alberta.