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big money. The only way it stops is if people stop using them. When there is a market, there is a seller its as simple as that. Ive never used drugs myself (weed doesnt count people) Nor am I happy at all when people I know use them. With people cutting all types of stuff with Fentanyl youd have to love playing russian roulette taking cocaine or meth or even ecstacy at this point. Dont do drugs, go fishing. Would you consider Barrie a small town anymore? Cause holy cow the problem is going completely off of the rails there. I only pass through regularily and dont live there and I am noticing the problem growing exponentially. It almost is a given now that 50% of the times i pass through Barrie i see something completely messed up. Seems to be Meth thats causing the problem up there now.

On Balsam 100% yum dinger on a whacky hook. Youll catch basically anything and everything on them. Cheap easy and effective.

Iron, tungsten is one of the heaviest metals. Two reasons and I would argue three reasons to use it. 1. It’s heavier than lead so your weights of equal weight value are lower profile and smaller. Great for flipping etc they don’t get caught up as much. 2. The increased density gives you extra feel. Drag a tungsten drop shot weight across bottom vs lead and there is a noticeable difference in feel and sensitivity. and finally 3. It’s better for the environment and also better for me to not be handling lead all of the time. I’m sure it’s not great that I handle lead weights and then eat sandwiches or chips on the boat. Tungsten won’t kill you.

iron i think naturally musky populations are lower simply due to the biomass required in order to sustain them. Its easy for a lake to provide enough food to support 1000 Blue gills, but it takes a heck of a lot more resources to support one 45+ inch musky. Hence they are indeed far rarer than many other fish. The main thing though is that fish of that size and strength are extremely vulnerable to over exertion and lactic acid buildup which causes them to die if mishandled. Meanwhile a snot rocket pike can be kept out of the water for a day and then thrown back in the lake and swim away like nothing happened. Heck ive seen walleye out of cold water still fighting while in the frying pan.

I think about $40 USD (derek do you recall?) Which makes me laugh to think about because i recently bought tungsten flipping weights from Bass Pro, I paid $20 for two plain unpainted weights. Meanwhile my order from Derek I got 5 flipping weights in green pumpkin, a bunch of shakey heads and a bunch of nail weights.

have you seen how jacked Bergy is? I think they already fired him but no one cares to actually give him the boot ?

can vouch for Derek. I simply found him while trying to find some reasonably priced tungsten. He had the best prices from a reputable dealer (not ali baba) i can find, and having now gotten my order promptly, I paid no duty, the items are of as high quality as you can expect and he only charged me $10 shipping from the United States. A winner in my books and I am sure the first order of many. Thanks again Derek and best of luck!

when i win the lottery, I honestly would switch from a hummimbird man right over to garmin, especially seeing that new trolling motor they brought out at icast.

to answer the OP's question, what the heck is with the sudden push? my understanding is that a lot of it has to do with the vast market of Hindu practicing people that reside in Ontario. Their population far exceeds that of vegetarians. Its a significant market that has not been capitalized on. As mentioned in this thread, the beyond meat plant based products are not "healthy" they are full of sodium and other oily fats. The plant based burgers are actually made to be "juicy" and flavourful. They are full of salt and oil. Hence your market is not people that eat grass and lentils for a living. You are marketing to people that simply cant eat beef for religious or other reasons. Im honestly curious and will probably try out an A&W burger at some point just to try it. Ill probably then go right back and buy a teen burger lol.

youll notice the fact that I said ive literally fished with members of muskies canada that didnt know what the hell they were doing either.

man, seeing your dock damaged just has me thinking "i know that feel bro" holy crap, ive spent more time this year in the lake fixing docks, marine rail systems etc than any person should ever have to. Thats just the docks, never mind the boat house which is also now falling over ?

Ive been fishing with some "muskies canada" guys and they bloody didnt even know how to properly handle the fish. I was lucky enough to learn from Pete Hoffman. Proper release takes the right tools (hook cutters, a huge net, jaw spreaders that dont puncture, and the ability to work in the water with the fish for hook removal and recovery before you take photos) You can almost guarantee that in this heat, weekend worm fisherman are killing musky all of the time. The classic technique for anyone that doesnt know what the heck they are doing is to catch a big fish on way too light of gear, fight it for half an hour, then net the thing in too small of a net, throw it in the boat. High five, sit and take a break, search for your pliers, unhook the fish, take another break, then pick the fish up, look for your phone/camera, then take a bunch of photos and then throw the fish into the water and hope that it survives. I see it all of the time while walleye fishing in the fall. Guys keeping walleye out of the water for 5 minutes while they complete their "release process" To expect everyone to keep a musky net in the boat is a bit much, but at a minimum everyone should learn how to gill plate grab fish so that they can effectively land huge fish in the absence of an appropriately sized net. Ive landed multiple large pike this way. luckily every time ive landed a musky ive had the right net in the boat.

some guys absolutely love froggin, To be honest my hookup ratio when i started frogging was probably sub 10% Personally theres just other ways I would rather fish in the slop. Some guys seem to stick em all of the time while frogging, personally I have a heck of a time getting the fish to hook up. From my experience when you get a solid frog bite, You are going to see the frog get eaten and its not going to come back up even if you wait for 2 seconds. Then you gotta set the hook really really hard to make sure it crushes and gets the hooks into them. Top water in general is a big time percentages game, thats why I always keep a follow up bait rigged, If i get a blow up that misses, I stop, wait 2 seconds then give the bait one twitch, and wait again. If nothing happens I immediately reel in as fast as possible and throw them something to eat like a senko or a ned rigged craw. If you are fishing heavy weeds immediately chuck a whacky rig exactly where the blow up happened and to be honest better than 50% of the time the fish will hit that follow up bait.

whacky rigs or a tube. Bass cant resist. To get mobile you can do it super cheap. I bought one of those tiny inflatable rafts from canadian tire for $30 it at least allowed you to get out offshore when the weather is ok. Trust me, getting away from the shoreline and being mobile will increase your odds.

Can’t please em all wait till I catch a 50+ inch musky this fall

Looks like everyone was having a terrible time, I’m sure there weren’t many laughs had either. trips like that catching a few fish is just the bonus. Thanks for the report.

That’s more like what some people are now calling a “Walleye boat” theres a guy up in pointe au baril in the fall that drives a nitro one. I’m pretty sure it’s even described as a Walleye boat and is marketed as such by nitro. they have a transom capable of mounting a kicker unlike a bass boat. If you’ve got a full windshield, it ain’t exactly a bass boat anymore. You are talking fiberglass multispecies then.That’s just my opinion.

Can’t agree more, when the sun comes back in March and your bones have adjusted to the cold, even when it’s not necessarily warm, we spent a few days out in -10 when the wind was down just basking in the sun all day fishing outside of the huts in sweatshirts. Man did we ever have some cold days this year. Dave is the kind of guy who I’ve never seen quit or ask to go in. For perspective he once went overboard in late October, but even after falling in the lake said he wanted to continue fishing because we were catching lol. Well this winter we had a day that the wind was absolutely ripping and the air temperature was -22 without the chill...when I crawled out of my tent and went to their hut and said hey are we done here? After only an hour of fishing having spent probably half of that just trying to set the tents up in the wind, Dave promptly responded yup screw this, I couldn’t believe it lol.

Not sure why motorguide thinks that having as many strange angles as possible on their unit is appealing? dave is it true that the new Garmin remote floats...aka no need for a tether anymore?

Wanna know how to fish bass? These guys have more information than any person should ever know.

Listen to this man above everyone lol certified professional big bass catcher

You can get spotlock on a bow mount relatively cheap now. Definitely way way under $2000 for a basic set up. Also, lol at the continued comments about “who cares, I fish out of a tinner and still catch fish” automobiles still went from point A to B back in 1920 as well. You must drive a model T Ford too then. Or if we’re talking current era you must drive a base model Kia 2 door. this new tech is all wayyy to rich for me, but maybe 15 years from now it will look good on the front of my boat. Exciting stuff, love when game changing tech arrives on the market, gives you a glimpse into the future.

i really need to do some reading and look into getting a subscription again. Ive always just bought the cards and never dealt with the updates etc and now that something like this is out I wonder if I would be able to use it with my slightly older non "platinum" cards. I purchased navionics on my phone a few years back but then it prompted me that if I wanted to continue I would have to pay another $30 or something so I just never updated it and kept the original version. I'm purely guessing but Im thinking you would need the most recent cards for this to work? I need to look into this because I definitely use my phone to do a lot of planning when looking at new lakes or planning to fish upcoming tournaments while I am away from my boat. The ability to route tracks and save them for upload to your graph is also a fantastic feature. I currently find it kind dumb that in order to save a route I basically have to drive it and then save it, rather than planning a safe route for myself on a new lake and then being able to drive it before I have ever actually driven the route. Something like that would have come in extremely handy while driving lake marion which is literally the scariest lake I have ever driven on. The fact that I had to venture out blindly just using my GPS without a route to find safe passage before I could actually save that safe route into my GPS seems insane. I probably need some lessons on how to effectively use my GPS to its full potential.

best comment on the bass boat central forums was "cant you see this man is trying to get back to weigh in on time?!" lmao

Same thing no? Grandpa was a 2nd generation canadian Uki and great grandma came from Warsaw when she was 13 after her whole family died from the spanish flu. Making me both, so its a double whammy The angling population up in my neck of the woods is weird. In a lot of ways it feels like it might fall of a cliff, or there will be a strange re-emergence. But thats purely for walleyes in the fall. During the late spring and summer its shocking how few anglers there are around. The only consistent angling traffic is driven by the local lodge, the only guys that seem to fish are people that actually live in pointe au baril and obviously that population is very very small. That area of G bay is just full of extremely wealthy American's that seemingly come up to the area to sit, drive around in million dollar boats and read on their docks while wearing big hats. Thats all they seem to get up to for the 2 months they spend a year on their private islands. They seemingly also pay the local contractors hand over fist to not have to do any of their own work at all either lol, Everything just seems to be "done" when they get there. Heck I wonder if they would even cook their own fish if they caught one...i doubt it lol