Rich Clemens

I knew we could count on you Danbo

Simply unbelieveable. We all have our violent crimes ... but this ?????

Sounds like that trip was a world of fun. Great reports guys.

Welcome aboard. You're not too far from where I typicallly spend a week fishing (except this year). We used to spend a week fishing the Rideau system out of Rideau Ferry. Been through Carlton Place a couple times, but never stopped to fish. Again - welcome aboard and looking forward to more fishing reports from that area.

5 in the boat is a dang good day in anyone's book. Congrats to ya.

After Patsy purchased her Subaru, she got a number of offers for extended warranties on this vehicle. We were offered this from the dealer at the time of purchase, but we declined. After we decided that we would be keeping this vehicle longer than the warranty period, Patsy started to check this out with the dealer. We got the extended warranty from the dealer for a much better price than these third-party folks.

That must be one heck of a honey hole Gnoddy. Congrats.

That's one very impressive Ski Jim. Congrats

Good deal Gary. I think Ruth was telling me about Amy while we were together up at Lakair. Sorry to hear about your loss as I too just went through it. Gotta get her trained for those fishing outtings.

Be interesting to see some reports from the Pickeral River. Like BCD, I primarily fish the French. But hey - maybe a stay on the Pickeral should be in order for me. Last year, there were a couple other guys in the same camp we were in, that were heading down to the Pickeral for some kind of GTG - don't recall which group it was. Later on I heard that one member of that group landed a 50+ muskie west of 69. Sure sounds like they are in there. Best of luck to ya and let us know how you did.

Very Cool pics. Glad I "weren't" there. Nuttin' to be fooling around with. Strange things happen when you're around Glen (hope to see you in September ... may pop in to the Lakair GTG for a little on Friday)

Man ... looks like you were hitting the water pretty heavy in July. Beauty bass and a nice mix of species. Great reports adn hope youy stay in a good mood for sharing your adventures and pics. Welcome to OFC.

I Just had to break the tie between 12-20 and over 20. My wife and I each have our own rods ... different rods for different species. I can rig my rods the way I want them and I can rig Patsy's rods the way she wants hers. Works out nicely.

Post away Mike .... post away.

That's great to hear Lew ... a full and complete recovery.

Looking good cookslav. Congratulations. Great to see everyone doing so well.

Wishing you a great one bud.

John: I have MapCreate 6, the Canadian Topo Version. It comes as a series of 6 CD's and contains topographical information for just about all of Canada ... if not all. I had the buy the entire kit, which includes an MMC card reader. You have to register each MMC card with the software and you are limited to 5 cards total. I think it was $149.00, with a $50.00 rebate. I installed the entire package on my PC at home. The reason I bought this is to make maps of the areas that I fish, that ARE NOT included on the current Navionics cards. At the time I bought this software, I don't think the Navionics chips had the charts for Nipissing. I fish the French River each year and, to date, these still are not included. I wanted something that I could use for Navigation, marking Waypoints, etc. on this body of water, so Mapcreate was about my only option. Now, MapCreate shows only topographical information. So I get the basic outline of the river. These DO NOT include water depths, hazards, etc. On the maps I did created, I recorded icons to mark hazards and waypoints for fishing spots. I have both a hand-held Lowrance H20 and an LCX 28C HD for the boat. With the maps I created, I set up two MMC cards - one for each unit. These are working our pretty well for my French River trips, with specific trails, and other data. To use Mapcreate on the PC, you have to load one of the CD's, even though I have all of them already loaded. It's a way to make sure you are the owner of the software. It comes up with an high level view of Canada and you can zoom in/out, move east/west/north/south .. any way you want to zero in on the part of Canada you want to create a map for. It's rather easy, Click on the area of the map and move the cursor diagonally across the page to create a box over the area you want. Simple as saving that area as what they call a map border file. You can also manually enter known waypoints and Icons, create routes, etc. The latter is saved as a GPS data file. All this can be saved onto the MMC with a card reader that came with the kit. This card reader plugs into your USB port. Once I created the maps I wanted, I just saved them onto the MMC and plugged them into my units and they worked fine. On the water, I was able to create new routes, waypoints, icons, etc. and these were also saved onto the MMC. Once back home, I was able to copy the data files back onto my PC as a backup copy. So, I am able to keep my PC and both GPS devices in sync. If the waters you fish most often are already pre-programmed onto existing Navionics cards, that is the direction I would go. The 2007 version of Navionics Hotmaps included Lake Nipissing, but only west to Rt. 64. Since I started going to the Lakair GTG, I went ahead and purchased the card. Much more detail than you can get with MapCreate and I think they are adding more and more bodies of water each year. If the G-bay is on the Navionics card ... spend the money and buy it. MapCreate can be used for unmapped areas and, I believe, and also be used for ground navigation, but I have not used it for land travel. See what's on the latest Navionics card and if the areas you fish most often are on it ... but the chip and save your money on MapCreate. Hope this helps a bit. If you are really looking for MapCreate software, check the classifieds of OFC. I think Irishfield (Wayne) has an unopened package of MapCreate 6 listed there - or at least he did have. Wayne's at his summer home right now and won't be around much until later this fall, but does pop in on occassion.

Number 7 .... Good deal Joey. Still dissed that those of us from the states can't get in there and help you out.

Sweet. Welcome aboard Leechman.

1 Fish .. better than no fish. No fish .. better than 1 day at work.

Not a lot of action eh ? Wishin' my musky fishin' days was half (or even a quarter) that slow. Congrats Mike ... Some real beauties there.

I knew this was gonna be good as soon as I read where you were fishin' Great fish !! Hope your buddy doesn't have to wait as long as I am for number 2.

Much, much better than we did back in June up there ... only managed 2. But, we didn't fish for them all that much. Sounds like you had some good numbers to keep the action going. Congrats DH Very Nice.

Allow me to offer my encouragement to Joey. GO GIRL GO !!!! It appears that, being from the states, I can only vote for folks from the states.