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I'm going. Picking up a used 24v trolling motor in the parking lot, and then go walk around. Usually just buy a tshirt or something.

I'm excited for it! Angling Sports is a great store too, with good staff, but I like having options.

Thanks guys, were still scrounging around. Like I said, I really enjoyed Mashkinonje, and we absolutely love the area, but we need to find someone who's willing to work with us on the price a bit. The cottages are beautiful there and Regan and his wife are fantastic hosts. That being said, as Ironmaker mentioned, we really don't need all that. Flush toilets are nice, and we always manage to find our own room for $300 a person. Since we go in the offseason, we've often had entire resorts to ourselves, or maybe one other cottage. Right now I've got my eye on Wajashk cottages in Dokis on the french, and my buddy is sending me one from Tamar island, on Temagami. Water access in sepetember isn't super ideal to me. Gordy, those places are both water access? My buddy's boat has a 60, and I've got an 80, so were not bad there. I'll get there first.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I've got a few to dig through!

Thanks Lew, we've stayed at both of those places. I loved Mashkinonje, I loved how easy it was to go up or down the river to good spots that I was aware of. The cottages were very nice, and Regan is a blast. In fact, when I stayed there two years ago, I'd recognized your boat from all your posts on here, and spent several hours having beers and telling stories with Regan. However, its too much money for my cheap friends. Our first year of making the trip guys only, we stayed at Memquisite, and we all really liked how well spaced the cottages were, and the fishing was excellent. Problem with them, is when we went to rebook the next year, they'd raised the cost over $70 per person, even though we were returning, and we stay during a week where no one else was there last time.. They wanted to charge us $70 for launching and docking each boat, even though there's a free launch on the island you drive in on, and the cottage is water access, so of course I need docking?! It was unfortunate, we really could have started a long standing tradition of going there.

Hey guys and gals, we're looking at booking (ahhhh) our annual guys fishing trip for this fall already. We usually go the short week in september, and its not uncommon for us to get serious about booking something in July. (we're guys) So. we're looking for some input here, I'm sure everyone has their spots. We'd like to find something that isn't much further than Temagami, but one of the guys is looking at a place two hours past Sudbury, so I guess that doesn't mean much. And it would be nice to find a place with some Walleye and I know some guys like to hunt Musky or big pike, too. We are not good walleye fishermen however. In 5 or 6 years of doing this trip, we've caught walleye twice. Once at three mile lake, and once at the west arm of nippissing. I'd also like to mention that most of our guys are cheap, so around $300 per person would be ideal, but we can flex on that a bit. Preferably a resort too, there's 8 of us, so its an awful lot of one cabin. Thanks for any help possible.

I think he should go get his other belt from woodley, the ufc needs a story right now, people would eat it up.

Your 4runner has 4piston calipers, there's no sliders to service. I've had a 4runner for 8 years, I've done all 4 calipers, and maybe 2 twice. As you said, its a very common issue on 4runners, though there's a lot of speculation that they improved from mine (4th gen) to your body style (5th gen). I also regularly let mine sit for up to a month at a time, not great for it, but I don't always need it and I tend to just forget to stretch its legs every once in a while.

My wife got me the $25 one for my birthday a while ago, I've got three boxes so far, and they've been fun for me. I'm kind of a one trick pony when it comes to fishing, I've got maybe 3-4 go-tos that seem to work for me, so I really never buy new lures. This is a cool way for me to try some new stuff that I wouldn't normally buy, and likely I will still stick to these old tried and true methods, but its nice to get some more stuff for options when the bite gets slow. More importantly its very fun to get a box of lures every month.

We just did 6 days on Trout Lake in Alban, with a group of 6 guys. 3 of our guys only caught two fish all week, we fished over 6 hours a day. One guy took 3 days to get his first fish, and wound up with 4. I had about 16 bass and pike on the week, but I was disappointed with even that.

I still scoop the double tails for spinnerbait trailers 100% of the time.

Good fish for sure! I don't understand put the net away?! We're going to be up in Alban in two weeks, a few of our boys looking to hook into their first muskies.

We go up there in the spring, mainly just to catch bass/pike but someone always hooks into a musky. Not a very big lake, if you're there for a week, you'll figure it out!

Also have an S7, really great phone. Haven't tested the waterproofness much, but its definitely water resistant.

Wow, all this happened while I was sleeping! There's always someone deal hunting!!

I've stayed up there on Bark lake for a week, and for me, the fishing was very tough. It was hard to even find cover to fish, everyone who was "helping me" told me they were catching walleye trolling in 150ft of water... Of course I tried, and of course, I failed. My only advice is go into the bakery in town and get yourself some butter tarts. Some of the best I've found in my adventures seeking fish and butter tarts.

Cool report! Well timed, too. I just landed on Kashagawigamog last night due to many many technical difficulties. Had a smallmouth off the dock in about 5 minutes. Looking forward to throwing some tubes, and kinda-maybe-hopefully finding some eyes.

Hey guys and gals. So, in the fall I picked up a Humminbird helix5 that a member on here happened to point out was on clearance at Canadian Tire for 50% off. So, I got the unit for like $250, good deal, yeah?! Then I get to wanting to install the unit, of course, on the weekend of bass opener. Turns out that the mount that comes with the unit is no good-o. So, $80+ on a RAM mount. The thing is sick, I'll admit that. Then I start to wonder about the maps. Looks like Navionics is the way to go for Ontario here. So, what I don't fully understand is: Which map pack do I need? Seems like the website sells the whole Canada one for $200. I also see people trying to buy the chips used on here, they seem to sell for about $100, but I've also seen guys on Kijiji trying to sell smaller maps than all of Canada for over $200. What are my options here? Do I trust used ones? If I buy one on a standard sd card, can I transfer the files onto my computer and then onto a micro SD?! Why is it so much freaking money, too?! Same maps I have on my phone for $15? Thanks.

I keep a pail under the center console. Garbage goes in it, garbage comes out, and its a lady washroom, a boat bailer, or a quick livewell filler.

You can grab them for 119 on crutchfield.ca

I've been using that stupid tape thing in my 04 4Runner. It kinda sucks, but not nearly as much as my fm transmitter did. Now, I do think the FM transmitter could work better if you were somewhere up north where there isn't a lot of radio stations. Around here, there's a signal on almost every number that's as strong, or stronger than your tiny transmitter, so there's always a lot of interference. My suggestion even though it isn't much help, is keep an eye on Kijiji, in the past month I've picked up one for my truck for $65, and one for my wife's car (brand new) for $80. Install is pretty straight forward.

I thought I understood that the DI only works when you're moving?! I may be wrong..

I also bought one, have only taken it out of the box to look at it! I figured I have until June to figure it out.

I've got by plenty of times in the past with a cell phone, but its not preferred. When I'm on a new lake and want to go for a good rip, looking down at my phone all the time is a serious pain in the ass, and dangerous as mentioned.

Haha, thanks for other lead, I bought that one too!! I got the 7, but was kind of disappointed that I didn't get GPS, so I ordered this one for them to hold it and I can come pick it up. I might return the 7..