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Oh man !!! love the Pics and updates !!!!! 100% this Saltwater game is addictive lol! Already online scouting off the grid saltwater locations for next year .

Back from Cancun , and thanks for all the tips ! Took the advice and hooked up with Fin chasers for a day charter , great experience. It was tough fishing , crazy North winds and a giant rainstorm throughout the night . Guide worked his ass off ,we had some great chances and even landed a few . We were running all day looking for the fish Resort pick up was a breeze, lunch and all drinks supplied . Equipment was provided, when we do it again though we’ll bring our own. Fly rods and spinning gear were decent . Snaking our way through the narrow channels was crazy !! Even in the difficult conditions they found us fish !! Resort fishing …. used shimano med/heavy travel rods , 3000 spinning reels . We fished a rocky point and the beaches (morning ,evening ) when nobody was swimming. Zero issues from anyone ! Locals even fished the point . There is a national reef on tne otherside of the point that you cant fish so you gotta be mindful , we did see uniforms out there checking . Had tons of hits and follows and fish . Large jerk baits , senkos , were good . Small spoons caught a variety of fish from the beach . By far best choice is bait , second last day got a chef to hook us up with raw shrimp, we used that to catch small bait size fish (runners/snapper) then used chunks of them to hook larger fish. We had 3 huge somethings on lol , definitely should of done this on day one . Now time to pull out the Ice gear out !!!! (size reference, my 15 year old is 6’1)

Thanks for all the great info guys! I’ll definitely share the experience, both neg and positive. cheers R

Hey guys , Heading down to Mexico on a family trip in Jan . Has anyone fished the shorelines there before ? We’re gonna bring a few travel rods . We’ll be staying at club med , I know …….. I’d of been way off the grid but it’s a family trip lol. Planning on a few fishing excursions, any recommendations? Thanks R

Was in Orillia last week teaching ice water rescue to various emergency services staff. Usually as an instructor you’re able to read the ice and minimize your plunges through it , (makes for a long day if your constantly crawling yourself out ) this year it’s been next to impossible to read , 5” in one spot then 1” a few meters over . Stay safe and dry fellas, it’s completely unsafe in many spots .

Hahahah, you may be right , I run a tiller.

Diawa fuego 8:1 , and a decent abu rod . All cleaned up nice . 100% is gonna be given to a young Angler , my 13 year old knows a young fella that would love to have this if we can’t find the original owner . I

Snagged a rod today trolling .if you recognize it let me know and we’ll get it back to you .

Full moon top water ….. nothing like it !

Just back from a week of Kawartha Muskie hunting , no giants but fish were biting . Cold fronts made things interesting. Wish I had pics but fishing solo with the wind and waves pics would have stressed em to much. Sound advice from all the members , Knipex .. get em , along with an assortment of quality replacement hooks . Its 100% better for the fish to just cut hooks rather then keeping them outta the water for prolonged periods . I became obsessed with them 4 years ago lol, even sold my Ranger for a 188 Tiller . I fish all the spots you’re looking at and I’m usually solo in the late season, welcome to come out .

Update …. Main fuse .. (fusible link) between the battery and the alternator. 10” section of wiring harness . Easy fix Thanks for all the reply’s and advise , now time to get back out after some musky !

NICE !!!!! Kids back in school , boat fixed , cool weather … its go time !!!!

Thanks Guys New battery, old one would not charge past 80% when I pulled it and put it on the nautilus charger . Ran the rig the rest of the time with no graphs on , or live wells . Other than a few rips with the kiddos on the tub most trips were 15 min , hope that your right and it was just not run long enough .

Hit Buckhorn last week for the yearly one week vacation, bass fishing was great lots of 1.5-2lbers anywhere you hit . I try and hit deep weed edges so the kid can bass fish and I can fish for Musky . Caught some beauty bass on musky bucktails , but only had a few musky follows all week , not a lot of musky areas were hit though as I wanted to stay close to the resort incase there was a motor issue after my mishap of hitting a rock and damaging the skeg and stainless prop , thank god for the kicker motor that limped me back . Great spinner bait bite on the lake last week , white was the ticket . Voltage question ….. Ranger 1760VS 150 OPTIMAX on the back , and a 9.9 pro Kicker .All week my voltage reading was 12v then under load would drop to 11.3 when under throttle , smatcraft gauge alarmed a few times (low voltage ) cranking battery is a brand new 24 series think it’s possible I need larger ? 27, 31 ? Boat heads back to the dealer Fri for them to assess it . Any opinions are welcome . FYI , big large was caught off the resort dock , rushed up for a pic and then rushed down and swam away healthy thx

Thanks for all the tips guys !!!

Finally happened ….. smoked a rock with my boat last week on a Kawartha lake , I literally had fished the area a ton a times , and just found a random rock . Two graphs running .. 8 FOW lots of room … NOPE!! Gotta thank Kawartha Prop !! They are the guys to see should this happen !!!. Pounded the skeg back to semi straight , replaced prop (stainless being reconditioned) and back in the water in 40min , temp fix so we could enjoy the rest of the week .. No major damage (fingers crossed ) but Jesus what a sound !! Best part ….. happened on the boats second voyage !

Question guys , looking to get a top notch custom rod tied for one of our Captains that is retiring , Any recommendations?

very slick !!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the ideas! after careful thought .. I bailed on it . Figure I'll just save the $$$ and continue to feed my new Muskie obsession lol. No riggers this year .

Running a G3 177 Outfitter , Tiller . Thinking of mounting a cannon track system on the gunnel, it’ll be tight …. Has anyone mounted a track sys on narrow gunnels ? was gonna reinforce under the gunnel where the track sys goes .

We’re 10 min North of you Ron , unfortunately the same thing has happened out this way , houses and cars on multiple occasions. We had the house broken into , Lotta lowlifes out there , I’ll keep my eyes open for your rig on the local tribs

NICE!!! those singles look deadly!

Thx …. We were much further East , glad to hear other kids are into them also . I don’t fish for them much anymore once they enter the rivers or mouths BUT love seeing how amped up my son gets fishing for them !

After a week of hockey tryouts and stress for the young fella , sometimes the best therapy is forgetting about everything and just chucking lures off a cement pier, left the boat at home … grabbed 3 lures and just went. Cast … retrieve …reflect and then cast again . The fish are truly a bonus!

Looks like an Amazing morning out! even better you shared it with your son . Miss that creek !!