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  1. I'm surprised you take a 14 tinny into the Niagara. Upper or lower it doesn't matter. I know I won't take my 19 footer in that river.

    You can get a lot of used boat for 5K. There's a 4Winns, out here 28 foot, 5.7lt Mercruiser, new tops and windows, new outdrive and Gymbal bearing, all new boots, new steering cable, new batteries X4, new hydraulic pump, new this and that. $4500.00. Great shape for a 89. Heck you would think I'm selling it, I'm not. You won't be towing this around. My point is for 5K there's a lot of boats out there slightly used.

    I've fished in both the upper and lower rivers in a 12' with a 9.8 merc and never felt in any danger. Drove a 12' car topper with a 4 horse from Notl to queenston
  2. Spincast, thanks for the idea of the longer tether. I fish on Lake Ontario alot by myself, and this would be helpful in staying safe.

     

    I also googled something know as an autotether - where you wear a remote fob that when contacted in water will shut off your engine. Anybody know where you can get one of these in the GTA?

     

    Bill

    I emailed the company and there are no canadian retailers at this time
  3. My 50 hp 4 stroke merc will get my 16'8" lund to 29-1/2 mph at about 5400 rpm and planes fairly quick. My boats about 150lbs lighter than yours. 6000 rpm seems a bit high for your buddys boat but I'm not positive. And your rpm is low. Have you done a compression test on the motor? Any pictures of the engine on the boat?

  4. Spent the last 13 days on vacation the first 7 days in Cayo Coco cuba for some flats fishing which didn't go quite to plan with high winds and cloud cover and rain made sight fishing the flats very difficult. Also all guides were booked for the week so we could not get in a skiff with the guides. I had my first Crack at a permit that didn't want to eat and lost one small bonefish, my buddy landed one decent bone on his first cast of the trip and that was it.

    So after returning home Wednesday I still had a few more days off. I fished Friday, Saturday Sunday and Monday on Lake Erie. Friday went for perch on Lake Erie but struggled to find a solid school that would stay under the boat for more than a couple minutes bringing 40 good eaters home.

    Saturday I went out again in search of them but when I got to the lake this is what I saw IMG_20150516_133037_zps41svxmwn.jpg

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    Couldn't see more than about 30' in any direction so I just headed to a spot where I'd marked them the day before. After picking up a half dozen perch I started to drive around slowly looking for a school, when I heard a boat come driving up behind me waving his arms and hollering at me. Turns out he'd gotten turned around in the fog with no gps and couldn't find his way in so I had him follow me back to the ramp. So I decided I'll just call it a day.

    Sunday I fished with my dad and we planned to fish the us side of Erie and I'm sure glad we did. Sun was shinning with no wind and the fog had lifted for the most part

    We set out to catch some eyes and bass, and it was a good decision

    We ended up with some eyes and a bunch of big smallmouth thrown in the bunch

    This one was .02 shy of 6lbs

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    It was a beauty day spent on Erie with Dad.

    Monday my girlfriend and myself met up with my dad in the morning and headed out to Erie again to try for the perch,we didn't get there till about 10am after stopping for bait and coffee and what not. We drove out to a spot and was on a big school for a short period until they moved from under us never to be seen again. We ended with enough for a good fry before the west winds blew us off the lake, my girlfriend was just happy to catch a couple fish for the first time this season and yes she got the biggest one

     

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    It was a great long weekend filled with lots of fishing and fish frys :D now back to reality this afternoon for work waiting for Friday to be back in the boat

  5. We had a tough morning, but managed to salvage the afternoon with 6 quick fish, biggest was 17 then 14 all the way down to about 2 lbs. Ended with 8 I believe. Thanks Pete for meeting me on the river to complete a classified transaction lol nice hand off floatman :)IMG_20150502_094154_zps8nq05wst.jpg

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