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  1. I’m done with goretex. I wear the Helly Hansen rubber suit now. The new ones are even a bit stretchy. I stay mostly dry unless water runs in somewhere (sleeve) etc. The way I look at it, if it’s wet enough for me to wear a rain suit, it’s generally cool enough to wear the rubber suit. When it’s crap out I’m usually wearing base layers, my under armour cold gear stuff and the rubber suit just seals in the flavour. Your mileage may vary.
  2. I typed a big response and it seems to have disappeared. stormy launch is pretty good but I’ve only ever launched a 16 footer there. You can generally get a dock unless it’s super busy weekend. I believe bass, pike and walleye open same weekend in May now. Double check though because I’ve been fishing opening in the kawarthas for 30 years so I never make zone 11 until a couple weeks later. The bass thing is only a season or 2 old I believe. Plenty of smallmouth, particularly on Nip. Read zone exceptions, I haven’t been on stormy for quite some years. yes it will be buggy then. Restoule is an awesome park, we’ve really enjoyed our camping there. It would be shortlist if I where to take up camping again. I’ve camped there end of June during the week and it was reasonably quiet. Weekends will be busy like all the provincial parks! Nippissing is close with excellent fishing and is worth a day trip. Launch at the end of Lansdowne in Callander you’ll probably be able to get a big bass boat in. No problem with 18 foot deep V’s. If not, premier st launch in north bay can be a bit dicey for bigger boats depending on water level. But the marina has an excellent launch.
  3. I have also been wearing a Striker suit for the last 5 years. I'm very happy with it, and I use it for spring salmon trolling, pickerel jigging and any late fall fishing also. Very flexible suit with good buoyancy. Don't forget your ice picks as well. They are expensive but at this point I'm not putting a price on my life.
  4. Yep. I’d buy the refillables in a heartbeat if they where readily available. All I can find on Amazon is the little 1/4lb torch bottle. Next time I’m fishing down in the US I’ll have to check out the depot.
  5. Oh there is a way to vent 1LB cans when refilling, it’s just sketchy @F
  6. Good grief… no I hadn’t heard that. Life has gone weird. I don’t envy the poor b@$stard that has to enforce that.
  7. If I need to be rescued I expect to be rescued. If I’m getting a bill, I want everyone who drives in a blizzard, smacks into a tree skiing, required an open water rescue during boating season, slips on a banana peel, or gets lost in the woods to foot the bill for their rescue. Life isn’t bubble wrapped and crap happens. And it happens in many different pursuits of happiness and it often puts emergency services in harms way. It’s certainly not restricted to ice fishermen.
  8. Bummer about the camera. Nice pics!
  9. Scratched my itch yesterday. Ice was wet but still decent. Here’s hoping for a flash freeze and it will be great out there! Perch tacos for lunch today!
  10. Last battery I bought was around $200. At the time a lithium was $500-800 a piece. I agree you can probably get some AGM’s and lithiums close in price now. And I’ll definetly look at them next time. My new boat is a 2019, and the old owner was meticulous and replaced all batteries last spring. It’ll be a couple of years before I’m looking for batteries and no doubt the pricing will be comparable.
  11. I’ve been to a couple of house fires that burnt to the ground as a result of charging batteries in the garage. None of them where lithium at the time. Any battery or charger left on constant charge has the capacity for catastrophic failure. I have used lithium for years. One of my kids and I flew model planes for a few years and we charged lithium’s for 100’s of cycles . I even charged crashed batteries that had puffed packs outside while keeping an eye on them. Never had one light up. Millions of cell phones, iPads and other lithium powered devices are charged daily across the country with no negative results. Every so often one sparks up and we get to lithium is bad. I just don’t see that as being the case. I’m sticking with lead acids or AGM’s at this point because of price and because I can still heft them. When the difference price is negligible I’ll go lithium!
  12. Hi Cliff, Here is a link to a zoomable copy of the FMZ legal boundaries if you have not already found it. https://files.ontario.ca/mnrf-en-2_0/Fisheries-Management-Zone-10-BB13.pdf
  13. For sure nature is cruel. It always amazes me how many people think wildlife die of old age. Mainly killed and eaten in the most unpleasant fashion imaginable by some toothy critter, or freeze to death or starve. I don’t begrudge coyotes their living, but I do thin them out a bit when I start to see them too frequently, when they become too bold, or when farmer friends complain about livestock harassment or loss!
  14. Nothing that 50 grains from the triple deuce can't solve. You've reminded me to dust off my winter whites. I had more than I care to see on the cams this fall. If no one else does, the deer will thank me!
  15. Precision trolling is an art. Sometimes the trolling motor is the best option, sometimes bags, sometimes a bucket. Sometimes your reverse gear. On the Great Lakes usually the best option is the main guided by the TM. Sustained speed for multiple hours at 2mph or over is best achieved with the main or kicker. Anything under that is TM country. Depends what and where you are fishing, also depends on wind and wave conditions. I troll almost exclusively on my bow mount on Nippissing for pickerel, 90 percent of my fish are caught under 1.5mph. On Erie I use the main and the bowmount. as autopilot and to fine tune speed. 90 percent of my Erie fish are caught at 2.7-3.2mph. On Nipp, I’m working bottom, on Erie mainly suspended. OP, it seems you’ve got a bigger boat now. I’d definitely budget for a kicker on an 18. You’ll find a world of difference if your intent is to spend a lot of time trolling. When I stepped down to a big 16 last year, first thing I did was slap a 6hp kicker on it as the vast majority of my fishing is trolling. Worth every penny!
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