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I believe it’s a Salvage!

Stew tomorrow! Haven’t seen a Jack in a long time back at home. I used to hunt over in King township as a kid for jack rabbit and pheasant. Still hunt deer there, plenty of those around. No jackrabbits, definitely no pheasants! Good deal on the cam!

I have 3 Campark minis on the trails at our family camp. I really like them and have been overall pretty impressed. I love the small profile and they hide well. This is a bonus for finding out which neighbour likes to trespass LOL. The one issue I have is that I find the batteries don’t last as long as it’s only a 4 AA camera but otherwise your right they are awesome little cameras. I did have one crap the bed just recently but it’s one of my ones down south on some farm property and it’s been running hard year round for almost 4 seasons so what do you want for a $40 camera! Are these the same ones your using? I pulled them in last night for new batteries, pull cards and put them in new spots today. The rabbits are in trouble… my kids are loading the .22s as I post this. Poor buggers are all white and no snow in the bush….

I’ve been very happy with the Tactacam reveal. Not so happy with Spypoint, although I have had a couple of spypoint cell links that did way better than expected! That said, I have one tactacam out of 4 that has been eating batteries lately, so I’m not sure what that’s all about. Could be I ran into a bad box of Costco cells? I’ve never used them before , but I’ve heard very positive reviews about the bushnell cellular cameras. If your already happy with the products, it might be something to look into? What I’ve heard the most positives about is Tactacam and bushnell. My experience with Tactacam has been mostly all good. My experience with spypoint has been varied and I hear a lot of negative chatter and have a couple buddies that have run into some troubles with them as well. I think it’s a bit of a crapshoot.

Lots of fun pulling cards! To be honest most of my cameras are cell now, so instant gratification lol. But I still have a few up at the family camp that are just card cams and I always love seeing what turns up! Really like getting the lynx on cam! I still have a couple cams turning in some pics, but they are sporadic at the moment. I’m suffering from dead batteries and technical difficulties at the moment I think. I’m gong to have to go out soon to do a battery run and trouble shooting! Keep the pics coming when you can!

Yep definitely not a bear. Nice pics!

Our fleet has had a bunch of them burn up, and I know one fella personally that burnt up the ford eco-boom in a truck. I wouldn't have one myself. Your mileage may vary.

I've owned both the Terrova and the XI5. I've burnt out the GPS head unit on both believe it or not. My Terrova is going in to Aikmans for a lower unit rebuild as it's squeaking like a sumb!@tch. If I had to pick one over the other, I'd get the Terrova. Nothing seems to last if you actually use it.

Sorry to hear man!

Have you bought something yet? I went to a Honda Pilot a while back. I get a legitimate 8L per 100km on the highway with the 6 cylinder and can do 13-14 while towing. My new boat is only 2000lbs but it did tow my last boat at 3500lbs adequately. I’m pretty happy overall, but I do sometimes miss my truck. It’s got a ton of cargo room in the back as well but again, you have to be more careful with tossing things in.

I investigated the cost in 2018 to paint my 18 footer in good shape with sun fade. There where no major scratches and I got quoted from $3500 to $4K. I ended up having it wrapped in 2019 at a cost of $1300 for a simple wrap. It held up very well and looked great other than a few stone chips or dock marks when I sold it in August. I would absolutely do it again, but hopefully my new boat won’t need it for a long time.

I have the previous generation terrova, 2015ish model. I find the spot lock performs all enough for what I need. I don’t use it a great deal, I use it as an autopilot as 80 percent of my fishing involves trolling. The spot lock on older generations definitely performs better in current. It tends to hunt a bit more on open water but it’s good enough for the occasions I use it. I hear the newer ones are better but don’t really know. Everyone I know is squeezing the life out of their old ones before replacing. I will say that I burned out the GPS head unit on 2 units now, one a motorguide xi5, the other my current terrova. Both times I got lucky, the xi5 had an extended bass pro warranty, the terrova I had just happened to buy a Canadian tire terrova head unit and remote kit on clearance when the new models came out. I had bought it for the remote but ended up needing the GPS module. They all fail if you kick crap out of them. I’d still take a terrova over any of the others.

I have a Terrova with countless trolling hours on it. It will be going into the shop this winter as it's squeaking terribly, but its still running..... I have seen countless posts of disabled Ulterras. Don't get me wrong, I really like the concept, but I don't think I'd buy one. When my Terrova finally craps the bed entirely, I'll replace it with another!

Sweet pics! Trail cams are fickle at best, but at least you can figure out what’s around. It’s like finding Easter eggs, especially cell cams!

Barry, bummer on the pics but nice horses! I’ll be hunting very close to Oxenden on Monday morning and have rifle hunted that area since the mid 90’s. Here’s a little chasing from this morning to cheer you up! They are getting fired up!

Fired up, but big bucks haven’t started chasing my doe herd yet. I have one younger buck that’s got a cool rack. There is a huge bodied 11 point that I’ve been seeing from a distance the last couple years, or on a camera. But I’ve never got him in bow range. This property is bow only, no gun seasons and I tend to try for a bigger buck as I buy an extra tag for the unit. In general rifle season I will shoot the first deer I see that’s not a doe/fawn pair. 82a for rifle so we always have doe tags and I’m a card carrying member of the spoon and crockpot club during rifle.

Good luck Barry, hope you get a goodun! I'll be chasing whitetail in the general season in less than 2 weeks, however I'll be sitting with the bow for a few days next week to kick things off!

Sweet mount. I buy a point in Wyoming every year for Lope and Mulie. Will be cashing in sometime in the next 5. Hopefully will put some nice ones on the wall! Will be 2 separate trips though!

Good deal man, I had a heck of a time on a father son trip with my middle boy a while back! Good to spend time afield with the kids. Downside is he’s learning to outfish the old man! Only a couple weeks until deer season with my oldest boy, can’t wait for that!

I use any type of standard laundry borax. 20 mule team from the grocery store works just fine. Back in the day I used to use pro cure, but it’s been probably 20 years now since I’ve felt the need for something more than borax!

When given a choice to fish Nippissing, I generally fish Nippissing. So many species and generally readily available. Even though our camp is closest to Lavigne, I usually drive the extra 15 minutes and fish the east end. I’m mainly a pickerel fisherman and that’s where really good fishing is, although we get plenty of Pike and Bass on the east end of the lake as well. Weather (winds) can be a factor though and west end is probably a fair bit more protected than main basin. I made at least one hairy ride back from the Manitous this summer. I have heard that you don’t need to run as far out for pickerel in the fall from the west end, but that’s just from talking to guys at the Lavigne boat ramp. I really only know the area around Lavigne on the west end and that’s good bass and pike country, I don’t generally target pics around there. Not a musky guy though, so can’t help with that!

Gen 7 fuels on the reserve on 17 pulled all their ethanol free, and when I asked about it I was told they can't get it full stop. I'd be a little suspect about anyone advertising E free. I'd at least run my own test to see what's up. If it's legit, then its good news!

Me neither, I buy the 200 yard spools of everything. The one exception would be maybe Seaguar STS, but even then that's 100 yards, and it used to be reasonable. This is the only way to fly. Leader line spools are a ripoff!

You can’t go wrong with super sniper. It’s tough as nails!

Much as I don’t love boot fishing in creeks at all, I tend to agree with this viewpoint. Trolling big kings in the lake is an excellent time and one of my favourite sounds in the world is a wire diver shot with a 25 plus king at the end of it. I’ll take the river full of muddy boots and all that comes with it. That and I do love catching bows in the fall! By rights none of those fish belong here, but they all have their time and place! I take people into consideration when I see these things. Sometimes young guys get overwhelmed seeing big fish in small water. Some people view it as an easy harvest of meat at all costs (you may not agree that they’re fit for food, but some cultures eat dogs and horses and that’s ok where they live). Where I look down my nose is guys with 1k fly rigs lining them in riffles and thinking they are fishing, or dudes who have 20 years in the game running custom outfits and clearing snagging them (time to grow up fellas). Everyone else I cut a bit of slack. Our views are sometimes born of too much available wealth and opportunity. Some areas salmon snagging for residents harvesting meat is perfectly acceptable and legal. Killing is killing, at the end of the day if the intent is harvest for meat then how it gets done doesn’t matter much to the fish… they’re dead! Anyway in my life I’ve gone full circle on this over the years, from a 12 year old salmon snagger, to a steelhead snob and purist for many many years, and now I look at it with a bit wider lense, especially having spoken to numerous people of other cultures who do indeed consider creek salmon as good for dinner!