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You leave your phone unlocked? Where I work, if you do that someone is posting a long speech on your most intimate thoughts and desires for you on facebook. Don't leave your phone unlocked or sitting around. It just gives your buddies too good of an opportunity to do you in!

No idea, sail was carrying nucanoe, but they seem to have dropped the line. I got a great clearance price on mine. I would just order direct, international shipping is pretty quick, most orders I make from the US are here in a week or less. I haven't seen another shop carrying nucanoe.

Your son is hooped.

HJ 12 gold, black back.

My favourite fishing buddies are my kids. Nice couple of day out!

Kijiji. I bought my last set of factory side steps on kijiji for a third of the price, and put them on myself. Might take a few weeks, but I'll bet you find a set.

If you intend to troll, the easiest possible way you can use a worm harness is to use a 1-2 ounce bottom bouncer. It takes almost all the guess work out, even my kids know how to use them. 0-15 foot, use a 1 ounce bb. 15 foot plus, use a 2 oz. Drop harness and BB until you feel it hit bottom. Let your troll pull the rig up off bottom. Then let out anothe foot or so. If you feel if dragging or being in constant contact, reel it up a foot or so. Troll at 1-1.5mph. If there are pickerel present, you'll eventually catch some.

Plywood cutout a of coyote. I know a few camps that use this technique. Paint it black so it stands out. Cheap, easy to make and apparently effective.

Yah the chain will help a lot. If you just want a temporary solution, fill a bleach jug with sand, then wet it. That or gravel (bit more tedious). Should hold a peddle boat well enough for a cheap anchor. Even better if you have some old concrete and an eyebolt kicking around. Just cut the top half off the bleach bottle and jam a long eyebolt with a washer and nut in the centre. They work real good and cheap like borscht.

I carry multiples of maybe 6 blade colours. It covers almost anything I want to do. I run with Chartreuse, silver, gold, purple, orange, and a bronze type. . With the exception of silver and gold, most of the other blades are half and half with a bit of black, or some other colour. I have maybe 12-18 harnesses in the boat, and most are duplicates of good producers. I've found I can catch fish anywhere with these colours and a mix of different beads. I carry some spare beads and blades and hooks in the boat as harnesses will get beat up after a while. They are really easy to retie. I've seen guys go nuts with dozens of harnesses in a bizarre array of colours. but really probably 4 patterns would cover all your bases. Anything with chartreuse/black, silver, purple, and a bronze/black blade would do the job almost anywhere. It's like husky jerks, you only need 4 colours in a size 12 to catch anything that swims!

Basically a glow stick. You snap it in the middle and it will glow for 10-12 hours.

I have a garmin Dakota 20. It's a great unit, but the screen is a little small. I use it mainly for hunting and it works great, is super easy to use and is touch screen. I do take it in the boat as a backup pretty often. I managed to snag one of those navionics beta test chips for garmin, and it's pretty cool cause I have maps loaded onto the GPS, but I can switch between them and the navionics chip. It's not what I'd want for my main navigation screen though. I'd try to go a size up in screen if the budget allows.

The reality is that if you are a couple of miles off shore, make sure you have real life jackets, complete with whistles and a cyalum light attached. That will be more important than anything else you can carry. I've never had an unfortunate incident, but had my heart in my throat a few times. All accounts I've read from mishaps, people have found themselves in the water pretty quick. I run with real adult life jackets (with the goofy kids collars) on the seat backs. They have a whistle and a cyalum light. If I'm on my own on a great lake, I wear one, If I'm on an inland lake, I wear my inflatable PFD. I carry a charged cell phone in a waterproof (I hope) case in my pocket, and I keep a water resistant portable VHF at hand. I'm thinking about a ditch bag, but I'm guessing it would be mostly useless in an emergency any distance from shore, unless it contained a handheld VHF. I always carry a pocket knife when fishing anyway, so don't need that, and I can't figure what I'd do with much else If I was floating around in the water offshore, other than wanting a means to call for help and give location. Probably a small water resistant GPS so I could give an approximate location. I do keep a couple of short lengths of ropes with light carabiners attached. Sounds silly, but I fish with my kids a fair bit, and have a horrible vision of ending up in the water with them and losing one of them in rough weather. I figure at least I could daisy chain us together. Anyway, interested to hear other responses. Compass is a good idea, probably will get a couple and put them on the life jackets although I keep one in the boat.

I also have a nucanoe frontier 12. It's not a lightweight, but extremely stable. I mainly duck hunt out of it, and can carry a bunch of decoys, a battery and 50lb thrust trolling motor, gun and gear. I then use it as a layout boat. It works well for fishing also, but I don't use it nearly as much due to my boat. There pretty cool rigs.

sand bottom flats with consistent depth can be very productive depending on time of day.

1 and 2 ounce bottom bouncers are all you'll need in most kawartha lakes. Drop it over the side, wait till you feel it hit bottom, let it settle and then let out a foot or two more line to account for blowback. If you feel yourself regularly ticking or dragging bottom, reel up a half turn. Your bouncer should just touch every so often. If your holding your rod and feel the hit, feed it back to them a little, then a nice easy sweep. Reel in fish! If you have a few guys in the boat , I find a planer board helps with midday fish. You can run up to at least 2.5 ounce bouncers off a church boards. 1.0-1.5mph is the sweet spot for crawler rigs. The fish will tell you.

My last trip on nippissing, the top of the water was littered with shadfly. We killed it numbers wise, with a personal best ever for pickerel numbers in the boat. I spent a lot of time in north bay for a few years, and never noticed a major effect. And they see significant hatches. Your mileage may vary.

The question I have for you is why don't you use live bait? Is it an ethical issue, do you prefer the challenge, do you not want to mess with bait etc? I hear this a lot from guys that want to target pickerel, and I'm not sure I understand it. I primarily target 2 species a year, pickerel from the boat, and steelhead from the bank, with the odd side trip for other species. I catch a ton of pickerel on artificial baits, wether it be cranks, jigs, bucktails etc. There is a time and place for all of them, but while I could cheerfully target bass all year with artificial bait, sometimes you need a fat crawler or some minnows for picks. You can turn negative fish into feeders by bouncing the right bait off their nose, even at 2 in the afternoon on a sunny day. Anyway, all that aside, try a stinger. At least that way you'll know what's nipping your tails, usually if it's a sunfish or perch you'll snag em in the side of the head and discover the culprit. How to stop it? The gulps products and a lot of plastics are like bait, a disposable product unfortunately.

You don't need a high end graph for this either. Some of the $100 jobs will do it no problem with laker size baits once set up right.

Those are some beautiful nippissing pickerel. It can be challenging to catch them that size. You did well. Next time drop a waypoint as soon as you catch a fish, and circle back on it a few times. It's also helpful to run a track on your gps, as you can see the trail you traveled, and your line of waypoints that where productive. We smashed them on nipp with crawler harnesses trolled at 1.0-1.2, right off the boat as well as off boards. Ironmaker is 100 percent dead on, I've seldom caught just one pickerel off a spot on nippissing. It's loaded with fish, the only problem is the size. We got 4 keepers out of countless fish when last there. 12-16 inchers abound. Good luck next time!

I fish harnesses a lot, and if the bite is on, I have used the gulp worms and they have worked. I'm pretty much a pickerel fisherman, and nothing replaces live bait depending on the technique, but on a hot bite I've caught fish on the gulp 3 inch minnow and gulp worms as well. I keep a Plano soft plastics container in my boat at all times, and keep a mix of gulp baits in it soaking in juice for emergencies, or when I run into to many junk fish with worms. I have never had it leak a drop. You pretty much need to throw away the gulp bucket that comes with the bait, I guarantee it will leak. I would never rely on them for pickerel, but they will work in the right circumstances and are better than nothing. Bass eat them with abandon though, so you can use em elsewhere.

Bump the sensitivity up, and jig at the back of the boat as near to the transducer cone as you can. Depending on the quality of the sonar, most should pick up a decent size jig in 100fow. It will look like a line across bottom, and when you jig, the line will move up and down.

I go out of lauderdale point marina. The launch is pretty good, but temporary docking leaves something to be desired . They have a decent washroom, a snack bar during the summer months etc, so you don't have to bring a lunch if you don't want to. Most of the bays are pretty weedy, you will get as many small pike as bass. There are lots of open sand flats, and rocky islands as well. It's a decent smallmouth and largemouth lake. There are some pretty shady areas as far as underwater obstructions, but they are prett well marked. If you have navionics, it's fairly accurate for the lake. Not a big lake at all, easy to get around. It's not my favorite lake, but it's a good day trip. Have fun.

Fenwick will mail a new rod to your door for $11 if you have the receipt. You'll likely only need to send pictures of the failure and the receipt. Ask me how I know, lol. Great warranty!

I dropped Rogers to go with Virgin. 2 years ago. They run off bell infrastructure, are owned by bell, but I get none of the bell or Rogers Bull. My bill has never been incorrect, they've never tried to bump my price plan, and I've never been gouged for something. I had been with Rogers for 15 plus years previously and had to call and complain about something almost every month. Worth a look anyway.