Jonny

Well sorry, I'm telling you I was looking at the receipts when I typed the last post, and I was charged PST on the boat. --- EDIT - I had the price itemized for each one separately on the receipt I got from the seller. I was charged PST on the whole package (total price).

For you fellas down in Southern Ontario it really makes sense, especially if you want to get to NB/NS quick and not do much tourist stuff along the way, to go through the US and use those great Interstates to eat up the miles - Albany - Boston - Portland, etc. But geography means that either way - northern or southern - isn't really "direct line". On a trip to Victoria a couple of years ago we went through the States to get there and through the States to get back home (you can't beat Interstates for long-distance driving). We had no trouble at all with customs on any of our four border crossings. Make sure you keep all your receipts for souvenirs in case they want to check.

Of course he is making his money that way. (I mentioned that above). You are basically paying $10 per lure. A lot of sellers on ebay charge a high shipping cost for the things they put up for auction at a low opening bid. It`s basically like a reserve price, and it`s not particularly unusual. It`s easy to figure out the strategy if you`ve been around ebay for a while. You basically know up-front that the lures are going to cost you $10 each.

I think you'll love Nova Scotia. Your "dream cottage" may be hard to achieve, but you've got lots of time to research. Get in touch with N.S. tourism - you can get a lot of info sent to you and you can also find a lot on line. I planned pretty well our entire trip on line, including booking whale-watching south of Digby. We did the hotel, motel, bed-and-breakfast thing for two weeks, so I can`t say much about cottage rental. But a friend of mine has been renting a cottage at Inverness (Cape Breton I.) for years and loves it there. I think this is where he goes... http://www.macleods.com/beachvillage.html http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews...HECK_RATES_CONT We found that when travelling from North Bay it took us a full day`s drive (Ottawa - Montreal - Autoroute past Quebec City) to get to Edmundston, NB. From there we drove to Saint John and took the ferry across to Digby NS, but if you go the land route to NS, the second day should put you well into almost any part of the province as well. There are resources where you can check travel times.

I did read the feedback comments before bidding. I browsed through 26 pages and 2000 feedbacks on the lures this guy sells and only found one buyer who called them fakes (the feedbacks I posted above). Everybody else was happy. An overwhelming positive feedback usually means you can bid and buy confidently. I guess a LOT of people have been fooled. Thanks for the tip on re-weighting the lure. I'll look around for that product (or similar).

I just had a look at my receipts from buying a 16' boat, 65 HP motor and trailer (private sale, used) three years ago. I paid the trailer license fee and I also paid 8% Ontario sales tax on the entire package. I have a receipt for "Motor Vehicle Transfer", on which the clerk wrote "Taxes paid on boat and trailer, motor". The (federal) transfer of registration on the boat was free, but if I recall correctly I had to show that I had paid the tax on the boat before it would be issued.

When you transfer the boat registration you will have to pay tax on the purchase price of the boat.

My wife and I had a good laugh from that one! Camping to us was always tenting and almost always lake-access (travelling on the water to get to a camping spot). Later we did get a nice pop-up hardtop trailer, but only had it for a few years. We found that finding nice camping spots that you could drive to was VERY difficult, for the kind of camping experience we had in mind anyway.

I did a search on Cabelas.ca and got "0 results". Price depends on size from what I see elsewhere. The smaller ones are quite a bit cheaper than the bigger ones.

Good luck with that. Worth a try I suppose. When I sharpen a chain saw chain, the saw never cuts straight again, but I guess that's just me. I've got one of those... the name brand "Speedy Sharp" one - works great on regular knives

NOPE. The memory of winter is always fresh in the mind up here. --- Couldn't be more miserable here today if it tried... wind kicking up rollers crashing in from the East, raining like a son of a gun (relieved by periods of absolute downpour), 16 degrees C. Well yeah, it could be colder. My days of fishing in the rain (and snow) are over. Been there, done that many times. I ain't that macho any more.

Enter by posting here on the board? Maybe all entries should be made here on the board so all of us can see! Of course categories for the fish, but also I'd put in some additional categories --- maybe : the best story about $ama tackle in action the most imaginative terminal rig made out of $ama components the best entry photo ...stuff like that.

They sell wire... make your own!

Nice one! PS - I'd take the tension off that rod before posing for a pic. You don't want to be the next one wearing that hook!

OK, I'm in! Thanks for the notice. Sounds good. Newsletter is welcome and I can always use another camera.

AFAIK you can't sharpen that kind of blade.

Here are a couple of links with more background... http://www.ctfishtalk.com/fake-luckycraft-...ebay-t1552.html http://www.tackletour.net/TTForums/viewtop...=14&t=40079

I'm guessing that setting up a production line simply to sell on ebay would be a losing proposition. There has to be a bigger market, though I don't know where you'd find it. You are right about the weight, though I don't know how you would gauge that simply by eye, looking at the weight and the metal balls inside. I tried it in a bucket of rain-water. If I push it under, about a foot deep, it will slowly rise and then float. We do that all the time with Made-in-China Rapalas, right? I bought this one on a whim, just because there was some discussion on this board about Lucky Craft lures, and it has provided a good bit of education. I am sure it can be as good at catching fish as some of my Rapalas, Rebels, etc. You can bet I'm going to try it out. I'd love to find out (but probably never will) how and where this lure was actually produced, and why Lucky Craft Co. hasn't filed suit. If it was good enough to fool Smalliefisher (in photos anyway), and he's an owner of a number of Lucky Craft lures, plus the fact that they're being sold under the Lucky Craft name, you would think Lucky Craft Co. would jump on it.

Well maybe you can get them for $12 here, but seeing as it's supposed to be a premium lure, and even large Rapala's cost in the neighbourhood of $10, you might have to look hard. BPS sells large Pointers for $17 - $20. ($19 - $22 tax in.) Cabela's doesn't sell Lucky Craft, neither does LeBaron, Canadian Tire or Walmart. Small outlets (tackle shops) would probably charge more than BPS? The hunt is fun, yes. I've enjoyed ebay for about 10 years now for a large variety of things. "As all things internet, if it looks too good to be true...." ... I gave one example above (the NFL jerseys) that were an absolute steal. I've gotten a lot of other products (new or like new) for way below what they were worth new in a store. And the other big thing about ebay is that you can find (and buy!) things that you can't find anywhere else. This lure, in my experience, is an exception. But I am also a careful buyer and check things out thoroughly before buying, especially if they are big ticket items.

I see that difference, yes! There must be a LOT of people who don't recognize the difference. I went back through 2000 feedbacks for the last month (this guy sells a TON of "Lucky Craft") and I only found one buyer who calls them fakes... all the negatives here are left by the same buyer... He bought a bunch at the same time. A couple of other negative feedbacks had to do with other issues, not authenticity, and some complained about lack of combined shipping, which I explained above (that's easy to figure out if you're a frequent user of ebay like I am). I don't know yet whether this one I bought will float or suspend (it should suspend- I'll let you know) Look at the staggering number of sales... Somehow this guy "hootcrazed" has access to the products from a production line, maybe even an actual production line that produces for Lucky Craft, that uses slightly different components for a different market (maybe Asian?) I can't help but think that the Lucky Craft Co. should have been able to shut him down unless there's some other complication involved.

I checked back and I see Cudz mentioned a rod too. When I was at Dollarama today I only saw a reel. $2 for the reel.

If the boat is solid - never mind if it's scratched up, faded, whatever cosmetic - and the motor checks out, $800 would be a damned good price where I come from. Like WD says, up north old 12 footers are sought after. I had a nice little 12 footer, in excellent shape, that I sold for $600 --- 25 years ago!

Soon you're gonna be a real expert, Jacques!

Good to know, thanks! You know, in the picture from Lucky Craft, it shows an oval split ring where you tie on, and this one has the oval split ring too. That was something I thought a knock-off probably wouldn't have. You watch for the auctions ending that nobody has bid on... lots for this seller (hootcrazed) who posts many lures... and you get them for $0.01 each plus 9.99 shipping each. No combined shipping, so the seller is making his money on the shipping charge. Based on other things I've bought I would say his shipping cost is maybe $2 - $3. The lure came from "Yamada Taro" in Fremont, CA., actually in a UPS padded worldwide express bag, though sent by US Post. At the exchange rate when I bid on it, mine came to 11.88 CAD. I don't know what they sell for if you can find them in Canada, but on U.S. sites I've seen them for sale for about $15 US, so maybe about $18 CAD here?

I was going to say split-shots in proper-sized holes would do.