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Also the ball to trailer receiver is a big part of your ground. I don't worry about to much until I tow a little bit make a few turns sorta knock the rust off.

Feelings are a waste of time. Get the battery load tested. You can buy 1 from CTC for $50 or just have CTC do it.

Started at 9 fished till 3 landed 11with 10 in slot 1 over.

New or not check battery levels. Start by load testing battery. Battery's are most likely to fail the first time out.

And you can reel it from 1 spinning reel to the other or baitcaster. No Memory.

Stand spool up. start spooling. With in 3-4 turns you will see how the spool wants to fall. That's the right way.

Not in a boat ? Tie to fence walk it off cut, walk back to fence and reel it back on reel.

I would store rods and reels around lawn mowers and gas cans ever.

Lake Ontario is up from last fall. Close to 2ft.

Everstart eco/core charge is $15 on a group 27- 850 so $87.98 +15 Cosco group 27-845 is 98.99 + 10 eco/core fee So the cosco battery is $6 more. No walmart had more than 1 and cosco Oshawa has 4 less.

The first real seminar I went to was Al and Spence at Rerries. AI to be a great angler you need to be good at all technics and all species. So that's what I did.

As staed it wasn't me. And this person was not alone. Sad but true.

I'd like a loaf of bread and a case of shotgun shells season.

Top 5% Bass Tournaments all time in Ontario 30 years. Won walleye and Crappie tourmaments. Tiring to win a pike tournament just to say I did then I'm going to win a carp tournament just to say I did. To win you really need to just want it. If you arn't winning you aren't working hard enough.

You can tell the water temp is just not right. Lot's of half hearted jump. Maybe tomorrow.

When that water hits 42.3 watch the majic. Right now they jump in the ladder and fall back out. Very few will make it over. When that temp. gets right they clear that ladder like it's no their. I think Lawson has a picture of the 1st rainbow we seen clear the ladder (1988).

Gamebridge dam is cool. Stop many times.

I believe this be to the best conversatiom in months on this board. The walleye didn't bounce back on shear luck on any of these lakes. Maintaining water levels is huge but just like the carp connection only 1 part. I think it might have been that little bit the walleyes needed. Bass clubs in this area started in 1996 and I fished a club crappie tournament on Rice Lake were most of the crappie were released on Lake Scugog about 300 (not by me I ate mine) and won the tournament. This was wrong but that's how they the crappie moved around so quickly.

What pg. is it on.

So to tie the wild rice into the walleyes #'s. With the huge re birth of the rice beds on Pidgeon, Goose Bay and even Balsam is a huge return of Carp population just around the corner. Hope I'm wrong. Scugog are all shore/shoal spawners. Sturgeon likely has the best fast water spawning. Pidgeon the same 2 good fast water areas. Upper Buckhorn and Chemong are Shoal/shore spawn. UB does have a fast water area most don't no were it is. Rice has 3 that most people know about plus about 50 little creeks that run in the south shore. Most so small you can't even find them. And a real active Shoal/shore spawn. So it's true all are a little different. Except for Tri Lakes all have recovered to be better than ever. All had major carp die off.

Scugog is the top of the system, all water runs to Strugeon. The 3 years I did the spawning survey on different parts of Scugog 2 years I had exellent vis. The 1st year I seen 800 +/- on 1 shore. Every female by size had 2-3 carp sucking up the egss and milt. I had to look real close most times to see the male just behind the female, the carp were all over them. I also believe Rice come back perfectly times the carp die off. I will check some stuff later. Think 1999 was the carp die off. I'm sue somebody will no. Rice has been crasy for 6 years now. Heres something else a couple buddys have caught a few 10 inch walleye on scugog this winter.

Sinker you correct zebra mussel are not a factor on Scugog. What you need to do is get off the chesterfield and go look at Shoal/shore spawning walleyes. The carp are all over them. The reason why Scugog took so long to crash is water color. It was my hope that the walleye fry would be protected from those crappie looking up for easy meal by water color. Here's something else to think about. My bass club had Jason Burnuz out and talking about all the wild rice on lower Pidgeon. Jason is the Fed. Bio. for Ocean and fishery's. He thinks the rice came back because of the carp die off. Apparently carp love rice. And he was living on the Tri lakes. Also on Scugog fast water spawning areas are not a factor it's all shoal/shore spawning.

I have 40 years on the Kawrathas. I know Sturgeon, Balsam, Tri Lakes, Scugog and Rice. I know both walleye and bass on these lake better than almost anybody from angling point of view. Then I've spend 100's hrs working with MNR on everthing from Lake Ontario cold water creeks to Walleye spawning. Yes I'm qualified and I use my real name.

All the lakes that have crash came at the very peak of the crappie on that lake and with a no catch Limit. This is a natural thing they quickly drop down in size but the #'s stay very high. I also don't believe zebra mussels are factor. They peak in the late 90's and every walleye in the system have lived their whole life with Zebra mussels. So the Question why have the walleye came back. In the late 90's I was involved in the Kawartha Angler walleye spawning survey on Scugog. It' very important to know trhat walleyes are prodcasters they don't make nest like bass. The female swims slowly around with 2-3 males dropping their eggs over a wide area. Carp were also following every female walleye that I seen just vacuming up those eggs. Now you all remember about 10 years ago the great Carp die off. This is what I believe allowed the walleye to come back huge. Except the Tri Lakes I'm worried and Balsam is just a ticking bomb.

The water is 32 and the trout can't make it over. When the temp hits 42.3 look out.