dave524

Should have invested in boats or pickups ten years ago, 2 and 3 year old pickups are going for more than I paid for my house

Good choice, even rebuilding the transom , if the motor is an extra long shaft it would still be a mismatch though not as bad. Sailboaters use those , advertize where there is sailboat traffic

Timing, wait for the tug when you backcast before bringing it forward. The vintage Battenkill is a very appropriate matchup if it is the rod in the link I posted, they mentioned in that link it is a slow or moderate action which is easier to cast with than the fast action carbon rods

any letters like HCH or HDH ? those are the line designation if it was built pre 1960 or so could be a 4 or 5 wt looking at this as long as the " Popular " model was made in only 1 line class https://www.traditionalfisherman.com/viewtopic.php?t=5685

Maybe even extra long , looks like 25 inches, did it come from a sailboater ?

Actually, for about 20 years I ran Garcia Ambassadeur 6500's as both musky and downrigger reels, had extra spools as they were a quick swap, 14 pound Trilene XT on the rigger and a heavy braid for musky, no line counters though.

Crankbait shouldn't twist , if the spoon is too fast it will spin instead of roll back and forth, slow down.

The reels make do double duty but the lines might not

Old enough to remember before the weight classification we used letters for fly line sizes. Size A would be a thick heavy line and H was a light line. A 6 weight double taper would be called like a HEH and a weight forward suitable for bass bugs would be like a GAF , probably close to an 8 wt. today, any letters like that on it ? edit: quick search found this

Impressive, but as a forester I often wonder why they take them down piece by piece when there is adequate room to fell them and cut them up on the ground, I can see that method in a built up urban area with buildings, fences and stuff, just seems a lot of added effort. Shame , not many elms left at that size, most succumb to Dutch Elm long before that size.

Thinking it is a kicker/ trolling motor , did you make a high speed run with it in gear and down , I have heard of kickers destroyed like that

Old enough to remember when the Pro bass Circuit was limited to 150 HP , probably '84 , every manufacturer had a very conservatively rated 150 horse pro bass motor LOL

I got a couple of cooler bags real cheap at Costco if you don't mind the Costco emblem on them

The big swells after a good blow alone are fishable even in smaller craft, it's when they get topped by an opposite direction wind things get hairy

Goiters is large swells I think

I can see the lake from the end of my driveway in Grimsby, lived here since '84, don't even consider it on a Northerly wind. As I posted a few minutes ago Martin from Grimsby Tackle usually posts a south shore water report in the morning on facebook, he lives on the shore near Beamsville

I've seen pics of a few Lakers coming off those perch grounds this spring , one was a real huge slob edit for pic :

Try niagarafishing.net

Here a lawyer explains it in layman's terms

I actually have the vinyl album in a milk crate in the basement, Ebay says it's worth 20 bucks LOL

Yes , it was taken from a gun owners forum so some bias but I'm sure they are not going to notify every holder of a PAL of the change so beware. This is from the Order in Council that banned about 1500 firearms and variants after C71 was passed, Order in Council is a way of side stepping political process. Come May 17th , to sell , give to even a relative you will have to inform the Registrar of Firearms/RCMP of the transaction of the sale and get a reference number for the transaction, while the long gun registry is dead this is an attempt by the backdoor to a new registry. I mention this that in case some older guys may want to pass some firearms to children or grandkids get it done before the deadline, penalties are substantial once it kicks in. The new Order in Council is date April 29th so very recent

are not the smaller Merc's actually Tohatsu's ?

Watch, looking some say no gasoline motors and some say no motors, electric motors maybe questionable