dave524

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

41 minutes ago, Raycaster said:

Ok, if your wondering about weather/waves I found this great reply off another site that I follow. I only have a small 16’ so weather is VERY important to me. I would give credit to the original poster but dont have it.

Here is a screen shot of the post.

 

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

1 minute ago, Rizzo said:

What does "sheep and goiters" mean? Gonna assume the sheep part is whitecaps??

Goiters is large swells I think

3 minutes ago, Rizzo said:

I fished that area last year for the first time. We were probably 1-3 miles off shore if I remember correctly. South or west wind should be good over there but a north or east not so good. I only have a 16'8" boat and I don't remember any white knuckle experiences over there

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

1 hour ago, Sea Ray Lew said:

Planning first trip to south shore(Port Dalhousie) depending on responses/suggestions. From experience on Lake Erie out of Port’s  Stanley & Bruce you go out approximately 5 miles before a offshore wind churns things up. I’m guessing a South wind 15-20 knot’s with a wave forecast of 1’-2’ waves if putting in at Port Dalhousie probably wouldn’t cause too much chop in the current depth the bite would be at. With lake of knowledge, I’m guessing at present the majority of fishing is not too far off shore. Looking to be educated 😀thanks Sea Ray Lew 

2 hours ago, akaShag said:

Very interesting indeed, that they are so deep.  I imagine you must catch the odd walleye when perch fishing?  That would be a bonus!  (assuming walleye are open)

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 

3 hours ago, Spiel said:

 

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  

2 hours ago, kuhaman said:

Take a look at Tohatsu, great outboards in my opinion

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

46 minutes ago, videopete said:

Hi there, I just bought myself an inflatable with an electric trolling motor and am looking for quiet fishing spots within about an hours drive of Georgetown, Halton Hills.

Many places I look up do not allow boats with even small trolling motors, etc.

a calm pond or lake would be ideal (not looking for Lake Ontario, etc.) 

If anyone has any good locations, please let me know.

Thank you.

https://conservationhamilton.ca/conservation-areas/valens-lake/

Just did it here on Chrome, right click , hit reload and it stabilizes, thinking it is an ad. 

On 4/11/2022 at 10:07 AM, 410001661 said:

But you do know that working a 4 day week will reduce your pay by 20%  I think a 4 way work week is a terrible idea.  You think that supply chain issues are bad now imagine when factories reduce production by 20% - contractors, retailers, restaurants. 

Worked  3 12's one week and 4 12's the next , 2 week rotation , that is 7x12=84  so actually picked up 4 hours O.T. every 2 weeks  and no 5 day work week 

23 hours ago, Spiel said:

No issues here Dan. I'm running Firefox as my browser.

Does it here using Chrome, as I said earlier hitting reload till you loose the offending ad works but is a PIA

2 hours ago, Hack_Fisherman said:

Looking forward to my refund. Wish the 4 day work week article I read wasn’t an April fools joke. I vote for whomever tables that one! We work too goddamn much

Worked 3 12's one week and 4 12's the next most of my career, 20/30 years ago, worked every other weekend but the ones you didn't were 3 days weekends

27 minutes ago, siwash said:

Loon Lake? I've been wanting to hit that lake. Seems to have a lot of different species... not sure how good it actually is though.  I think it's stocked with Lakers... 

Yes, they started stocking lakers in the mid 80's, they even put some muskie in there a bit earlier, right or wrong the walleye guys were not enthused about the muskie so they had a catch and kill motto, dad sold the place about '90 after almost 30 years so I have no clue about today's fishing

14 hours ago, siwash said:

Hey folks,

I'm assuming there's still quite a lot of ice on the lakes up in Haliburton... with milder weather FINALLY here, when do you think ice-out will happen on most smaller and mid-sized lakes?

Cheers

I follow a page on facebook, dad had a place there for 30 years

Have the same issue, usually hit reload several times till it stops, probably an ad

Popa has got a new album out 

30 minutes ago, Barry Willis said:

You're right about that. A lot people don't realize is that the little debit machine that you enter your card on, the business where you are making your purchase pays a rental fee to the bank for these and sometimes depending on their contract they are charged for each transaction. So in other words some vendors are unlikely to have one. 

and what you spend will not show up on the bank statement 🤣

On 3/23/2022 at 12:56 PM, Old Ironmaker said:

As far as I have learned Prince Craft boats are built in China and assembled in Quebec then called Canadian.

Hmmmm, I do recall a few of their models with the same sloping down to the transom