captpierre

550 with EPS -that's the one I'm gonna get

Hell of a machine and reliable

not cheap

Never fished LSC. On my bucket list.

You are casting open water. Is there structure?

Do you cast humps or weedbeds? Rocks?

I was thinking the other day about pressure on panfish at the cottage on Pigeon . Folks are saying #s are down

Cormorants

Osprey

Blue Herons

Loons

Otters

Muskies

Walleye

Fishermen

They better have a lot of sex or they'll disappear

Always check the local weather forcast before you go.

Windspeed and direction.

Anything out of the S, SW or worse, SE more than 15km/hr or 10 knots, is trouble.

Lots of space for waves to build.

A N wind even 15 km/hr will give you 2-3 ft waves 4 miles out.

Sailing websites like Sailflow are a a good info source or Environment Canada

Be careful. The Lake doesn't careI

Beauti fish Lew.

And you're smiling inside, right?

Nice!

But no bigger Kings.

We were out last night out of Bluffers and only caught 2 5 lbers in 4 hours.

The big ones must be staging

I had lots of trouble with large knots come flying off the spinning reel spool casting 30 lb PP braid.

especially with jerking, or jigging.

Guys on this sight gave me great advice.

1. lighter line. I now use 10 lb.

2. do what you can to have the line spool tightly.

3. Flip the bail manually after every cast.

4. after bail flipped sweep the rod away from the cast direction to pick up slack before reeling in.

lighter and tighter -problem solved.

You got smoked by your gal.

you'll be hearing that for a long time.

congrats on the engagement

may you fish happily ever after

Look on the bright side.

A new boat house! for what $500 deductable?

saw somebody with the big boards/mast trolling over deep water on the north end of Pigeon.

took a double take. a first for me

wondered how they did. didn't look like a productive technique to me over 40 feet of water

I could be mistaken though. been wrong once before

never been to St Clair. on my bucket list

what are the "dumping grounds" all about?

that lake is on my bucket list.

any skis seen?

the people with big money usually made it on land.

land in Canada is still cheap compared to other areas like Europe

economy, rule of law, politically, hard to been our great land

A wee little update, we found the smallies and some pickerel. Took some searching and some change of techniques... well to the simplest technique known... Jigging a worm off the side of the boat right off the bottom in about 10 ft of water. Plenty of 0.5-2lb smallies, and about 4 pickerel between 12-16 inches long. Unfortunately no camera... I think there's a picture of a smaller pickerel and a 1.5lb smallie but not uploaded until we get home. Nothing at all was hitting any sort of moving bait/lure, the only way we could get them to bite was to be patient and dangle a worm right near bottom. Weird. Really weird.

remember there is a slot on Pigeon for walleye to keep, gotta be between 35-50 cm roughly 15-20 inches

I had Feeney do mine 2 yrs ago.

Took a long time to get the work started.

Didn't do a drip edge as specified.

Looks good and doesn't leak.

You will be offered "Lifetime" shingle for about 10-15% more. I went with it.

We'll see. The other guy we looked at was Heritage Roofing.

A simple A Frame I would likely tackle myself. I had weird angles and skylights in mine.

Consider steel. lasts longer and snow slides off. Lots of cottagers going with steel

I'll take it!

Like Lew said, try catching the big toothy girls. Careful, it's addictive (and expensive)

I've had the best luck throwing black bucktail jigs into about 10 ft deep weedflats or into weedy humps in deeper water.

the wallies relate to weeds and only a bucktail ripped thru them can take the abuse. black/yellow, black/red or grren works too.

need braided line. I use 10 lb.

Interesting about the lack of panfish on Pigeon.

I'm still catching lots of rockies jigging for eyes. even caught a big crappie. occasionally bluegills.

lots of loons, osprey and a few cormorants around.

saw a lot of panfish floating on the surface in the spring

Haven't been able to connect with a decent muskie at the cottage on Pigeon targetting them.

The other day had bass or eye on jigging a weededge. Then it stopped. First thought burried in the weeds.

With the rod bent over and drag screaming, knew a ski was on. After a minute the line went slacker and the front half of a smallie came up.

Tough world down there I would say.

He charged $25 per reel. No parts needed

Just a plug for a member that seviced my 2 Abu C3's.

They squeeled like crazy casting my muskie baits.

Found Ah_long on this site. He is in Markham.

Tried the reels this weekend. They are sparkling clean and perform like new.

Nice guy and fair price

Peter

great report, and appreciate the details.

that boy is hooked for life

had the same problem. batteries 7 yrs old.

check the in line fuse. could be blown. battery could be bad

gotta love those wide angled lenses some guys use