lookinforwalleye

The Caps are fortunate they are playing a game seven remember the Habs blew a 4-1 lead in game two.

Done but what is this ice fishing thing!!!

Thanks guys the wife and I really appreciate the kind words!

Baron the family pet of 15 years died in his sleep last night,now I know how some of you guys felt when you went through this. He has been going downhill the last month or so but we did not have the heart to put him down as he did not seem to be in any pain so we thought we would let nature run it`s course,It`s a tough deal for sure!

It`s hard to buy a boat from a dealer,they have no stock!! What`s wrong with Florida real estate? I hear it cheap!!

Thanks for the advice, I have always been one to try and do my own general maintenance. This motor was put into service in May 2008 so there should be one summer of warranty left and the motor was dealer serviced last fall so it should be good to go. The general maintenance for the Opti looks pretty straight forward perhaps the one lower plug might be tough to get at though.

LOL ya I was looking for a tiller/4 stroke!LoL

Hi Ari have you had the Alumacraft out yet? Yes what I ended up buying was about as far away from a tiller as one could get!LOL When I looked at the kind of fishing that I was going to be doing the BB made sense, I will mainly be fishing Dalrymple,Balsam,Canal,Couch and Simcoe on good days and I can still rip jig the weeds and drift for Walleye from a BB. I spent a lot of time searching but there was not alot available and the real good deals went quick, and there was alot of nice boats available but for the most part they were under powered and overpriced.

Well the new boat is ready to go and I know when I started the exercise of looking for a new ride I said I was going to look at a tiller but in the end I ended up with a 2008 Stratos 176XT with a 2008 Opti Max 75 HP which is the max for this boat. I always wanted a Bass boat so what the heck I went and got one, eighty percent of the fishing I do is for bass anyways. I liked the smaller boats it has the swingaway tongue and it fits very nicely in the garage and it tows very well I think the Dodge will get about 15-20 better MPG than towing the old boat so that`s a nice bonus. Incredible amount of storage in these baby bass boats and a nice big casting platform up front. I would appreciate any member feedback on the Opti.

I had one I think it worked once!!

Nice fish and nice to see pictures that haven`t been butchered.

Hey Dave I was at the Subway in Tamarindo,Costa Rica a couple of days ago and they didn`t know ya! Ya better get your peeps out there spreading the Facts of Fishing gospel!

Hotel was good,food was fantastic,people great,went to Sharkey`s in Tamarindo to watch my Habs blow a 4-1 lead in game two. Amazing how the locals don`t sweat in 100 degree heat while our crew were melting. Lots of Americans living there met many 40 year old surfing hippies and a lot of college drop-outs who seem content to surf and get high. Will never go back just to damn hot!! Better?

Well made it back safe from Costa Rica and let me tell ya lovely country but man it was hot,I knew it was going to be hot but I did not expect temps between 99-104 everyday with a humidex that was off the chart. The experience at the Liberia airport was an absolute joke,one person trying to deal with 200 plus people trying to pay the departure tax,weighing luggage on what looked like a glorified bathroom scale lots of people getting hit for 20 bucks a kilo and lots of people pissed claiming the scale was rigged. We saw luggage going on the plane and luggage coming off the plane,saw bags being rolled across the tarmac back into building and others coming out. All that seemed kind of strange so I started asking questions and to our surprise we discovered that there were 24 more butts than there were seats in the plane and apparently these poor people may not get out of Costa Rica until Monday all this of course was because of the Skyservice mess. It was hilarious watching the airport officials trying to do a head count with people walking here and there, interesting that when all this confusion was going on the Nolitour rep was mia. The boarding call was interesting one of the workers off the tarmac wih her squeaky voice announced you can board now so you had a mad dash to get on the plane apparently I was not the only one that was aware of the seat situation,you can imagine what the cabin of the plane looked like people with front seats boarding from the rear and vice versa all you could was shake your head. I almost forgot one of the cracker jack ground crew that were driving those big truck things you see at airports was reversing and lost control of the machine and he bailed out and the thing was heading for the front landing gear of the 737 fortunately one of the ground crew managed to climb on this contraption and he got it stopped with about a foot to spare. All in all a great vacation but the Liberia airport officials need serious training upgrades and Nolitours you should be sued for leaving those people stranded.

That`s scary fast, just stay out of my way when I`m plodding along at 39 mph!!!LOL

I was up last weekend to check out the new trailer and the water looked a little high, as far a launching goes I don`t think the parks are open yet but apparently the launch at the narrows is in pretty good shape.

That`s tough luck man, wouldn`t ya just love to be waiting in a dark corner with bat for the prick!

Nice fish! You should have cammo`d the background then it would have looked liked a head and 2 hands holding the fish.

I forgot what a wonderful actor the Governor was!!!LOL

No store in Buffalo yet,future store!

BPS has a store in Buffalo don`t they? How far is Buffalo from Fort Erie. Canuck Buck is par!!!

I would say get it in writing and even then it might not be worth the paper it`s written on, this is one for your lawyer.

Yep, no Italo`s no Tiger`s stick with the good ole CH.

Hey Billy Boob sorry I mean Billy Bob, as long as Miller stands on his head the Sabres have a chance if Miller is average then the Sabre`s lose but hey your playing the Bruins and they suck too! I think I might change my little picture thingy, not a lot of Habs fan`s here.

Because we are miserable bastidges with nothing better to do and besides it makes us feel better about our own miserable lives. The above was for the rest of you guys I am perfectly happy and normal.LOL