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Good to hear. Guess once it's covered with snow it's hidden and maybe you're off the sled trail enough?

Now I know where Geerty went. My bird's missing ! Looked like a great weekend away TJ. Nobody messed with your stuff over the winter?

4 and maybe that test to fish wasn't such a bad idea. An artificial lure can have 4 treble hooks. Some will tell you there is a "9 point" rule...there is no such thing in Ontario. If using bait on plain hooks, then each of the 4 hooks must be a single...or one treble and a single hook, or 2 double hooks, to = 4 points. I won't get into the "discussion" on an "artificial lure" tipped with bait. Some bodies of water allow 2 lines per angler and some bodies of water have barbless rules.

Scary stuff... Leah's severely allergic to shell fish and even a chef that cuts her steak with the same knife he was using for shell fish or on the same cutting board and she'll be sick for days. A real hard sell to the waitress, to warn the chef, when ordering food in the Islands. We just avoid restaurants around here all together that offer sea food. Fresh water fish she has no issues with.

Definitely no good Gerritt ! What a shame... Beauty fish though!

Check the computer help section Maureen. With some perserverance and about $1000 we went point to point to a willing access donors house! Buried the 400 feet of wire to the windsock on Sunday afternoon to complete it and to get the power pack off the tower.

They are moving further North as well. We had one lone Cormorant take up residence on the end of ours and our neighbours docks late last August. 10 minutes on the dock and you'd swear someone dumped a contractors 5 gallon pail of white paint. Brought the gun back up in September... to get it so it couldn't guide it's friends back... and of course it was gone. Nobody I talked to has ever seen a Cormorant on the lake before. Sure hope it doesn't bring it's whole family back with it this year.

Nice Brown Ben !

Yah...but only when you're on a fishing trip and she doesn't see it !

YUMMMM..Crappie. That's darn near an oxymoron! Looked like a great day out.

Congrats and enjoy !! That would look really good with some pursuit holder/rigger tracks on it..lol. When do you take delivery?

Just because you made if physically smaller doesn't mean the resolution still isn't way too high (I think 250KB is the limit here). When I downsize pictures I set the resolution/quality level to about mid scale. It takes 2 or 3 meg pictures and converts them to about 35kb. I use paint shop pro. After you downsize your pictures pixel size and then you click "save as"...the box that comes up for where to save it to has "options" in the bottom corner. Click that and set your compression percentage lower. I'm using 60%.

Great pics! And you even named him and gave him a birth date! LOL (smart man!)

Again Brian...my deepest sympathies on the loss of your Grandfather. Betty and yourself.... another couple, like Leah and I, married in your teens and still together after 25 years. Betty must have shopped in the same eye "blinder" shop as Leah did my friend......

Brian...I bought 2 adapter plate mounts with the S-17's on them and 2 of the dovetails with the S-17's mounted on them to see which works better as of course one is higher than the other off the track. The adapter is the same base as the rigger mounts and yes it does have some holes peaking out..but all top quality and perfect hole centering. They fit nice in the tracks. I also bought a set of 4 dovetail salty mounts (last picture) as I already have 6 clamp on style saltys that I was using on the window frame brace in my Glastron. This gives me 6 dovetail mounts if I don't like the S-17's. I figured while using the saltys to troll for lakers/pike/muskie...that a rod tube mounted beside it, or elsewhere in the boat, would work nice for when the fish has been netted gives a quick place to stick the rod instead of laying it in the boat/etc. Other than that tubes are for when using the planner mast so I can put each rod at a different angle to keep the lines apart on similar length rods. As for "ratcheting". No Pursuit doesn't offer a ratcheting holder like Berts. Pursuits are the pin and hole for each location as you can see in the 3rd picture. This is what I might swap out in my collection to get the ratcheting ones from Bert...but I need to see what their satin finish looks like, to see if it matches or is close at least to the pursuits. Also...on that 30"...you could have bought a 36" and just cut it down. Alum cuts very easily with just a wood blade in your mitre saw, and if you are concerned about matching the finish a quick bead blast on the cut end would clean it up. And Tony I'm never sure how many friends or foe on any given day...but I'm sure if we caught a long red light at Gerrard.... while coming down Jarvis...we could fill the boat and get some of those deep sea fishing site pictures at the same time..

Nope...no computer in the shop. My lunch hour is over..back I go....

I went upstairs to check the server and to see if #1 son had plugged us back into the phone line. Page loads are almost as slow as when I was on 22,600 dial up !! Was a period last night as slow as well.

HA Peter! Yah only live once and you never know for how long! Tony, The only one I didn't look at ahead of time was Berts...cause I didn't know about them. I don't like their polished stuff for looks or to look after for that matter anyhow, but some go for that look and extra care required (gets them out of the house polishing! ), but Bert does offer a satin finish now. The pursuits I bought have a bead blasted/textured and anodized finish...nice look and good corrossion protection IMHO. Both Bert and Pursuit use the same profile of track extrusion so you can swap units. I looked at Trojan... and at one point was heading that way....but ease of order from Pursuit and the fact that I really like the change over/removal ease of the pursuits with the track....vs Trojan with his captive nuts in the slots. The pursuit/bert tracks also allow rotation movement for your holders as well. Remember that besides Trojan, the guys that are looking for custom units also have Robin here on OFC and Goran/Uncle Buck to quote/mfg their needs. As for track lengths...Lund screwed the gunnels up a bit to make it harder to use even lengths. Fuel filler in one gunnel and on the other postioning of the stern light socket..plus the existing retractable cleats and foot pad to work around on each side.

I doubt the battery had anything to do with it... What brand are the bases in your newer Crestliner?

Was just going thru the Tri-Ad..and one place for the master lock coupler lock is JDJ Trailer MFG's in Millgrove. 1056 Hwy#6 905-689-7100 1-800-465-0786

Okay Paul...let me know if you strike out and I'll find my stuff tomorrow anyhow....so I'm ready to bail you out. Will be gone Wednesday to Friday so you know in advance.

I never thought to measure while I was with my boat TWICE. Also know this stuff will be pretty easy to "move" at full cost and still be cheaper than shopping at the only box store I know that carries it in Ontario.

Looking good fella ! The only place I see strength concern is that unsupported span of plywood from the new to the old/red. Can you get an angle under that span?

Okay Darren...will let you know by PM in late May.