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Great report Joey...wish I was headed back there as well! Sounded like a great weekend to get away.

Great report ADC. Pretty exciting description of the Gar adventures!!! You had a great outing...congrats!

What bly said...LOL Congrats...you have a beautiful familiy.

Very cool topic. I've never used sundogs either, but I constantly track the barometric pressure. When it's falling, or at least below 100kpa, I try to head out to catch some fish!

Too bad about the ankle and lack of fish, but the pictures you took were amazing! Your son is certainly a ham for the camera!!

I've had a few get loose from the hook right over the net as well...it's especially nice when it's a toothy critter!!

And that's why I dont buy top of the line equipment....LOL. Your luck will turn...I'm sure of it!!!

Sounded like a pretty exciting few minutes there!!! If it was me, it would have been two snags....LOL.

Wow...two reports so close together? This is surely a treat...LOL. Great job Scott...good to see you out there doing some catchin! How'd the move go?

WTG Roy!!! That's still something I want to catch this year...a decent sized muskie!! Great looking fish and great report. Thanks!

Hey Brian! Great report and pics. Good on ya getting our with other OFNers as well. Looked like a great day out there, despite the slow start.

Thanks Shawn and GCD....this stuff surprised me actually. Sydney spend all day hitting it with her paddle and it barely left a dent in it. It's pretty hard to break....took more than I expected to saw through it. I have 3 spares, so I'll push this one to the limit just to test it out. I'll go the PVC tube route when I run out of styrofoam. Oh yeah...and we aren't planning on taking it out on Lake O or anything like that...LOL

Yep...they are called outriggers...I was surprised at how well it actually worked. A few more tweaks and I think they'll be perfect for our needs.

Our little one wanted to get out in the canoe soooo badly, so when we told her we'd take her this weekend, she was very excited! The canoe is pretty tippy, and we didn't think just telling her to stay still in the middle of the it was going to make for a happy time out there. I looked at some canoe stabilizers and was FLOORED when I saw how much they were. The cheapest set was well over 200 bucks....and as high as $500. I looked at the designs I saw online and decided to try to make my own.The first thing was trying to find something that was very bouyant, yet economical (yes, that means I'm cheap....LOL). I tried calling some packaging places to see if any had large pieces of styrofoam....no luck there. Finally, one place I called said there was a styrofoam place next door to them, so I called them. They happened to have a HUGE piece of "scrap" that they said I could have for $20. I drove over there and it was perfect! It was a dense piece of styrofoam...that he said could hold over 500lbs of weight in water. This was big enough to cut 4 "pontoons". First I fashioned a quick stabilizing bar that would attach to the canoe. It looks rough, but the final version had two clamps per side, attached with duct tape and string...LOL. It was surprisingly strong. I then reinforced the styrofoam with a piece of wood, used some threaded rod to attach it to the arm that came off the support. A small cross brace for support and voila.... All the pieces were made to be compact, so I used wing nuts for easy removal/attaching... I went to bed hoping we wouldn't be swimming with our 5 year old the next day!!! We got up and our little one couldn't wait to get into the canoe...LOL. We got to a local conservation area around 11am, and the moment of truth came....would the thing work???We launched and my little contraption actually worked quite well...we didn't come anywhere near tipping the entire time we were out there! Here's a pic of it in action... Here's a little video of my little one paddling....not sure why the colour is off, but oh well.We paddled for a while and found a nice beach area for a quick lunch and a nice walk along the beach.....After our stop at this nice place, we put the canoe back in the water and decided to fish a little bit. The wind had picked up and it was hard keeping the canoe in place...guess a home made anchor is next!! Anyhow, the only one who caught anything was....you guessed it, my daughter. Here's a pic of her catch!By 2pm, we had had enough and we came on back home. Had a great time out there...and most importantly....we didn't go swimming!!!I'll be shaping the stabilizer a bit more to make it move through the water a bit more freely, but overall, it did the job. The cost of the stabilizer....$20 for the styrofoam (makes 4), I had the wood lying around the garage, and I spent about 20 dollars on the clamps, threaded rod, wing nuts, and washers.

Hey Scott!! Nice to see you holding fish again...LOL. Love the second pic...it's a hybrid hold between bass and steelhead. Great job out there...the board has been different without regular reports from you. Kind of nice not fishing with 4 layers of clothing, arctic boots in -20C weather isn't it?? LOL

LOL...this thread is hilarious!!! Snag...does your sister know you're posting pics of her on the net??? Congrats Lucid!

Good luck, have fun and be safe!! Looking forward to the pics of all the fish your kids catch...and you complaining about being skunked...LOL.

Very cool! Congrats!

Ok....during a competition with my 5 year old, she was up 3 fish to my 0. I then pulled this monster in....it was to be the only fish I caught all day...at least I wasn't skunked....LOL

It takes a special talent to say one two free fo really fast and then play the song at a slower tempo....LOL. We listened to their studio version and bunch of live versions and decided on a pace that's in the middle of it all. Thanks for the comment...all I know is it's a fun tune to play.

Sorry for the non fishing post, but I thought I'd share a video of my band playing "I Wanna Be Sedated" by the Ramones, live in the Parry Sound area in the great outdoors. I did fish on this trip...does that count?? LOL. The wind blew our set list away...good thing our bassist was able to save it by stepping on it at the very end of the song. It's not played perfectly, but hey, we're playing live under the influence of alcohol...LOL. Hope you enjoy. <BR><BR> <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-30AmzZzjrk"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-30AmzZzjrk"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-30AmzZzjrk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> <BR><BR> Do you need a band next year for Lakair??? LOL. By the way...I'm the blurry guy singing...haha.

Hopefully this helps.... Go to your photobucket album and click in the yellow box beside "IMG Code". You should see a little box that says "Copied" when you click there. When posting simply follow these instructions.... You'll have to click on the "click to view full image" at the top of the pics in my reply if you cant read the text I've typed on the images. PM me if you are still having problems. Good luck! Cliff

Thanks everyone for your replies!! Brian...I'm making some canoe stabilizers for when we have the kids in the canoe...maybe I'll figure out how to attach some downriggers and have salmon tow us around the lake....LOL.

Great pic! I was half expecting to see a pic of you on the other end of that pool....casting and retrieving for dolphin....LOL. Welcome back.

Great first report! Hope to see many more from you. It's funny...I do the same thing...take some scenery shots in case I dont catch anything...LOL. No huge fish, but you at least got into some. Kudos for sticking it out thru the HEATWAVE!! By the time I got home from work, did some chores, and put our little one to bed, I went back outside and decided not to go fishing....just too humid and didn't feel like dealing with the mosquitoes!!! Cant catch a fish sitting in my living room! Looking forward to reading about more fishing trips from you.