limeyangler

yup...12volts. the battery you are looking for is a '12 volt, , 7 amp hour, Sealed Lead Acid Battery. And i disagree...once you learn to use the fishfinder you will catch more fish...GUARANTEED!

Yeah...i dunno what was happening out there, but i agree....bring on the fall. LOL...Dara...that is a very cryptic response. LOL...yeah...i was very worried about finding them too. Swen says to me at the landing..."you drive the boat.....you know what your doing and where to look" ....lol...i started to F$%$^ing laugh....but still had to drive his boat. It can be a mixed bag of emotions. But i also LOVE the challenge. very crappie report....lol. That is Swen's truck...he is giving it to his youngest son next week....he hates it....lol.

Hey Chris, Like Dozer was saying....i thought at first it was a joke but quickly realised you were serious. Dude...best of luck. I too have suffered many addictions in my life.....and you do what you have to do when they overtake. You have nothing but my respect for making such an unselfish and difficult decision. I'll miss your reports. Take care man.....hope to see/hear from ya sometime. Simon.

:thumbsup_anim: NICE 1ST FISH!

Hi all. went out with a buddy of mine looking for crappie in a lake that neither of us had fished before. Swen had heard a rumour that there were crappie in there and wanted to catch one since he never had before. I love the challenge of fishing a new lake. getting there with no idea of depth or structure...hell...with this lake we could not even confirm there were any fish in there! Anyway....we found the crappie so the rumours Swen had heard were right. They were close to shore among fallen trees between 5' and 15'FOW. Small jigs and minnows for the first couple, then we switched to powerbait micro tubes, with the occasional leech and night crawler used too. Half way throughhe morning Swen suggested we head off at around 1pm to try our luck at Scout Bay on Lac Seul for some walleye....lol....sounded good to me...so 3 fish short of 1 person's crappie limit"i did not want to keep any as i had just had a feed of crappie 2 days previous) we headed up the road for 1/2 an hour to Lac Seul. I don’t know what happened....but in 3 hours of fishing we caught 2 walleye...Swen in fact did not catch anything.... :dunno: ON LAC SEUL???????? what the hell!!!! I have never had such awful fishing on Lac Seul before. Ok...so it was a 'new Lake" situation as I’d never fished that area before....but I’m pretty good at sniffing out a walleye by process of elimination. This area had all the usual fish holding structure to choose from too. There was nice deep water, deep water near islands with varying drop off gradients. We found sand bars with deep water on one side and shallower rockier on the other, mid water structure, mid range depth windswept shore (nice westerlies all day too) hell you name it we tried it, the only thing stopping us getting further out was not wanting to get caught in big water with a 9.9hp in a 14'. At least when we got back we heard from everyone at the landing that they had had their worst days fishing that day...phew....made the experience a little less humbling....but still...humbled was what i felt like. NICE LANDING AT LAKE 'X' THE WEATHER IMPROVED, WIND DIED RIGHT DOWN JUST AS WE LAUNCHED SWEN GOT HIS FIRST EVER CRAPPIE LOTS OF REALLY LITTLE ONES A FEW BASS AND PIKE WERE CAUGHT TOO LEFT AFTER 2 HOURS OR SO TO PURSUE WALLEYE HERE'S THE VIDEO FROM THE CRAPPIE LAKE <iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jSu3ve2F_WA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> AND HERE'S THE BETTER OF THE 2 WALLEYE I GOT LATER ON

wicked! love these reports, the boy, mum and dad all look like they are having a blast! outdoors fun for kids....always a good thing.

LOL Ditto...ok ...i'm sold...i will definitely be down there soon!

Thanks for the replies guys. Thanks Homer....they certainly are another kettle of fish altogether to find(pun intended) It is a cool age....they watch and learn sooooo fast. Fish fry for lunch today...cut fries have been soaking in water over night...should be delicious! Right on Dan! erm....you think you need to ask? look me up when ya hit town...lunch on me this time! i was in a bay that i catch them in the shallows (weed) in the spring. I was out from the weed in 13' FOW.

Thanks JB. Actually 2 girls at work have now quit too. They said to me they thought i was a hopeless case for giving up smoking....but when they saw me being successful thought if i could do it anyone could.....lol...i think i'll take it as a compliment...not sure though...lol. Pay a certain plumber Thanks cph. LOL...you hit the nail on the head Chris....it is totally eating for the sake of eating . Come on dude...they did not even have electricity back then! Thanks retodd. did you?...i dont remember Thanks man.....and thanks for the advice/insights on my plumber thread. Thanks man! Thanks dude.

Congrats to you...lol...wish i'd done it 20 years ago though! Thanks Dave...yup the weight is doing to be an issue...i've spent my whole life eating pretty much whatever and how much i like without it being an issue...another long term habit to overcome. LOL.....pnly on my right arm Paul...get on with it man....lol...you have a new boat to pay for remember? Thanks John...you are one of the people who's support has been fantastic...thank you. Get on Grimace...awesome job!

It helps to be on a lake where as far as catching is concerned the pressure is off! The spot i was fishing is just a classic bass habitat...and because it is a reef surrounded by deeper water tha walleye are present also......walleye and bass love minnows/leeches. :thumbsup_anim: cooling off? that day ...although everything seemed to work...i would have to say that leeches were least favourite. I have found this to be the case on Lac Seul on 2 occasions this year. Hey JB...those hooks are awesom...they have a rattle in them too. My pleasure. Thanks man...how's Cletus?

Great report...i'm also going to try using rock bass to catch other bass

man o man, what a day! my wife is the same...she would have been upset about my day being ruined...what a great gal!

Hi All, went out on my home lake for an hour and a bit today as mum and son slept. Wanted to grab a few walleye for lunch tomorrow so headed to my sure bet spots. Was marking lots of bait and fish on the graph at my first spot...really light bites. Also the fish would follow and hit right up to the surface......not even a perch ill normally do that. Turned out i'd found some crappie. I have been trying to locate these crappie in this lake during summer for at least 3 years. I can get into them in the spring when they are in shallow in the weeds spawning....but after that they all but vanish. Oh well...i wont complain....kinda weird cuz i've fished in that spot before actually trying to find them on numerous occasions and drew a blank...weird....but i'll take it. Best one was 13.5" <iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cdlmWuBvzwc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> It kinda sucked that i had to get back so soon...would have liked to explored that a bit more. However, getting back early enabled me to clean the fish before Jack woke up, and he had supper early....and guess where he wanted to go after supper.....we did not catch anything....but we spent a good 2 hours out in the boat floating around our bay. Jack was in hysterics for at least half an hour....we saw another boat out there....and Jack says to me... "daddy....i think the seagulls are going to poop on the man in that boat" LET'S GO FISHING DAD

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That does not hold true either...i've seen the tanker filling up our local place at least 3 times in the last month....the only change in price at that das station was for the Audust long weekend....and guess what....it went up....while the price per barrel was lowere than it has been since whenever.....its a scam. meanwhile...ooooh....look at the quarterly profits of the oil companies....but ooooooh noooooo...musn't criticize them for making obscene profits because they will threaten to stop pumping because they dont have enough money to invest in increasingly difficult to access resources...any way you look at it they have it covered to continue as is....bend over and enjoy!

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i'm not happy with the work as it happens i will learn from this regardless of the outcome.

WOW..i never get this many replies on a fishing report. lololol Just kinda teasing.

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Hi All, posting to let y'all know ive been a non smoker for 3 months now! To everyone who offered support and advice...thanks...i owe some of my success to you I would like to recommend trying the patches to anyone considering quitting. I had been a smoker for over 30 years and had never even tried quitting before. The main reason i had not attempted to quit was the fear of feeling the withdrawals. I am happy to say that the withdrawals were nowhere near as difficult as i had anticipated and the patch definitely works. The whole reuction course of patches is 10 weeks and i'm now 2 weeks without even the patches. The first patch free week was tough.....but having 2 1/2 months of practicing not smoking was a definite help too. If you do try the patch....i also recommend taking it off at night....and also try taking it off early in the day when you are feeling strong....this helped me in the transitions to lower strength patches. I start my fitness blitz next Monday....because i am putting on weight.

Nope the guy is not called Jack...but if you would be kind enough to PM me his name and contact i would appreciate it. I feel cheated by my parents ....they pushed for me to study academic topics at Uni....i will definitely be pushing my son towards a trade...that way he can print his own money and be able to afford to pay for his own academic studies later in life if he chooses to do so.

morning people....thanks for all the replies. I think the best way forward on this is going to be to just go through the bill with him on the phone. Since my wife dealt with the call out and received the initial quote for $500 -$600 for the well line she has agreed to have the discussion with him first and see what happens. We did not bother with a quote for the 2nd bit of work he did averaging out in our own heads what the cost would be based on a general idea of time/materials compared to the first job which seemed reasonable. There is a question about the second piece of work he carried out was to solve the reason our deep well pump pressure switch was constantly cycling on and off....this just a few days after he had fixed the leak in the well line. He spent a good few hours messing around with the pressure switch....this is when his assistant was basically there to hand him a wrench at @ $60 per hour. After about 2 or three hours he said he realised he had put a valve or something on the wrong side of another join, and thats why he had taken so long to fix it....and that he would return in the next couple of days and fix the problem , and that he would not charge us to fix the mistake( mind you he was going to charge us for the initial work and screw up time). Fair enough i thought....all this time not thinking i'm being charged double rate with his young padawan in tow. So he comes back and does the work. he is there for another 2 hours. All in all with well job thats 9 hours labour on the bill. The time is not broken down to dates...just a lump sum. I know he needs to take off at least 2 hours of that. I am not happy that i was charged for his assistant to basically watch....i dont give a frigg about thats what normally happens...its not right...even though i understand that it would be difficult to turn the clock on and off for the assistant....well tough...do it...its my friggin money! If you know you are coming out to do ma certain type of job. I did like the suggestion somebody made about asking what the young lads credentiALS ARE. Anyway...thanks a lot for the replies people...some useful insights

I completely understand and agree that the well was a 2 man job...but 2 guys to fit a switch? as for the $80 being cheap here...yeah...so is housing compared to Toronto...its relative.

LOL...apparently it takes a while for the bills to come through too. Yeah he did the work over a period of 2 months on and off starting at the beginning of May...yes...we still have plenty of snow in may!