Mike the Pike

Hey Kevin is this what your motor looks like.?If it is once you get her running you will be happy with it.My Buddy has this 9.5 and it runs very smooth and quiet pushes the 12 foot tinny at a nice pace.Glad to hear you got a motor.Mike

Well said time to get out of there too many canadians being killed.Our equipment is too old and out of date.The latest is tanks that reach up to 60 celcius inside during summer months.No airconditioning.

WTG Rick

Unfortunately Carl no Brookies in those waters but if their was you can bet I would have been wetiing the line.

What teeth makes a Muskie 's mouth of teeth look dosile compared to this bass on roids.I would never swim in the same water as that fish.Thanks for sharing Doug.

Welcome Doug.Remember we like pictures.And we love pics of those steelheads.

Well with mother nature being a bit confused I thought I would share some pics of spring or winter. I arrived thursday night to visit my mom in Northbay. Friday I drove up to Powasson to meet our very own Nippissing(Bernie). It was a pleasure to meet Bernie who is a true gentleman who took the time to show me his family run business. Got to see meet his parents and daughter a fine family indeed. We toured the shop where I saw some nice crestliner boats.Many different motors ,Mercs,Evinrude,Johnson,Honda,many more. Now I understand why Bernie likes his Evinrude E-Tech.He has them all and can pick what ever he needs. Next was Bernie showing me how to make Jigs with molds and powder coating.Fast and simple.Got some Jig secrets from Bernie sorry I can't share those. The highlight of my day was the tour of the boat house where Bernie's family has been building Cedar boats since 1920.Some of these wooden boats had deeper hulls on them than my Lund.Breath taking visit hand built craftmanship. I know some of you have seen some of these pics but I thought some of our new members would like to see the boat building. Once again thanks Bernie!!!!! Next was a walk in the woods behind my moms place in Bonfield.These logs you see in the picture were downed trees from a wind storm last summer July 17 2006.Hard to beleive these trees were uprooted.There were micro bursts of wind reaching winds of 180kph. you can see some of my other pics of downed trees from that storm. Me and my kids and cousin Cody on the far right. The Mrs and yes it is really cold. Now that all our teams are gone lets go have a beer together at Don Cherry's place. Signs of spring to come. My wife,my son and cousin Cody. Hope you enjoy the pics .Let the thaw of spring begin MTP

Nice report Joey.Beauty fish great shots .Good for you guys braving the cold.Give Paul some of your makeup maybe it will help him look better in the photos .MTP

Hey Cliff at least you didn't get skunked! I thought pike had alot of slime on them this little sucker looks heavily coated in droll!ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh yuck.

Great report Tom I really enjoyed that.Don't worry you should be able to use the boat by July that should be Ice out up there .Up in Northbay there were no signs of spring this weekend.

I was in Northbay this weekend stopped at a local bait shop to try and renew my ontario fishing licence.The owner of the bait shop told people were going out saturday on Trout lake ice fishing.From what I could see Trout Lake was frozen solid and it looked safe to me.MTP

Ok I am a little too late for the congrats for the leafs but Congrats to you leaf fans eventhough it was temporary.I know the habs have got first dibs on the many golf courses. Now enough said bring on the spring and let the fishing begin

I bet they are all pretty good at golf.They could buy there own Golf course with those salaries .Gone are the days when players played for the glory of the game.

Oh Wayne no need to appologize for being a Leafs fan The Habs are Stanley Cup Legends.LOL

What a lady you have there Roy! My question is what happened to the original prop?Chop Chop?

Great shots SP And Pete welcome to the OFC community that BOQ site has slowed down.MTP

thanks scott for sharing up here in Northbay visiting my Mom, nice chrome.Thought about fishing for some brookies but its deep freezin up here .WE need spring.

Well I am a Habs fan win or lose I never put them down when they lose always support them no matter what.I hope they make the playoffs but reality is they won't go far in the playoffs.I would like to see the Stanley Cup come back to Canada. come the month of May fishing will be my priority not hockey. Saturday night ...GO HABS GO.

Congrats enjoy your new toy!

I use rubber myself it keeps me from having a little baby end up in a cradle. Yes like Wayne I prefer the extendable rubber net,no more tangles more time fishing and much more gentle for releasing fish. Whopper

Well got into Northbay last night around midnight the drive took me 7hrs from Montreal due to snow squals beginning after Ottawa.Why did I take the snow tires off .I thought I left the snow in Montreal and here we have a deep freeze with more snow. Oh well lets make the best of it.Winter yes I am Canadian

Mother nature dumped on us again and I actually pulled out the snowblower this morning man the snow was very heavy. Aplumma don't say sorry for cutting the grass its nice to hear someone has nice weather.We will feel sorry for ya during hurricane season. This is what we got Just like Lew I took my wife's snow tires off the van she was not pleased with me this morning. I am driving up to Northbay this evening so hopefully all is clear going up. Ok winter go away.