RyanT

Your Dad is paying for your Iphone or Blackberry????!!! Oh, the decisions... poor you. Ridiculous. You are one spoiled kid. Pay for it yourself.

Those cops are really on the ball there in Saint John. I agree... definitely "suspicious".

I saw a tv show about Sasquatches and they say he does that stuff. Bangs on trees, throws rocks, etc. I'd keep the safety off if I were you.

A good inflatable (like a Zodiac) will cost $1000+ for a 10footer. The Sevylor inflatables just aren't even in the same ballpark as the 'real' inflatables. I'd take that canoe for $50. You'll probably want it one day. It's easy to build a cheap homemade outrigger/stabilizer to make it more stable and less tippy. Used tinnys should be water-tested for major leaks.

CORN!!!

I looked in the University of Guelph library scientific journals and it seems that them science types consider Pickerel and Walleye to be to separate fish... and it's Walleye that is the more common fish in Ontario. Pikerel just seems to be like a slang thing for Walleye. It was bugging me so I had to look it up.

I've done it a few times in different motors. Didn't seem to matter.

If you want to avoid trailer horror stories you can always try the technique in this video if you have a smaller boat... Just make sure you don't get Forward/Reverse confused... like these guys did at the Gatineau boat launch.

For a boat trailer with safety chains only a few feet long it won't matter if the chains fly up or down. Maybe for a tow truck this might come in to play but not for a boat trailer. I really doubt whether the position of the hooks will even do anything anyways for the direction of the chains if they break. The chains are hooked with the open ends up so it is harder for the hooks to be bounced off the hitch from bumps in the road.

About 12 years ago, a police officer told my father that the hooks on our trailer's safety chains were now illegal and that we had to have closed links (safety clips, carabiners etc.). He said he could give us a ticket for just having the hooks but would just give us a warning for now. He also said that we had the hooks upside down... (the openings were facing down/the road) and that a bump could jump them off the hitch which makes sense. So, we hooked them the other way and went on out way.

I contacted Mercury last year and they said the new 15hp I had bought was rated for use of gas containing up to 20% ethanol. This is what they said... I still use Stabilizer and don't let the gas sit in the tank for long.

It's hard to really judge from a post what exactly everyone means by 'close' on the water. People shouldn't be fishing in designated navigation channels. If it's just a narrow section of a river though then boaters have to slow down and respect the anchored boat. It's always best to stay further away anyways on the water. I have a place on the Ottawa River and am always seeing big cruisers pass each other within 20-30 yards on an otherwise deserted stretch of water... almost like they don't want to bother turning the wheel a hair and slightly detour. Kind of like, "I'm not moving... he can move!"

No... it's wrong. You are wrong. Depending of course upon how close you really are to them... but I think if you're saying, "blast through" them it must be damn close. Maybe they shouldn't be anchored there if it's a small channel... but they are, you can't just blast through and put their lives in danger just because you think you have the right to blast through because there's no speed limit. The callousness that you'll put someone else's life at risk is shocking and unacceptable.

I bought 2 life jackets on sale at Canadian Tire last summer. Thought I was getting a great deal! Turns out they weren't 'Canadian Coast Guard Approved' so they won't be accepted during an ON WATER check by the Police.... Now I know why they were on sale!

I and my buddy both have Humminbird Piranha portable finders. I have 1and he has had 2... all with the same battery problem. The batteries explode/leak easily if left in. He left his 1st in the trunk so we blamed that but he was careful with the 2nd and same thing happened. I left mine in the basement and the batteries leaked and corroded everything badly... I guess it gets hot out in the boat. So, we had to rewire them so they run off two 6v batteries for me and a 12v battery him. simple to do... and easier to recharge for him anyway. Finder itself works as good as ever though...

i think they should have used some discretion and just sent him back to his side of the river with a Warning and no fine. Understandably, they need to enforce the borders but this is quite unfair for the fisherman. Just a warning is what I would have liked to see happen there.

Nice fish! But the beard... did u lose a bet? Just kidding.