Skipper D

Cliff you know I've own in the past 30 years every thing from soup to nuts . If you and the wife have the chance to take a drive over here , I'd be glad to show you what Beverly and I decided to go with and retire with , I think you's will be impressed as well as knowing how well it worked for us for three weeks last summer in Nova Scotia . Give us a shout .

Hello every body its been a while , I just popped in and thought I'd say hi . I see there's still lots of good read here and the place looks great like always . I hope every one here who bought new fishing gear and boats this season had a great summer using them and went home with some pb's. As for me I've slipped back into the 60 & 80 hour a week work thing, kind'a giving it one good last kick and the cat before retirement get's here . Well like I said , I just popped in and thought I'd say hi . Take care every one and happy fishing .

Where's the with Troy Landry for Gators section .....

Rod Caster, I ‘Il take a trip back in memory and hope my thoughts shed a bit of light to your questions. Yes we traveled away from home to work but not as far as you might think , most people that I knew never went that far that we couldn’t get back home at the end of the day . We had to be able because we were needed there to do our share of what it took to keep the family running at home. For the lunch’s and meals it went some thing like this , if you were lucky you’d land a job where your meals were included , which meant you ate at meal times with your boss and his family . In other circumstances when this was not the case , you would bring a lunch with you , some in a paper bag others in a tin lunch pail . Generally you started with a paper bag till you made enough money to buy your self the tin lunch pail and a thermos. Sandwich’s were wrapped in wax paper along with your deserts , a glass jar containing your favourite drink , freshie , milk , water and some kind of fruit did it for you .. lol . And when you got to where you worked you made sure you placed your lunch some where it would be cool out of the sun. Being from the farm my favourite drink was always milk, many a glass jars of it I drank and I never had a bad one , least not after the first one . There were no mcD’s or Tim’s your right, we never saw those till the mid seventies and were warn not to go in them and that home cooked meals were healthier. And while were on the subject of the food thing , some of the best vegetables and fruits I ever ate came out of our root cellar where they laid in there all winter covered over with a thick coating of maple leaves , when I think about it now I can still smell that great smell that came from things brought out of there . .

Awsome thread , In those good days hard work every day was what kepted you healthy , there was no fear if you were doing your share .... lol

I am Lew ,rainy days are a blast too when i can't find any dry land to work on ...lol .

I can say I spent the last two years trying it fit my self into the ideal boat that suited me for my like of boating and also for on the days I want to fish. After buying and trying several boats since ranging in sizes from 12’ to 20’ this pass spring I bought “Fretless” . It’s a slightly older boat in the 10 to 15 gran range, 28 footer with zero hours on its complete inside and out side make over. My reasoning for wanting to own a boat this size was so that once I was on the water I and any one with me could be comfortable. What mattered to me most more then any thing was it had to have the full size washroom , a roof of some sort over my head to keep me out of the sun or rain, lots of open flat floor space on the main deck and good fuel economy, all to which I now have with this boat . Fuel economy in big boats is every one’s first concern but do I have it with this one. I’ll start with saying it has a fuel tank that holds 850.00 dollars worth and perhaps lucky for me when I picked it up the tank was full . It has what’s called a displacement hull, some will know what that means and others may not. What it means is with a displacement hull the boat is unable to get up on top and plain out , rather it cuts thru the water more like an ocean liner dose making it very stable in rough water . The down side to a displacement hulls is their top speed is not great, for my particular boat’s top speed is 15 knots and if I’ am right one knot = 1.5 mph. Its engine is the 4 cylinder Volvo Penta and Penta out drive. This combination of a small motor with a displacement hull and over all boat length have proven to me that I can afford to own and run a boat this size. Its big enough that it suites my needs but small enough that I trailer it back and fourth to the lakes ,plus I like the fact I can keep it at home and don’t have to put out upwards of 3500 out for a slip each season . The first day I spent on the water in this boat I drove my self nuts believing the fuel gage wasn’t working, opening up the hatch and banging on the fuel tank didn’t help me either, it was not till I boated all day and got home then took the sending unit out of the fuel tank ad measured its content with a stick that I finally agreed that is was working properly. I’ve been just about five times around Lake Simcoe with it this summer as well as a few short days on the water and its now showing at half a tank left in it. That’s running it mine you at 7 & 8 knots most of the time to which I enjoy for a speed to my favourite fishing spots. Good luck , shop wisely and I believe you’ll be happy in the end .

WoW ! all this from a private pm I sent some two years ago . It’s too much but I will say I owe a big “Thank you” to Jason for bragging me up here and the same to every one else who post on Jason’s thread . O’ ps. I’d also like to say, he dose have one hex of a nice spot on the lake up there and if I were you guys I’d start suck’n up .... lol

Year round open on Ciber Lake

I can't help but look at it this way also , Who was the smart one who decided to send 4 firetrucks and 15 firefighters to pull one man up onto the bank to saftey ??????

Did you ever hear about the one we did on hwy 19 just south of you in 1986 , just coming north out of Uniondalle first place on the right .... hammered at it with a payloader more or less til it came down ... lol

a, would that mean i can't bring in my red spot on you gun ???? ...... lol

You might want to go online and check out a cottage rental directory for Honey Harbour , funny thing , i just bought one not that far from there and looking forward to fishing the area this year .,

hec Big Cliff , i 'd say as long as you still have your watch and cell phone ..... lol

Nice catch Rick , they look to be a nice size too .

x's 2 , if it worked good the last time you used it .Some cold nights here we have the same problem on our 125 horse power tractors , we get the heat gun to the starter and away it go's .....

That is cool , wonder if i could rent those out to my customers , Haveing five tractors to do the job now at the cost of a 100 each i could replace them and own 50 of them ...... hum.....

yes , and then theres that one old dog you know , you can see some thing in him but you just can't put your finger on it ....... lol .

Its good foresight TJ , when your on top of your game you probably are right .