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I thought the same. Maybe a new paint job for the boat?

I have always used Lowrance sounders but all the big names are very similar in quality and features available. There are dozens if not hundreds of excellent tutorials on how to use any particular sounder. It is worth your time to watch a few videos to get the most out of your unit. If you are...

People talked to each other before the phone was invented and still do. Personally, I am glad many people either don't use sounders or don't know how to use the one they have.

My sentiments exactly. Why fish blind? The first step for me is always finding fish with the sounder then the fishing part begins. That being said, I see plenty of guys who just fish blind hoping for the best. Not surprisingly they often end up anchoring up beside me or somebody else with a...

As far as I can tell the specs are indeed identical. I have a lowe 1040. Nice enough little boat, very stable, makes a nice one man fishing platform, would be doable with two but rather crowded.

At what kind of depth range did you find this colour to be effective. I tend to hang blobs on a sunk line in 30-40 feet and a brighter orange seems to be best for me. Just curious.

Use your sounder to find the travelling area and park your boat on top of them. Hang two type 7 or type 8's over the side and hang on. Actively work your lines as the upward movement of your bugs tends to illicit plenty of action. The alternate is to just have one hung rod and an indicator on...

1-I am picky about what I tie on the end of my line and store bought flies don't make the grade.(cheap hooks) 2-If there is a hot fly the store/resort runs out so you can't get any until they are no longer hot anyways 3-When you tie your own you can always come up with something close to "the...

Use premium high octane gas with no ethanol. I run 93 octane. Do your spring maintenance with new plugs and filters and oil change. I have a 20hp 4stroke Honda. It always starts easily and runs smoothly. I have no toolkit whatsoever in my boat and have no plans of putting a toolkit in my...

Seems like you Mariner fans got it wrong!

Many people who died from covid got infected by an unvaxed. Murder, manslaughter, negligence, natural selection, or just bad luck, apparently it is in the eyes of the beholder.

These recently introduced, putrid pests, are currently wiping out the summer/fall chironomid population on my favourite lake. It looks like this will be the last year with a summer chironomid hatch. I thought bass were bad, these effing things are far worse. Not a fan of any "warmwater"...

One of the BC lakes I fish alot is notorious for jumpers. I use micro barbs on my chironomids and my landing % is generally higher than the guys I fish with who fish barbless all the time. Many fish are one jump wonders on barbless hooks.

small deer hair bucktail fly, coho, big qualicum river

There are 4 grades of trout that can be determined by eyeballing them and keeping them wet, tiddlers ( under 14 inches), decent(14-17inches), nice( 18-22 inches), really nice 23+. Your take on the parameters of the 4 grades is likely different than mine but does it matter if a released fish is...

The rusty years

As a mostly converted lake guy I find lake fishing much more laid back. Their is no need to get up 2 hours before daylight to get the boat launched first while getting the pullout truck repositioned. You don't need to worry about the parade of boats or the colour of the water or the volume of...

Just use some of your old steelhead crap. Instead of the swivel rig just keep the surgical tubing bare and hook your fly into the tubing. Works like a charm, cheap, easy, foolproof, won't break the bank if you lose it.

My Stonfo works just like you describe. I imagine most of the rotary vices function the same way.