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  1. Hurtin Albertan

    Nobody fishing?

    Why are you using lures with 9 barbed hooks on them in the first place? I have fished single barbless hooks since my early teens so over 50 years and have landed 50+lb Chinook salmon in white water rivers and 80lb halibut in 600ft of water and every other type of fish available on one hook with...
  2. Hurtin Albertan

    Nobody fishing?

    They're using an aerator to prevent winter kill of the fish when the lake freezes over. A shallow lake like that runs out of oxygen real fast once it freezes over as all the rotting vegetation uses it up quickly. Our average temp here for the winter is -20C/5 belowF but we get a lot colder...
  3. Hurtin Albertan

    Nobody fishing?

    The hot weather here lately in northern Alberta has turned the trout off so haven't caught any the last couple of trips but took my new drone with me and got some aerial pics from 500 meters up. Still not high enough to get both lakes fully in one pic but you can see most of both and the 6ft...
  4. Hurtin Albertan

    Nobody fishing?

    Thanks. I got 4 off the dock there in about 90 minutes when I went a couple weeks before the boat trip. One was definitely a keeper but released without fuss. A fish is just a bonus for me. Time hiking a river or out in the boat is what I love. Getting bit old for some of the hikes we used...
  5. Hurtin Albertan

    Nobody fishing?

    Yeah I did get down to the little trout lake. Trout were feeding on something but didn't like the fly I was throwing at them so other than a couple of half-hearted hits I didn't catch any but had the whole place to myself and left in a great mood. Damn loon kept swimming around the boat...
  6. Hurtin Albertan

    Nobody fishing?

    Thanks! Just getting the last of my stuff together to head out for the evening bite and get a few trout on the fly.
  7. Hurtin Albertan

    I need a tool, don't know what it's called...

    You could still use drills then measure the drill shaft with a metric vernier caliper or micrometer.
  8. Hurtin Albertan

    Raising transom height on 12' Tinny. Worth it?

    May 29 didn't work out the way I had hoped either. :( I was driving cab in Calgary back in the late 70s and had Klein in my cab 3 times. Once as a reporter, once as mayor and once as premier. Drunk off his ass each time. I went back to BC in '82 then moved up here in '01. I'd move but...
  9. Hurtin Albertan

    Raising transom height on 12' Tinny. Worth it?

    I'm sitting at 38% rh and 80F right now. Our power bills are a lot higher than in Edmonton so I wouldn't want to be running all that stuff. Sitting at 33¢/kwh now and supposed to be going up more. Thanks King Ralph! It never gets over 64F down in the basement which is really just a tall...
  10. Hurtin Albertan

    Raising transom height on 12' Tinny. Worth it?

    We do the same thing here but it's dry as a popcorn fart so no mold problems here. We have 6" walls so once it's cooled down it it stays not bad on hot days if the windows are closed before it heats up outside. Tempted to get a portable A/C unit or even a mini-split I could install myself. A...
  11. Hurtin Albertan

    Raising transom height on 12' Tinny. Worth it?

    It's been so dry this year those blood suckers are in short supply. No runoff flooded my yard so it dried out as soon as the snow was gone and that has helped keep the numbers down. I've had the door to the carport open for a couple hours now and haven't had to swat a single mosquito yet. Got...
  12. Hurtin Albertan

    Nobody fishing?

    Ditto on that! I spent most of my fishing life in the lower mainland of BC going after trout and salmon in the various rivers in the Fraser Valley. During coho season on the Chilliwack River there were lots of fish due to the hatchery so limits would go up to 8 fish a day. 4 adults and 4...
  13. Hurtin Albertan

    Raising transom height on 12' Tinny. Worth it?

    Up near Peace River. Smoggy out there again today but got a good dump of rain.
  14. Hurtin Albertan

    Raising transom height on 12' Tinny. Worth it?

    I thought about that but but on a small boat like that it seems a bit much. All it will cost me to replace the plywood is time and I have a lot more of that than money. Most of the time it's just going to be me out in the boat so those wheels will make it easy to get that sucker in the water...
  15. Hurtin Albertan

    Raising transom height on 12' Tinny. Worth it?

    I figured it would but I'm going to be adding the plywood anyway to have a better base for mounting those wheels so it's no extra work to raise the transom while I'm at it. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing anything mechanically unsound. Thanks
  16. Hurtin Albertan

    Raising transom height on 12' Tinny. Worth it?

    I recently bought myself a 12' aluminum boat to get out and do some fishing in my golden years. Sitting around in the mancave for almost 4 years since retirement isn't doing it for me and fishing lakes from the shore isn't as much fun as bobbing around in the water. I'm in northern Alberta...
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