Stephen Harper and Toronto mayor Rob Ford go on a nine-hour fishing trip

Prime Minister Stephen Harper won't make time in his schedule to meet collectively with all of Canada's premiers, but he seems to have all the time in the world for Toronto mayor Rob Ford.

On Monday, a little more than a month after the two met for a one-on-one summit about gun violence in Toronto, Harper and Ford went on a nine-hour fishing trip at the Prime Minister's cottage at Quebec's Harrington Lake.

If you can't imagine Canada's Conservative odd-couple — the 'prim and proper' Harper and the 'rough around the edges' Ford — on a boat for all that time, here's how it all went down.

"We've been doing it [fishing trips] for the past few years. We get in the boat, we were pulling four or five pound bass," Ford told Jim Richards of Newstalk 1010.

"[Harper] likes fishing, I don't think he's into it as much as I am...I stand up in the boat all the time, he says, 'Sit down.' I say, 'No, no.' I stand up, I cast, you know, I get right into it. It's a lot of fun."

Ford said he and Harper spoke about the new federal ridings and about Ford's plan to reduce the number of Toronto city councilors.

They also spoke about their respective re-election bids: 2014 for Ford and 2015 for Harper.

Wouldn't you have loved to be a 'fly on the wall' for that?