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Was out on Simcoe yesterday and stumbled across this guy. Never seen one before.

Hi all, Went back to a trout and whitefish lake for the third time in the past couple of weeks. Thought I'd figured out that the whitefish bite early and the trout from around 9 am onwards. The whitefish were there but back to being aggressively curious but nothing else, mostly window shoppers, might be that when I did good on whitefish it was clear sky high pressure day as this last trip out was a warm, windy low pressure front day, any way, keeping track of weather conditions as I play around with the whitefish. The trout however turned on big time, managed to land three with a couple getting off and lots of chasers that didn't hit. By midday I was starting to pack up, again not bad for a four hour or so session. I decided to try for walleye before going home and got to another lake closer to home at around 3pm. Man had the wind picked up, but it was warm and because I wanted to hole hop for a better chance of a fish decided not to set the shelter up. The walleye gave me the run around, a couple of missed bites, a couple hooked but got off and landed a 19"er. All in all a fun day with plenty of action early on, slept well last night....lol.

I don't consider myself a gearhead or an expert when it comes to rods and reels But often find its one of those things that first timers tend to ask about How many do you bring? 1 piece or two piece? Braid or mono or flourocarbon? I bring three 1 piece rods - full details are up on a new post but definitely interested in hearing others opinions? Especially for pike set ups https://www.northernjacks.com/post/my-rod-and-reel-set-up-for-a-fly-in-fishing-trip The pike below was caught on an ultra light set up on our first fly in Cheers Andrew

I don't believe in 17+ inch perch. A 20" with Simcoe proportions would be nearing 5lbs. Erie has had gobies for even longer and 2lbers are still rare. Edit: I just read the other thread and I'll take Chongers word for it because I don't believe in 8lb smallies either but I know Dave does lol.

I never asked to go. Always home by 6. And always did the outside house work. No complaints except, clean the laundry tub after you are finished if we got fish. One night at wedding we decided to go and had no lunch. We went into the kitchen asked for foil wrap and made lunch! Went home and away we went.

I got over that years ago, or should I say, use to it .

I've been out the last two weekends so no fishin for me this weekend! I don't want to come home to hot tongue and cold shoulder for dinner! HH

This is my deep water boat, it is a 28ft Marinette with twin 318's. I have a 19ft Ranger from 1989 that I restored and a 2000 Xpress with an outboard jet for shallow river running. Art