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These came from two different lakes. The jumbo was 13in. long.

I think it looks cool as well. If it was chrome or silver it may even resemble fish scales. But the sun reflecting off it may be a hindrance. Just a thought. I'm sure there are alot of anglers that would appreciate the change. Very nice Spiel, great imagination, that's where things start.

WOW, what next? Next he’ll be allowed to use scissors and matches unsupervised.

I've had this idea in my head now for some time and finally set my feet on the path to making it a reality last weekend. It's not like anything I've seen in the rod building world thus far and I'm hoping there's a market for it. Yes it's somewhat blingy for sure but not too gaudy in my opinion. I've shown it here on a mock up handle loosely assembled on a length of all thread. Your thought's welcomed. Thanks for looking.

Thank you CM. It's a mylar mesh weave stretched over a carbon sleeve then cast in clear acrylic. It is just for now a working prototype that is going to lead me to more creative designs.

Looks very cool...is the material carbon fiber ? Or a metal mesh in epoxy ? I've always been partial to the warmth and feel of organic materials...but paired with some of the bougie looking centrepins out now, that could definitely bring the bling.

I’m a tournament bass fisherman, so yes I absolutely have bias, however I’m also 99% of the time exclusively a catch and release angler. I can tell you right now, that the responsibility of keeping your catch alive during a tournament is paramount to all participants. Moving bass tournaments away entirely from catch and release is not the objective to save a resource, there are plenty of studies conducted by texas fish and wildlife on how tournaments impact fisheries, at such an higher level of depth than gord or anyone at the entire MNR can even fathom. Share lunker and their entire scientific approach to growing bass fishing in the state of texas makes our entire program a complete joke. people tend to forget entirely that tournaments are always held with your catch and retain limits in mind, therefore every single angler was within their rights to literally kill every single last fish that they weighed from the particular body of water that day. Now I understand that everyone loves the concept of MLF where you weigh your fish at the point of capture, however you forget that every single boat then requires a Marshall with a high end scale to record the fish. Also, guess what, MLF just moved back to a 5 fish weigh limit this season because they realized the appeal had taken a significant hit. I guess there is no need for a tournament blast off, or official weigh in…jeez this is all starting to sound like taking away a bunch of the appeal of tournament fishing. Maybe you can’t appreciate it, or don’t understand the appeal. anyone that does can tell you that there aren’t many feelings like blastoff and running a bass boat full bore to that honey hole and catching a big one. If that makes me wrong, then I guess I don’t wanna be right lol. I guess you can ask the entire economy of tournament bass fisherman to entirely move over to a catch measure release tournaments, to me it starts sounding a heck of a lot like our recent gun laws, making up rules targeting people that do things legally and doing nothing to stop guys like crow’s neighbours. crow we have a similar problem up at our place, there’s a very strict fish sanctuary in parry sound, most people appreciate the border, but my neighbor have now started downrigging the fish sanctuary pretending that they are “salmon fishing” they then proceed to post pictures of their laketrout catches on Facebook. That one irks me so bad. I’ll add, I sure as hell also hope that they don’t open up the pre-spawn season to tournaments, leave that be, you can allow for guys to go target some pre spawn fish and snap a picture and measure their trophies, but we definitely don’t need guys livewelling during that time of year when there are no retention limits in place. I guess the kayak guys woulD be happy. also why in the hell is the province not doing anything about getting tournament directors to direct their funds back to the resource. That one drives me nuts, some of these guys are operating corporate cash cows with no need to pay back into the resource. The other one that bothers me is the complete lack of weigh in standards in bigger tournaments. It’s one thing for 5 boats at my local clubby to weigh fish, it’s another to have a disaster like B1 pulled off a few years back with awful holding tank procedures which resulted in a gigantic die off, the guy then stole a bunch of money, just craziness.

Awesome pics! I hear ya about the getting older and pulling gear around, not getting any easier. Every season I try to make all my gear lighter and lighter

Wow! Nice job! LTf

"Gord is a tournament and TV fisherman. Does he have any scientific studies to back his opinion." Gord has a Masters Degree in Resource Management and spent over 30 years working for the OMNR as a Senior Fisheries Biologist. I think he may not only have read but also participated first hand in more than a few scientific studies. I'm not sure how "they would be outlawing most tournaments" ? The thought is that tournaments run on a catch-record-release basis are less detrimental to the resource.

I had FORGOTTEN about your mayfly larva and bloodworm mini-flies. 😲 So I just rectified that and we shall see if the perch like them tomorrow. Last time out, they really wanted a big minnow. But if they come in to the buffet and don't feel like a meal, maybe they will go for the snack! Thanks for the reminder. (And please wish me luck!) Doug

Because fish like largemouth won't feed until they get back to their home waters. Gord Pyzer talked about this at the fishing show. Fish will eventually die (He gave a few examples)..

Tournament fish are always weighed on the water. Walking distance of carrying the fish from livewell and back to water. It is illegal to transport live gamefish. Would point of capture be where it was hooked or landed. How far can you drift while taking a picture. That would be as ambiguous a rule as immediately tagging a moose and immediately informing the rest of the party that a moose was shot. No matter what, you shoot, they have a charge to lay. They need to address the ridiculous rules for baitfish zones they just came up with first

No just the ones where the fish are weighed at a grandstand , often not even on the water, catch, weigh or measure, photo and release at point of capture, tournament anglers are a honest bunch 🤣

The worst are the guys claiming personal bests with OOS fish lol. It's crazy to me that people can lack simple common sense.

You wouldn't believe what goes on at the FB group page for my cottage lake.. One yahoo regularly posts photos of himself holding up a Bass in May or early June...with the caption "oh don't worry it was released". Another clown posts photos of out of slot size Walleye...on a stringer, standing on his dock...with the caption "let go to swim another day". The worst of it is the little old ladies that mostly frequent the page...then post comments like.."nice catch" or "great fish". When I post letting them know they're actually breaking the law...they call me out for being a "Karen" ...and then the same little old ladies complain "the fishing isn't like it used to be" Jeez...

Would be nice if this puts a stop to people taking pics of OOS fish.

Those snapping turtles beg to differ lol

Good thing CO Bruce Ward retired... he'd have nothing to hassle Georgian Bay Musky fisherman with anymore..

Brian, I'm guessing you have heard this cover of Simple Man... simply inspiring! HH

Greetings to all those I know that are still on the site and also to those I dont its been along time (5years)whooosh! Thought I’d share a bit some fishing some not just kinda staying in touch So the fishing took place here locally it’s called Horse Race (43.3787156, -65.6137912) the current moves pretty quick here and you try to get there on slack and basically troll a wire u with 3 rows of flashers and 3 wooden plugs you can sort of see one in my hand and on the deck anyway add a hunk of lead 60 feet of cord and a piece of bungee cord as a strike indicator and your good to go this is all home made gear. This is a once a year deal to put fish in the freezer for the winter I go out with a guy I’ve know since I was a kid he is a commercial fishermen and is getting geared up for the lobster season in between deer season of course. Work is great i have a great crew I work with nothing to complain about. Got married in 2020 in the midst of the vid. So without further ado I will add some pictures and call it a day lots of work to do at the bee yard this weekend to get ready for the coming dark season. capeislandapiaries.com cheers to all my friends if I’m back that way I will be reaching out to go fishing……Beware cheers and love peter(bite me)