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A little history for the young guns (and reminiscing for the old farts)...how the terminology for the species has changed here in Ontario. The "Ontario Fishing Regulations" from 1960....what the gov't called them back then: "YELLOW PICKEREL (Dore, Pike-Perch, Walleye-Pike)" "PIKE (Great Northern Pike and Grass Pike)" "SPECKLED TROUT" "BLACK BASS" "MASKINONGE" Those are the terms I grew up with....the Ontario regs changed the names to Walleye, Northern Pike, Brook Trout, Smallmouth, Largemouth and Muskellunge, I believe sometime in the late 70's. ...and looking at the photo, it seems folks kept and ate Musky...lol

I tied up some free give aways and thought, what about something for the kids. So I am tying up a couple dozen pin bugs they can put in their hats. I tied them no different then I would on a hook.

And ya, "Black Bass" was also a familiar term from youth.

To add to the confusion they still refer to Brookies and Lakers as trout, they're not. And further more, Walleye are not Pickerel even though I grew thinking they were. 😆

Hi all, I do the odd guiding gig at Wabigoon Lake Outfitters here on beautiful Wabigoon Lake, always fun going out with repeat customers, and the walleye did not disappoint, caught well over 80 for the afternoon with plenty of slots and overs, the kid was a slip bobber wizard.

My Dad and his fishing buddies would call any small (hammer-handle) Pike a "Grass Pike"...and anything over say 30" was a "Northern Pike".

My in-laws (of all ages), in the Niagara area, to this day still call them "Black Bass"...

For many years (like 20 or so) I would be up before dawn to hurtle down the lake to my opening morning glory hole. A Texas rigged 7 inch Berkley Power worm with a VERY light worm weight would go into a small pocket inside a shoal. 14 FOW on the outside, maybe 2 FOW on top. Almost always, one of the biggest largemouth of the season would come topside soon thereafter. On a good morning we would take five or six largemouth from an area the size of a living room. For a couple magical years, it was a 10 inch Power Worm that would call in the big fish. BUT! Whether it's zebra mussels, or educated bass, a Texas rigged worm has not been all that effective the last few years. So I am thinking it will be a wacky worm, on the small side, on a non-weighted hook, in a natural colour. About 21 hours from now, but who's counting. 😉 Doug

Darryl Choronzey took this on as a crusade. He convinced me......... Doug

Well done for the kids there Brian! Just realized, this is this Saturday, OPENING DAY OF BASS around here at least. What's up with that? Doug

Great idea misfish.

On another note...the reg's were a lot simpler back then...a one page tri-fold. Today it's a 143 page (I just counted) novel... Which can be interpreted as a political comment too...government just keeps getting bigger and bigger..

The name Walleye didn't become common here till we started watching American fishing shows. Never heard it before about 1970.

Zone 20 too, largemouth 3rd Saturday and smallmouth July 1st.

I'm a liitle self centered...Kawarthas and eastern Ontario open 3rd Saturday

Senkos. Largemouth. Not fancy but it works.

I have had mostly good interventions with police officers, and with COs, and I have had interventions that were less good with both groups. If one meets a law enforcement officer of any stripe who is bound and determined to lay a charge, regardless of guilt or innocence, chances are that the meeting with that LEO is going to be strained. I do not envy these folks their chosen careers, and everybody can have a bad day. But please don't approach me, when I am doing nothing wrong or illegal, and accuse me of something. It is not a good start to an encounter with a citizen who is paying their salary.

More than a touch Im afraid.....

Will be good worm pickin 😎

OMG, clickbait...lol