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Well isn't that a nice surprise! Great looking fish!

My thoughts and prayers are with you Cliff and your family. My next beer will be for Herb as well as my next fish. Enjoy the trip Herb!

No transporting involved Brian, so I didn't mention it. I believe that close to 100% of us here would be transporting fish with the skin on when going back to camp, cottage or home. I know I always do that. The point I was looking for was once back at camp, cottage, home and cleaning the fish for a meal later in the day,(hence the fish will be stored for a period of time) do you leave a piece of skin on? According to the regs you must. We were just back at camp and had no intentions of moving the fish any further then to the frying pan when it was time for dinner and got the fine. Snag - I'm not sure that the poll is flawed as I said above, no transporting of the fish was involved.

Just as I thought. Over 85% of you are going to jail, well, could be getting a fine. (At the time of this post.) Here's the scoop. While on my trip to Floodwood Lake we had the MNR drop in a pay us a visit and this is how the story goes. One morning we had kept 4 walleye and 1 whitefish to go with our dinner that evening. During the trip I was the designated fish cleaner and while brunch was being made I had my job of cleaning the fish. Cleaned them up into nice fillets, no bones, no skin, into Ziplocs and into the fridge. While getting ready to head out for the afternoon fish we hear a plane coming and lands on the lake, low and behold it's the MNR, 2 officers and a pilot. They do the usual checking of licenses, how's the fishing been, have you got any fish to which one of the guys says yes and tells him what we have. The officer asks to see them and is not very happy. Asks how long we've been fishing and if we ever have read the rules and regs? We all respond with most of our lifes and yes we have read the rules and regs. He asks who has cleaned them, I tell him it was me and then the lecture starts about leaving skin on the fish so that they can be identified. I was always under the impression that if you were transporting or freezing fish they needed a piece of skin to identify them. Apparently the skin needs to be on until the oil is hot in the pan, in the CO's words, not quite what it says in the rules and regs. It does say this though on page 4. Packaging Fish for Transport or Storage – When you are exporting, transporting or storing fish, you must ensure that the fish can be easily identified and counted. Where length limits apply, you must also ensure that the length of the fish can be determined except as described in “Transporting Sport Fish in Ontario” (Refer to page 6). So keeping your fish in the fridge counts as storage I guess, well I know now as does the rest of the group. He said he could charge all of us but wouldn't as I was the one who cleaned the fish. I was also with in my limit (sport license) of 4 fish (walleye) and therefore wouldn't be charge with being over my limit as well even though they fish were caught amongst the group. So a $125 fine for me for not having the fish being identifiable but we got to keep our fish. (BTW – The guys all chipped in on the fine, thanks again.) Now I'm not posting this to complain about what happened but just to make everyone aware of this rule. One of our pilots told us on the way out that last year the MNR were into 2 of the lakes once each. This year they are in every week so far. So save yourself a few bucks if you are heading up to the Cochrane way and leave the skin on until you’re ready to cook and the oil is hot in the pan.

Just curious to see how many leave the skin on or take it off when preparing to cook fish later in the day. Just looking for percentages not comments. You'll see why later. Thanks

We're back from Floodwood and what a great trip! Fishing was slow but when you go from +35 down to -1 and you have a mayfly hatch going on what can you expect. We did get fish everytime we went out and I've got a few good stories to tell that just made the trip. I'm just waiting on a few pics to finish off the report and should have it up soon. Great to see that everyone had a great time a Lakair. It looks like we'll be flying in earlier next year so I should see you at Lakair in 2008. In the meantime here's a pic of the cow moose and here twin calves that we saw while we were there.

Welcome!!!

Awesome slide show! Thanks for the report.

Tackle - check. Clothing - check. Food - check. Beer - ooops still have to buy beer. LOL! Well there are still a few other things to get organized besides the beer but I'm almost ready. We will be leaving at 2am Friday morning and driving to Cochrane. From there we will be flying into Floodwood Lake for some walleye and pike fishing until Tuesday. With all the great reports coming in from the area we are bound to have a great time. A buddy of mine was in at the same lake a few weeks ago and they had over 800 walleye between 4 guys during their stay. As well as a few accidental pike and a couple of whitefish while fishing for the eyes. Watch out for the report next week. For those going to Lakair - have a FANTASTIC time and be safe!

Some good info here from a similar post I did a few months back.

I should tell you the story of my ex-brother-in-law and the snapping turtle. Similar situation with the turtle in the middle of the road. He stopped, got out and gave it a nudge in the butt with his foot. The turtle was faster then anyone could imagine! It somehow had enough speed to jump around and bite down on his foot! He gave his foot a shake and it did let go with just a bit of torn skin. He was wearing running shoes which was a good thing. Seeing you with the sandles on I cannot imagine what kind of damage may have been done if he had been wearing similar foot wear. Good thing no one was harmed in the making of this report! Nice shots and a good read, made me laugh and brought back some good memories. Unfortuneately my ex-brother-in-law passed away while my ex and I were still together at the very young age of 28 of heart failure. Still think of him quite often and reading your report has done it again. Tthanks for sharing.

That just looks like too much fun for the both of you! LOL! Good going!

How are the pics coming or did I miss them? Love to see those monster pike!

Just when you think you've heard every excuse for loosing a fish.....

VERY COOL!!! These videos are getting me so pumped up for my trip up there. Well one of there outpost camps, Floodwood Lake. Only 2 more sleeps! Thanks for sharing TJ!

Thanks for taking the time to shoot the video and put it together!

Great read, great pics, great report!

Well after weeks of hearing you talk about it it's nice to see she said yes. We miss ya here at the shop, well not really but it seemed like the right thing to say. LOL! It looks like the new job is going well and yes I'm jealous. Thanks for the up date and keep us posted as much as you can. And when your not too busy fishing all those exotic places, give me a shout and we'll see if we can't go out and get a few. Thanks for the post and great pics!

A guy I work with has an old Tercel ('98). Just under 200K and put a timing belt on it (part of the maintanence schedule), brakes and tires. That's been it. He's a happy guy. I'd love to find a way to tow my boat with one of those.

INCREDIBLE!!!

Well that just sucks! I'll see what my buddy has to say when I'm talking with him later. (GM Mechanic for over 20 years) I've been thinking about Toyota as well, presently a GM guy. I did hear the other day that the new Toyota motors are having cam shafts cracking on them. No problem because you'll get a brand new motor installed. Just a problem you want when you're towing to your favourite lake. I think I'll wait for a couple of years to get the bugs worked out on that one. My buddy just called oddly enough. What type of vehicle? Which motor? First impressions are to change the fuel filter. Engine might be starving for fuel at the higher speeds and causing a misfire. This would then bring on the service engine light. He is puzzled why you can't get a code off of the reader as well.

There's some good fishing! Nice report! Hey JB - I've been using a rubber net for 6 years now and never had a problem with the hooks damaging the netting.

What time should I meet you Cliff?

GREAT report!!! Some great fish and some very happy people! Thanks for sharing!