crappieperchhunter

My wife is a manager at a TD and both my kids are at the bank as well. Cheque frauds and frauds in general having been getting worse and worse every year. All banks have beefed up there security measures, to protect there own arses and yours. You will get the same treatment every where.

OFC is my nothing box :thumbsup_anim:

My guess was 6LBS 5 OZ.....what do I win Good job!!!! Now the fun begins. Soak it all up like a sponge....cause when you blink...you will wake up and Emma will be all grown up.

Gotta love the fall perching...we have been getting them in 8FOW since Sept 19 on Lady Simcoe. Yes I said 8 FOW. Going with Photoz for another round tomorrow

The next 3 weeks is perchin as much as I can. Love those tasty little buggers.

35-55 FOW...vertically jigging a jighead and a minnow or worm. Or an ice fishing jigging rapala with a dew worm impaled on the front hook then twirled around the rapala barber pole style and impaled on the back hook or the bottom treble...depending on the size of your worm. That all you need to know for the walleye spots I fish this time of year. The deep water eyes tend to feed all day as well... with mid morning usually being the best bite. No need to get up early and no need to go out after dark. Gotta love it.

Thx beansie. The last Debbe and I spoke with Sue was Sept 29 and she was at work. I had no idea anything was going on. Debbe and I send our best.

I have mixed feelings about the Kawartha's being open for the hard water. I plan on retiring to Bobcaygeon so it would be nice to fish closer to home in the winter. However I have the same concerns as Stoty about the fishery going to hell. I think a good compromise would be to open it for pannies and walleye for a short season like Scugog...but really monitor it. If the fishery starts to go south then close it up again. It would be fantastic if it was sustainable.....and it would be good for local businesses to get a little more tourist $$$$ during the winter.

Harrison....rest assured you made a good choice. I'm very happy this played out the way it did.

Be careful Shayne....I remember what happened the last time a dog was being offered on here Sorry buddy...couldn't resist.

With you on this one. A friend of mine who is the best steelheader I know told me when he introduced me to it that the best part was watching the float go down. I target pretty much everything besides musky...and use floats for different applications for all most all of them.

One of my favs as well joey. Along with my all time fav when Mrs Champ was helping old man Mckluskey plant a flowerbed and another neighbor commented to the champ that he saw Mrs Champ plant her tulips around old man Mckluskeys Stump....PARDON

Gotta agree with Dawg on this one. It is strictly a put and take fishery and all those snagged fish as gonna be dead in a month anyhow. I have never snagged a salmon...and never will...but money wise I think the best bang for our buck would be to have the stocking numbers increased slightly then just let the hooligans have at it for a couple of weeks in the fall. As long as the lake fishery doesn't suffer...what does it really matter? Truthfully I'm far too busy chasing perch/crappie on Simcoe this time of year to worry about salmon.

If you read his report from the other board...it was stated that the fish swam away healthy. How you gonna scoop up that?

I hope this is the last we see of steve-o on here. Members like that we don't need. TonyB well done!!!! Enjoy your prize.

Well however a person handles a situation is up to them. Everybody has there own comfort zone. For the people here that tore a strip off Photoz...I can only say this. I have fished on the ice with the man. As well as the rivers and even had him in my boat several times. I can't think of any individual that I have fished with who shows more respect for the environment, and the fish he is after. He is also one of the first people to offer help or advice to anyone fishing nearby who might appear to be new at the "game". Steve is a stand up guy who I am happy to call a friend. BTW Photoz....perch season is JUST around the corner....PM me if you are in for a road trip up Orillia way.

Yeah I hear you about the ketchup. Been there, done that I just took my fillet knive and carved that pesky little plastic membrane out of the hole. No more worries. When the bottle is finished I transfer the modified lid to the new bottle. My family think I am crazy ...but it has restored peace to my world

Must be the type of day I'm having....but damn I thought that was funny

I PM'd you Kyle. Thx for the letter and thx for stopping to visit my old man. BTW did you manage a stroll down to the Grand for some Brown's when you where back in Fergus? Also...love the picture.

We used to go to Camp Horizon on Muskosung Lake just outside Sturgeon Falls. Not alot of bass in the lake...compared to the walleye population anyway. My brothers family went there as well but with inlaws and always a different week then us. He told me that out for bass one night they got some nice 3-5 Lb eyes on surface baits...so when we went up next I was determined to give it a try to see if I could get eyes on top water. Managed 2 my very first night and always rigged a rod for surface walleye fishing after that. Got a fish or 2 pretty much every night this way when we went there. We would do the evening walleye bite the traditional way with jigs and live bait then switch to a bassy weedy area in 6-8 fow for an hour on our way back into the dock. Perhaps the pattern worked because it is not a "BASS" lake..I dunno...but it always worked and the walleye taken this way where always of a larger size then the eaters we would normally catch.

Good job. Those "surprises" are part of what makes fishing so much fun. I dunno...one lake I fished every year for years we got just as much eyes on surface lures after dark as bass. From that experience I assumed it was pretty common. Maybe some others can chime in with there experiences.

Now that made me laugh out loud :thumbsup_anim:

Very impressed with this place as well. It is not in my fishing area so I was only in there once while passing through 2 summers ago. Could not believe the amount of stuff they carried. If it was in my area I would be a regular for sure.

I don't even think it's the best tackle shop in Caygeon. You wouldn't be related to the owner's would you Been going to Mark's Worm Warehouse out on the highway for years. KLO has nothing on him. I went in KLO once when it first opened. Nice enough fellow in there and I got a free donut from him. I wish them luck...but seriously even BUCKEYE has more stuff and so does the little convenience store out beside Nogies creek. So I would rank KLO 4th in Bobcaygeon. You are related to the owner... right

I don't care what anyone says....that's funny right there.