Garfisher

Maybe you're just too good at catching big walleye to catch any little ones 🤣 (I hope that's the case anyways, otherwise YIKES)

Tie on your most expensive lure without a wire leader on, that'll definitely locate you some pike! (Might get expensive though haha)

Kinda. Lampricide would target all lampreys, which would include our native Silver, Chestnut, Northern Brook, and American Brook Lampreys. I've also heard while chatting with someone who's worked with the Sea Lamprey program, that when they treat the Nipigon River that they know the concentration is about right when a certain species or two start flipping up (they aren't gamefish but smaller fish, I forget the species). Young of year Lake Sturgeon can also be lethally affected by TFM (a type of lampricide) in more acidic waters (https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2045/). But generally lampricide treatments have greater benefits than problems for Great Lakes game fish at least

It was out on Saturday haha

Also on the original subject of this post, I personally wouldn't mind seeing an open season elsewhere in southern Ontario. Maybe even allow harvest from end of normal open season until whenever walleye or pike close for their closed season (obvious exception being zone 17 but make it Mar. 15th perhaps), but at a reduced limit (maybe S-2, C-1), and have certain lakes remain closed for special management such as the Kawartha chain (the lakes immediately on the waterway), Rice, Simcoe, Couchiching, and the Rideau chain.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/carleton-study-suggests-diet-coke-doesnt-go-with-fish Please don't pour pop on fish gills no matter how much they're bleeding 😅

If you hold them upside down they'll go into a tonic state and not thrash about haha

Getting amped up for/during the spawn and sudden water temp changes can overwhelm them and cause some dieoff to occur

https://www.eddmaps.org/ontario/distribution/viewmap.cfm?sub=12252 Chemong has had gobies for a few years now. Chemong seems to be the "eastern" front in the Kawarthas, while in the western Kawarthas it seems that they haven't been able to make it into Canal with the Trent-Severn draining the canal every winter

Probably a coyote, outside chance of it being a fox. Traditional herbivores usually have scat that are pellets/pellet shaped/look like they're made of pellets. Foxes and coyotes will eat fruits and plants at times during the year as mentioned before, and their scat is commonly shaped like the one in the picture.

Never (not to be rude haha). The world record caught in 1865 was 4lbs 3oz and was 18" long. Simcoe will spit out some huge perch in the years to come but they won't hit 20", I can definitely see 16"+ being a real possibility though, and I definitely can see a new Ontario record coming out of Simcoe.

I think it's just a regular muskie as the tail lobes seem pretty pointed (it's the only real clear ID feature), but regardless that's a nice fish! 😎

I'd say so 😎

Well they sort of are a big deal haha. They will greatly reduce the numbers of some native fishes (mostly darters since they would be direct competition), concentrate contaminants absorbed by zebra/quagga mussels (which then accumulates in the fish that eat the gobies), and they can harbour strains of botulism normally not available in the environment (which could cause waterfowl die-offs). But they do make a plentiful food source for bass, walleye, pike, trout, loons, cormorants, and other stuff that like to eat small fish.

https://www.eddmaps.org/ontario/distribution/point.cfm?id=8275276 They're in there...