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Rizzo, it was caught in Mitchell lake. It was number 7 for me in the past 3 years, all from Mitchell, with the biggest being 43"

Hit Mitchell/Balsam again this week. Lots of missed strikes and follows, spent most of the day on Balsam looking for muskie. Most of the action was on Mitchell, but it was a nice day exploring areas that I hadn't been to before. Ended up boating only 3 pike, a handful of bass and this little tiger. Extended arms. He did a nice little tail walk, too bad he was tiny.

I find ground muskie, walleye, and bass make great fertilizer for my garden. But only when they are full of roe.

I am one of those lucky people who don't get any reaction, other than bleeding when the blackflies take a chunk. I don't even react to bee and wasp stings anymore. I was stung a lot as a kid, even stepped on a yellowjackets nest that was in a beaver lodge while fishing and had stings from my sock line to my underwear line because I was wearing shorts. It was 2 weeks before the swelling and itching went away, but that the last time I remember having a reaction to any kind of bite or sting.

Impossible Rizzo, there are NO pike other than little hammer handles in that lake Nice one, those big pike give some really nice fillets

Mitchell, because you can also get to Balsam via the canal. Big pike in both lakes, lot's of them and lots of sheltered water if its windy. Fished them yesterday, boated 12 pike, largest being a 32" who nailed a bulldawg. Also taking the pike from these 2 lakes helps the muskie population and slows the spread of pike through the rest of the kawarthas.

Thanks gusy, it was fun. I even got a 3 for 1. The big pike, his stomach looks distended because it had an 8" as well as a 5" crappie/sunfish/bluegill in it barely digested.

Got out with a friend yesterday, and had Mitchell lake pretty much to ourselves for the day. On water around 7:30, and within the first hour I had a lot of action with 4 pike and a handful of stupid bass who couldn't see the heavy black wire leader. My buddy, not so much action, had to wait til later on to remove the skunk later on with a few pike and aggressive bass. I couldn't stop the fish from hitting, even catching a 12" crappie when I switched lures, dropped it overboard and set my rod down to put away the previous lure and grab a drink. I notice my rods moving, pick it up, and I have a crappie on. Finished the day with 8 pike between the two of us, including a 34.25" which was my last fish of the day and a bunch of largies all released including an 18-19". Left around 6:00 when it decided to just keep raining. Spinnerbaits were the lure of the day, willow leaf, hatchet/fluted, and inline mepps in both natural and florescent. All pike were kept and were delicious.

My personal best, 35" on my homemade spinnerbait. They give some really nice fillets once the y bones are out and are a lot of fun to catch. Such angry, aggressive fish that are hard to spook and love hitting next to the boat, what more could you ask for?

They just held a pike tourney on Balsam. Big fish was a tie at 34.5" between 2 anglers. lot's of pike caught, I almost always limit out on pike so I'm pretty sure your odds are on to catch pike and not muskie. The past couple years I have pulled well over 200 pike from Mitchell/Balsam and have only caught around 20 muskie/tigers over the same time period. And 6 walleye.........guess what I don't fish for.

Balsam and Mitchell, check the exceptions about walleye for the lakes because the slot is different from the rest of zone 17.

Hit Mitchell lake for the day, lot's of action for this early in the season, with a lot of hits and follows. Brought home 5 pike including a 30" and released 3 largies and a couple of panfish who decided to hit pike baits. Water temps were mid 60's and spinnerbaits were the lure of choice. Would have limited but I lost a couple next to the boat.

Boss is right, Canal Mitchell, and Balsam all have great pike fishing, with the chance of getting a 40" plus fish. Balsam has boat rentals in Coboconk and Rosedale, just do a Google search. Just make sure you are prepared to identify and release any Tigers or Muskie quickly, with as little damage as possible.

Hit my favorite kawartha lakes that have a pike problem with a buddy yesterday. I caught two 28" pike that could have been twins, while my buddy got a nice 31" and a 16", also he caught a 21" walleye. All were caught on Rapala's, half while casting and half trolling. The pike were all nice thick fish, even the little one had shoulders, and were delicious. Water temps were low to mid 50's and the level was at least a foot and a half higher than normal.

mitchell lake has a few places to shore fish. Where 48 splits the lake there's a park with boat launch and lots of room to shore fish. Another access point is at the north end where the dam is, off victoria road, or the canal going to balsam. Lots of pike in mitchell, just be prepared to handle any accidental muskie properly, and know what tiger muskie look like so you don't confuse them with pike.

Yep, and any point loss will also count. My roomate just went through this 3 weeks ago facing a couple hundred and points. Cost him 400 to have xcopper fight it and got it changed to a parking violation with no loss of points.

Table an idiot law. If you are rescued and the responders think you deserve it, charge you with endangering lives due to idiocy. You get your say in court, fines, community service, or you might be found innocent. IMHO +13 for 2 days with already crap ice means don't go out there. I'm sure the news of people going thru the ice on simcoe the night before was everywhere, but he still went. 99 percent of us would not go out on that night.

As the OP keeps pointing out, this isn't about assault weapons, it's about customization. If i put a pistol grip on my shotgun, it's an assault weapon. I'm teaching my kid to shoot so I put a collapible stock on my .22 so he can adjust where the butt sits and all of a sudden that .22 is an assault weapon. Come on, any semi-intelligent person knows the action makes the firearm, not the accessories. On a side note I wonder how many people still hunt, or own, Enfields or M-1 Garands, battle rifles desinged with a specific purpose in mind, killing people. The Garand is even semi-auto and would do a lot more damage with it's larger calibre, but since it doesn't have a collapsibe stock or pistol grip, and isn't black polymer, I guess it's not dangerous.

It's more than just regular gun owners who are under attack from the anti's agenda.. Paintball guns were almost classed as a firearm since if you modified it and used something other than paintballs, you could attain velocities oer 500fps.We were able to fight that one off but I know it was with the support of a lot firearm rights groups. Strength in numbers aginst the idiocy. A large percentage of people who play paintball enjoy using "mil-sim" paintball guns, some of which are so realistic looking(RAP4) that you can not get them shipped to Canada. Stores up here were allowed to sell their stock out and now you can only get accessories in Canada. Personaly I enjoyed shooting a Ruger .22 with pistol grip, folding stock, dot scope, and the 50rnd. clip. when I was young, it was fun for shooting targets, but I don't understand how they can class that as an assault weapon, just because of cosmetic changes. Rails, shrouds, flash suppressors, colapsible stocks, ect. don't change the action of the firearm, just it's displacement value.

yep, ontario is horrible for rates. At 28 with a G2, previously insured on a motorcycle in my name, I was quoted 3500-4500 on a 96 f-i50 with a clean record. The damn truck only cost me 1500 and it wasn't even a 4x4 or extended cab. Had to sell it to my dad and be listed as a secondary driver. For a newer car, my quotes ranged from 6000-7500 depending on the make. What a scam.

I agree Randy, but I still enjoyed the movie since I'm a huge fan of the Aliens movies and science fiction in general.

Bladeburner, I was wondering which sect of Christianity doesn't take the holy sacrament? I was under the impression that all of the major sects do since they all evolved from the roman catholic church. Since you say that a large part of science is flawed, how do you differentiate between flawed science and science that works? Also does the same apply to the bible, or is the bible flawless?

I believe in evolution and my theory on why the missing link has been so hard to find is that the evidence is buried beneath silt and debris on the ocean floor. I strongly believe that our "ancient" civilizations that we know of today, were actually the remnants of an advanced civilization that existed 8000+ year ago. Why did the ancients we know about build so far away from the ocean when as a race we tend to gravitate towards the coast, and in fact the largest cities today are located right next to the ocean. Not only did they build far from the coast, but they built to withstand earthquakes as well. Why is the story of a great flood and cataclysmic event prevalent in so many ancient civilizations? Now people are discovering cities hundreds of feet beneath the ocean that carbon dating says are at least 8-10 thousand years old, which according to science shouldn't be there because we were still pretty much nomads, while the bible says the earth didn't even exist at that time. Is it not possible that the primates we evolved from migrated and set up shop on the coastlines due to the benefits of living there, lived, died, evolved and eventually spawned a seafaring civilization that built on the coastlines all over the parts of earth that weren't covered in ice. When the end came in the form of a tsunami that wiped most of them out, the remnants went inland and mingled with the cultures who weren't as advanced. The stories of flood and cataclysm persisted to the point that when it was time to build cities again, they were built inland and earthquake resistant. Again any evidence is buried beneath thousands of years of silt, and hundreds of feet of water, not to mention with coastal erosion any evidence would be nowhere near present day coastlines. That's my personal theory, but I think it is plausible, far more plausible in my mind than the man in the sky or the ancient alien theories.

Caged Wisdom taught me that faith is fact......oh wait a minute, that was on the blooper reel. If we are to believe everything in the Bible as the word of God, and not the words of priests who just wanted to control the masses, then why don't we all own slaves that we can beat so badly that they die after a couple days. That it's okay so long as they don't die right away, since they are the property of the person beating them. I don't think Buddy Christ would think much of that. Christopher is 100% correct about why religion started in the first place, to explain the unknown, paganism especially. The irony is that Christians considered paganism barbaric because of all the blood rituals, yet Christians eat the body of Christ and drink his blood every Sunday. I don't think science is infallible. Theories are proven and refuted every day because they are theories. To believe a story that was first recorded a few thousand years ago and to accept every word as the gospel truth, than you are not thinking for yourself, instead you are blindly following the leader. Bill, I'm agnostic and I would like you to not post pictures of my God online.

Yeah Sinclair, 6000 years old. Also the sun revolves around the earth, the Grand Canyon was formed in days, man walked around with dinosaurs, and the only planet to have life on it is earth. Science....who needs it:whistling: This computer I'm using to post on the internet was given to me by a higher power because so called scientists didn't have anything to do with creating it.:wallbash: