Christopheraaron

Might be a little early, but I'm guessing since I haven't been up there in 6 months haha. There's a public launch just south of bridge street on canal road. There's also a paid ramp on the other side of the canal, on the north side of bridge, good luck!

Thanks Blair! Have you tried it?

yup I'll definitely have my fair share of worms Are you allowed leeches in the park?

LOL Bill I hope not. Brian, although it would work I'd prefer it be plan b, if the rod is decent it would be useful for a lot of other trips.

So for my opener trip I'd really like to be able to fly fish with streamers and then if that's not working be able to switch to jerkbaits or worms. Since packing both a fly rod and spinning combo would take up a lot of room I was looking at this setup. It's a convertible rod, so it can be a spinning rod and then you can unscrew the butt to make it into a fly rod. Originally I had planned to build one but I don't think I'll have time for that anymore so I'm considering buying it. Has anyone used this combo? I know white river usually isn't too great but the reviews seem decent. Thanks! http://www.basspro.com/White-River-Fly-Shop-Fly/Spin-Rod-and-Reel-Combo/product/44266/ Edit: I know some have had bad experiences with the reels, I can always switch out the reels, just really want to know about the rod

Just in time for smelt

No problem blizzard, there's a tonne of history on the subject, I've just scraped the surface, you could easily write a couple paragraphs on just each type of line haha. Then once you start tying them you really start appreciating the sport

hey Rich, if you want some more PM me a couple pics and I'm sure I can figure out how to tie them for you

I just started tying speys (the old kind) and dees, here's a sample. The first is a dee, notice how the wings are facing apart, the second is a spey, usually the wings would be bronze mallard, but for this fly I elected to use goose instead, you can see how the wings are closed on this one.

Haha, you're both right, there are spey rods, spey lines, spey casts, and spey flies. Spey fishing is a style of fishing developed in Scotland on The River Spey, fishermen had a hard time fishing it with traditional fly rods because of heavy tree cover around the banks. So they developed a very long double handed rod (usually around 14-16ft) suitable for long roll casts. They already used high grain fly lines to load the rods, but when the style caught on in BC they needed longer casts with less room so they started using shorter rods (12-14 ft) with extremely thick lines, this allowed them to really blast cast outs, this style is called skagit. Spey flies are the flies used with the rods, originally they used shrimp patterns made with looped salmon irons, heron hackle, seals fur and a wing of bronze mallard, they also used dee flies, which are the same as speys (usually a little more intricate) but they use different materials for the wings (usually turkey, pheasant or swan) and they would always face apart instead of touching tips. On the west coast they use baitfish patterns and of course attractor flies, more modern techniques are used on those flies, names like intruders or marabou are common, these are very heavy flies (another reason to use skagit lines) and usually dark in colour to provoke the salmon. I see Bare foot already beat me to it but I hope it helps

went passed scugog 2 days ago, most of it's still locked up but the rivers and most of the south lake are open.

Do you have a boat? If so you probably want to go with at least a 9' rod, unless it's a canoe in which case 7' is good. EDIT: I like the longer rods when using slip floats cause you can get more line off the water, and then it doesn't cause as much disturbance on the surface. For shoreline I like 6'6" to 7'

The rock do lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp5TbQQTQA0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nk8-MqnHlw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yXzZTYjUl0 anyone know how to embed? I really messed that up lol.

Is there anyone in the k/w area that knows what the ponds around there are like? Thinking of trying out a carp spot tomorrow...

I take it back, lol.

GO JAYS GO!!! Can't wait to watch knuckle ball after knuckle ball

So do we talk about baseball on here now?

Interesting timing, but I don't think it will affect them, I have yet to see a nest after may lol

Think I should move it by a week? I just want to get there before anyone else fishes it this year...

Getting nervous, 4 day trip to the park for opener and not much activity up there right now