Rizzo

Thank you so much...that one drives me up the wall. Only worse abuse of the language is when I listen to CNN and hear them pronounce 'negotiate' as 'negociate'. ..that one is worse than fingernails on the blackboard to me, yell at my tv evertime I hear it.

I've got a Lowe that wasn't very expensive and I've been very happy with it.

just came in from shoveling again and that dang' white stuff just keeps falling from the sky, will it ever stop?

should make those muskies hungry by next week-end . Here's hoping for a few more days of wind!

I used to live at Royal York and Lawrence for about 8 years and during that time I saw deer, foxes, and coyotes on my street as well as the usual suspects: raccoons, possums and skunks galore (had 6 skunks in my backyard one time as we sat out having a wobbly pop)

I'll be there assuming work/wife allow it

I know in the past few years Phoenix has been absolutely brutal, after seeing that score (notice I didn't say "seeing that game")I have to hope they have had a major turn-around and are a legit contender this year...someone please tell me Phoenix is a good team

I caught a number of Kawartha walleye on 9" sledges and 10" suicks this year (almost every trip out)...pretty sure that xrap isn't too big for a quinte 'eye

CHOMP!

actually, a tiger is what happens when a pike and a musky "get it on". It is a bad sign, because it means there are pike in the Kawartha lakes (at least some of them)

if this is your arrangement Lew, then I truly feel you deserve the better one!

so this is what I miss when I don't stream fish, man am I jealous

I actually would want the cheaper one...after all, it's your own money that's paying for it! Hope you get what you're "fishing" for Lew

methinks you were fleeced. Pretty sure I paid about 25 cents for mine, a buck tops. Lets put it this way, they cost so little I didn't pay attention.

do those ducks have a bad odour? I know a guy who says "ducks" and then a few seconds later there is a really bad smell. Just wondering if they are the same ducks.

water at 39 degrees! I think I'm going to cry

haha great report. If you have to break through ice to get to the water, you are die-hards. As far as musky fishing goes, I lose confidence when the water gets below 52...doesn't mean I quit, just means I have zero confidence...and no confidence usually leads to no fish. At least you saw one!

use paddles...cheap, good exercise and better for the environment (other than that I think 8 hp would be more than adequate)

I have absolutely no idea as I have never seen one, but my imagination leads me to believe a smelt might be like a sardine? Guess that should be my next question...how do you prepare a smelt to make it edible? Again, I was just wondering how people might prepare a fish like this, as the smallest perch I have kept are in the 9 inch range and found the fillets fairly small (some of those little buggers have big rib cages). There have been some good answers here, I just couldn't imagine filleting a 7 inch perch, and methods others have described make a lot of sense.

hey photoz, i was thinking they may scale them, cut off the head, remove the innards and then grind up the rest

I figured that might be it. Couldn't imagine the loonie-sized fillet that would come from a 7 inch perch...big waste of time (and resources)

dirtiest player I ever saw play the game. Don't dare check him or you'll get a stick in the mouth just before you hit him.

can't say I fish pike this late in the year in open water, but once the ice shows up its the one time of the year I rely on live bait. Hard to beat a big honkin sucker, shiner or chub

I've stopped by the docks a couple of times lately and see people keeping fish of all sizes. In the past I've kept perch as small as 9 inches and got very small fillets. Probably wouldn't do that again. At the docks I'm seeing 6-7 inch fish being kept. Anyone here know what people would do with these things? Do they grind them up and turn them into some kind of fish paste? Do you think these things are destined to be fertilizer? I couldn't imagine a fillet would be worthwhile. Perhaps someone here knows how these fish can be "processed" to make them edible. I just couldn't be bothered to try and clean such a small fish, but I see so many doing it there has to be a secret out there.

borderline imo, but based on some others that have somehow got in there, I think he will too