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all a part of musky fishing. Even the best see days of being skunked...even 2 days in a row! That spinning reel in the last photo doesn't really cut it as far as targetting muskies though.

Did you really think the game would end any other way then a McCabe screw-up? I know my money was on him. Lousy way for a great game to end.

hopefully this will lead to some charges and a conviction!

Sorry to hear about your luck. I was in there 2 weeks ago because a trolling motor I bought from them (5 years earlier) had broken. They were actually very friendly, hooked up batteries outside so we could test it etc. They then wrote down directions for me to get to "Rocky's" repair...unfortunately the helpful young man left one street name out of the directions and I ended up back on hwy 11 heading for Gravenhurst! Took me a while, but I eventually found Rocky's and it all worked out. Either way, I actually found them quite helpful, other than a little careless in recording the directions)

Neat...I guess back them they had wicker baskets rather than white buckets for everyone to get p-o'ed about

We have relatives on Balsam who tell us the frequency of pike being caught is very low, but is increasing. I just started fishing there this year but I'll tell you now any pike that finds its way into my boat from Balsam will not be going back into the lake.

that's awesome! Congratulations on the new fishing partner

Better not let my 3 year old see that, he's always asking to go fishing so he can catch a "big pike". Naturally his idea of big pike is the ever-so-plentiful snotrocket which we can catch every few minutes. If he gets hooked on musky (like his dad) we'll never see mom.

Last year it snowed October 13 in Barrie, then basically nothing until the middle of January...the rest of that winter I don't want to talk about, I still have snowbanks in front of my house that survived the summer.

...and this is a bad thing? I'm afraid to see how Chronzy will try to compete with this new genre...perhaps wear a pink thong for his next shore lunch

yup, just saw a moose at the side of mill lake (Parry Sound) last saturday

There is another launch about a km closer to downtown barrie. I believe it is $10 to launch and parking is free. Sorry if the numbers are wrong, but they don't charge us locals

I've heard of this happening in Nipissing. fish sure had to swim through some interesting waters to get where it did!

unfortunately you just aren't looking closely enough. I've heard of people (usually walleye fisherman) cutting a muskies gills. I know JohnnyBass came across some people at a kawartha lake earlier this year who were trying to "fish out" all the muskies. They were actually surprised to hear he had caught one, thinking they had already put a very large dent in the population.

don't skimp on line and terminal tackle!

man my life is boring. Glad to hear you are alright and that the police got their man

I swear the musky fishing in the lower river is as good (or better) than the upper the past few years. All those fish from years ago must've gone over the falls

I like it Terry, have to borrow that one

hahaha that is a pretty good one. May actually have to get the wife off facebook long enough to read that one

too funny. I was expecting that footage of the guy with his leg chewed up that shows up here every year and a half or so, always claiming to be from last week-end. Its almost as bad as the giat Italian pike photo for re-occurence

...guilty as charged. Apparently they don't like being dropped, and can cause some serious chaos in your boat. Good reason to keep those big nasty lures out of the way too. Big fish can be a real challenge when you don't catch them too often! Although I hate cradles for one very important reason (lure launching at your head), I do appreciate how well they let you handle fish at boatside, especially keeping them in the water. It comes down to experience in my opinion. The more of these fish you catch, the better you become at handling/releasing them. Everyday is a learning experience.

Great colours on those "downtown" pike too

yummy...gigantic mutant perch

whatever you do make sure they test it first! I walked out of there with a battery that was dead and wouldn't hold a charge. Man did that ever confuse me when I hooked it up in the boat, couldn't figure out what I had done wrong. Took me a good half hour before I considered the battery was the problem!

ooooh the dreaded pike slap...that'll smarten you up in a hurry (will make you stink too)