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was waiting for someone to post that "honey badger don't give a ...." video. Nearly pissed myself a couple years ago when I first saw it..glad to see its still out there. The narrator is hilarious

Gross. Had a "lone star" stick on me once. Read up about them and found the good news "doesn't cause lyme disease" but also the bad news "can make you allergic to red meat!!!". That was a couple years ago...still pounding back the steaks and burgers so guess I was a fortunate one

Had the same thing before...spun hub. Wasn't too costly a fix

Kawarthas? I don't worry about it. Always somewhere you can go. For st Clair I think 20 km is about the most I want to deal with...although direction will alter that decision as well as how desperate am I to go...and I'm usually pretty desperate

Man oh man that is a lot of sunfish my kids could deep hook

hahaha great photos boys. I thought Bill looked far more gruff than Lew ever did...until Lew posted his pic.

I always thought it was an offense here too....isn't the wording something like "fish must be returned to the water as soon as possible"? If that is what it says, then a photo is a no no here as well

sheesh. All these reports and I haven't got out once yet. That second one is a beaut!

Lake St. john near Orillia used to always cough up scads of pike when I used to go there. Lake Muskoka too...chance at some bruisers

just follow my boat, never seem to be fish where I go

That is awesome. Will be sad when the day comes she stops showing up!

congrats on your first decent fish out of there. I used to wade the credit 25 years ago and there were some decent smallies in there. Nobody else seemed to target them back in those days

I don't fish rivers...but I bet a little erosion will take care of that over the next year or two....how do you think such steep banks got there in the first place! Flowing water has great power.

hahahaha....love that technique! Very flamboyant. Kinda says "Ta Da!"

Was throwing a supershadrap (perch flavor) at a shoreline (Wolsely bay). Lure fouled and I was yanking it across surface hoping it would untangle. Noticed a massive log just under the surface where my lure was making commotion. Took me a bit to realize the log was moving. Lure never untangled, log swam right under the boat below my feet. No I did not figure 8... but I did contemplate never fishing for musky again. Fish scared the daylights out of me, having never seen one I never pictured it would be that huge.

right on! Who cares you caught none, you know they are there, gotta eat sometime!

my buddies smaller church boards worked better than my bigger board ....those little buggers would just be humming along jumping from wave to wave..."Go little guy" we would often cheer the board on. Musky fishing will get to you mentally apparently

wow good for you. My kids? 15 minutes tops

I tried one of the bigger church boards but found the clip wouldn't hold once you got a bit of chop....would start sliding down the line. Ended up going to a mast that I bought off kijiji and much prefer that route

I used to fish golf course ponds all the time (mainly in Florida) but have caught trout, rock bass and large mouth in gta golf course ponds. I carry a telescopic rod in my golf bag and when the course is slow I try to get me a lunker!

meh...wear flip flops. When you scoot from once place to the next just pull the drain plug and let'er drain. a 12 footer needs personality....and an inch or 2 of h2o in the bottom will certainly do that

I've had a muskrat come up a hole before....but if what you are saying is true I may still catch a fish on topwater while ice-fishing

pigeon lake...get one or two pretty much guaranteed

....he had one episode he made up ridiculous facts about some monstrous pike. I suddenly realized that where I had been interested in past episodes, he was probably full of cr@p then too....I just didn't know it because I never heard of these other fish! I guess the locals from those episodes had a good laugh too about his hyperbolic stories. Oh well, having said that, I will still watch!

Well that's very sad news. Kevin was always kind to me when I was there. I remember one year during the pike derby just watching him trolling in south muskrat bay...he had a real defined route that he just stuck to, kind of a big oval that he followed around and around and around. I think it paid off for him though! Can still picture him walking through the camp with his dog just tidying things up.