CLofchik

Think of the birds! All the sad lower income baby chicks that would be homeless without subsidizing from the tobacco industry!

Even more amazing is realizing that fish is probably around 10 years old and part of 500,000 rainbows that escaped a fish farm in 2000. These are fish that are genetically modified triploids that are designed to grow to market size in two years. Certainly a good story & fish of a lifetime, but it's man made genetics really should disqualify it from any formal records. What's the Sask record if you ignore all of these mutant fish from Diefenbaker, around 10lbs?

He can't leave, his car doesn't start remember?

If I raised a genetically modified fish in a private pond, it wouldn't qualify for a record. But as soon as it escapes it does! Hunting org's don't recognize captive hogs escaping into the wild as records, I don't think fishing org's should either.

...Welfare and social services that have been downloaded... Lol the reason the subsidized housing folks get plowed first is because those are the people that know how to play the system. Heck one minute past the deadline for snow removal there would be a down right bottleneck of slip & falls from people trying to sue the city!

Lol, how do I ask the guy where he caught the fish now? If it's not the river I know still has a run of coho it would be good info for egg collection later on. No really, it's for the greater good of the resource, really really!

I don't know if you put this up to keep people away from the dam, but, uh, no. Kraft retains ownership rights but operation of the fishway & public access is granted to the province. If you really really see some crazy salmon action contact Andy at the Ringwood Hatchery and sign up for the egg collection. Every chinook stocked into Lake O comes from eggs collected from Streetsville. http://www.ringwoodhatchery.ca/ And before anybody gets some bright ideas, the whole area is a fishing sanctuary and is policed fairly well.

I'm with you on this. While there's no arguing the size of their fish, how they reached that size is really open to argument. I was pretty disappointed that the MNR allowed a triploid to supplant the long standing rainbow record from the Notty. While these guys have stumbled onto a great fishery and have got their game up above others on the same lake, there is definitely an asterisk next to their fish. Sure Barry Bonds, Sosa & McGWire have all broken baseballs home run record...but should their pharmacist share the podium with them?

Lol, you also answered his question first. Damn THAT'S IT, I'm so tired of idiot question askers ignoring answers they don't want to hear or skip entirely because they're too busy with sand in their mangina's. Put an end to Topic Nazis now, it's killing OFC!

Throw in another hybrid to pee in Pigeon's cornflakes, Conook. And all 4 fish related to carp I've pulled from Hammy Harbour, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Mirror Carp & Goldfish.

It's basic salmon anatomy, as drastic as the spawning changes are on the outside, there are just as drastic changes going on inside. Pacific salmon are incapable of digesting food long before they get dark, doesn't matter if they are up river or still in the lake waiting to run.

When they get dark with the fully developed kype it's been 3+ weeks since they've eaten last, bucks will thin out and lose over 1/4 of their weight before they spawn. Saw a 44" fish up the river last year that wasn't even 25lbs. SHunter is probably safe if he calls it a 35, but if he wants to stretch it to 45 it's a good thing he doesn't bring a scale

It's about a month away from trout season.

And steelhead. And browns. And sturgeon.

Wow that's a HAWG, there's been a few real pigs caught off Bronte lately. They lose a chunk of their weight when they get dark but that's still North of 30. Were you the last boat out there, heh now I know why you didn't want to come in Oh if the last boat out there was you pick up a stern light before you get dinged.

Pffft, I doubt that pic was taken on Bronte or Credit, I don't see a single hook in their back! This th'd needs some video...

Is that a Wally Diver? Love that colour, never seen that one before.

Yeah it was around then. Lol I've spent way too much of my life on that pier

Uh, the rivers you check must be completely different from the ones I check, all the ones I've hit have had really decent flow to them. My dog needs surgery from chasing salmon in a river and getting blind sided by a big buck, blowing out his knee.

Glo Lymans!

For some strange reason I found the full moon puts OFF Lake O Kings.

Off bottom or hardware? Lol the piers are a dangerous place, come close a few times. My personal fav was in the spring many moons ago off Bronte, some guy brought his kid out who promptly became bored in 30 minutes. Walked where he shouldn't and got a Cleo right in his ear, and doesn't the little ankle biter start screaming and running down the pier. Well buddy just lifts his rod and starts fighting him like a fish! BzzzzzzzzzzzWHAAAAAAAAAAzzzzzzzzzzWHAAAAWHAAAAWHAAAAAAzzzzzzzzzzz. Lol poor kid made it almost halfway down the pier before somebody grabbed him and snapped the line.

And how's that working out? How many seasons before the Ganny run is below 3k? Only about 1/3 of them or so, but even that isn't enough of a buffer to keep bows from collapsing soon. Common sense & experience let me have a pretty good guess what the outcome is going to be. Wanna start a pool on the outcome? Uh, two years? And was your unclipped smolts in the same run with the ton of Atlantics? Don't be greedy and pass it around guys, could use a hit off the same bong you guys are smoking.

Seeing as how there were only 54 returning Atlantics recorded last year I'm assuming you were hitting a school of stocked yearlings before they returned to the lake. For every Atlantic you caught I'd take 100 returning bows or 200 returning Kings for the same investment in hatchery space & stocking power. THAT'S the next best thing. Chinook salmon will be gone from Lake Ontario in a few years, a casualty in a political war that has been waging for many years. Nobody really thinks that Atlantics will provide a viable angling opportunity, but while there are many agendas at work promoting Atlantics, angling is at the very bottom. Game, set, match. You do know there's a big question mark with the reliability of Scale Pattern Analysis, somehow in a decade we've gone from a 2% reproductive rate to 50%. Not to mention the bios that authored this now infamous and oft quoted paper are balls deep in Lake O's Atlantic program, hmmmmm Either way there'll be a rebuttal to the wild spawning argument in a few years with the mandatory fin clipping going on.

Bronte's had a hard time with security the last couple of years, 16 Mile, Fisherman's Pier & Credit will put you on the same or better fishing. I'd go with 16 Mile, small but decent ramp and I think it's still free (but not sure).