CLofchik

what back lakes were you fishing, ive been told to try smokey and noganosh. just curious i dont want to spend all my time looking in the wrong places.

Between the Mag & Hwy522 there's enough trophy bass fishing to last a lifetime, canoe & fly-in access only. The odd lake with have pike and a few have pickeral. Pretty much every lake has great fishing for something, been hitting that area almost exclusively for 15 odd years. I don't want to name specific lakes on a public forum but you're off to a good start.

The Pickeral itself has good fishing, hit likely spots at the top part of Dollars and look for current in neck down areas and you'll get bit by something.

Anyone here have experience with the albright knot vs double uni when attaching smaller diameter braid to larger diameter mono leader? I ask because most fishing sites I've checked recommend the Albright.

+1 for the Albright, especially for stiffer flouro 15lb.+

Takes a small amount of practice to get it right but it's just as strong as the Uni that's alot easier to tie.

Lot's of larger than average bass that doesn't see alot of pressure and plenty of pickeral that do. It's a long system that makes for a good inland alternative to the French or GBay for boat camping, plenty of Crown Land available. Never fished it much, just when going back & forth hitting the back lakes.

Only the Atlantics and Brook trout could be considered native to the fishery, so there is some introduced and stocked invasive species above the Norval dam. Keeping the Pacific salmon out of there might be good since they don't spawn successfully much anyways.

1) The strain of Atlantics being used are no more native to the Credit than the browns & bows. There's actually plenty of argument to say that after 100 generations or so bows are more native to the Great Lakes than any East Coast transplants.

2) Pacific salmon never had a shot at successfully spawning in the Credit because of the mentioned dams keeping them out of any areas they (or any other migratory fish) need to spawn. There simply isn't any suitable stretches below Streetsville, which is the way the MNR wants it to stay. Streetsville isn't a ladder, but a trap to stop migratory fish unless they are physically lifted over. Salmon don't get that oppurtunity, that's reserved for the trout and the vaunted Atlantics (who get a limo ride right to the Forks). The CRAA folks will be able to answer alot more question about the bows but I believe they worked hard to finally lift bows above Norval, so you should see them start to reproduce in the numbers they should.

3) Contrary to the fears of the tweed wearing spaghetti whipping fly fishing folks migratory trout & natives can and do coexist on the same rivers just fine. More steelhead doesn't mean less headwater natives.

Nice sunfish

Oddly enough all of my trophy sunfish have come from topwaters or twitch baits. Never really thought about it until you mentioned it in your video but I never thought of topwaters as hawg lures, even though they've caught all of my 5lb+, huh.

Nice fish and well deserved with the time you put in over the years.

BTW -- To be a proper Tyee it has to come from an unpowered boat. Anytime you want to hit Bronte out of a canoe give me a buzz.

Well...I don't like cats, but I spent $4000 on my dog for his knee, so I can't say anything...

Where'd you get it done? My dog (FishHound Mk.II) just blew out his knee last week, found out Thursday it's going to be a trip to Guelph and $6k for TLO AND and an artificial knee.

He was chasing salmon through riffles and was blindsided by a big buck charging downstream...thinking of renaming him "Ninja" after the two motorcycles I have to sell to fund his new robodog leg.

They were never stocked in the Grand, so any salmon would be strays. There's always a few seen/caught every year but the numbers are too small to be really targeted.

Never used it, but it has a thick dia. that would cut down on capacity.

He's still running it, that may have been a big part of the problem. Lack of attention...

Thought he sold it years ago, he might have been kept on as an admin or some such as part of the deal but he wasn't "in charge" of the site anymore.

Up the river the season is more October unless there's a ton of rain in the next few weeks. I avoid Caledonia like the plague simply because I have bad mojo there, but there's a ton of water between York & the dam that will hold fish.

If you have a boat you can have a great afternoon if you hit them at the Dunnville dam, silver fiesty fish that stack up and are eager to smack.

I think someone posted a picture with the background fully intact and the server exploded.

Generously Proportioned...lol... funny...whoever did that in the swear filter...VERY funny.

Bah wahaaa haaa haaa I hit this topic just to reply the same dang thing, it was a good site when Roque was running it but they just went way over edge.

Mebbe somebody put up a pic of a Notty trout on the bbq and everybody's head exploded?

Salmon. Marshmallow big hook. Feel something and reel like snot.

If that doesn't work try a big weighted trebble hook. You don't even need bait for this one...

Be aware that after Sept. 15 you'll need an operators card for anything that floats with a motor.

This entire th'd reminds me why suburbia is overrated. Too many Libtards with too much time on their hands mixed with a sprinkling of Snivel Servants trying to justify their existence on your dime.

Ziki, you should have known better than to buy a house in Mississauga, your story will not end well.

Get your boat moving at trolling speed, let out most of your line, wind it in. Done.

If you don't spool braid under enough tension you'll have problems.

There are advantages to having the Deputy Prime Minister come from your city, the renovated harbour front is more than adequate compensation for having to deal with Sheila Copps for a few decades

Hell it could have been done alot worse...just look at Toronto!

1. The Chronz, fishing the Blue Zone on Andrews Charters whining about Atlantics & MNR over adult beverages.

2. Jim Sammons, catching yellowfin & marlin out of kayaks in Baja.

3. Charlie Wray, kings & lakers off the Bar.

Lol I'm also on a few motorcycle boards. Kids+sportsbikes=LOT'S of stupid funny pain.

Atleast this squid is humble in his humiliation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmnYw3Is81U

Then there's the Karma pain to deserving street skids.

Then there's a whole different level of pain. The driver was unscathed, and I can't stop smiling every time I see this, but dang that had to be painful....

I've used the deep diving & shallow Smelt quite a bit this summer and I'm a big fan. Only a few bucks more than Rapala's but I like the action and they suspend really well. What I like the most about the deep diver is it's one of the few lures that keeps somewhat level instead of prominent nose down. Also cast a mile, using them off piers for whistletrout and salmonids.

The hooks are average and that pretty paintjob does come off way too easily, a few coats of rattlecan clear coat fixed that but for a premium priced lure you'd think they could put one or two coats on to protect the finish.

Pat is talking about trolling I thinks. There's been plenty of 2-3yr-old fish stuffing themselves along the south shore all summer. Small but plentiful.

As for the Studies and BOF and Chris K's input, there are just as many that will say the oppsosite. thats the beauty of research, there is never a conclusion and noone ever agrees. just I note, I worked in research for 4 years and it is a business like any other and very self serving.

I can't really add anything to that...other than add Atlantics are really tasty planked with maple syrup.

I have no problem at all with every steelheader on the planet staying home during Salmon runs, more fun for me,..Lol. However, if you know what to do, where and when, it can be just as rewarding as steelheading, sometimes even more.

Oh shush now. Every pinhead knows that the mighty strong Kings will absolutely destroy what they call tackle. So we'll call them "boots" and only target the half dead salmon that can give up a good chunk of roe without embarrassing 'bows with it's lackluster fight in the creek.

Also, I know alot of people who would 100% disagree with your reproduction comment. I think the Experts may tell you it is closer to ZERO.

It's not zero, but natural reproduction is nowhere near close enough on Lake O to maintain a fishery.

Majority of age-3 Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Lake Ontario were wild from 1992 to 2005, based on scale pattern analysis

 

Journal of Great Lakes Research Article In Press

 

Michael J. Connerton, Brent A. Murry, Neil H. Ringler, Donald J. Stewart

And if you look up previous studies by those bios you'd find they are very involved in the Ontario Atlantic salmon program. Coincidence, I think not.

The wine money will run out in a few years with nothing to show for it, already they are laying the ground work to try and eliminate chinooks from Lake Ontario so they can carry on the Salmo Salar debacle.

Sure most of the Kings in Huron and GBay are dependent on natural reproduction. That's why there's no salmon left.

There's been a war on chinooks in Ontario for many years, you really have to question any and all "experts" on the subject.

Port Dalhousie

Worse still: Someone asking the location of a secret atlantic salmon lake and how to best line them using marshmallows. (Or was that a secret brown trout lake? )

 

An OFC nightmare.

Is it better to use a tiller or console when lining fish.....better control with a console but increased floor space with a tiller!

The OFC Perfect Storm!

Lol

I remember this local one night telling me i shouldn't be using roe to catch them and that cigarate butts are much cheaper. He was bragging about it too how he got a few the night before on cigarette butts....

Don't laugh, I was there the night the Owen Sound Spectacular winning fish that year was caught.........on a cigarette butt. $20k fish on a DuMaurier Light. Trick is butts that are brown aren't as visible as a white marshmallow, heh there's a market for black marshmallows. New this year, the new Kraft Stealth!

Okay back in a sec, just discussing marshmallow visibility for lining 'nooks......need to go slit my slits....must resist the Dark Side......

Pat seriously, plunking bait on bottom for chinooks is barely one step up from dragging bare trebles through a pool. It's where everybody starts salmon fishing but there comes a moment when it's time to move on. Hopefully when you're sitting back watching rod tips without getting a bump in two hours but the guys on the end of the pier casting hardware are hooking up you have one of those epiphanies.