CLofchik

Try Spider Thread it's the latest in braid technology, way ahead of anything mentioned.

 

Garnet

What sort of dia. does it have, they don't really post that info on their website other than the dubious "Xlb. mono"?

Cliff Hanger?

Cliff Dwelling?

Jump Off A Cliff?

Anything other than a Shimano.

any thing at valley inn?

Earlier was real good but died off, but I haven't stopped by there in a couple of weeks.

I tried smelt for Grand R. cats earlier in the year and didn't get much action on them either, but in Hamilton frozen salted smelt beat out pretty much everything else. Huh funny that.

I would've thought they'd be done spawning by now, or do smaller rivers spawn later than the Grand? Other than Dunnville I've never really hit Erie cats, might take another shot at them if they're still around. Is there any shore access in that river?

The Carp Barrier at Cootes has been the only steady fishing I've found, but that's more numbers than size. Eastport & Inland Waters has been running hot or cold, and they've been damn finicky.

Also, I'm pretty sure guys on motorbikes wave, unless one guy's on a crotch-rocket and the other is on a Harely. There are usually little "rules" that come along with being in the "club."........

Here's the lowdown on biker waves for the unintiated.

I don't get why people in cages wave at each other, other than people pointing & laughing at a man driving a Miata.

#1: If I have seven colours of lead core on my line and I only want to fish for example, 4 colours, will it wreck my line to have the reel guides sitting on the lead core, or do you have to fish segmented style and have the guides against the backing material??? This would seem to defeat the purpose of the lead core line set-up to me as I would me stuck fishing at a certain depth all the time?!?!!??!

Yup & yup. Most guys who like leadcore have two or three rigs with different length cores on them.

#2: If I want to add another 7 or 8 colours to my existing spool of lead, can I just join the two lead lines together with a blood-knot or double uni (after getting a few inches of lead out of the sheath) or is there a special way to join the stuff together???

Dear god........16 colors? What are you, a sadist? Who is going to be reeling this in, your boss? FYI that's going to be about 600' of rig to reel up, and will need a massive reel to hold it all.

Here's a leadcore primer, dealing with such things as joining leader, core and backing.

http://greatlakesfisherman.com/forums/show...ght=Willis+knot

....after a timed 15 minute fight on that 6lb line and a reel that the drag broke (had to pull line out by hand when she ran)......

Shimano?

It's still a nice fish for June.

But we will never see it in this country --- we never have, even in dire times.

Actually Canada did have conscription in WWI, culminating in the Army opening fire on a crowd of war protesters in Quebec City and leading to the Quebec nationalist movement under Bourassa and the alienation of Francophone moderates like Laurier.

Careful what you wish for.

You'll be lucky to see a musky these days in Elephant. You are actually more likely to see a Tiger musky (pike/musky cross) than a regular musky......

How long have the pike been in there? I always heard Elephant/Baptiste were decent numbers musky lakes, planned on camping up there for a weekend this year if I can find the time.

2 records in 3 days thats got to be a record to.

Lol anybody else remember Berkeley's $1k IGFA promotion? If you set an IGFA record with Trilene, you'd get USD$1k. Well that's all well & good, except that a few guys clued into the fact that alot of obscure fish didn't have ANY official records set, so you'd get guys going on an Alaskan trip for inconnu, and catch a 15lb'er on Monday, a 17lb'er on Tuesday, and a 19lb'er on Wednesday.....and all were records. Woot there's their fishing trip paid for, thanks Trilene!

At one time I was the 4lb & 30lb line class record holders for carp, helped pay for my first motorcycle in high school

Ah I am a true disciple of JohnF, I generally only have one or two outfits that I'll use throughout the year and am morally opposed to any "single use" item, whether it be in the garage, in the kitchen or even for fishing.

It took me a long long while before I could crack the c-note barrier buying a fishing reel......and then only grudgingly and only when it was on sale

My three rigs this year, and with these three I'm good for channels, pike, carp, bass, trout and chinooks. Sure the hardcore carpers with their beep-beep pods may sneer at my baitcaster, pinheads write me off as a dilettante drifting with a spinning reel and bass guys chortle watching the guy in the canoe flip the slop with a pier casting rod....but somehow I still manage to catch fish.

1) Fenwick HMX 9' MH, $90 marked down from $130 (woot, bargain!). I love this rod, I'm swapping older reels back & forth until I pick up something worthy (waiting for someone to put Pfleuger Supreme's on sale ), until then I'm using an Okuma Aventa ($50, on sale ofcourse) or Daiwa Emblem-X ($200.....that somebody lost in Bronte harbour lining chinooks and I dragged up off the bottom, woot free reel!)

2) Abu Conolon 6'6" Medium ($60), a nice soft, light but still stiff enough rod to flick tubes & topwaters. Has become my smallmouth rod and general "keep in trunk of car in case I feel like flicking a cast during lunch". Usually wears a small Quantum PTi ($100) or Daiwa Emblem-X.

3) Gah a baitcaster=too much money. St.Croix something ($100 on sale, ofcourse) with a Quantum thingamajig (paid for with gift card), finds use for carp. Keep trying to catch a real fish like a pike on it, but after half an hour casting I get annoyed and switch back to the uber awesome HMX. It's also my first, only, and last one piece rod. Keep bashing the tip into ceilings, windows, dogs.......

$300 for three very serviceable rigs that pretty much keep me covered all this season.

Good shooting, and good call to move. Sat in the same spot at Eastport over the weekend for four hours without a solid take........move 50 yards down and started hitting fish.

That's a gorgeous mirror, but I think the largest I've heard of was caught by Shaun from Urban Outdoor Adventures a few years ago, 35ish or so.

Wait.....am I getting excited by a carp report, aw crap.

when i do summer fishing for bass, walleye, pike...i usually tie about 5-6 feet of fluoro to my line.

i simply tie a triple over hand knot to connect them together, and it hasn't failed yet..very strong knot.

That's called a Surgeon's Knot, works just as well as a UNI-UNI.

Another good one is an Albright Knot.

Either are just as strong as a Uni, but a lot quicker and less fiddly to tie.

I'll wager one Quantum spinning reel against a Shimano baitcaster that it's not ISP related.

Any takers?

D'l Firefox from Mozilla.com and give it a shot.

The world would be a shinier place if everybody stopped using IE (Internet Exploder, Idjit Exploiter........)

Hello,

 

I'm heading to Brantford this weekend and was going to scout and fish Whiteman's Creek. I have a question about my spinners. Do I have to replace the trebles to a single? And if so, how do I do it without snipping the treble off?

 

Thanks

No.

Yeah...but if you are in those special sections on the credit, I'm pretty sure the signs make it clear that a barbless treble is no good. This could be the motivation I need to go up there tonight before the game starts If I go up, I'll snap a couple pics of the sign.

Pssssst, he wasn't talking about the Credit was he?

And those sections are non-treble because they are private, with access negotiated by Trout Unlimited. Access is only granted if you follow their rules, not because of provincial regulations.

All it says is internet explorer cannot display this page

Well there's your problem.

Odds are something with your IE is conflicting with the banner ads on NFN.

You now get to try one of the most useful things you can do with Internet Explorer...............download Mozilla's Firefox.

Well then you had better sign up for comprehension classes, he read it, I read it and it says artificial lures, only ONE SINGLE BARBLESS HOOK. It's in the exceptions section

Hook – A hook includes a single-pointed or multiple-pointed hook on

a common shaft but does not include a snagger or spring gaff. The

number of hooks includes any single-pointed or multiple-pointed

hooks that are part of a lure.

Uh, a SINGLE BARBLESS HOOK is a barbless treble.

Since nobody's bothered to actually put the exceptions up:

Whitemans Creek (Horner Creek)

- Brantford Twp., between Robinson

Road and Cleaver Sideroad.

 

Only artificial lures (no organic bait)

may be used.

Only one barbless hook may be used.

Brown trout or rainbow trout S - 1 and

C - 1, must be greater than 50 cm

(19.7 in.).

Looks like barbless trebles are okay.

Jim Balsillie!

That is why I use a baitcasting reel for those species

Of the two baitcasters I've owned, the first was a Shimano and didn't survive the first hookset, frame warped. Can't recall the model, but it was around the $140ish price point. It's what helped form my opinions on baitcasters

The second is a Quantum, have no idea what it's called as the name rubbed off. Still gets a workout every spring........until I remember how much I don't like baitcasters. It's become my carp & whistletrout outfit, only use I can find for it

That's odd, given how Stradic is considered the work horse of Shimano spinning reels. What were your target species?

Steel, carp & kings.

I average around 4 fish before any Shimano reel I've bought fails in some way.

Failures include:

Drag discs practically melting and fusing together (that was after one fish).

Frame warping.

Anti-reverse stop breaking.

Some anonymous bit of plastic breaking off and jamming the gears.

There were a few others but I ignored them until the reel became utterly useless to use.

To put things into perspective, I've gotten 10 years of use out of a Daiwa Emblem-X I dragged up from Bronte harbour, four years of hard use out of an Okuma Avenger before the frame warped, Daiwa SS1600 that's older than most high school students and still works and a Quantum "something" (so used there's no ID markings left on it except for half of the word "Energy") that still works fine with the exception of a bent reel handle after 70lbs of canoe & gear landed on it.

Other than a bail spring for the Daiwa Emblem-X they've gotten a yearly clean & lube and that's it. I've never had any Shimano reel last long enough to need cleaning.

The bile I have for Shimano products is surpassed only by the atlantic salmon program and PWC's.

God bless Photoshop, if its there

Photoshop & marriage go together like peas & carrots......

Berkeley's been making Vanish flouro mainline for a long while.

I used it once and it was an absolute nightmare, but they still make it so somebody's buying it.