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200m of 20lb. is plenty.

There's not that much of a trick to catching salmon at Bronte, it get hot and get slow, but there's always biting fish around. Time'O'Day: This is probaly the single most crucial thing. 08:00 and on (once the sun is full up) is probaly the WORST time. During the day you can catch fish off bottom, but casting lures it is MUCH better at night. 9pm to midnight is okay, but 3am-6am will ALWAYS be better fishing. If you're a married day person, your wife will understand you setting the alarm for 3am if she loves you enough Lures: This is all you need: I make my own Glo lures, but Bronte Outdoors has a decent selection of good spoons pretty reasonable. Use a longer, heavier rod. 10' medium stiff with 20lb line is my preferance, but shorter is fine. I'd definitely go with heavier over lighter though. Just put your time in, and talk to the regulars. Once they see your face a few times most will be more than open with tips & hints. Go down regulare after dinner, put a few hours in every night, and you'll get bit. Woohoo for salmon season!

Or take the earplugs off the end of your rod and stop pretending to fish.

Did it look something like this? Bronte between 03:00-6:00 has been decent for the last week.

Credit R. next to the Kraft plant off Mississauga Rd., can't remember the name of the dam or the residential rd. There's a dam, and a ton of fish.

No, you have to pay now, and it's enforced during salmon season (private security). Yes I only fish salmon during the pm, I get off work around 03:00 so it's perfect salmon fishing time!

There's been fish landed on both piers everyday this week. Let the games begin! BTW: pick up a can of automotive clear coat paint and spray your glo lures. Just casting the hooks will chip the glo paint. I've landed five chinnies so far, you don't need alot of tackle or spend too much:

Photoz et al: Have you tried the other end of the bay? There's the cycling path that runs from Pier 4 to the Carp Barrier, along the way there are "rest stops" with benches and conviently placed low sloping shorelines. That the whole area is teeming with cruising carp is just a bonus. It takes a bit of a walk to get into the fishy parts of the pathway, but with good polaroids you can actually see cruising 20lb. carp.

Serpent's Point PP on Rice Lake. Great bass fishing during the day, good pickeral fishing after dark.

All the new braids work really well, but I struggled with the leader-mainline connection until I tried an old saltwater knot I remembered. Albright's Knot

I used to fish the Wilmot pretty hardcore........and I live in Hamilton. The first time I saw four guys in two canoes get into a fist fight on opening day under the CNR bridge is pretty much when I gave up on fishing steel in the tribs. Now my opening day is spent up at a buddy's place, with two miles of private river access. Wake up at noon, catch some lunch, play some combat euchre, drink beer and basically marvel at how much of my younger years I wasted fishing instead of soaking up the sun The boys in their natural habitat: The river, two miles of prime Georgian Bay trib: Every now and then we have to keep one for lunch, check out how pink the meat is compared to Lake O fish, omg I can almost smell the BBQ: As per tradition, one man, and only one man, is allowed to the clean one fish. However there is no limit on how many others that may stand around with a beverage in one hand offering advice:

Coldwater Ck. is very seasonal, there's a small but strong run that comes up in a bunch. But if you miss the one or two weeks the trout are running then it is very scarce fishing. It's a very clear creek, once the sun is up look for the trout to be tight in cover. Drift a worm into blowdowns and logjams or doodle a small crankbait infront of wood. The fish from that creek are very tasty, but remember it's one of the few naturally reproducing creeks in the province. Keep the males, let the hens go.

Sounds like a good day. Big wow at the big lamprey mark on the first fish. I haven't fished Lake O steel for awhile (10 years), but back then we never, evah, saw a lamprey mark on a spring trout.

There are two kinds of dogs, those that are good in canoes and those that are absolutely terrible. There is no middle ground. A good litmus test is if your dog is good travelling in the car. If he/she just curls up on the back seat and snoozes until you get where your going there's hope. If he/she paces back forth, always tries hop into your lap, or just decides that the space under your brake pedal really just needs a good sniff, OMG FORGET ABOUT THE CANOE! You really can't train them to like canoes, planes, trains or automobiles. They're either born to it, or not. My last dog was the most easygoing hound dawg you ever met, a delightful mix of beagle, daschund and god knows what else. Was quiet around the house, didn't chew the furniture or shoes. But damn she hated the car. I took her out in the canoe for a single hour, absolute horror. Pacing side to side, whining and fussing, the odd howl every time a goose went by. As the sun started to go down I pulled into some bullrushes to toss some topwaters on one of those PERFECTLY still summer evenings. Blackbirds whistling, fish rising, lure slowly chugging & spitting. SPLASH, Dixie the 5-yr-old-always-a-puppy-at-heart saw her chance to escape and run free! A big leap later (when she was sure i wasn't watching) she took a header off the bow into the stand of rushes and out of the cursed floating bobbing thing that had her trapped for the last hour. Ofcourse, dogs have no way of knowing that the outer edge of cattails are usually floating matts with several feet of water under them. She sank up to armpits, struggled for about 30secs, then admitted she was stuck and looked back at me over her shoulder with the saddest, most humble look you ever saw from a dog. She couldn't even tuck her tail between her legs, that was one humble puppy. She was a lovely dog, but that was the first, and last, time we ever ventured out together in a canoe.

There are some healthy populations of mooneye in the Grand below Caledonia and in the Ottawa R. around Deep River. Scrappy little fish that is darn tasty, especially smoked. There's a few guys who love to catch them on the fly that turned me on to mooneyes, they travel in small tight schools and it takes a little bit of hunting to find them. But when you find them it can be fun. June is the prime time. I've caught a few ling here and there, most from Hamilton Harbour but a few in Georgian Bay trib mouths. But the oddest critter I've ever caught was a dogfish (A.K.A. bowfin). Ugliest, strangest, almost prehistoric critter you'll ever meet in Ontario waters.

Which one has the tip soft enough to tell when there's a trace of weed still hanging on to your Wiggler (in Firetiger, ofcourse), but has enough backbone to chuck a 3/4 oz. spoon 75 yrds.........against the wind. Not to mention the odd occasion when the lift-drop of a Glo-Buzz Bomb will get strikes from rivermouth salmon when all else fails (you taught me that one........<cough>ACE<cough>) Still looking for the ultimate pier salmon rod; beefy butt, fast action sensitive tip. Loomis make a blank that fits, I've only been bugging them since L.G. was still in business

<cries softly> If only Ontario would spend 1/4 on stocking compared to what the Ohio DNR does.......................... What's the name of those cabins you were staying at? I'm ready for a long weekend away from "all the crap".

You don't want to go above 175-180. Then you cook it instead of drying it. Use a proper thermometer if you have one instead of just going by the little red light on the range. If can hold the temps down without opening the door, fine. Convention ovens are the shiznit btw.

Nice fish. Haven't been after the steel yet, but I noticed in the fall that there was ALOT more scars on the chinook than I've ever seen. Approx. 2/3's of salmon I caught had lamprey scars on them. Definitely not good news.

Little late, but: Bayfront Park is still frozen: The ice with the nice weather is mixing to create some funky fog all day: LaSalle is open, though the docks aren't in:

I used to like FF.net Before steel fishing became all about your uber pin setup and making sure not a single photograph had a trace of a background. It's too bad, was a good board for a few years. Then steel fishing became an elitist sport, where only "those in the club" became privy to all the "secrets" being discussed. Bleh. Oh look, I caught a trout. If that's what they want, all the power to them.

Wheel weights are also alloyed (alloyyed....alloy'd......um mixed with stuff) with another metal called antimony to make them harder than pure lead.

Try this stuffing, in a pot on medium low heat mix up enough cubed bread with butter and orange zest, toss in whatever spices you like. Use enough butter to moisten all the bread cubes and enough orange zest (lemon/lime works too) so you can smell it without bending over the pot. Let it cool for a few minutes and stuff the citrus butter bread cubes into the trout and bake at 350 until it's done. The fish will have a faint citrus flavour to it, all through the meat. Tastes incredible, I've even got my Italian in-laws eating salmon from Lake Ontario. Bread cut up in cubes, zest from an orange or 1 lemon & 1 lime, and enough butter to moisten everything up. Stuff into whatever salmon or trout you have. Simple quick and tastes great.