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Looks like. A few years ago I picked up an RZ500 that had blown a head gasket and the owner had let sit with the cylinder full of coolant. I no longer have a wistful yearning for a street going two-smoker, heh. I had done some tweaking to my 600 Ninja, got everything buttoned up, and somebody has sideswiped it in the parking garage. Again.

They're getting harder to find because everybody is going towards the Rippl'n Redfin. I prefer the straight one, only place I've found them reliably has been Bass Pro.

Cordell Redfin, $5 Way looser wobble than a Rapala, and they'll last longer than one fish. For bonus points inject 4cc's of water, instant suspending budget bait. Killer off the pierheads for spring trout as well.

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I meant there's a noticeable difference between Seaguar leader & Seaguar mainline, put them next to each other and it's easy to feel. The Floroclear I found at half off for $5/spool, it should be burnt in the same wastebasket as Vanish.

There's a definite difference between Seaguar leaders & main line, it may be subtle enough you don't notice unless you compare them side by side. The leaders are stiffer & hard enough that I don't worry about nicks, which might not matter unless your casting around mussel infested harbour bottoms. I tried cheaping out last season buying some PLine Floroclear to use as xtra long leaders, waste of money.

Suspending lures sink when you use wire. Maybe not such a big deal north of Parry Sound but early season harbour pike love that deadrift. Not to mention the other assorted critters swimming off points & pierheads this time of year.

Paddling.net has reviews & specs for pretty much every boat sold in N.America, though they're only as good as the monkey behind the keyboard. Personally the only Pelican I'd look at would be their Elite series bought at a real paddling store. Pure, what the heck is going on with Yakfisher.net?

Atleast y'all are getting $1k. I was always smart enough not to get married or be inflicted with ankle biters so I only get acoupla C-notes. Hell McWeasel will get that back after one shopping trip across the border. What happened to the 90's, can't we get the underground economy going again?

Is there even floatation in the "angler's vest"? If you really like it buy an approved PFD for $15 at Wal-Mart and wear your freebie. You just need to have an approved on board, not necessarily wearing it. Like alot of the new Bull regulations that have been put in place, it's up to "officer's discretion". Which basically means it will never come up until the end of the month when the ticket quota's need filling.

Dang, that's some serious burbot fishin'! I've caught 3 in one day out of Hamilton and that's it, never saw another one again.

Um, you mean apart of completely eliminating the MNR chinook stocking program? Isn't that really enough? That's one of the management plans that make it clear how support for Atlantics has taken priority over every other sportfish species. There's three major tribs flowing Hamilton Harbour that all had significant runs of trout & salmon at one time, I'd love to see Chinooks running up Red Hill & Spencers Creek again and the rainbow run up Grindstone back to what it used to be. However that's not going to happen because all three of those streams are now part of the Atlantic salmon recovery program, so stocking rainbows or Chinooks is now off the table. The crazy part is in the Hamilton Harbour Management Plan, the future for the next 10 years of sport angling, Atlantics are mentioned 36 times, more than any other specie of fish. EVEN THOUGH NOT A SINGLE ATLANTIC HAS BEEN STOCKED IN HAMILTON HARBOUR. Your fishery today has been sold down the river for the dream of possibly having Atlantics tomorrow. http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/267125.pdf What's to email, you should know the score off by heart from your own programs. You raise what, 10,000 yearlings with 150,000ish Atlantic fry put in by the MNR into the Credit every year right? What were your returns last year? 40 adult fish? Awesome.

Then you should know that Atlantics are not native to Lake Huron, they're an introduced species. And rainbows were introduced & naturalized long before Pacific Salmon were stocked. What he said. Well gee, it's not surprising that immature Atlantics are found like vermin where they are stocked. 1) How many Atlantics have been stocked in the Credit? 2) How many returning fish have been captured? That really should be the end of it. Stocking fry & smolts doesn't work and has been a complete and total waste everywhere it's been done. Seeing as you are part of a private group that has benefited from being part of the Atlantic salmon program you should know better than anyone how much it costs to raise a yearling Atlantic, and might not be a stretch to say that could be why you're such a fan. It just staggers me when people say words like "infancy" & "getting off the ground". We're coming up to 30 years of continous Atlantic stocking, and to celebrate we'll just throw up our hands and say "No no no, we're a whole NEW program" and pretend that nothing came before. Because, well, it has produced nothing in Lake Ontario except the very rare & occasional fish. Compared to say the Coho fishery in the 70's or Chinook program in the 80's, y'know when those programs were in their infancy? Now you see, you're getting into the very dangerous political waters of the Atlantics, the bureaucratic doublespeak that infests this program from the top down. So you're going to support a program of imaginary returning fish that exists only on paper because the funding work will benefit real actual fish. I'm sorry you're so shortsighted you don't see the dangers with going down that road, as an example how many streams & rivermouths are now off limits for pen projects & other stocking programs because they're earmarked for Atlantic returns that will never happen? You mean besides the dangers of bureaucratic doublespeak? The end of provincial Chinook & Coho stocking would be a start. The vast waste of resources when they could have gone toward other proven fish would be another. Maybe you could answer a question for me, have you thought about what happens when the wine money runs out, what happens then?

Rainbows spawn more than twice, steelhead are salmon but also genetically similar to rainbows, neither hits the Gulf of St.Lawrence and return to the Ganaraska. And Atlantics are Teh Debil! Lake O 'bows 101

That's not per yearling, but for returning mature fish. Smolts & fry are only held in the hatchery over the winter, "yearlings" are raised from 16-18 months.

Should also add that steelhead don't spawn every season, but mature fish will skip a year. 3 or 4 spawning runs is the most you can expect out of an entire life cycle.

Atlantics spawning successfully in the Great Lakes is nil. Successful adult returns for fish stocked as fry & smolts is nil. The only returning adults in any fishable numbers were stocked as yearlings. The amount of resources it takes to collect, hatch, feed & raise an Atlantic is exponential compared to every other specie currently being stocked. That's the unassailable truth behind every Atlantic program on the Great Lakes. For the MNR to raise 40,000 yearling Atlantics would require the money & even more valuable hatchery space that's currently used for every other fish stocked in Lake O, which everybody except the MNR recognizes as a stocking dependent fishery. To get a St.Mary's size of run just in the Credit, would mean an end to every other MNR stocking program on Lake Ontario, for a relatively small off season river fishery, a negligible offshore boat fishery, and a lot of empty water. Back before I became a bitter, disillusioned, venomous old man and still held out some hope of a future for this side of Lake O I put together some fairly intensive back of a napkin cost analysis (that was promptly deleted from floatfishing.net). It costs in the neighbourhood of $1500 to get a returning mature Atlantic, $1.25 for a King. That's insane (or once processed through the swivel servant bureaucracy of an Ontario ministry, perfectly reasonable). The Soo has a small regional fishery that is supported wholly by a private US institution. Enjoy catching them, but everywhere else there are much much better choices of sportfish. P.S. Ooooh I like "Venomous". I didn't quite mean to sound the way it came off, but I'll settle for "Venomous"

I don't know if you haven't had the first coffee in the morning, if you've drunk some funny tasting Kool-Aid, or the rabies from the wolf bite has moved to it's final stage and your brains are slowly being broiled in a fevered delerium. To get the level of Atlantics in St.Mary's on one river would need the complete elimination of every other fishery in Lake O. No chinooks, no steelhead, no browns, no lakers, nothing. All to get 40,000 stocking dependent Atlantics in one river system. Not only are your comments about Atlantics self indulgent pie in the sky daydreaming, but it's the kind of back slapping head in the sand enabling that has rendered the MNR not just irrelevant, but a hostile combatant to the future fisheries of Lake O. P.S. Atlantics were never native above Niagara Falls, the only places where they have managed to survive in freshwater they are an invasive species. Oh the irony.

In Hamilton Harbour there's a yacht club that runs a bubbler all winter long to keep a few boats in the water ice free. There's a patch of open water that's maybe 30'x20' you can cast to. Nothing yet.

Wasn't somebody here talking about flipping canoes & kayaks last week? Buddy was fine until he put his hand out and leaned on his gunnel...then he flipped in a heartbeat. N00b. And couldn't self rescue. Lol, this is a "pro" kayak fisher?

Spiel's look like mostly Luhr-Jenson Kroc's, they're narrower but thicker made out of solid brass. I prefer them over Gibbs, and everybody knows the killer spring colour is solid Firetruck Red with pearl holo tape

Jacques Villeneuve stumped it. Kevin Smith was answered by question #15. I feel like using a wolf pup as muskie bait.

Great lures if there's any smelt around, I'm not a fan of the newfangled VMC hooks on them though.

Anybody have an idea what the daily specials are going to be other than the first two days?