Guidedog

This is an amazing concept for a show. It reminds me of someone I know who heads into Algonquin's North every Spring. He and his friend essentially take long distance paddling expeditions while scheduling in time to hit killer fishing holes along the way. I'd like to go with them next year. In general, I find the fish behaviour a lot different in the back country. Be sure to provide details on the airing of the pilot. We can all tune and and write letters of support! Best of luck...Guidedog

Interesting idea. Anyone know how to catch a Longnose Gar? They are prevalant on the Ottawa River. You don't see that on fishing shows! Any other exotics / rare fish out there? Regards...Guidedog

During take-out, I think the biggest factors are trailer setup and placement in the water. With the package you have, I expect you have a good trailer with GUIDES so you should have no problems. There is no reason why it shouldn't take more than 1 minute to pull a boat out of the water, regardless of how windy it is, provided you have guides on the trailer and the trailer is sitting properly in the water. One thing you will want to experiment with is the amount of the "bunk" you put in the water relative to the angle of the trailer in the water (from front to back). I usually back in until about 60-75% of the bunk is covered in water and my trailer guides are still able to do their job. Once you are comfortable with the amount of bunk you put in the water, for the given trailer angle, with the trailer guides you should be laughing. A key thing to watch for, is keeping the trailer axle horizontal. If one wheel is down lower than the other, you can have challenges getting the boat positioned properly. In summary, you can easily get a 1 minute exit with the following: - Guides are a must - Keep the trailer axle horizontal (parralel) with the water surface - Experiment with the amount of bunk you need to put in the water given the trailer angle into the water and the amount of effort you want to expend if you are manually winching. For me on a typical ramp, it is about 60-75% provided the trailer guides are still effective. For steep ramps, I make sure the guides still do their job. You are so lucky to have a new rig. I remember when I first got mine, I was listening to the hockey games in the garage waiting for the season to open. Inspecting my tackle of course. Regards... Guidedog

Too Funny!! How about Redneck Fishing? Cheers...Guidedog

Hello all, I have had huge success wacky rigging stick baits over the past number of years. When I started, it was hard to find stick baits in the tackle shops and you pretty much had to go with the Senko. Now I find there are good performing alternatives to the orignial Senko stick bait, but from my perspective it all started with Gary Yamamoto. So now I see the "swimming senko" in the Cabelas fishing catalogue and since we are still quite far away from opener I have no choice but to simply speculate. My preference would be to just try them out. Anybody out there try them? If so, how did you rig it, and what do you think? Also, I am wondering if they are as soft as the stick baits? Thanks... Guidedog

Ouch! Absolutely wicked! I had a lure come flying at me hitting my glasses once. Glasses are a must. On another ocassion, while removing a Torpedo from a bucket mouth, I had a treble hook impale my thumb. The barb was keeping it from coming out cleanly and I couldn't push it through. Fortunately, my brother inlaw felt comfortable cutting it out using my leatherman! Fish on dude! Anway, I seriously feel for that guy in the picture. Hope it all worked out.

Hello all, I am new to this board. I live in Ottawa and mostly fish bass. I do go on a few trout trips per year and am still chasing my trophy Pike. Anyway, I just finished mapping out the lakes in Algonquin on ActivityGuidebook.com which were stocked. There were 35,000+ Rainbow, and 35,000 Splake in 2006 with a total of over 150,000 since 2002. If you are planning a trip to Algonquin this year you should check out the link directly, or you start at Algonquin Park, select the map, zoom in and move around. Cheers...