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Very impressive year, but the best pic is the seal coming for a visit, that's hilarious !!

It was Pigeon Fisher that moved to PA Paul

I'd imagine with the tiger colors that would be one beautiful fish Tom.

The pike are moving into the region now and evidently are quite common in some of the lakes. Seems like from what I've read their moving from west to east. As I mentioned in another post yesterday I've been fishing these waters for 60 years and can say in all honesty that I have NEVER caught a pike in the Kawarthas. My fishing has always been the lakes east of Bobcaygeon so I have no experience at all west of there where the pike seem to be. Guess it's only a matter of time though till they move this way...sadly.

Don't know anything about Minnesota muskies Paul but I can say absolutely that muskies here in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario exceed 40 inches all the time and fish up to 50" are quite common. Pike have been moving into the region in recent years but I've been fishing muskies around here much longer than they've been here and can definitely guarantee the lack of pike has never held back the growth of muskies. Still an interesting article though, thanks for posting it.

Never tried a fly rod Steve but I can imagine it'd be fun.

I've been fishing the Kawarthas for 60 years Shane and I haven't missed anything. I just prefer Nipissing where I can fish all day and only see a handful of other boats and when I catch a musky I know it's gonna be a good one and I don't have to wade thru a bunch of 30 inchers to get her.

Other than 3 or 4 weeks chasing muskies up on Nipissing each summer, my fishing days are pretty well done Bill. I live right in the heart of the Kawarthas and never fished here once this year. Now if you want to head to Nip next year, we can do some serious fishing .

Upper Buck is loaded with muskies.....so.....sorry

Yeah, and I took a picture of him too, then you came along and showed me what a picture of an eagle is REALLY sposed to look like

All times of the day Tom, no real pattern. As for the air horn, that's already been suggested LOL

Your absolutely correct Phil

It is now but used to be Ontario Fishing Network

Interesting how OFC comes up when I typed OF ENN

Sad really that some losers have this much spare time on their hands.

I was at Rogers & left THEM for Bell

Yup, your always lookin when you should be fish'n

bare foot wader, that's the exact process I went through this morning and when I couldn't block it is when I contacted Bell. Shame though that Bells hands are tied with something like this. I tried phoning the anti fraud number given to me by Bell but after 10 minutes on hold I gave up and will contact them by email tomorrow. They have a recording that recommends this anyways.

For about a year off and on now I've been receiving phone calls from someone claiming to be raising funds for the Canadian Special Olympics. I told him I wasn't interested but every couple months he'd call back and I'd just hang up on him. Couple days back he called again, this time demanding the $30 I pledged even though no pledge was made but I can't print here what I said to him. Last couple days he's called but won't speak when we answer. I now have his # by the phone so I don't need to answer when he calls. I contacted Bell today to have his # blocked but they claim they can't block him because it's probably a mobile phone. If you type his phone number into GOOGLE all sorts of things come up about this guy bugging plenty of folks with different scams. Bell claims they know about him but there's nothing they can do about it and asked me to contact the Canadian Anti Fraud Center and report him Just seems strange to me that Bell can't do anything about this jerk. My 1st thought was to close his phone account but that doesn't seem to be a possibility for some reason. Anyways, that's my little rant for a Thursday afternoon.

Like Terry said, back in the day we had all sorts of stuff with the OFC logo on them.

Amazing pictures as always Joey, you've got a real talent with a camera.

I've got the HIT jacket myself and it's great, very light and comfortable. Not sure what the sailing harness is but if you attach it to the boat from the jacket incase you fall over board I'd say it's an excellent idea if you fish alone.

If you ever decide you'd like a watch George, I'll fix you up. I got one after 25 years and another one after 30 years. Guess they figured I was getting old and forgot where I put the 1st one

The place looks great fisherman, always good to see folks getting right into the Christmas spirit like you do. I got all the outdoor lights up over the last 2 days but if my Mrs. sees this post she may be adding to my work list

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.