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Tightlines..............905-837-0544 West side of Brock Rd in Pickering.....1000' south of 401 Turn into the 1st driveway south of the big flag pole One of the best fishin stores anywhere !!

It's been a few years now since I targetted bass, but twitching Rapalas on the surface was a favorite technique of mine too. I liked to toss it out and let it sit for maybe 30 seconds before the 1st twitch and it was always a fun way to get a few fish. It was about 10 years ago and I never did it before and haven't done it since, but twice in one week I got 2 fish on the same bait using that twitching method with a Rapala. Both times a pair of fish grabbed the bait at the same time, the instant I made the 1st twitch. All 4 were all only small fish but they made for some good laffs in the boat

I was talking to a few of the locals up there on the weekend and it sounds like a lot of docks have been pulled from their footings and drifted out into the lakes after all the high water this year, so it looks like we'll have to be even more careful on the water this spring. Don't want to be hitting a submerged dock in the middle of the lake at 40 MPH

Like I always say Wayne, you don't need to catch a fish to have a great day of fish'n. Good to see you boyz had a good day on the bay

We spent this past weekend at my buds place north of Peterboro and took a drive around the area to check out the high water that's causing so many problems for some folks in the area. This is the lock at Lakefield and it gives a pretty good indication of the amount of water being dumped into the narrow Otonabee River south of town. It doesn't show too well in the pics, but some of these waves were close to 5' high. Hard to believe boats will be navigating these waters in a couple more weeks......hopefully. This is the dam at Youngs Point a few miles north of Lakefield. The 3rd picture is the ice flows coming down from Clear Lake and some of these were about 200 sq. ft. and 4-5" thick. The water was about 5' above normal in this area but has evidentely dropped about a foot in the last few days. And of course all the critters were out enjoying the nice spring weather.

Awesome fish, that thing is a true brute !! Congrats to the angler

If BPS does indeed have a price-match policy, they should make sure that all of their employees are aware of it. I was in the market for a new bow mount last year after I fried my old one and was shopping around to compare prices and found the one I wanted was $30 less at LeB's. I didn't want to deal with LeB's because of past problems so I called BPS to see if they'd match the price and was told no, BPS did NOT offer that. I told him I was under the impression that BPS would match anyone and he told me I was 100% wrong in my thinking and if I wanted to save $30, I should go and deal with LeB's......nice eh ?? $30 isn't alot of money, but it's better in my pocket than someone elses

I spent the weekend over at Yonge's Pt Cliff, and the water has dropped about a foot in the last few days in that area. Hopefully with no rain coming they can start to get your area drained down soon too. Hopefuly those dead carp your talkin about are just from a normal winter die-off, we sure don't need a repeat of last year.

Pickeral in May, then muskies till mid-December.

Happy B-Day Bill, all the best !!

That's good to hear Roger, & Jackie is definetely an asset to BPS. Even back in the day when he had his own shop on Eglinton I'd stop in for a chat with him, even if I didn't need anything.....great guy !!

I'm just leaving the house now & will be in the Otonabee / Young's Point area later on today and will be taking some pics and will post them tomorrow sometime.

Joe, I've got a 17 tattoos, including an 8" shark I had done in Portsmouth, England back in '64 in my Navy days and folks have always been quite happy when I showed up at their front door to offer my assistance. Course, I wasn't upper management either

Good luck at the sale this morning Pete, you can get some real bargoons at those things

Alot of the problems in Peterboro are caused by the lack of storm sewers in the city. They get some very heavy rains and the sanitary sewers can't handle it all, so it ends up coming back up the basement floor drain. My buddy has been flooded out twice in the last decade and it had nothing to do with the Otonabee overflowing her banks. Sure does make for an awful mess but fortunately the insurance was good for all the damage both times.

Hurricane Hazel went thru Toronto in 1954 and killed 88 people, mostly drowned when the Humber River overflowed her banks and washed the homes away. They rebuilt the homes, the people came back and life has been good for the last 54 years and Etobicoke is now one of the most beautiful neighborhoods anywhere . Bad stuff happens in all parts of the world sometimes, but folks do the best they can. Hurricanes every year from Florida to Louisisana, earthquakes & fires in California, Tornado Alley all the way from the Gulf of Mexico into Southern Ontario, brain numbing cold across the Prairies, but folks live and thrive in all those places. If folks only lived in places where nuthin bad ever happened, there'd be an awful lot of vacant land in North America and about 350,000,000 people all jammed into a couple tiny "safe areas"

He sure did give us lots to laff at though, eh Chris ?? Dood was a pretty good fisherman too

Your quite the guy Pete, with all the problems your having with flooding around your new home, you still take the time to go to Belleville and help out the folks there !!!! I'm heading north to Peterboro this weekend and won't be back till Sunday, but if things get worse at your place after Sunday and you need ANY help at all, I can be out there in a couple hours.

I've been waiting to hear how you guys made out Joey and it's good to hear the trip went well again this year despite the sunstroke. Some nice fish in the boat as usual for the pair of youz !! Hope your feelin better soon.

I picked up one of these bags from BPS for transporting reels and it works perfectly for up to about 6 reels . It's well made and has padding to fit between the reels. Can't remember what I payed 3 years ago but it lists for about $20 US on their website. I'd reccommend it.

Yup, some of us know Kirk, but have been sworn to everlasting secrecy, but I can tell you that he's still with us here on OFC

It took less than a quart + one large spray bomb for mine evster and you can get any color Tremclad makes at Rona's or Home Depot.

I painted my trailer with biege Tremclad a couple years ago and it turned out very nice. I sanded it down then masked everything off and used a smooth roller on the large areas and a matching spray bomb for the hard to reach places. Very easy to do and the results are great and the entire job is about $30 and an afternoon's work.

I think the nice thing about WFN is the fairly large choice of different types of fishing that are available to everyone with different interests. Myself, I don't have any interest in what the fishing is like in Australia or who wins the English Carp tourneys, and I don't fish for bass and have certainly seen enough of the bass tourneys, but I still find plenty to watch. I still enjoy the Izumi show even after all these years, there's a few good musky shows available and of course everyone enjoys the Lindners. I'd think everyone that enjoys fishing should be able to find something that appeals to them.

Cliff, I've had the pleasure of being in your home and have seen the beautiful set-up you have there, and the 1st thing I thought of when I read this post was the fact that you & your wife may be giving up alot of your hard earned privacy to strangers. I know how much you enjoy going down to your dock in the evening after working all day, or spending time both on your dock or in your yard with the grandkids on the weekend's, but now you may have to share that space with total strangers who will invariably have all their friends and families up to visit. That may work well the odd time, but if you & Sue are looking for some peaceful quiet time alone in the yard or beside the water, or you want to have a nice BBQ with your family, that may not be possible with a whole mess of strangers using up your yard. I'm sure if they're renting the basement, they'll assume they get full use of the yard and waterfront too, and if they and their families turn out to be someone you'd rather not share your space with, it could turn out to be a pretty miserable summer for you & yours. Just another thing for you to think of........