FloatnFly

Get the same ones on your trailer already, they're rated for a heavier payload and are designed to carry the weight of the boat, or whatever.

Last year my dad was making the trip from Sarnia to Whitby to do some salmon fishing on Lake O with us. He made it as far as London when his one tire blew out on trailer. Completely destroyed his fender, and brake light, and left him stranded on the side of the 402 waiting for CAA. He had a spare, but in his haste to leave, he forgot his jack at home. He didn't trust his spare to make the rest of the trip, so he ended up turning around and going back home.

His tires were only 4 years old at the time.

To add to this, he made it up the next weekend, and broke his prop on a rock in 4ft of water 100ft from the launch on our way back in.

I was thinking just a standard river setup for weights, just enough to get the bait to bottom. since the are im fishing has little to no current

I love this, now maybe all the Ford simpletons can launch their boats and get the heck out of the way for the rest of us.....LOL

As opposed to the Chevy owners who NEED built in WiFi in their vehicals????

put your hand on the bottom of the steering wheel. easy. its reversing the steering, without reversing it. its a brilliant mind trick my driving instructor taught me 16 years ago.

pier fishing when here is no river entrance gives access to deeper waters than fishing from shore

No problems with that set up, I use my pin a lot more now for carp than I did a few years ago. It's not a rig I fish in and around snags or weeds. It'll work well if you've got some open water to play in like around any river mouths.

 

Small egg sinker and hair rig works well with sweet corn or some of the carp corns like Cukk - my favorite has been the mussels and honey cumin flavor

 

Another good technique is to set up a waggler float (similar to a slip float set up). The long stem float gets set with a few inches of the stem just above the water and acts as a strike indicator. This set up works best for me in water less than 4ft deep.

 

All your bait and chum needs can be found at dollarama. Pick up a couple cans of sweet corn and a pack of breakfast oats. I wet the oats slightly and pack them into little balls to help chum the area.

awesome, going to be fishing mostly whitby harbour area, frenchmans bay and scugog

So, I would like to start fishing carp to fill the void between steelhead and bass. I will be using my centre pin rod and reel. Just looking for some advice for setups.

Rod: 10.5' Streamside IM6 steelhead edition, can easily handle big salmon

Reel: Okuma Aventa Centre pin, 10lb mono main line with 20lb backing. approx 400yrds total

backpack

Salvation Army is about the best place to donate your money, since I think nearly all of it actually goes towards the cause

Thanks for replies and the heads up about posting OOS fish. I was always a little intimidated by the guys at the park who come with their gear and stuff to fish and me being a newbie to fishing might have gotten a little too excited after my first catch. I never thought it would be of concern if it was released. But there are always those who say one thing and do something else, but I am not one of those.

 

Truth is that I was quite disappointed when I got home that the only fish caught was OOS. the mistake I probably made was that my leader line was Mono and probably visible to the fish because the water was very clear. I will be investing in some Maxima ultragreen as I heard that stuff is good.

 

The bows were pretty much facing upstream and just sitting still. On occasion a few of them were swimming around and some even leaping at what I'm guessing were flies.

truth be told, fish don't give a crap about brand of line you're using. again, pay attention to what the fish are doing, if they are moving around your leader, they can see it. down size it til they stop moving around it, for steel head i carry 4.4# tippet up to 12# tippet spools, it depends on the water clarity on how heavy a leader you can get away with

Nice catch, be careful about posting OOS fish though.

with the steelhead, pay attention to how they are sitting in the water, are they level, or heads facing up? if so, target those ones, they are actively feeding. heads down with tails up, they are essentially 'sleeping' and will not move or eat anything, you'll just frustrate yourself trying for them

As in Ontario and Kali there is a huge difference between licenses sold and how many are fishing (think illegally).

yea but im not trying to compare unlicensed fisherman since there is no documentation on that, all you do is compare the number of licenses sold, for a province thats a 1/3 of the size of Cali, and probably close to triple the number of licenses sold

That would be fun on Lake O getting toed around by a big silver king

i've seen it in oshawa harbour, guy being towed around by big fall hens, he locks his drag down and lets the fish pull him

I only wish that was true.

meaning in Cali, not here. only 500,000 licenses issued in the last year, with a population of over 38million, and the license sales are on the drop

not sure what time they open up in the morning but T&D family restaurant @ rossland and garden, its a little hole in the wall with a small store front, but the staff are friendly and accomodating, and the food is pretty good as well. only place i know where you can get a 16oz burger with a full plate of fries!

and they wonder why so many people arent fishing

what the hell California, get your heads on straight!

http://www.worldfishingnetwork.com/stories/post/fishing-tackle-ban-movement-in-california?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=050415&utm_content=news

Sacramento, Cali. – The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) announced that common fishing tackle would remain on a list of consumer products marked to undergo a costly and onerous regulatory process, a reckless move that could lead to a ban on most of today’s fishing tackle and will likely accelerate the decline in fishing participation, threaten jobs and reduce state revenue. DTSC admitted in public hearings that it has no scientific studies demonstrating that lead poses an environmental problem in California. Yet, as evidenced its decision today, DTSC has declared fishing gear to be one of the top seven most significant threats to health faced by Californians and its environment.

“State regulators failed to comply with state law that requires them to conduct an independent analysis before including any product in this regulatory process. The inclusion of fishing tackle will likely harm recreational fishing and the jobs that depend on it,” said David Dickerson, President of the California Sportfishing League. “It appears that politics, rather than science, was the basis for DTSC’s decision. While there are many sources of pollution that pose a serious threat to California’s ocean and streams, anglers are not among them.”

In 2010, the U.S. EPA ruled that lead weights do not pose an unreasonable risk to wildlife and this past December, President Barack Obama signed a budget bill that prohibits the use of federal dollars to ban lead fishing weights.

As revealed in a study recently released by CSL, high costs and unwarranted limitations on fishing have contributed to a major decline in California’s fishing participation rate. While California has one the Nation’s longest coastlines, over 4,000 lakes and reservoirs, 20,000 registered ponds and thousands of miles of streams, the State ranks dead last in the United States for fishing participation. Since 1980, annual fishing license sales have declined by over 55 percent, while California’s population has increased by nearly 60 percent to over 37 million people. If this trend continues, the number of fishing licenses is expected to drop below 500,000 or another 47 percent.

“The high cost of fishing licenses and unwarranted limits on fishing have contributed to a significant decline in participation,” said Dickerson. “Increasing the cost of gear and potential bans will only accelerate the decline, and threaten California jobs that are dependent on outdoor recreation and tourism.”

Experts believe regulations that could follow the DTSC’s assessment will be extremely costly and may encourage manufactures to flee the California market. “

The proposed regulations will increase the likelihood that manufacturers, sellers and retailers of fishing weights and gear will be subjected to costly and onerous regulations, and potential fines,” wrote Maureen Gorsen, an environmental attorney at Alston & Bird LLP and former director of DTSC, in a legal memo. “The result could be a wide range of enforcement options requiring restrictions or bans on sale, product reformulation, additional environmental impact studies, development of disposal programs or funding for fundamental research and development. The bottom line is that the cost of manufacturing fishing gear will increase significantly and these costs will be passed on to consumers.”

Anglers can express their objections to new fishing tackle regulations or a potential ban by signing an online petition found on CSL’s website and Facebook page. To date, over 1,900 California anglers have signed the petition.

The Green Chemistry Initiative, under which the DTSC is authorized to regulate potentially dangerous toxins, was established by the State Legislature and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2008 to depoliticize the process by which individual products and chemicals were regulated. The law requires DTSC to conduct independent, California specific analysis prior to listing a product for potential regulation. During its September 29, 2014, workshop in Cypress, DTSC officials repeatedly stated that it had not, and would not, conduct required scientific analysis.

Requiring non-lead fishing tackle could require significant and costly changes for the fishing industry. Depending on the alternative metal and current prevailing raw material costs, the cost of fishing gear could increase 10- to 20-fold.

When the Department’s draft Priority Product Work Plan was first released in September, CSL led efforts to have fishing gear removed from the document. The California Chamber of Commerce, the California Travel Association, the National Federation of Independent Business, the California Parks Hospitality Association, the California Association for Recreational Fishing, the American Sportfishing Association, Coastside Fishing Club and hundreds of individual anglers all submitted letters in favor of delisting fishing gear.

Recreational fishing contributes over $4.9 billion annually to California’s economy, a major source of outdoor recreation, tourism and jobs.

The California Sportfishing League is a nonprofit coalition of fresh and saltwater anglers, and small business owners devoted to protecting access to recreational fishing, and the leading opponent of additional fishing tackle regulations. To learn more about the threats to recreational fishing visit the “Government Watch” page at www.SportfishingConservation.org.

can't say im not jealous! would love to do that with fly rod in hand!

Thanks Again! FloatnFly, those instructions are perfect.

Anytime, fishing is easy, don't over think it, its the actual catching of fish thats the hard part

ok, so first off, put your float on your mainline, attach a micro swivel below the float, then tie on a fluoro or mono leader anywhere from 4-8lb test about 18 inches long, this will keep you from losing floats

secondly, adjust to where the strike zone is by raising or lowering your float. start by scrapping bottom, and then raising in small amounts, i;ve had days where my bait is 6 inches below my float, and days where the bait is 6ft below the float, all depends on where the fish are sitting and where in the water column they are feeding

This a great video any fisherman would appreciate, i saw this video a while ago, its called damsels in distress

Pretty cool idea.

 

I'm going to check the sat images and give it a shot.

they do daily ice updates on their FB page, still about 18" left

They've been on a different sportsnet channel, for me SNO is channel 22, but its been the nhl playoffs, so they've been on channel 21

2005 F-150, only has 92,000km on it, this was taken the day I brought it home almost 4 years ago!

As predicted little tougher today. By the lack of cars on 28 and Sylvan Glen I would guess it was a bust yesterday. I get to fish the trout club it was OK.

 

Expect great drop back fishing in a week to 10 days.

lots of cars there today! i got to dale road over pass at 5am, was only one there, when i got back at 1030 there was 30, walked from dale road almost over to welcome, didn't see a whole lot