FloatnFly

would love some of those feathers

heya CT, welcome

I don't know why it took them so long to get started, there's obviously a tonne of people wanting to help, they should have been doing this since August when the first big runs came in!

they have been, just 2 seasons of manually lifting fish is a pain in the arse cause of a little red tape

I'm sorry, perhaps your misunderstanding me, I am referring to people fishing 1-2 feet of fast water overtop of spawning chinook.

ahhh, yes, that makes sense, they arent really hitting then

Bonk fish, take home. I'm not even going to get into the whole lining thing, other than to say I've never personally witnessed a chinook HIT a bait in 2 feet of water. FYI, scraped skein is one of the finest baits available!

biggest chinook i've ever caught was in frog water, water so slow the float barely moves, next thing i know is the float drops straight down and hook in the corner of the mouth

how about doing a COD? through fed ex or ups?

You do realize CO's don't bust people for speeding, right? They aren't cops.

in port hope police officers have been trained to act on the CO's behalf, beleive theresnow 4 or 5 port hope police that check on the river, not the mnr

It takes about two deer to be butchering like an expert.

say this hunter only fills one tag per year?

Nice! Fly tying can become an addiction. You’ll never look at road kill the same again.LOL

haha no kidding i've actually got a nearly endless supply of materials,have a hunter friend thats supplying me with furs and feathers lol

So I started my fly tying venture less than a week ago.

I started with

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then to

this is starting to get fun!

could be any river in ontario

 

Exactly what? You think when there's a big run of fish in a system, you need every Tom Dick and Harry in there adding even more pressure to the fish?

so lets put it this way.....do you know exactly where this is?? don't just say yes or no

Can all puff balls be eaten, regardless of size?

not sure... not a mushroom expert by any stretch of the imagination....good question for google though

I'll have to look those up.

 

I see people walking all over the bush with buckets. Not sure what they are harvesting?

 

 

 

morals, and puff balls

ya, but you gotta figure there's a tonne of paperwork that comes with each fine. Once a week they would still clear a lot of them out.

yep, and still meet their ticket quotas and stop setting up rader spots at the bottom of a hill

 

Like it matters.. You're telling me if you can't figure out which river it is by looking at the pics?

exactly, if you can look at a pic and know which one of the thousands of rivers it is, you've been there and know about it already

 

It's not about exact spots though, it never is.. It's about providing thousands of your new best friends with up to date river conditions.

so keep the name of the river out of the post

thing about backgrounds is, if you can recognize the river bank, and trees and bushes in a photo.....then you have already been there and know about that hole. but to someone who hasn't fished the river, they aren't going to be able to tell that spot from the thousands of others that are out there

 

That's a rather odd reply considering it only takes a couple hours to process a deer, yet many hunters spend days or weeks filling their tag with patience being a huge part of hunting big game.

meaning it takes time to learn how to do it properly so you end up with wasted cuts

Rather than handing money over to the butcher, why not use that money to invest in a good book, knife, and vacuum sealer and do it yourself?

 

some people don't have the time or patience to do that

awesome job guys, glad you got to experience these river giants. a big change from the bass you normally get into. should try to get on on the fly rod.....its a blast..

for a lot of people, this time of year is the only chance they will have at fighting these great fish, they may not be in their prime, but they still give a good fight, these are the largest sport fish in our waters (excluding sturgeon) let them have their fun. like our parents always said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

I was under the impression that a butcher shop was not allowed to do wild game if they butcher beef and pork.

Something about possible cross contamination.

Not sure if that's true,

Anybody here know?

yep, most will refuse to do it, or refer you someone that will. and places that will do it, are usually after hours work, so unless you have a separate cutting and production area, you can't do it legally

yes there is. when you change the ownership, they charge you sales tax. and they charge you it everytime the vehicle is sold, so say you buy it, pay the tax, turn around and sell it a week later, someone else will have pay sales tax, they sell it a month later, then another person will have to pay sales tax. kinda Bull ifyou ask me. now, you can negotiate the price down to cover the cost of the sales tax without having to extend your budget

PM sent....i am a butcher of 15 years, but don't have the facilities to do that at home, how ever, a guy i worked with doe so i will pass on his number.

for backing i just use 20ld braid. i have 3ooyrds under 300 yrds of mono, im not getting spooled lol

floats i like the blackbird floats cause they are clear, but a lot of people i know love the raven floats

hook size i use size 10