kickingfrog

Pike problems in Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20170720/norwegian-police-to-investigate-fish-mafia/amp

Now you know it works. You don't have to "test" it next time.

The manual pull is meant as a back up on the autos.

The 400 is closed both ways between hwy 9 and 88. Has been closed since about 2:30 this afternoon. That's gotta be a mess for anyone traveling in the area.

Not sure how one could argue that there is any need for the right to that information. On the flip side, if this summers eve gets your info one could then request the camp site info of all the campers in those lakes for the next few years and compare to the last few years and see how many "new" names appear. See how twisted this request for information is?

Gotta be better than some... http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Several-Boats-Catch-Fire-at-Lake-Texoma-Marina-435414613.html Fire at Lake Texoma marina.

And that is why I love this place. On top of the fishin' there is a wealth of knowledge across the board. I haven't needed to do this but one day, I might.

Environment Canada and the weather network and then sailflow thrown in when I'm on the water. I find that some people have very little understanding of what they are being shown, or don't understand that the farther ahead you are looking in higher the likelihood that the forecast might be "wrong". Anything beyond a day of 2 and the probability really drops unless the systems are stable. Another issue a buddy ran into was his phone giving him a forecast for a city that was nowhere near where he was. It's weather, we love to complain about it and it's one of the things that transcends demographics.

Someday your beard won't be so red.

Nipissing is the lake I grew up fishing and I still get up there sometimes to fish but this was the first chance my son had to fish it. We had chunks of fishing around some other obligations from Friday afternoon until Sunday lunch. All packed for 48 hours of fishing. After the fact, this would be all the lures we'd need. Ryan's are on the left, mine on the right. My brother caught all his bass on a zara super spook and his walleye on a bladebait. First fish of the trip. Ryan's first Nipissing fish, a smallmouth on a topwater. It was tough fishing as he needs some help unhooking fish with trebles, so it seemed like every couple of minutes I was stopping to unhook, or take a photo. lol My turn at the bass. First eye of the trip, casting a cicada. Hit right at the surface as some mayflies where hatching. The bass were all over the mayflies as well. Ryan was so focused on jigging that he didn't want to be in a photo. Tucked in. First fish of the second day. Ryan making sure I knew how many fish he'd caught. His first eye. On the jiggin rap. We got rained on each time we went out. Our last morning was no different although just before it poured the already good action picked up and we all caught fish on consecutive casts before heading in for the last time. If he can keep his fingers off the lens maybe I can keep fishing. As the dark clouds came in Ryan switched to a pop-r in fire-tiger and nailed his biggest bass of the trip and it was time to head to the dock.

Went by today hoping to get out for some panfish with my kids on their P.A. day. The remaining trailer park has a sign that says no launch.

So Terry drives the boat and nets the fish, but doesn't film??? Some guide.

I seem to remember a few years ago, a member here caught a bass in Florida on vacation using a hotdog wiener.

Is the metal annoyingly noisy in the rain?

Shingles are still ok but in a few years they will need to be replaced. Looking for first hand experience with metal roofing. We have no plans to move from this house so the longer life of the metal is appealing.

My brother in law has not had the luck of the Irish on the land he's been hunting, so I'm trying to see if he and I can get together but he's shift working and timing it a lot tougher.

My brother went solo today (and didn't have me to forget the box calls). Took him a little longer but he had his choice of 2 bigger jakes and dropped a 20lber.

Ruffed grouse is my favourite meat period, but turkey is real good.

I've only eaten ones from here (except for a southern ON bird that was smoked, and delicious) so I can't say. For me they taste like a turkey but with more turkey taste if that makes sense.

I'll only answer two. First time ever it didn't start properly. I guess I didn't reattach the fuel line to the motor when I cleaned up the engine after starting it in the driveway a few weeks ago. User error, only delayed at the dock for a few minutes. My son had no issues fishing from the dock if it didn't work out. I'm afraid I'm going to miss her if I ever move on to another.

My son has been counting down the days until we could go fishing and today was the day. Early start and we were on the water by 6:30am.... 6 hours later we had the first bite. Four fish landed and one other on and off. There was no sign of life until after 12. The sun came out for a bit and that seemed to make a difference. 3 on husky jerks and one on a swim bait.

Thanks Wayne. Forgot the box calls at home. Thankfully my brother had a mouth call in his pocket. Edit to add: My brother figures that old mouth call he had in his pocket was about 25 years old. He bought it at the turkey course he took in the early '90's.

Another point to consider is that back in the day, good casting reels just didn't exist the way they do now, so you either still fished or dragged line.

I'd rather catch fish casting, but I know that when it's done right trolling of often more effective. Your lure is at the proper depth the whole time versus a cast where part of the retrieve is getting the lure down to the correct depth and then part is the lure coming up again and then you cast it again. But again, for me, I'm out to enjoy myself and I don't solely measure that in fish caught. We do troll, but often it's to move to another casting spot, take a break or eat.