kickingfrog

Big is right, I was quite surprised how big it was.

I've have been fortunate enough to have eaten both fresh from an Arctic River. Both were great, but I liked the greyling more. I also prefer walleye and perch over trouts, salmons and chars. It is really a preference thing more so then one is better then the other.

Not if you hate the sux.

Three of the four games that mattered tonight go to extra innings. Two of the biggest colapses ever in September. And some fan in the rays game gets hit in a very sensitive area 'cause he can't catch.

My brother worked on a poem while we were up there. “Richter Lake” Eddie’s stake at Richter Lake got us on a plane. “The Pike and Walleye ‘round these parts are literally insane. They’ll hit on every lure. They hit from dawn till dusk; ... They’ll even wack your favorite lure that’s seen its share of rust. I’ve built a cabin there, that I did well equip. A place to eat, a place to sleep, a place to take a crap.” And so we packed our fishing gear and all our clothes & food. We wrapped our extra sweaters tight around our bottled booze. We fly over the lake now, the cabin lies beneath; A lonely, stoic monument that’s nestled ‘mongst the trees. The pilot circles twice and then he lands the plane out front. He puts it snugly to the dock, a most impressive stunt. The time now is upon us. The mission is at hand, To target scaly fishes which are in the rocks and sand. Many fish are caught, far too many to keep track. We keep a feed of tasty “Eyes” and put all the pike back. One day leads to another, more meals of fish are had. I’m starting to sprout gills now but the thought of that aint bad. The end now is upon us, we ate all that was left. As fishing goes this angler knows this lake owes us no debt. We pack our gear, the plane is near, our time has come to leave. Our “College Try”, our heads held high of that we did achieve. It’s back to civilization, back to our girls and wives. A piece of Richter Lake goes on with us in our lives. ><> Jim Rice September 10, 2011 <><

Buy the uninsulated jacket and use your own fleece. Layers are better anyway.

"Henderson has scored for Canada!" Foster Hewitt

Sort of like watching fishing shows or going fishing. in and out

Going down to a bills game next month. Last time it took us longer to get out of the parking lot then it did to cross the boarder. Don't want to hoof it for 5kms but I don't want to spend an hour and a half moving at the speed of Rob Johnson's progressions. Send me a pm if you have a spot that you are willing to share. Thanks.

Picked up my stuff today. A word to the wise. For Cabelas "midnight/black" is dark blue and black. Clearly I did not look at the colour photo and only base my choice on the description. Just noticed while I was checking my order to get the price difference refunded that on my order it is listed as night/black... I don't feel too bad, I don't know what colour forest meadow is either.

Great fish Rich... and patsy

Das boot.

Tighten the gas cap.

http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3309195 Muskies resurfacing in Simcoe ‘Viable fishery’ now possible By GISELE WINTON SARVIS – Special to QMI Agency Posted 1:00am Sept 23, 2011 Muskellunge are slowly returning to Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching, but open season for the fishery could be 10 years away, according to Muskies Canada president Ian Young. "There is no chance of the fishery opening soon," he said. Muskies Canada, a non-profit organization with 600 members, along with a dozen environmental groups, have undertaken the "huge" project of bringing back a species from the lakes that was locally extinct. "We have been stocking the lake for six years for a total of 4,000 to 5,000 fingerlings," Young said. Another 2,000 will put stocked this fall at five strategic locations that were known to be traditional muskie spawning grounds. "Several more years of stocking is needed and then assessment before the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) would even consider opening the fishery," Young said. "A viable muskie fishery now and in the future is our goal." The oldest muskie in the lakes come from the original stocking in 2004-05. They are just reaching spawning age and are approximately 20 to 30 inches long. It is a critical time in re-establishing a self-reproducing muskie population, Young said. Re-establishing this top predator has come at a cost of $100,000 and thousands of volunteer hours. The project has won an award as the top fishing conservation project in Canada in 2010. It's Canada's only muskie stocking program. "The last thing you want is to wreck it before it becomes established," Young said. If anyone catches a muskie, they can take measurements and then return the fish to the lake. Anglers can then report those measurements to the MNR. A century ago, muskellunge were so plentiful in the lakes there was a commercial fishery and heavy recreational fishing. Commercial catches were in the 10,000-pound range and there were no limits for individual fishermen. There was no such thing as catch and release in the early 1900s. "They were all killed," Young said. During the 20th century, overfishing, habitat degradation and water pollution all led to dwindling numbers of muskie until 20 years ago when the species was formally deemed extinct. About 10 years ago, the Lake Simcoe Muskie Restoration Project was started with more than 12 partners, including the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters and the Georgian Bay Hunters and Anglers. Muskie required an abundance of food. They eat perch, northern pike, walleye, catfish, bass, suckers and even a northern water snake. The freshwater species require good oxygen levels and a silty, marshy bottom to spawn. Unlike lake trout, they don't require cold, deep water. Muskies grow to be huge fish. The biggest muskie ever caught was in Georgian Bay. It weighed 55 pounds, was 60 inches long and had a girth of 27 inches. Muskies are only found in lakes in eastern Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and the northeastern United States, including Michigan and rivers flowing to the east coast including the St. John and St. Lawrences rivers. Locally, there are viable populations in Georgian Bay and the Kawartha Lakes. The muskies in the Kawartha Lakes have an advantage over those elsewhere because they have little competition for food. The northern pike is the muskies No. 1 competitor and they are absent from some Kawartha Lakes. They are lots of pike in the Lake Simcoe watershed. This poses a striking problem for the return of muskie because both carnivorous species spawn in the spring in similar marshy habitats. "The pike hatch three or four weeks earlier and they eat whatever is around, including musky hatchlings," Young said. It also poses a problem for getting muskie eggs to raise because researchers wanted eggs from muskie parents that have been exposed to northern pike. Therefore, they couldn't get fish from Kawartha Lakes. They did find some from Gloucester Pool of the Severn River. Then the challenge is to raise the fish that are cannibalistic and perpetually hungry to a size where they can stocked into Lake Simcoe, Young said. The minimum size required to keep a caught muskie varies. It's 36 to 44 inches in the Kawartha lakes, 38 inches in Georgian Bay and 54 inches in the St. Lawrence.

Cold water has an increased capacity to hold dissolved oxygen. The bottom of a lake that stratifies (yes at about 4 degrees C) can and does hold a great deal of dissolved oxygen but due stratification this D.O. cannot be replenished until the lake turns over in the fall.

Feels like rain.

Phone still works.

One of the major Canadian mags had a piece about plastic baits IN fish just this spring. My intertnet is down so I can't find the link.

Bell seems to be having internet problems in the 705 area code. I should have called them 4 hours ago.

We're heading down to see the eagles play da bills in October. I hope they can keep things rollin'.

Quality or not, some people are really hard on equipment.

I did not see anything wrong with the post in question. At least the person with the issue used a pm to communicate his/her displeasure (whether or not it was done tactfully ). Sometimes people will present 2 different personas and the public one does not seem to match the private one, and they may use pm's to further their agenda.

I like lighter and stronger but at what point do they go too far? Sometimes you need some heft.

Don't believe everything on the net.

One of the biggest problems on our roads, beside all the obvious ones, are the middle lane numskulls that sit in there no matter what the traffic is like. The rules of the road say you are to drive in the lane farthest to the right and then move to the left to pass. Can't do that on most 3 lane highways though because we have 10km long moving road blocks of people who think that they can turn their brains off because they are sitting in the middle lane. Oh no I have to think and anticipate traffic patterns if I'm in the left lane, I may even have to check my mirrors and change lanes to allow traffic in, how can I possibly do all that and change the radio station.