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Have fun with the shooting, it can be alot of fun and a good marketing move for a guide business. Could of blurred out the background though Scratch the bog off for this weekend, gonna be a busy spot in that canal. Too bad cause we "were" crushing them.

Try walleyecentral.com too. I have been looking for a while now for a Ranger 620 or 621 in good condition. Good luck.

I play, user name Swiftsetter. Usually 10-20 or 20-40 no limit. Ehg, the free games are fun and you can learn a some, but to really see how the game is played you have to play for moola. Guys go all in and play super loose because its free. You even see it on lower blind games including 5-10 and especailly limit(guys chasing). It's fun though, good place to start. I play the higher $ games, not because I have the money, but you can protect your hands and usually the players at those tables are in the know. Not always, but most the time. Get together with some buds and play some texas or omaha, we play every couple weeks in Pickering and sometimes have room for another. Actually Rick O is probably the most knowlegdable here on the game. Cheers, Phil

Mr Greg Klatt, at http://www.profishntanglingservices.com - he's a good friend and great guide. Whoever you chose, good luck.

diggyj, I'll be on the lake under your avatar.

good one! And seriously, I sure will, via PM though. I have had some practice hunting down water for my 4 yr old lil gal, who is a wicked lil fisher gal that makes her Daddy very proud. She's had the nic name "Crap Master" since she was an infant, but now it's more for her ability to get the biggest slab of the day.

Heya Cliffy, just move out alittle onto the flat or first break, the buggers will be schooled up just outside your areas waiting for the bait to move shallow again. No problem Mr Blizzard, when I hear of a teenybobber that enjoys fishing, I'll do what I can to help. I know first hand how fishing can give you something more productive to lookforward too versus the "other" things when your a teenager.

Now you know what to use for them, now you got to find them. Right now they are either staging at the mouths of canals, cuts, or bays to move in shallow or they are already in shallow(mostly in from what I found). Look for back bays with cuts or canals and/or marinas(with wood dock posts). Preferably on the northern shoreline, darker the bottom the better, out of the wind, and WOOD (docks, stumps, trees). These areas warm the fastest and the wood retains heat. You see an old duck blind, fish it. A school of crappie will push the bait right to the back of a canal, cut or marina where the feast. You find one crap, there is more. Crappie eat "UP" I find, therfore if your fishing 4 ft of water use a 12-15inch lead from your float I find works best. Some may differ, but I rarely go more then a foot or two below my float- max. Usually under a foot. Try some micro Rapala huskies too Get into them... and lets see some pics... Good Luck.

Ahh, title brings back some good memories of my early years. Go ahead and turn the rod Chris, I've seen your work and would pay for a defect no worries!

Awesome again. Anyone thinking of Perching this spring has to read the article by JP DeRose, I can verify he is an expert on the subject.

Guess I just caught the post at the right time Roy! Just about why I recommended the flipping stick or pitch rod. When targeting bass this will absolutely be part of your aresenal at some point. I see you are in North Bay, the one T I did on Nippissing we Flipped and Pitched all day, lots of junk to fish. I am sure as a non-boater you'll be back in the swamp at some point. Gary made a good point about backboating. A good Flipping stick, 50- 80lb braid and a frog will give you lots of water to fan cast when in the swamp and back boated. Another place is fishnig deep weeds, "dunking" jigs etc where I use personally 80lb braid and a cinched drag, to gettem out and in the boat. However after years of doing so, my wrists have taken a beating. Actullay used to buy the old heavy crucials and trim 6 inches off. Talk about a pool cue. Thinking this year of lightening up a bit. I agree OHIO, finding them is key, but the right tools are needed to get them swimming in your well. Good luck

Save your moola. There is no one article or response that will answer everything. Unfortunatley a lot of the info you are looking for has to be learned on the water through trial and error. For bass tournies, one rod missing is a flipping stick. Either 7ft or 7'6 heavy. Same rod can be used for topwaters (frogs) etc.. Sure, you may have to re-tie a bit. Btu until you figure out what gear fits the water you fish, your style and prefernces, don't spend a wack of cash. And you don't have to buy a Frog rod to use frogs becasue of it name. Same as green masking tape and white, they do the same, but ones prettier.

Oh, the house boaters...well they are tricky. Usually it starts with a lot of wine, which turns into the Newphie Jig somehow and what makes it worse I aint newphie, then for the finish I bust out singing one of my Dads songs "My Sweet Lord". I hooked up once with this technique, but the wife is starting to get impatient waiting for my inheritance.

Awesome bud!!! Great to see the kids liking it! Grab a zip lock, throw in some whole kernal corn and some vanilla extract, keep it in the frige overnight. Not really a secret but works.

Hey singingdog, Yes, the dropshot works well sometimes for sparser weeds, however when they are thick and/or canopied(that even a word?) folded over for lack of a better term, the dropshot can be counter productive. Unless you texas rig or texpose the plastic it is easy to get hung up. Not mention harder to get a solid hookup texas style. Distance between the weight and hook can be hard to judge as well with the varying canopy and "weed under growth" in some of these thick weedbeds. Especially in the Milfoil. The ability to utilize the weight, bulk and weedguard on the fliggin jig is key. Of course this is all my opinion, but this is what I found works for us. Here is a pic I found on the web showing somewhat the water I am taking about. Not so much surface cover, as it is usually a foot or two below. Good Luck.

Haha Spiel If it was a ruse I wouldn't include below my favourite Buckhorn weedline area for some nice bigguns.....

Awesome Mike. One day I'd love to pin out of a drift boat, never done it before!

Hey all, I don't post many fishing reports to often anymore for various reasons, however I thought I would share this. This is a technique we use for Kawartha walleye. So with opener coming up soon I thought I would share and maybe help some boat more fish. Early day we would target weededges dipping either grubs or ripping bucktails. Which can produce fish like the buckhorn walleye below. But as the sun rose and/or pressure turned on the fish would move deep into the weedbeds. Where you could dip the pockets with the grups or bucktails, however we found the good fish would bury into the thickest growth where the above lures couldn't penetrate. With clients in the boat we had to figure out a way to get them. We did, and here is how we did it. We would use a "Flippin jig" more known as a bass lure. We would trim the skirts and thin them out a bit for a leaner profile. Sometime the regualr "chunk" or pork works, if not, we use either a power worm or sassy shad/renosky to dress the jig. Either 9/16 , 1/2 and 3/4oz are the go to's. We fished it with a 20 or 30 braid and a lighter action rod to absorb the hookset, not to rip the lure out of the softer mouthed walleye. But strong enough backbone to get them up and out of the think weeds. Commonly known as "dunking" you vertical jig the bait into the thickest stuff and either jiggle it or rip it back. Similair to rippin a bucktail, you can do the same with the flippin jig. We've used to the bucktail and heavier lead for grubs to try this, but have more sucess with the Flippin jig. I believe it has something to do with the profile and fall. Anyways, below is a couple fish pics I could find on the puter with some Flippin Jig walleye. Hope it gives you something else to try when you've given everything already in your arsenal a go. Myself with one. A co-angler with another one. Good Luck.

You could throw it up on ebay and see what happens, worked for me once as I listed a couple crappy destroyed lures I bought in a tackle box at an auction. Got $275 bucks for the 2 lures. I contacted the guy and apparently one was from a lure company based out of from Brandon Manitoba in the 50's. I had no clue. Mind you, other lures I didn't recognize got $2 bucks.

#1 tool in a T anglers boat IMO. You can see within a second which fish is to be culled. A little tip we do is whenyou have 2 wells, or a divider, put the bigguns on one side and the smallest fish. Leave the other side for the average fish. Makes it easier to cull when need be. Happiness is having a 3lber in the larger side of the live well as the small fish. Tis a good day then! When we used to do the perch/crappie events the beams were invaluable.

For every comment like the above Teej, there are many many more who acknowlegde and appreciate all you and the partners have done.

My Dad is a retired Firefighter like you Lew and around the same age. I wish he was as techonology savvy as you. Maybe then he wouldn't of told me to check my email becasue he sent me a "Funny Sex Joke" only to have a co-worker put an inappropriate fax on my desk. "Well I told ya I was sending you an email through the Email Machine"...."uhhh, no you didn't Dad"

Solopaddler nailed it. I would focus more on figuring out the "fishable" conditions. Like any steelheader starting out you can rack up the kilometers travelling from one creek to the other. One might be gin clear, another chocolate milk, then one has perfect visiability. After years of doing the same milk run of creeks you will key in on what river should be fishable with the weather conditions without have to go and see. This is more of a learning curve then what "equipment to use" IMO. Then there is what presentation to use for the conditions.... it all comes with time on the bank. Good Luck

Ice out crappies on the Kawartha's! Man I am pumped, can't wait. Although alittle sad, I'll miss Simcoe at ice out, but not the crowds!

I used to bring the Big Brothers and Sister organizations to Rice Lake in the spring for a fun fishing day where they targeted panfish and the majority of fish caught were sunfish. I know to this day that many, after being intorduced to the sport, still venture to Rice to fish with their little brother or sister. Many use the facilities around the lake for bait, tackle and boat rentals. I know for a fact the views of some of the RLTA on this board do not reflect the feeling of MANY of the other opertations on Rice Lake. There are some really good folks who stepped up when I was holding my events with full support. I would hate for them to lose out on business due to a select few who have posted here. Mayor, I am disheartened reading your posts. I have refered many of these folks to your shop.