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Truly priceless!! Thanks for a good funny post for my early afternoon read.

Mike, okay enough with the tease, get on with the fish porn already!!!

Wayne, Good to see back on the board. Look forward to seeing you summer summary posts. My internet is ready for your fish porn. oops, didn't notice that goof.

Sweeet!!! (in more than one way!!) Now just have to add the "real juice" flavored gummie worms. (That sounds gross if you think about it, LOL!) Stan

Careful, I might take you up on that one day!! LOL Stan

Way to go Carole!!! Nice job to the net man. (insert pat on the back) Well, Cliff, now you know how a 30lb+ salmon feels now.

Welcome Laker272, look forward to your posts. Good luck on Chemong and Buckhorn.

Thanks Carole, That was a nice look salmon with a pink belly on it that you caught in Cliff's post.

Right On Ice Fisherman! the smile on your son's face truly says it all. WTG on the outting.

Sorry to hear about the runabout that FS and WM played on you. I had a similar incident earlier this year when I went in for an Apple wireless keyboard and then was given the run around by FS saying the price I found by a shop down the road was not an "authorized dealer" but a "distributor". Needless to say I went down the road a 5 min trip to SIG electronics and paid about 60% of what FS was having on sale. Glad to hear you got your camera though.

Well, at least your able to get out. All I can do is sit here behind the monitor and read your reports!!! WTG, and keep plugging away, that 40 will break soon enough (I think anyways).

Okay, looked at the inside of the frozen salmon head at home. Black mouth and white / grey gums. Thus, according to traditional identification, it is a coho. I recall the tail did have some spots but had a rough feel which also pointed towards ID as Coho.

Ya Paul, it's sure nice to land something other than a nice "pat on the back" for coming out and giving it a go! That's about all I got last week at the same spot, mind you I didn't bring my waders last week expecting the water level to be normally lower (not the case when I got there) and found myself stuck to a small 1 square meter patch to fish from. The waders helped big time this time. stan 1 more hour of work to go. woohoo!

Now it may be different depending on the body of water. I've tried the Notty at night with fish splashing about but didn't have any hits at all on the glowing cleo. But I've also seen some reports with fish being caught on other bodies of water with glow spoons. Go out and give it a try, you're not giving yourself a chance by not being on the water.

Funny, I thought it was a chinny the first time as well, then was told by the local that it was a coho. I'll have to go and check the gums when I get home tonight.

Well, after watching the kids after work for a couple of hours while the missus went out for a girls night dinner. I got the okay to go fishing at about 9 pm. I gave a friend a call to let him know I'd be meeting up with him and a couple of others. Now since my stuff is all in storage offsite, I now had to run to get the items. Target species for the night was walleye, morning target was to be salmon, so I grabbed my 7' fishing rod and my 10.5' noodle rod plus to spares, grabbed the bucket of gulp alive, a net, a flashlight, and a backpack of tackle. Forgot that I had left my waders at my parents place but was lucky that they weren't very far, waders check, wader boots check, okay grabbed 6 cans of "red rave" energy drinks I picked up from costco a few days previously that were on sale. Looked at the time, good god! it's near 10:30. Okay, get another phone call while in Markham from my fishing friend John and was told to meet up at Young's point. Okay, after a roughly two hour drive (ah, yes, I try not to speed too much), I finally arrive and was told that they planned to change location as the fishing was slow (actually, nothing caught). Went to the second spot and it was blowing wind hard and the wave were white capping. Only thing caught was salad on about every cast. Fished about an hour and everyone was calling it quits. One more spot was considered, back at my friend's trailer park docks. Wind wasn't a bad there but the fish didn't like my gulp alive this night and my friend caught two bass with his jighead and minnow rig. Now it was about 3 am at this point and I still hadn't even got the slightest hit at all. Okay, my friends were calling it the night and said they'd be up early to fish for bass. I took a pass on the thought of sleeping and told them I'd be heading to the Notty for a try at salmon. They say, "Are you #@$ nuts? Why drive all that way when we can catch bass in the morning?" Being stubborn as I am, I told them I didn't have a good feeling about the bass and walleye with the windy cold front coming in. So off I went for a drive (another 2 hr 25 min drive). Got to my spot at about 5:45 after getting downing two cans of RR and getting some gas enroute (a little glad that Orillia's gas was 113/L that morning). I was the first car there and I watched as an OPP cruiser just left the area where I parked. Put my waders on and started casting a Long A bomber for a little while. Water was warm, not really a good sign. Other anglers started to show up but all were fishing roe while sitting on shore. Daylight broke and I still had nothing, not even a tap. Changed to my lure which I had Len Thompson customized with my company's logo (caught two salmon last year on it). The sun was up and I was starting to get concerned when there wasn't any fish rising. At about 7:30am I changed the technique a little as I figure the fish were really inactive. Cast, crank, crank, slight tug and stop to let the spoon flutter, repeat crank, crank, flutter. Did this for another 1/2 hour then on one crank I feel a light tap and some weight, set the hook and FISH ON! This fish was bulldogging. Beached this nice 28" Coho. I didn't bring the camera, doh! No matter this one was going to be table fare. Fished until 8:45 and started to pack up when I noticed one of the locals which I met with last weekend for the first time this year. He mentioned that he has not seen anybody catching salmon this week in the river, out in the big bay (G-bay) they had heard of a few steelies caught by boat. Okay, that upped my content level for the drive home. Got home and was greeted by my family at about 11:15am. My daughter (almost 5) grabbed that camera and said she'd take the pictures for me. Okay, I have the pics taken in the kitchen. This female was skinny and had underdeveloped eggs which I suspect was due to lack of nutrition partly due to a lamprey that had been attached. Thanks for ready this long winded post. BTW Salmon is what I'm having for lunch today:) Stan

Welcome to the board Streamerguy. Good intro, looks like you also need a camera man in some pics, I'm sure some fellow OFNCr's would be happy to join you on some outtings. Look forward to some more reports.

WTG and Congrats on your PB bucket mouth!

Hey Wullie, check your pm box. Stan

First, congrats on your first muskie. Second, welcome to the board. There has been a post in the past made about setting up a camera on a pod in the boat. It has worked for some member for sure. Congrats and welcome again.

As mentioned by another OFNer before me, I was on OOD when someone made a comment about OFC and that's when I looked in and it's become my first place to check in from then on.

Thanks for sharing the story Roger, my nephew has autism too and I see how much work it can be through my brother and sister-in-law. A great job by some great people at BPS. Give yourself a good pat on the back, as well as to the Daves and George. Although I don't go to BPS that often, I'm always have "meet Roger" on my list to do when I'm there (you're usually off the times I've been there).

Dave, IMHO This is totally NOT SPAM. This is a community board and you have cited a great cause. I would be interested in donating something and/or helping where possible. BTW don't forget to re-address the entire community here including the great Gals (you only mentioned gentlemen, cough cough). I have access to items that are hearing related but will see what else might be of interest. PM me, Stan

Drove by the pumps, it went from 135.2 to 138.2 since yesterday.

Cliff, Happy Birthday!! I hope you have a great one!