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Year round to QEW. And welcome to the Board btw....maybe you should introduce yourself or learn the benefits of a PM before you make a public remark like that for your first post?

Got out yesterday with my good buddy Casey for a real rod bending afternoon filled with very bright Steelhead. Waters were up but clarity of about 8 inches had them pounding large pink bags until we actually ran outta bags and had to go home. They wouldn't touch Chartreuse, Orange, etc... Below is a couple minute clip that kills us to film the other guy because we all rather have a line in the water at all times. Before the Internet, you didn't have to prove you had a good day to anyone...

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Hows Fergie doing anyways?

ESPN Outdoors has one.. calendar www.primetimes2.com sells them for the year

Have visitors from Virginia down so took afternoon off to take my 5 year old nephew Cameron down to local trib. We caught this one here as a team effort.

Ditto. Had some big Steelhead, Perch & Crappie already this year. who is running this?

Great article. Man I love the Toronto Harbour & Islands area. I have a group devoted specifically to people that want more info on this "diamond" we have at the waterfront. Toronto Island Fishing Fanatics Would love if you can post the article there too. Thanks.

well its been 14 minutes so im happy to say welcome first!

Anton welcome.... what kinda stuff can you get at work? I have chronic shoulder & elbow pain in my rod arm. Im a Toronto Harbour/Island diehard.

No more Steak and Prime Rib dinners for me on the road. I saw a sale on Vienna Sausages at No Frills for $o.49 a tin so I loaded up with a few cases. I'm also going to watch some Trailer Park Boys reruns to see how Ricky siphons fuel Really...gonna not run wide open as much, fish closer to launch, slow down towing on highway, sleep in the back of my Avalanche just to keep getting my fix. At this point I'd throw my support behind any political party that would bring Nationalizing of Canadas' oil resources back into discussion, like in Venezuela. SEE FOR YOURSELF

I stayed there about 15 years ago when it was owned by the Currie family. Great location and fishing. The week there was the beginning to discovering the area for myself about a dozen times since. In front of the lodge is some REAL deep water with Rainbows & lakers, Smallmouth just about everywhere there is a shoal. Northerns in the weedy bays. In many ways the potential up there is untapped. Good Luck!

Show up Trout opening morning with some floats, slipshot and small worms and you be catchin!

im in.topwater kinda guy.

We stayed at Grand Palladium Bavaro. Go down towards where ALL the charter boats leave from and see who is catching. $90.00 walk on rate for 5 hours or so. Other option is to rent small motorboat and fish the reefs out from beach.

Made it out with infamous "SLY" who guided us and many others in their trucks & cars SAFELY onto Lake Simcoe for an ok day of fishing. I say "ok" because it was double digit hookups the day before I was told. Fished away from "The Compound" by about 200 yards and managed some rod bending action Whitefish & Lake Trout. Met up with some old friends and made some new ones. Fished in 83-87 FOW and used Meegs ("mean green") and Williams Whitefish with Blue holographic tape. Heres one of my buddy Casey and PB laker thru ice Group shot with Sly Can't wait for more this week as I feel a flu coming on. Sly can be reached @705 437 7880.

nice job FHR. that is pure hardcore fishing.

harbour licence quite easy to pass !! detailed toronto islands facebook site toronto island fishing fanatics

Released about 20 years ago my friend...discontinued for about 15.....worth only $79.00 or so ever as new.

Here is my take on it and I am not a biologist by any means. Please correct me where you see fit Natural Selection is the process by which favorable heritable traits become more common in successive generations of a population of reproducing organisms, and unfavorable heritable traits become less common. So if the large, aggressive fish are getting caught at three times the rate ( and probably defintion..kept) , they are slowly decreasing the amount of offspring that can ever get that "aggressive" trait to maintain a population of large fish. Central to Natural Selection theory is the concept of "fitness". Although fitness is most often as illustrated in the well-known phrase "survival of the fittest "- evolutionary theory defines fitness in terms of individual reproduction. If only small, unproductive fish remain in a body of water- how does that support Darwin and the "survival of the fittest" theory? They are "fittest" in not biting lures, not in physical attributes.

Very interesting read folks.... LINK Fish that lunge at lures drain gene pool Tom Spears , Canwest News Service Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 OTTAWA- Old-timers who insist that fish don't bite like they used to are right, says a new Canadian study that warns we're killing off the aggressive, fast-growing fish in lakes and oceans. Aggressive fish chase food harder, grow faster and get caught more often. These, unfortunately, are the fish that would have the largest number of offspring if they lived. That's likely one reason the northern cod isn't coming back faster, the University of Calgary study suggests: fishing killed off the fittest fish. What happens is a reverse of the usual evolution. The timid, slow-growing fish lose the race for food and would normally lose the evolutionary race. But in heavily fished waters they're the ones that survive and pass on their genes. The result: a whole gene pool of slow-growing, passive, timid fish that don't lay very many eggs. ``Fast-growing fish . . . are harvested at three times the rate of the slow- growing genotypes within two replicate lake populations,'' says the study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Peter Biro and John R. Post of the University of Calgary studied rainbow trout in two small lakes near Merritt, B.C. The idea came from the fact, already well known, that some fish in any population are much bolder than others, Biro said in an e-mail interview from Australia. He is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Technology in Sydney, but did the fish research while in Calgary. ``It just made sense that those that tend to be active and bold would also be more likely to bump into and be caught by gill nets . . . Active and bold fish encounter more food, feed more and grow more, but get caught and killed more.'' That theory is what the experiment tested. The young fish tend to carry on the same personality - aggressive or timid - as their parents, he noted. This leads to a population where the aggressive fish are weeded out and replaced by shy ones. Biologists call this ``genetic selection.'' Timid fish, he said, are generally less fit for breeding. ``The problem is that such a population does not yield much to a fishery (remaining fish are harder to catch and smaller, so less profitable) and does not rebound well from overfishing because slow growers tend to be smaller at any age, possess fewer eggs, smaller eggs, and hatch smaller young that are less likely to survive. ``We think this is the reason why the (Atlantic) cod is not rebounding well after closure of the fishery,'' he said. ``The same arguments apply for (sport) angling as for commercial fishing.'' Aggressive fish grow larger, but protecting big fish doesn't help save the aggressive ones, the study found. This is ``because fast-growing fish that are still small (young) are zooming around gathering food at high rates which gets them into trouble.'' The results from both lakes were identical, lending support to the conclusions, the two scientists wrote.

Page 93 of the regs.......regs zone 20 Open Jan 1st-March31st & 1st Saturday in May-Dec31st. Its zone 20 and the regs are simpler then ever to understand. Used to be year round open season.

By March 10th I would hope, itching to get out again for sure in the boat. For anyone more interested in learning more about the great fishery around Toronto Harbour, visit my new Facebook site. link

We have a winner!!! I do like your rocker spoon for sure.