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As long as you know its not a private road I think your fine. There are lotsa private roads in some places. The township I live in has almost 100 private roads. Actually as I type this I live on a private road and have given the boot to a few people. The private roads here all have signs and let people know. I've been on both sides as I have a few spots I go to that is not private yet a few folks think they own it all.

The thaw is good for me. Now the lakes don't have snow and will be perfect to access with atv by tomorrow aft. Even sleds should be able to get around on the ice with the snow were getting now. The bigger lakes may take a another day to tighten back up though. Its a win for ice fisherman but not so much for snowmobilers.

I use it just for posting pics and saving some. I always keep it private and so far its worked pretty good. Hopefully it doesn't go the way of Photobucket.

It was a fantastic crappie fishery. But the last couple years its has been a totally different lake. The fishing pressure it received has really hampered the fishery. Way too many anglers keeping every fish they could. I mean they are invasive species but it goes to show most of the biggest problem is usually the most obvious.

I feel bad for the clients that lost their trophies. You cannot put a price on a trophy. Im not sure what I would do if I had one my headmounts or trophies stolen. I really hope these idiots are caught or better yet are recipients of an Darwin award.

Dark Coloured swim jig, and a dark coloured spinner. Pitch till you puke, and work weed flats with a spinnerbait or a swimbait and you should run across some buckets. The lake is full of them. Its mostly a smallmouth lake but still lotsa big buckets all over the lake.

I kinda feel it comes down to the waterbody. I fish bass a lot and in different types of lakes for fun and tournaments. A lot of lakes that don't have pressure the fishing has been fantastic as expected. Fishing the heavily pressured lakes like the kawarthas its the other way around. The fish are healthy and big, but you really gotta work hard and fish hard to find them. That's why you see big bags from tourney anglers, they are working their butts off pre fishing and patterning which is different than only having a weekend to fish here and there. Way to many anglers harvesting bass, and I have no prob with people taking some for a meal. But the limits need to be dropped and a slot limit implemented. Some of the lakes I fish recently had pike invade and that's hurt all species. Lake Seymour being invaded by water soldier has changed that lake. So there are lots of scenarios that affect certain waterbodys. In my humble opinion.

Well done Vince. I think you used to fish BBTS a few years ago against me. Anyways hats off to ya. You're a good stick for sure. It would be a really cool experience there no doubt. Congrats.

I agree. Too tough to put a scrutineer in the boat. I have a smaller bassboat and that would make it impossible having a third person with weight and area. edit. Suppose to quote other posts but it never works for me. lol.

You have absolutely no clue. And I fish tourneys. I don't run many decals or have shirts, Local sponsors help me out and a few others I support them but that's how it works. We do more for this fishery (and I guide, rec fish and tourney fish) most anglers that whine about tournaments are weekend wannabees and fill their stringer with eaters. Focus on the reason why this thread was made. Offending fellow anglers that do it right is unproductive. This thread is reminding me why I left this site.

Rice by a landslide. Lotsa smallies and buckets.

Then you answered your on question. Comparing a Simcoe smallie to an inland lake smallie is like comparing apples to oranges.

This so much. I use them prefishing (completely hookless) to locate fish. I almost always fish during a tourney with a jig or a plastic. I suck with frogs. But I have complete confidence in using them to locate them then use a jig to pitch in. Some guys are really good frog anglers but I agree with Garnet. Odds are your better to throw something else if you wanna a solid hook up. PS. I meant to quote Garnet about hookup ratio with frogs but clearly I suck at quoting lol.

14.4 lb walleye. Quinte last year. I've caught some lakers prob a bit heavier but never weighed them. That's my most memorable ice fish.

I really hope they don't cheap out the Ranger. Once you own one you can't go back. I guess if they do change them the value of the used Rangers will go even higher.