Musky or Specks

Late May might be to late for trout fishing. Fish guts will be eatan by aquatic species pretty quick but you should bury them away from your camp site as opposed to throwing thee guts in the water. Your also going to be there during peak blackfly season have you considered that? Lakers will be to deep but specks should be available at first light and last.

When I was a kid we called them Mudpout and ate them by the pailfull.

I can only give you second hand info but a friend of mine fished up there for four or five days a couple years ago and said the pike fishing was fantastic. I think it was on the 24 weekend.

A lot of work has been done on the Boyne and more will continue to be done. Heres a contact for you. Not only is he in charge of doing that kind of thing hes a scientist who actually loves fishing [email protected]

What are you going to do in 20 years when we are just a state in the ole US of A

They can be quite far inland as well. Coming back in the evening from a day of bass fishing from my float tube on Pence Lake. Walking down railway track, My foot lands on a tie and TRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. I just about jump outta my skin. About 30 inches long and as thick as my wrist curled up in the hollow beside the tie getting the warmth from it. Didnt expect to see one so far from Georgian Bay. Pence Lake is just north of Big Chute.

Yes ive dicovered that fish can be caught in chocolate milk. You just got to find the eddies and slow currrent. They are still there.

Yes as a matter of fact I do have actual side by side test. The first year flourocarbon was on the market I got a sample from a jobber in the business. It was fall about late September /early October. My friend Fred, my son Griffin and my self went out in the boat off the mouth of the Beaver River in Thornbury to still fish for some rainbows. We got on the mudline and cast out. My buddy Fred who is a bio was all skeptical and just used regular tippet, he thought it was way to expensive to be worth it.... Not five minutes in I land and release a nice 3 lb bow. Right after that my son who was maybe 5 or 6 land an identical fish which we will keep for dinner to get him further hooked on fishing. I turn to my buddy and say see I told you. He is still a doubter says its not a big enough sample size(darn scientist). I get 3 more fish over the next 45 minutes and my son gets 1 more. Thats enough for him he asks for some and after many I told you sos(I never let anything like that go) I give him some. Now Fred is an amazing angler and just seems to have that extra amount of concentration that lets him always catch fish. Myself and my son kicked his butt using flouro. Now after that he just outfished us but we had to leave after about another hour. He got three while my son and I each got one more. Proved to Him and me that flouro made a difference have been using it ever since

Your a guide arent you. When I was a student I spent one summer working as a tech for the Alaskan DNR, doing spawning surveys in the remote wilderness didn't pay worth a crap but it was a trip of a lifetime.

Excellent little read but Im a pessimist, I hope they have every success and it doesnt turn into another Grand River.

Yes has been on my wish list since about 1990 when I received this great book called Trout and Salmon of the World. Also Cherry Trout and Lennock. The Cherry Trout Couldnt Find a pic of a lennock but heres a link to the book. I highly recommend it . Beautiful pics of trout from all over the world will set your heart to dreaming http://www.biblio.com/books/50398543.html

Best fish porn--EVER!!!!!

Yes I'd be careful I dont know of any tribs of a bigger river that are considered open. If its a trib of a main river it is closed.

I snorkel all the timeat the lake I spend most of my time fishing on. Have explored several of the big reefs and have seen all kinds of bass and the odd walleye and tons of panfish. Including one monster bass that I could continually entice towards me by wiggling my fingers. Once while swimming acroos the lake I was in about 120 feet of water and ended up in the middle of a huge school of minnows must have been 20x20x10 feet of them. I had a bad thought right then thinking maybe a muskie might be around and mistake parts of me for bait but nothing happened. Funny Ive see lots of musky hanging out on the reefs while Im fishing but have seen none while snorkeling.

What a loud of crock. Do you watch to much Xfiles and Oliver Miller films? I have personally collected fish for the samples that the MNR uses for the guide book. The samples are tested in private laboratorys and the results are made public in the form of a guide. The government has bigger conspiracies to cover up like aliens and where did all that $$$ for the toilet seats get spent. Sheesh they are talking about two different things here one is water quality which is for drinking and swimming and one is about chemicals transfered to fish and how they can affect our health. Every vegatable you ate used crap for fertilizer and you dont seem to have a problem eating them. I grew up on the banks of the river in the mid sixties till the eighties and the water quality is vastly improved. The fertizer and phosphate loading is bad for water quality but is excellent for nutrients and fish growth. It is even a technique used in fisheries management in the rocky mountains to "pollute" the rivers to improve fish population and growth dynamics.

If I have to fish specks in the summer Ive had my greatest success with lead line. Four or five colours with 5-10 feet of flourocarbon leader with either an EGB or Bow River Bugger attached.

Im a big fan of both. For my spinnerbaits I use Fundally's. I take the wire and straighten it out it out at the connection so instead of a forty five degree angle it becomes a 90. This allows them to be trolled at high speeds. It was some Ottawa river guide who gave this tip. Since then Ive got lots of fish on this lure both casting and trolling. But bucktails still get wet every trip as well.

I'd like to personally thank your son for the sacrifices he is making on behalf of all the rest of us. Godspeed and a safe return for everyone in harms way.

Hey Happy B day Rich.

Helped use one of those rigs before on Temagami to bring up an Alpine that went through the ice back when Paul and Julia use to run Temagami Lodge. I hope it wasnt one of the big plows they use up there cause I dont think that tripod would be big enough.

The Abu 6500 iare the best musky reels I own and I have a Calcutta as well.

Save it and go in the fall the fishing is a lot better end of september/early October.

Mine states my preferences for fishing. Except through the ice when I'll chase just about anything that has fins.

Wow sad news, I remember meeting him when he first started selling his baits he was offering them at a Muskies Canada meeting for 35 and 45 dollars. I only bought two. Wish I would have bought more cause there price went through the roof.

Heres a link to a website withcampsite descriptions fot the Mass http://www.angelfire.com/blues2/bcaron/campsite.html