Musky or Specks

Thanks for the report. Good to see you closed out the season in fine form. Resident Browns are butter beautiful in the fall.

I thought bear liked salmon not bass.

Can't believe Silverado(1985) has not been mentioned. Great cast with Kevin Kline,Scott Glenn, Danny Glover,Kevin Costner,Brian Dennehey, John Cleese, Jeff Goldblum, Roseanne Arquette,Linda Hunt. The best western by far from a time when Westerns were poison in Hollywood. [Paden has gotten his horse back and they're "kissing" each other] Cavalry Sgt.: How do I know this is your horse? Paden: Can't you see this horse loves me? Cavalry Sgt.: I had a gal do that to me. It didn't make her my wife.

Yes I suspect he was trolling this fishing site as well.

Know plenty who aren't but they are far outnumbered by Yahoo's. It's why I stopped steelheading and took up musky fishing and believe me I'am a far better steelheader than a musky fisherman. Matter of fact just recently sold my custom steelheading rod(stenciled with "Yahoo" by the way) cause I realized I haven't missed it and just ain't going to go back.

Bah minnows...those some very nice bass there fella

You got to watch The Proposition its on Netflix currently. Its an Australian Western

We can't afford to throw money at our problems they way they do. They have a tax at the manufacturing level that generates billions of dollars earmarked for fisheries. Its unconstitutional to have a tax like that here in Canada. Its the way politicians are able to hide their spending from you and it's entrenched in our constitution.

Sure just a great way to waste fisheries money. So instead we'll have a musky tag for Lake Dalrymple and we'll charge anyone who wants to fish for musky there an extra 250 dollars that won't cover the cost but hey you want to catch musky right?

No they won't, the Government is to short sighted and doesn't think in the long term. If somehow we could have a hatchery supplied by only Great Lake strain musky it would be interesting to see if you could get a situation where you have coexisting esocids where you had fish that couldnt before. Dalrymple is a small enough lake with less urban impact and would make a much more suitable experiment for this kind of thing way, more so than Simcoe. The bad news period is that once an invasive species is introduced it's over its just a matter of the hour glass running out of sand.

Well it would suck but how bout starting over. Prevent pike from being introduced. Remove as many native fish to a facility as you can. Poison the entire lake and start over. It generally only takes a week for the poison to be gone. Make it catch and release until the fishery totally recovers. A pretty expensive en devour but then again so is stocking musky every year from here to eternity. As far as Dalrymple and Canal go they are both considered part of the Kawartha's Just like a lot of the waters up Haliburton way. So to say Kawartha musky are screwed condemns not only Balsam but your choice of lakes as well.

Yup grandma use to do that. Excellent

Dana pike is just as good as walleye and because of the pressure on walleye I'll take pike everytime

This is the size I dine on Count on one fish per person. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lowpZrHSxe8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM3wAgBmeNU

Pike spawn earlier and the emerged pike are much larger than the emerging musky and predation of the young musky is significant.

Smaller is better as a rule Dana. Population dynamics are like a pyramid large base of young fish which gets progressively smaller as they increase in size.The good eater size is probably a fish that has reached prime spawning age and will be passing on its good genetic material for several spawning seasons to come.Thats why you see slot sizes were you have to throw fish back unless they are over or under the slot. For Bass which are notoriously slow growers you'd be better off going with 11 to 14 inches or a fish over 18" that has passed on its gentic material many times. I better idea that I'm more inclined to subscribe to is eat less utilized species or put and take fish. Up your way through the ice whitefish and ling are both not as sought after and make fine table fare. Another one to look at are dink pike. Pike flesh is very sweet and tasty and once you learn to clean them properly very quick to prepare for the table. Panfish are another quick growing short lived species but I know that they don't get very big up your way.

Stocking Musky will never solve the problem your treating a symptom not the cause.

Some reading info http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fish/muskellunge/muskie_northern.html Also look up some of the work by DR Bernard LeBeau who theorized that there are two distinct sub-species of musky. Lucustrine(Kawartha) And Riverine(Great Lakes)

I don't miss steelheading to much but I certainly miss traveling up to LLSP to fish for coho's.

Today Brook Trout tomorrow the World!!!! Good Job Dana Still a week or so left to get that Aurora

Lake turnover might be a factor at this time of the year. After all that work don't give up yet. Sound like it may be ice fishing material.

Tis great news

both going to be pretty much the same but given the choice I'd take grayling as has been mention you can get char in a lot of places

Can't believe I fell for that. NO MORE HINTS FOR YOU!!!! BACK OF THE LINE