Musky or Specks

Something that rarely gets got on tape

Wow, I absolutely loved this report. What a different experience. I'm thinking now maybe Antigua would be a nice place to visit.

Well I know in the fall I found out Batchewana Trainstation Camp was for sale for a measly 30 grand I was very tempted.

You really need to make a how to video for youtube on how to set up the camera. Lots of hits for this I bet.

aha, the looks you would get going down the ramp in that would be priceless lol

RAMP? We on don't need no stinking ramp.

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The small ones are 8" and the big ones are 10 inchers!!

 

THATS WHAT SHE SAID!!!!!!!!!!

Came for the fish porn. Not disappointed

 

Hey gang,

So for the first trip of 2015, I decided to hit up Lake Couch for some perch action. I bumped into a couple fellas at the lake access who were at Lake St. John earlier and stated the ice was still sketchy over there.

After the quick chat, my buddy and I headed out and made our way to about 20 FOW and got into the fish right away. We got plenty of fish in the 10-12" range and kept a few for the dinner table.

Enjoy.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMxH7JLVdhc&feature=youtu.be

Dyslexia is a horrible afflixtion. Your right 12 inches

Well I got something to watch when I get off work.

New Brook trout limits in the Temagami area 5 fish only one over 11 inches. This affects you Chad.

Any of the on ice bungalows on Temagami would give you the action but I think you would have to rent them for 24hrs

How did you fish them Chris just hook and sinker or tiping a lure?

Any one had any success using worms through the ice for specks. I've always used live minnows looking at changing things up.

I found a green frog suick while Musky fishing I already had the exact same one so I gave that one to my fishing buddy. Lost mine about two weeks later. I think he's caught at least 15 musky on that thing and it's still his go to bait. Another friend snagged a dead guy on Pittock something I always dread finding.

First she's putfishin all the boys next thing you know she'll be out scoring them all.

Very cool and now your part of everyone vacation story.

Not just trout Chris but Ouananiche. Labrador . I've been 4 times and its awesome. Those landlocks on a five weight are awesome.Stay on Smallwood reservoir and boat to river mouths.

Girly men

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=89dDpHpMhYQ#t=416

Made me smile

I keep coming back here to admire Chris the Younger's fish, Very Impressive.

Wow some great fish there Chrises. I'm starting to get a Chris complex.

Two favourites of which I don't get anymore cuz the people who made them have passed.

#2 - Grandma's Shortbread cookies and a glass of milk.

#1- Cold Dog's Nose ,A tradition German treat with a lot of rum in it. And if anyone knows a bakery where you can buy it please let me know

I have a habit of catching good sized musky in front of a crowd. My buddy and I were fishing in our first boat- a 12ft jon up on Lake Restoule. The boat had a tiller style electric motor with a four foot handle extension. We are off a little patch of weed in front of a cotttage with a family gathering when BOOM my Grim Reaper gets attacked by a 46" ski. First fish in this boat and I'm in the bow. Fish gets close to the boat and I realize that he might get all tangled in the trolling motor. I yelling at my friend to pull it up but its a really small boat and he can't reach around me. So with a mighty heave I give the trolling motor rope a pull. The four foot handle swings across the front of the boat and knocks me ass over tea kettle into the water. Managed to land the fish but dang it that was embarrasing and hilariosly funny. I only wish there would have been go pro back in those days. Americas funniest home videos here I come.

i am no biologist but seems to me another difference between lakes where the two species co-exist is depth and size. the max depth of 30-40' found in the kawarthas is a mere shoal on the bodies of water where they live in harmony. there are exceptions (st clair and nipissing -- but what they lack in depth, they make up for in size). not sure it means anything just an observation.

This is mostly true but there are lots of exceptions. I think the more important factor is an abundance of alternative spawing structure( ie more rubble/rock in deeper water as opposed to an abundance of shallow weeds).

Good to see you guys following up on this Tom, John Crocksbury (Might be miss spelled) brought his up some years ago about crow.

 

I agree with you ,introducing a Foreign Family that has not evolved in the same environment might not be whats best. Might create further imbalance within the ecosystem.

 

Evolution is by far the best adaptation tool,although a lengthy process, we can have confidence that Ma Nature will evolve and assure survival of the populations. Muskie by their very nature are very adaptive, a time process will have to be observed and allow evolutionary adaptation to occur.

 

Possibly a dip in population but the recovery will be much stronger and allow surviving YOY to evolve with the presence of a secondary apex predator.

 

Genetic study and maintaining genetic structure is the future of fisheries management.

 

To this day many geneticist are trying to elaborate if past stocking/introductions of foreign families have diluted originals populations or not.

 

Its probably more prudent to maintain same genetic family structures and allow evolution to take over and rebuild more durable ,evolutionary coexisting populations

Excellent post. And yes, for every species the gene pool that allowed those fish to survive in that lake/river/pond/stream is uniquely designed thru trial and error to produce the best fish for that particular water body.