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Great thick clean looking fish! Congrats that is awesome!

Very nice! Thats ALOT of work done!

Welcome aboard! That laker is ridiculas!

Plane is a C-130 Hercules most likely flying a searcj and rescue out of Trenton. Nice eyes !

My buddie who is about 200 yards down from me saw 2 does and 2 fawns. I am in a woodlot that connects two bedding areas with a number of trails. It seems when I see deer I see lots but when its dead there isnt much around. My other buddie saw 2 8 pointers in a field about 1/4 mile behind me so hopefully is just a waiting game. Leaves are still up so it is still hard to see much past 40 yards.

I thought that the savings and loans fiasco in the early nineties put in regulations to stop some of this stuff. How can they be going through this all over again?

Spent the morning and afternoon on my stand yesterday. Other then 100000000000 squirrels and a very cool Great Horned Owl I didnt see squat! Did any one get out and have any success? Darren

Have season tickets this year, guess I picked the right year. Dreading when they play some good teams but with there schedule there shouldnt be a way they can miss the playoffs.

Great report as ALWAYS!! Funny how the fish move around this time of year. Some largmouth this weekend I found as shallow as 6 inches and in another lake they were all from 10-20 feet down. Guess fall is moving into lakes at a different speed. Wish i had more confidence with a jig and pig like you do. Maybe next year!

My last two St Croixs have broken at the ferrule. Makes me wonder if they have changed manufacturing techniques. I have picked up 3 Loomis's over the last year and am super pleased with them.

I got a 7 foot medium Loomis Crankbait rod this year and it is awesome. My hookup percentage on cranks is way up with its slower action!

Nice fat bass!

Spent the weekend up at my Buddies cottage in Haliburton. Awesome weather and the fishing was just as good. Pulled in Thursday afternoon to a new lake i have never seen before. The weather was awesome 23 dgrees and sunny with no wind at all! Motoring across a deep flat between a weedbed and the lake basin I started to mark a few good hooks in 20 feet of water. After buying a new Loomis dropshot rod and picking Mark Kulik's brain i decided to break it out and see what i could do. Fished the dropshot on a 1/2 ounce weight and a stndup hook with a 5" Berkley wacky worm in watermellon. The first drop I hooked this on ........... right around the 4 pound mark. Sorry for the crappy photos as I was by myself. The next 2 drops down are rewarded with the smallest two fish, a largemouth and a smallie both about 2.5 pounds. Over the next hour I land 12 bass between 2.5 and 5 pounds all on the dropshot outfit! With probably a 4 pound average.......best hour I have had in years! I left the spot with smallies still pursuing there hooked brothers as to save if for the next day. Of course the next day they had moved but my buddie did lose a 5.5 at the side of the boat. Now I have the confidence in my dropshotting to fish it more often in the future. Darren

Nice fish....you sure thats not a jumbo coho???

Going to have to give them a try. I dont dropshot much but I should, too much fishing ADD and lack of confidence with it. Thanks Mark maybe I will stop in there tomorrow on my way up to the cottage and pick up a couple bags.

Now thats a selection of drop shotting tackle. 1 question, do you think the Strikezone out fished the gulp because its more pliable and thus has a more natural action? I find the gulp a little too rigid, just wished it was softer. Darren

Awesome fish! That is one handfull that size when they are still chrome!

Have found Futureshop to be really bad with there online ads and stock. If you don't get it right then your out of luck. Sucks getting the run around like that, its like no one wants your money nowadays!

Interesting read on page 29 of this months In-Fisherman. It concerns fall fisihing for trophy smallmouth in excess of 20 feet. Some shocking results. 12.8 percent of deep fish caught and released in fall tourneys in Rainy Lake died after release. Simcoe might even be worse as late in fall almost all of the fish are deeper then 20 feet. At this rate how long will the trophy supply of bass dwindle?? Should you even fish for them then??? Myself in the fall in Quinte will not fish below 30 feet as bringing up eyes from below that depth essentailly turns into a catch and keep and I am not comfortable fizzing fish, which is a whole nother conversation. Time to move the date of fall tourneys and the season in general up? Darren

Great report! The bird is a flicker, they eat ants and stuff. Darren

Still too early for the migratory fish. Read a report the other day of some guys working the weedlines outside of Picton Bay and connecting on some 4-7 pounders by throwing crankbaits. Might want to give that a shot.

Called Nakina the other day to put the deposit on our fly in trip for next year and it was snowing there! Summers over I guess.

Going thru the online regs and after talking to a few people, it appears the estuary area at the bottom of bronte from lakeshore to the bridge is no longer a sanctuary. Am I right or have a missed something?

Beautiful brown!

You really need to go to a shop and ask to shoot a number of different bows to see what feels best. I cant stress this enough as everyone has there preferences and it will show in your shooting and confidence. I just got a Hoyt Katera, it was VERY expensise all decked out, but the guys at Gagnons spent 3 hours with me letting me try all of there bows. I narrowed it down to the Hoyt..............very smooth and forgiving. The Diamond ......... awesome back wall solid feel and the Matthews. Being an older shooter I still prefer a longer bow that is more forgiving then a smaller axel to axel bow