bucktail

Great fish man!!!!!

Dan is right........ weighing the fish isnt necessary a quick tape on it and a photo.

Hard to tell from that picture. Thats the bummer when you are fishing alone. If you want a real measurement you either have to keep the fish or keep it out of the water longer.

I once had a muskie on by nmyself that was so big that after I realized its size I don't know what I would have done!

1 week to go on Lake O.... there is a 30 pounder waiting for someone.

My avatar is a 48 inch fish but I didnt measure it around so when I had the reproduction done at Advanced I told him to fit the girth. Turns out it was close to 24 inches around.

I call it a 30 but it could have been anywhere from 27-33 lbs.

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The reproduction

Thanks silver always wondered.

I assume you cant do the club discount and the no tax thing at the same time?

Happy Birthday Wayne!

Hopefully we will be on the same team this year again!

"No to Marty's Bear Den - If you have ever taken Sultan Industrial Road you will know what this is about."???????????????????????????????????

Was at Bisco last year , other then a horrible road I think I am missing something?????

Took the turn off at the Watershed and drove forever.

Guess I wont nominate a trip to Ramsey or Bisco?

Thats a truly awesome fish!!!!

Have to agree with Musky 66 1/2 ounce white and chartreuse spinnerbait. Slow roll , burn, fish thru cover......

TJ I hope your not using thsoe lures and only collecting them!

Ill do it.

darren

A few years ago in the Hamilton phone book was a Hue G Rection ...honestly

But the best is our present landscape maintnance guy at the plant Richard Phallis

and No word of lie he replaced Hugh Johnson.

We stilll laugh about this!

Glad to have you back Brian,

Sent you a thank you PM the other day!

I asked a shimano rep this last week and he said it had to be bought at a canadian retailler, no internet sales apparantly.

Awesome Sam

Do you know the rough area it was taken, I have seen some real monsters near my brothers place just south of Stirling.

How depressing.... looking at the Environment Canada website on Great Lake ice coverage. In the last few weeks when we are supposed to be slowly loosing ice we gained more then at any other time in the year!

Without a very significant warm up ( which isn't forecasted) it looks like ice out will be at least 3 weeks later then normal.

Hey I am just the messenger!

Check it out.

WOW!!!

A turtle!

I havnt seen a robin or swallow yet!

Thats one brave and cold amphibean!

The expected coliform count makes me want to barf!!!!

Wow I think I would have soiled my pants. How far offshore were you?

What is the point of closing the laker and whitefish on the 15th anyway. They both fall spawners. Is it just extra incentive to get the huts off?

Always wondered the reason for this.

Hey Glen

was just looking at the USGS website and they have a realtime stream flow map. Noticed it still says low to record low flows down there.

Is the rains over the last few months helping or is the ground still sucking it up.

Darren

Awesome fatty!

girth of a euro pike!

Great fish! especially the brown and that last monster steely!

How is the ice in the river, I heard yesterday that it was unfishable due to the ice.

Legal handguns have never been a problem...imported ones have been.

Laws only restrict law abiding citizens.

Glad to here its still pretty good here. people should take pride in that.

Very Nice!!!

Pick me ....pick me!!!!!!

I have 3 compres and they have always been great. A really good bang for the buck!

I have replied to the thread about this under the fishing news but felt compelled to post this on the regular board due to the amount of questions I have been receiving over the last few weeks on recent headlines.

Recent headlines have highlighted the discovery of various chemical compounds in our lakes that have detrimental effects on the fish populations due to hormonal disruptions.

These compounds are called endocrin disrupters and the adversely effect the reproduction of fish species and other animals exposed to these compounds.

Since this is my field of expertise. I think that the some of the sensatinlizing of this story needs to be put in context.

I have spent the last 23 years in the field of water and wastewater treatment.

The discovery of endocrin disruptors is not a recent find. This has been at the fore front of water and wastewater research for the last 5-7 years. For some reason the media decided to run with the story of late and of course never bothered to follow up on progress that has been made in this field.

This would have been a good article 6 years ago but it doesnt inform the public of the treatment options that are being utilized to eliminate and destroy these compounds.

The category of endocrin disruptors is a broad category that encompasses all traces of drugs that have a hormonal effect on fish that live in the receiving waters of wastewater plants.

There are two main ways of limiting this effect on the environment.

1. Proper disposal of Medications...... Take them back to the pharmacy for disposal.

2. Destruction of the compounds in wastewater effluent and water intakes thru the use of advanced oxidation methods ( ozonation and ultra violet light) and becoming more common is the use of nanofiltration by membrane filtration.

Currently in the Region of Halton and many other municipalities in Ontario, ozone, UV and nanofiltration have been added to the existing facilities. These treatments destroy the compounds and reduce there concentrations by between 95 and 99%

This reduces levels from the parts per billions to the parts per trillions. Making this a non issue in most larger municipalities.

Of course continuing research is ongoing to improve these techniques and make them even more effective.

Before and after Walkerton these efforts have been in place and have been making most Ontario municipal water supplies the most secure and highest quality in the world.

If you have any questions feel free to drop me a line and I will be more then happy to answer any questions.

Darren