TroutnMuskieHunter

Awesome job troubleshooting and fixing that probem Lew!!

Glad to see that you'll be able to blow your horn this season

Heh .. Catskills ??? Who noticed the Mountains .. All I could focus on was the 'riser' to the right of the 'hills'

 

Nice Brookie !!!

The risers were non stop teasers!!

Ugh the Catskills.... Such an awesome looking place!

Impressive Bill....you have a good eye!

I'd definately give it a go....I have an ATV if needed...I love the back lakes

Wow...some really nice Pike there Dave!!...I'm jealous too!

steve iv long forgat this brutal day and put this behind me.

 

ill be fishing your bay alot when the ice unfreeze. for gar.

 

and id love to drop by your house for a beer and for some quick info. knowing youd live on these part of the river all your life. ... are you in for a goos gar outting this srping ?!??!?

Kev my buddy old pal!!!..That was a brutal day and I will put it behind me in the archives as well ....let's definately get out and target those GAR BEASTS!!!....I have the boat. know where they are and couldn't think of anyone else that I would want to go out with!!....

Hey...I finally pulled the sled out of hibernation and totally restored her!!!....91 Polaris 500 Classic

Keep in touch bud!!

DEAD suckers, shinners and those other stupid looking minnow that loose there scale easely.....

 

 

OVER SIZED!

Too bad they weren't hitting our "dead" suckers, shinners and those other stupid looking minnow when we went out Kevin...

Nice recap Dan....even though you only got 3 times, they looked like good ones!!

Very sad news...Condolenses to you and your family.

I broke down and finally got a flu shot last year for the first time in my life!!.....after reading what happened to you Dad, it will be the last!!!

Thanks for educating me....

So sorry to hear about your loss Simon.....I know exactly how you feel and what you are going through!!....we had to put our Chester down a few weeks ago. He was an awesome cat who thought he was a dog. He hung out with our two retrievers and always looked forward to napping in a new box that I would bring home from grocery shopping...

My condolences Dave...

I love Tohatsu!!.....bought a new Tohatsu 40HP 2 stroke back in 1994 along with a 20' pontoon boat.....sold the boat and motor last year and the motor was as good as new!!

Upgraded to a 20' fishing boat and bought an 8HP 4 stroke Tohastu kicker last year....runs great and it was much cheaper $$$$$$$$$$ than any other motors out on the market!!

54 x 24

Awesome report and great pics/videos. What a nice way to spend a family vacation!!

All the best Cudz...think positive and enjoy being a happy family.

My sincere condolences Darren....my wife and I have lost a few of our boys over the past years and we just had to put our cat down last week while we were off on vacation..we definately know how you're feeling..

That's identical to what we experienced here on the Ottawa River one night at the end of June this year .....my wife's new SUV needed $3500 in hood and roof repair and the insurance has just authorized the go ahead to replace the steel roof on our house due to the damage from the hail....$20K worth

Atta boy Steve, a chunky musky is better than some ole tuna any day

 

 

Very purty fish indeed !!

Thanks Lew!!....I love Muskie best but the thought of fighting a 1000lb tuna and then releasing it back into the ocean gives me chills....next year

Great lookin fish!!! Hopeully, i will be getting out soon for some fall Musky hunting.

Thanks mercman..the fun is just starting

oooh she's a beaut. Casting? trolling? lure?

Thanks Rizzo... fast trolling (5.3mph on the GPS) in deeper water (~25FOW) using a 10" crankbait

Still looking for my first muskie this year...

 

I guess it would help if I actually got out and fished for them!!!

 

Reports like this are giving me the itch....great fish!

Thanks Cliff......get out there!

Very nice fish and very nice set up!

Thanks..

Very nice fish! Congrats!

 

 

When you say River, which one are we talking about?

 

Keep your hooks sharp!

Ottawa River.....hooks are always touched up before they hit the water.

Nice work....I really gotta get the dust off the ol' muskie combo.

 

monsterfish....if you look at his location, it shows Ottawa River....I'll take a stab at that being the one

Bingo..

nice fish... and looks like a nice day as well... talk about glass

It was a beauty night for sure..thanks

Beauty photoshop job Steve !!

 

Nice fish!

Thanks Wayne..

That's a good one. Nice and fat

They are definately starting to put the feed bag on..

Great looking fish, congrats! The water is a lot calmer than what it would have been on the bluefin trail too.

You've got that right Roy!!...thanks.

As some of you know from an earlier post, I had to cancel our trip down to Nantucket for Bluefin Tuna because of Hurricane Irene ....it was actually a good decision because they had closed the Providence Rhode Island airport on Sunday and I would not have made it down in time to get on the boat yesterday...

So I puttered around the house and completed some outside chores which gave me the green light to head out on the river for a couple of hours last night before it got dark....I can't believe how short the days are getting!!......water temp dropped 5 degrees from last weekend with these cooler nights....

They're starting to fatten' up....

Congrats on catching your 1st!!..

Just got off a conference call with the lads.....we're pullin' the plug and will re-group at another time....maybe some peacock bass during the cold months

hahaha

 

 

plant one on my behalf too! I think it was my post that he got so worked up about, sorry about that TroutnMuskieHunter

Thanks Daryl.....instead of planting a couple of trees I decided to try out my new 570 Husqvarna chainsaw and cut 2 trees down on my property instead....man did that ever feel good!!!!!

I read the link.

 

Seems to have to do with commercial overfishing in the Mediterranean by France, Libya (probably not so much right now) and Turkey.

 

 

Didn't see any reference to scarcity off the coast of Nantucket due to excessive "sport-fishing".

Yup...

If you do get out there fishing Steve, I hope you have a great trip and am looking forward to seeing the pictures.

Thanks Lew.....I guess I'll make up for some lost time and hunt down some Muskies here on the Ottawa next week while on vacation!

To quote your own FIVE YEAR OLD link:

 

"East and West

 

Not all experts, however, paint as grim a picture as the WWF report.

 

Vjekoslav Ticina, a tuna expert at the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split, Croatia, agrees that "fishing bluefin tuna over maximum sustainable yield cannot be sustained over the long term and will eventually lead toward a decrease in wild bluefin tuna biomass.

 

"However, I think the WWF is exaggerating [in its depiction of the situation]," he said.

 

Ticina says there are two bluefin tuna stocks, one in the eastern Atlantic with a spawning site in the central part of the Mediterranean Sea and the other in the western Atlantic with a spawning site in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

"The state of the tuna stock in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic is much better than the state of [tuna] stock in the western Atlantic," Ticina said.

 

That is in part because tuna in the western stock start to spawn at age eight or higher, while tuna in the eastern stock begin to spawn at age four.

 

"[The eastern stock] can consequently sustain higher fishing pressure than western stock," Ticina said."

 

 

 

 

The industry is regulated. If you think things should be done differently change your aim and use more current information.

Well said!!

I feal like hugging a tree. The one that will tend my stand for a nice buck.

 

If you do go,I wish you all the best.

Thanks Misfish..

Make sure the captain has stowed enough beer to last the entire day !

That was a given Wayne!!!....he was already warned that there was a crazy Canadian amongst the 3 customers he was hosting...

I couldn't agree more castgame.

 

 

 

Wow... class act.

 

 

 

I disagree with to each their own when it concerns a species in such dire need of conservation. Hey TroutnMuskieHunter, don't forget to recant the story to your children (if you have any) of how you helped support the decline of bluefins and to make you feel better you went out and planted a tree. I'm sure they will be really proud.

 

On a side note, I wasn't going to bother commenting until I read your ignorant response to castgame.

I guess I'll plant another tree on yur behalf Mr. GreenCanada

i'm surprised it's not the near-extinction of bluefin tuna that's bugging the crap out of you?

Thanks for that reply.....I'm going to go plant a tree now which will make me feel much better

We have a 12 hour charter booked on Tuesday to head out past Nantucket and fish for some Bluefin Tuna and Striped Bass....we believe that Hurricane Irene will have passed through that area by then...what's bugging the crap out of me is what effect will that storm have on the fishing???...We don't mind losing the $200 deposit as opposed to paying the $1500 for a day of non productive fishing due to Irene!!....plus, I really do not want to waste $$$$ on a flight from Ottawa to Boston if the fishing is going to be be poor ....my other buddy is in the same situation but he is flying all the way from Spokane, Washington.

Does anyone have any past experiences with ocean fishing days after a class 3 storm????..... I called the charter company and they said that Saturday and Sunday charters have been cancelled but they hope to get out on Monday...

Thoughts?????