AKRISONER

looks toasty in there! better ice than i was fishing on at christmas lol well done thanks for the vid

they were doing some very serious surveying around PAB 2 years ago to the point that i became friends with the MNR guy because I saw him every weekend for a year straight lol. Same old story, he would pull up say hey scott hows it going. Any luck today? by the end of the season he knew every single one of my honey holes

logic would tell you that the MNR would be on every major ontario fishing forum keeping an eye out for things and looking for tips. some of the general conversation around here about things that people are witnessing on a regular basis has to be getting flagged. Maybe im crazy but ive noticed a massive jump in enforcement in Pointe Au Baril over the past few years, specifically during the fall pickerel run...maybe my complaints have something to do with it?! hmm what a thought! I hope its maybe true? I am glad to see this guy get pinched, he deserves every bit of it.

this is what i use for dropshots ill shoot you a PM

definitely hook through the lips. the trick is to not be hooking too far back that it goes through their skull but not too far forward that it falls off.

a few salty grains ruined it for the rest of us. seriously though once the reports are gone this forum is dead. Forums in general died about 5 years ago...the only thing keeping this one alive are guys posting reports. There arent too many 20 somethings or less that are going to flow new blood into this place. Luckily i grew up with two older brothers who beat me up my whole life so the saltyness doesnt get through my skin. But ive seen it again just recently how the young new blood gets burned just for speaking up about things. Luckily the most recent occurance didnt make the new guy shy away. Not to hijack the thread. Cliff you better post a report after that trip! even with the watching anonymous eyes!

whats matt gonna do when his joke of a team folds? Bandwagon jump somewhere else? We all know he only became a senaturds fan the year that they made the finals and got basically swept lol. Worst franchise in the NHL I blame bettman for the crappy teams in the southern united states that cannot fill their arenas, but Nottawa...no excuse, just a pathetic excuse for a hockey club. I agree, send them to quebec.

good report, glad you guys did well!

i guess im lucky that I know how to use photoshop. Cause ive made it a point to doctor out horizons and landmarks in my fish pics. My bass photos I dont care so much, but the wally's are a little more spot specific

A-friggin Men If the leafs win a cup in my life time...I will literally cry. Been a die hard fan since I was 9 years old. It may be bold, but you can hold me to it all you want...the next canadian team to win the cup will be the leafs. And when they win, there will be people who will still attempt to come forward with negative rhetoric and we will simply laugh right back into their sad faces.

you are right, the 3 hour drive crazily acts as some kind of force field that keeps the majority of goons at bay. I fish buckhorn fairly often and I see what a difference that extra hour and a half drive makes. Lol you got me there as well in reference to never seeing another boat...unless you are targetting eyes in the fall, i can fish all day for smallies in November and never see a soul.

this could easily go off the rails, especially recently after watching someone get absolutely cooked for even mentioning catch and release practices. IMO the limit could definitely be lower, 50 is kind of insane, is 20 not reasonable? but im praying that the ones that set the limit know what the hell they are doing. What makes a lot of sense to me is the limits in zone 14 for walleye, where a person can take enough fish for a meal today and a meal for the freezer. I.e. 1 fish for your plate that day and one fish for another day. So if its pans, maybe its 20 fish, 10 fish nuggets today and 10 for the freezer? but I am not an expert so I leave the decisions to them. A lot of things in the regulations dont make sense to me at all (the slot limit in zone 14 is completely backwards to conventional wisdom and I have no clue why)

ive been here 3 years and consistently posting reports...no change what so ever so far except that I have learned a lot, Ive met a few cool people and have gone fishing with them and learned a lot from them. Thats about it. If you want to try fishing in my area go right ahead, i spent 10 years fishing my area and without the right techniques, patterns etc I didnt do well for a very long time. I have had people reach out to me directly including a couple of guys asking me specifically for GPS co-ordinates to my best spots and I simply brushed them off. Thats about the extent of it. I hope if you fish PAB you get your bait from Dennis in PAB, anything I can do to keep his business alive.

I wouldnt read too much into it Iron. I honestly feel like spam bots etc are making up a large portion of that anonymous number. Seriously, do we actually think a crowd of 300 people are on here unregistered attempting to get intel? The majority of the crap on here is just political rants and questions about sonar units. I post reports, yes i do not reveal exact spots but I would be crazy if I thought it meant that people were now fishing my area more. At most you might have someone saying hmmm i was thinking of fishing either French river or Pointe Au Baril, ive seen AKRISONER catching fish in PAB I think we should try there this year. You have to feel pretty special if you think a fishing report that says "I fished Georgian Bay/The Kawarthas/ Lake Ontario/ or lake simcoe and now everyone wants to fish there because of you lol. You wanna try fish Pointe Au Baril, go right ahead! I will tell you right now I am 1000000x more concerned of the fact that when im in my honey hole, boats driving by see me in my honey hole, than someone on here saying hey AKRISONER fishes in Pointe Au Baril and catches fish!

could be worse...could be night time lol

6 games is so much more than a week's worth of games though. not complaining, the leafs are in a very very good spot.

IMO nothing beats slowly wiggling a jig right infront of a fishes nose raising it off the bottom to get it to trigger to strike all in real time with a flasher. But to each their own. I fished with a graph and it was great for reaction strikes, but that super finnesse take is always a challenge without a flasher.

the games at hand, is becoming a bit ridiculous. 6 games on Boston? they are 7% of the season behind them lol. Expect more hockey than you can handle for the second half holy crepe its gonna be fast and furious. That's when we are really going to see the boys turn to men. Luckily youth helps when playing a tight schedule.

so important! A lot of sonars have a flasher function, i know my pop's humminbird does. The flasher is the ultimate key when ice fishing Pump

for those simcoe open water laker dudes, they are gonna have better weather than I had during the November pickerel run lol whats insane is the front line that exists. Chapleau 370miles from st catherines, its 9 in st kitts, its -24 in chapleau....insane take an 8 hour drive and experience a 33 degree temperature variation.

my sled goes quicker than 25kmh -20's is nothing up there. -30 is when it gets dicey and 40 you are staying home.

Pump Sail has a st croix combo on sale right now and the abu veritas combo is only about 40 bucks. That, plus a couple of buckshot jigs and some frozen minnows and you will be set for ice fishing. No equipment rental needed. If you enjoy the stationary game then consider moving on from there and grabbing a flasher etc. First you definitely need to decide whether you like ice fishing though for sure.

no wind inside a well constructed ice shack