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I didnt feel so bad at the end of the day because dave (my fishing partner for the day) said he brought a girl out to the same lake a month before on one of their first dates, she ended up catching a fish an and she tried to hand him her phone so he could take a photo, he says it was unintentional, im not sure if I believe him, but that phone ended up down the hole as well. During the fall pickerel bite this year a couple of guys saw us start catching and of course encroached right in on us. it was to our satisfaction that 10 minutes later the guy dropped his rod in the lake and it was gone. Unfortunately for us he accidentally snagged it a short time later, however the icing on the cake was when i reeled in a 9lber while they remained skunked for the day Perhaps my all time favorite was when my pops was trying to park the 27 footer and a gust of wind threw my mom in the lake. no ice on for that one, would have been funnier if there was!

this would have been way more funny if you dropped it while trying to hand it the conservation officer.

ahaha this is fantastic my dad used to tie a piece of rope to our fishing rods and attach it to us just for this reason. Growing up in manitoba there were plenty of times big gators would come by and snap up our bait. I actually remember one time a fish taking the rod right out of my hands when i was 4-5 years old. Luckily the line broke off or i might have gone for a ride as well.

Funny story from Saturday. Sitting in the shelter, i get a message from my girlfriend on my iphone 5. Phone is in my back pack placed behind me. I grab the phone, but it says it is too cold. So naturally i throw it down the front of my bib to warm up and keep fishing. After a while I reach back to grab a bag of chips out of my bag behind me, the phone slips out of my bib, takes a weird hop and proceeds to slide 4 feet across the ice like a golf putt, right into my hole. I guess there's a pike on island lake with a nice iphone 5. Thank god i caught some fish or i would have snapped. Whats the most valuable thing you guys have sacrificed to the fishing gods?

FYI i have a buddy who took a stray from two of his friends having a roman candle fight. The burst hit his shirt, got caught it in it, lit his shirt on fire and he got 3rd degree burns on his neck. Definitely not harmless, but most things that are fun aren't.

this has got me pumped for my possible trip to cancun in April. Salt water fish just fight so friggin hard.

you are only bbqin several times over the winter? Man im grillin every damn day!

My big spring purchase from last year....natural gas napoleon thing heats up dead even in 2 minutes. Also has the rear rotisserie burner.

lol it is funny that somehow ottawa is still behind toronto in the standings. I watched the game last night for the first time in about 8 games, and its obvious that you need to blow it up. Its just so hard to watch guys painfully lose like that to god awful teams. Like the long goal yesterday, that kind of stuff just shows how bad it really is. You can tell they are having a hard time playing hockey and enjoying it at this point. I am sure the millions of dollars makes the blow a bit softer, but at the same time, you are a public figure, and I am sure it hasnt been nice walking around town lately. At the end of the day, lets hope they dont win another one till next year. McKenzie listed his top 10 prospects and there are some pieces (big centres, big defencemen) that would be great to acquire. Stay away from the hot shot wingers though Shanny!

mcdavid is going to buffallo friends.

i noticed the biggest catch of the tourny was a 6 lbs pike ....ouch

keep on tanking...i like it...

are you not just totally destroying a fishery by hosting something like this? Or do they catch and release.

Are you trying to use environment marine canada's ice reports? Ive found a way around the glitch because I was having the same problem. use this link http://iceweb1.cis.ec.gc.ca/Archive20/?lang=en it will take you to the historical ice reports. Make you selection of where you want to see, select todays date as the one that you want. Click download...then choose "download to compressed zip file" and you will get a zip folder containing the reports. Hope this helps!

kessel went -4 with no points in the All star game lmao

this is one of my favourite reports of all time. well done.

Not surprising, Im personally not a musky guy (wish i was) experiences are the same with big pike. I love throwing Walk the Dog lures, i still personally believe they entice more fish to show than any other lure out there. Ya misses suck, but i cant help the fact that every time i go out and throw a walk the dog im seeing something happening. As some mentioned, these lures make the fish show face, if they miss either you or your buddy is tossing something else for them to eat. It gets them in the mood per say

name of the company? everywhere i am finding is 350 for 4 hours

Hey Guys, So the girlfriend and I are considering a trip to Nuevo Vallarta in the spring. Naturally, this means that I will be thinking about doing some fishing. Obviously there are a tonne of charters available for deep see fishing, however because I will very likely be solo, or at very most just the two of us, hiring a charter is pretty difficult. Ill also mention that downrigging with 8 other strangers just doesnt seem like too much fun. Personally I would love to flat fish, but im struggling to find anything online in regards to this. The closest thing I have found is some largemouth bass fishing tours, but spending 300 dollars to go bass fishing seems kind of crazy, especially because most of these tours seem to be where you just get dropped off and shore fish. Let me know if anyone has made the trip and knows of any options.

Awesome site matt, thanks Also are you using the perfection knot for both ends? Seems like it would tie heavy fluro pretty easily.

good to know, ill be making a trip there on my bike come spring!

Ive been interested in making my own leaders for a while now. I kind of like Fluro a lot more than steel, but at 10 bucks per leader it seems like a worthwhile investment. Plus, then i get to select the swivel id like to use. I find that the berkley pretied glued leaders are just way way overboard, the steel is as thick as the line. I keep seeing everyone talk about crimping...any suggestion on products that you would recommend? Whats the best bang for buck and where to grab em?

Matt are you delusional? Aside from Reimer letting in the first shot of the game you guys let the leafs dominate you. If Reimer makes one save and doesnt let his team completely down Ottawa played terrible. I didnt know being outshot 40-24 classifies as an improvement in Ottawa. i guess you guys are really struggling that hard. To be honest Matt I know that feel.

any preference on knot selection matt? Bill M "Floats a lot better then flouro does. This is what I use for leader when tossing topwater for bass." And so do I