Dutch01

I wish I had some of the fishing down here that you have up there so call it even. I still remember those walleye you put us on!

No it wasn't Cobourg, I guess that narrows it down some. No time like the present to get back at it. The "backyard" is in east GTA.

For sure I'll be spending more time in my backyard. Starting tomorrow! We were catching them using just a row bag and small splits under a float. I'm going to have to tie some more in the morning.

Well, today was nothing short of amazing! I started the day with some friends at a river east of the GTA. It wasn't as crowded as I expected and everyone was pretty well behaved ?. We saw loads of fish caught, and caught a few of our own too. Had I quit there, it would have already been a great day. When I got home I decided to check the "backyard" (I live on a Rouge trib) and managed to catch a real beauty! This was <100 yards from my back patio ?. Best. Trout. Opener. Ever!

I would have never been able to do it so well if an "old salt" didn't teach me his tricks. I'll show you one time if you like.

Nice fish! Thanks for the pics.

Just on a flat surface. I put a scoop of roe on the mesh square, bring two corners together and pinch. Bring corner three and four in and turn it upside down and use two fingers to pinch the mesh and one to help shape it. Then I wind it with spider thread and cut the excess off.

I've never fished out that way. Traffic in this city is crazy and I'm only 15 minutes from the Rouge here. Well, actually I live on a Rouge trib but it's 15 minutes to get to the year round season boundary. Anyways good luck if you get out!

I'll be fishing east of the GTA, but not sure which trib yet. I haven't fished gbay tribs in 20 years and was recently thinking of getting back up there "for old time's sake". Obv not this weekend, thanks for the warning!

Worms eh? Haven't actually used worms on the river except the pink plastic trout worms. Might have to give those a try. I'm not one for crowds and so far the rivers haven't been that crowded. If it's a zoo this weekend it'll be my last time on the river and I'll get the kayak out.

I used mesh. My eyes aren't what they used to be so I'm really glad someone invented that spider thread!

Are you in the east end or the west? I'm east....

I was lucky enough to be given some freshly cured rainbow row from a new friend I met through fishing on the river. He's been fishing lake O tribs for almost as long as I've been alive so I take his advice/instruction seriously (and with gratitude). He showed me how to tie roe too, and of course it looked so easy when he did it! Anyways I got around to tying some up for the opener and while it was not as easy as he made it look, I am happy with the results. Practice makes perfect so I'll keep at it. I'm hoping I can find a few more rainbows before it warms up enough to get in the kayak for the rest of the season. Good luck to those who are fishing the opener Saturday.

Excellent post. Agreed!

I'm with you on this one. To me a terrorist attack needs a political, religious or otherwise ideological motive. It appears that this was a lone loser hoping to take a few people with him while committing suicide by cop. Except he can't even do that right and got caught instead of killed. Of course, if info comes out later that he was connected to a terrorist group or motivated by ideological reasons, I will stand corrected. Until then though, I'm going with loner loser.

I recently sold a similar boat for a similar price. That shouldn't take long to sell.

Garnet is correct, it is because Balsam walleye are believed to hit maturity later than in other Kawartha lakes. I read the actual report a few years back but I can't seem to find it now.

Thanks, and agree poaching by anyone is frustrating for everyone. I fully support calling out poachers.

Good eye! Very ironic indeed.

Thanks and you too! Weather wise it sucks and I'm missing fishing, but otherwise it's just another day in the life.

On the day mods tell me I have to ignore derogatory comments I will do so. Posters who want to know how a thread about a fine goes awry need to look to those who made the comments, not to those who called them out.

I'm sorry if my post went over your head. There are racist comments on display right in this thread. You just seem to be unable or unwilling to see them. I asked you to spare us from an overused phase from a clown. It's not racist to say so to you as I don't even know you're white.

You can spare us the Trump impersonation. The only thing SAD is that I called some people for posts that were offside, and you seem to want to defend the posts by attacking the messenger.

You're welcome to your opinion. Until the mods put me on restrictions I'm entitled to mine too. Clearly at least some others saw it the same way I did as they commented as such. This is "Ontario Fishing COMMUNITY", comments that slander an ethic minority tell them they aren't welcome here, at least with some members. Is that the message OFC wants to be sending? And if you think there's no racism and I'm lifting up rocks looking for it, you are not paying attention. I often fish with visible minorities and you would be shocked at some of the things I've seen and heard. In the end, if you don't like my posts you're free to disagree or just skip on by them as I would do with posts that I don't find interesting. What I wouldn't do though, is tell you to "calm down" and try to tell you what you can and can't say. Unless you are making derogatory comments. Then I will chime in, but I'm sure you knew that already.

That's just scary. No way I'd want to be caught in that.