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Well done! I hit the east as well, but didn't do as well as you. I hit three tribs and fished every log I could find with nothing to show for. Oh well, back at it again tommorow. Thanks for posting. Good luck.

Great report as usual, nice fish too!!

As a roe slinger, I really need to commit more to artificials. My vest is stuffed with them Nice fish! Thanks! BTW, is that a little jig head I see in the pic there? Do you rig it wacky?

Nice fish! Shakers are fun to catch, that's for sure. I guess I picked the wrong trib yesterday, it turned to mud about half hour after I got there. Thanks for the post!

I was lucky enough to find two chinnies this fall, which pretty much fills my roe needs until next season. Funny thing is, the pool I was fishing was full of snaggers that day. Not one of them thought to harvest a dead fish. Like others have said, as long as the fish is in decent shape, the roe should be fine.

Nice fish! Yup

Nice fish! Good call changing it up. It's nice to get the roe goop off your hands once in a while.

Yes, the steelhead season has begun. They always seem to kick off with your reports. As always, enjoyed the report and pics. Thanks for taking the time...Keep 'em coming.

Loved The Champ!! It ran for years on the Q. I think they tried to revive it a few years back. Thanks for the laugh!

That is beautiful country up there! Thanks for posting.

Nice fish Dave! Good to see them showing up. Thanks!

WTG! It's definitely been slim pickings so far, i've only managed one myself. Nice going, hopefully more to come.

Do regulations regarding dams apply only to stretches below the dam or above as well? I see people fishing right above that dam all the time.

Nice Job!!! Man I should be out there chasing some pike around instead of casting cleos off piers this time of year.

You'll find some small beaches scattered here and there, certainly enough to beach a boat. The best beaches though seem to be on the East Arm, about 10ks from the launch through the narrows.

Is the Wilkes Dam part of the special regs? It seems that the vast majority of people there are fishing with bait.

I usually don't start until I see a good crowd at the wall at Port Credit. When it's standing room only, it's time to chuck some glows off the rocks. Having said that, I did get out last night and needless to say there was lots of jumping, but no biting. Water is probably still a bit warm. I'm sure the next weather change will trigger some sort of run. Anybody ready for the 'salmon in the tribs' threads?

Yikes!!

Try some of the neighboring water...you'll find smallies.

There are a couple things that you need to consider. One is the focal length that you're using, ie) wide-angle, normal, telephoto. If you look through your manual you will see these words used again and again. Basically, wide-angle is the "widest" view that you can see and telephoto is the narrowest view, normal is somewhere in between. If you want to get a sense of what objects look like using the various focal lengths on your camera, throw an assortment of objects down on a plain background and take pictures of them at different zoom settings. Furthermore, make sure that you take pictures from different angles and distances as well. This will give you an idea of how a lens can distort object characteristics. The second thing you need to consider is how you're composing the shot. IMO, the pic you posted in this thread was taken too far back. There's way too much background. You need to get in tighter and have the fish almost fill the frame, maybe even crop out a bit of the tail. The weeds and grass should only intrude slightly from the corners and sides and never block or obscure any part of the fish or do so only so slightly. Placing objects like reels in the shot can work for or against you. In your pic, the reel draws more attention than the fish. Have only a part of the reel protrude into the frame. A large reel can detract from the size of the fish, a small one can make the fish look bigger. Remember, the subject is the fish, not the reel or the grass. Also, don't shoot something straight on, put a little angle in the shot. For example, with a wide-angle setting, frame the fish at its head so that you've cropped out it's mid-body to tail. Now tilt your lens toward the tail until it comes into the frame. Move back a little if the tail is too obscurred. Angle in conjunction with a wide zoom setting can lend a lot of perspective to the shot, making the fish look rounder and longer with a tapering tail. Do the same along the other axis. Ofcourse, I realize that you only have so much time to take the picture, but these are just a few things you might want to try the next time you take a picture of a fish. I hope this helps!

God Bless and good luck!!!

Good to know! Thanks Joey!

Remember? Who can forget! That's too bad about Martin. He was definitely an alt rock icon in this city. I don't listen to it that much anymore, but CFNY was a great station in it's day. A lot of programming innovations that a lot of other stations are copying now. I especially like(d) Allan Cross's "History of New Rock".

Congratulations all around. Great report and pics! Thanks!

nice catch! At least you got out and had a good day. Yeah pike fishing is a bit slow for this time of year, in two trips I got 1 and lost 1. Could be the water temps, maybe a late spawn I've also noticed fewer or no weeds at all in the areas I normally fish. I'm sure this is a factor as well. From talking with other anglers, slow fishing has been the theme so far. Maybe some warmer temps would help with the weed growth. I was talking with an old timer who fishes the islands a lot, he seems to think the lack of weeds is due to all the silting the city has been doing around some of the popular fishing spots.