BillM

If I was going back to the lake I fished a few weeks ago, I'd be bringing in some live leeches! Fish were keying in on leeches and big dragonfly nymphs...

TFO have great customer service.. Give them a ring, I'm sure they will help you out.

I use those exact straps on the Lund and have never had them come loose.

Don't buy them from the store, then get directly from the farm.. If you can, tell the farmer beforehand to not put them in the fridge. If he doesn't, they'll keep for weeks at room temp.. Once they are put in the fridge, they have to stay cold or they'll go bad... I've got a local chicken farmer near my parents place that does this for me.. Biggest and best tasting eggs you've ever eaten.. I've eaten them weeks after he's given them to me, never an issue. Perfect eggs for those backwoods trips where you've got no power/no cooling capacity.

Goodluck!

Appreciate it man! I got super lucky with that shot.

The entire reason why they have an electrical barrier is because a physical barrier has been shot down by the US government over and over. I agree, physical barrier would be much better. Let's hope these parasites don't make it into the great lakes (Although I'm sure they already have)

They need to nuke that entire canal/river and be done with it.

Our border crossing in the Sault was also painless when be brought back our Lund. In and out in about 10 mins..

Yup.

I caught mine on a 6'6 Clarus with a Saros 1000 and 6lb Fireline, lol! One monster run and that was it... Buried herself in the weeds and I just brought her in nice and slow. No fuss at the side of the boat either.. Popped the hooks, took some pics and back she went. I've never seen a pike with a back as thick as that, an absolute monster for sure.

I didn't even pinch the tail on that pike, maybe I had my 50in and didn't even know it!!! Ah well, can't do anything about that now, except for keep chasing them!

I thought a bucketlist was a list you wanted to accomplish? I'm still in the hunt for. 1) 50+in Northern (Biggest is 48.5) 2) 25+inch spec (Biggest is 23in) 3) 40lb Laker (Biggest is 25lbs) 4) 50in muskie (Biggest is 36, lol)

One reason I'm happy I'm fishing the week before Plus all the traffic chaos... when everyone is on their way up, I'll be coming home, lol.

Once you watch HD, going back to SD is horrible.

The $50 tripod at Henrys is perfectly fine for what I do with it

Happy Birthday Joey!

Raf, that's an awesome pic!!! Damn eagles stealing my brook trout! lol Dinner! by billmarz, on Flickr

Time to run a different lure. My suggestion would be a Johnson Silver minnow with a big twister tail on the back. Extremely weedless and you can slow roll them like crazy. I'd also think it's way to early in the season to be throwing topwaters.. The water out there can't be much over 50 degrees.

I hope you don't mind me posting a few of the pics I've taken of these cute little critters Black Bear. by billmarz, on Flickr

Wow, that's a thick pike!

Nice to see things are heating up this way!

Nah, I just don't like dangling 3-4k on a railing

Wow those are some cows!!! Quebec coughs up some giants!

Beer, always beer