BillM

I caught few while out fish for crappie on Sunday. I was using a 1/32nd oz steelhead jig with a Gulp maggot, lol... Usually though if I gave it a lot of slack they were able to spit it out and get off. I think I only had to bring 3 to the boat. I'd switch from fishing the wood, then to some docks, then out at the drops but the bass were everywhere. Same thing went while casting in the morning for pike, suicidal smallmouth bass just wouldn't stay off the 6in Grandma... I tell you one thing though, the spawn will be well over when opener arrives.

I'm not a fan of big flouro leaders for pike or musky if I'm fishing topwater. They tend to sink and pull the nose of the baits I'm using down with them. If I am throwing something like a TopRaider then it really doesn't matter to much, but a Zara Spook or similar, I'll go with a mono leader of the same lb test..

young pike = stripes, mature = spots...

If you are going to dunk the joint, your only choice is solder. (If you want it to last for any amount of time)

Love me some Powerstroke!! Now if I could combine the Ford SuperDuty body, the Cummins I6 and the Allison Tranny I'd be in heaven

Panther Martins are always a great trout spinner, sounds like you had a good night! I also got eaten alive out lastnight on the Severn River, lol...

So go out and troll for some 'bait'

It's a Liger!

I wasn't bagging on you Lew, sorry if it came across like that I just think that's a bit funny...

A towing article and not one diesel truck listed? LOL!!!!!

No plans yet.. Maybe Simcoe, maybe GBay, maybe some trout streams...

HOLY CRAP!!!! lol My bad, that's a hell of a lot of minnows to bring on a plane

Slow down and find the first weed edge out from the spawning bays.. With the warm temps the fish have most likely been out of the shallows for a while. Jerk baits with long pauses, swimbaits etc...

You used 120 minnows and caught 2400 fish?

My parents are about a mile or so where that took place. Not a tonne of bears but it's not odd to see 1-2 a week. They had one up on the porch last year that knocked over the BBQ and licked the grease off it for about 20mins or so, lol.

There are some absolute monster resident browns in a system I fish fairly regularly (I'm talking close to, if not over double digits).. I hooked into one last year that was in the 4-5lb range and it made a fool out of me and my UL setup, lol.. I'll get that bugger this year I hope

Haven't been out on Gloucestor Pool this year yet, although I usually fish it quite a bit. Need to go out and get some snakes

Avid for the lifetime warranty if nothing else. I have a MH 1pc 7ft fast action that's my go to rod for pretty much everything that requires a baitcaster unless I'm tossing big muskie baits.

Glad I don't eat fish.

Yup, typical northern ontario water.

+1 on flying in extra beer

Medium action Shimano Clarus or Compre along with a Shimano Citica would be a great setup to start out with....

I had that tire changed in 20mins!!!!! That was about the only thing that went smoothly the entire trip

I think you could count the fish I caught on one hand!!! Was fighting a cold the entire time, not my best showing Although I did manage a couple. However I'm fairly certain that's me infront of the fire guzzling some Heineken (but don't tell Mike, I wanna see what I look like framed on his wall) Great trip boys, I'm sure we'll be into the thick of things next year..

Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one. But I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the NSA, and somebody puts a code on my desk, something no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cuz I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East, and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding. Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are saying, "Oh, send in the marines to secure the area", 'cuz they don't give a crap. It won't be their kid over there, getting shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cuz they were pulling a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there taking shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cuz he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're taking their sweet time bringing the oil back, of course, maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and darn' play slalom with the icebergs, it ain't too long till he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work. He can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the darn' job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is giving him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starving 'cuz every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're serving is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holding out for something better. I figure: damn it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President.