BillM

PowerPro on my muskie setup, only time I've ever had 65lb snap is when I backlash throwing a TopRaider or similar, lol... I'm glad they float

Aaron, I am sad to report you just destroyed the fishery on the Niagara because now there will be a million boats out there tomorrow, lol Those are some hogs!!!!!! Good job man!

Maybe my addiction will pay off, lol. I eat at that place at least 4-5 times a week.

Dr.S, it looks like you need some cheeseburgers!!!!

Yup, you gotta be a part time weatherman sometimes

Nice buck!

Good job Joey! Last time I was out on the Niagara it was a skunk-a-roo for me!!! That steelie is gorgeous and that brown defines 'football'!!

Thanks Joey! Along with the massive soaker I also got a sunburn

The Notty is still my nemesis, lol... Takes a while to figure out that river for sure.

Everytime out is an education. Bit after a while you start to figure things out on your own, which is always good. I hit the Credit last year all by my lonesome and cleaned up pretty well... Just gotta apply the knowledge you've learned. And don't get me wrong, there are days when I get absolutely skunked and my buddies do fairly well. The best part is learning why you didn't catch any fish, change it up, go back and lay a beating on them.. Now THAT is a great feeling. We did a fair bit of 'educating the locals' on Friday, that's for sure, lol.

Yeah and I work for free at work

Conditions definitely weren't prime. A few changes were made and things started to heat up, after that it was game on.

I changed the background in my most recent report because it was a dead giveaway as to where we were. And honestly if we are down in PA or OH I really couldn't care less. If guys are going to make that drive they deserve to catch as many fish as they can. But even you know it could be hot one day and cold the next... I did pretty good for a rube before I met Mike surprisingly enough. First day out with a pin ever I nailed a shaker out on the 'Geen. Next time I went out with a few of the boys from the board and we did great on a few Lake O east ditches. However my learning curve shot through the roof when I started to fish with Mike. Now anytime I go, I'm fairly confident I'll bank a few regardless if anyone around me is or not.

I dunno what was up with me, but I was stumbling all over the place yesterday, lol... SF: Mike sent me all the pics he took, I think they totaled 5 for the day, lol. Not enough time to grab the camera when you have double/triple headers out in the middle of a river. Was an awesome day.

We are talking about a sub forum where fishing reports would go.... So instead of posting reports in the main forum, they'd go into a 'members' forum.. In order to read this forum you'd need 100-200 posts.. This is done on one particular forum I visit and works pretty well.

So people will join up only to lurker the members forum.... If anything you need to have a certain amount of posts in order to view the members forum...100-200 or something similar. That would weed out the lurkers for sure.

I think most of the people complaining about the reports are the ones that show up, expecting a slam and only witness everyone else around them catching fish. Same thing with steelheading.. Someone makes a report, people get their panties in a bunch, drive to the river, catch squat then blame the reports because of it. You ever wonder why the same guys go to the same river and catch fish regardless? It's got nothing to do with internet fishing reports I'll tell you that.

HAHAHA!!!!! I PS'd it so well you'll be looking forever!!!

He sounds like an ass, I wouldn't worry about it to much.

Every once in a while things come together and a normal day turns into one that will never be forgotten. This happened to myself, Mike and our buddy Ferg on Friday.. After watching the weather all week we were super pumped about the prime conditions we'd find on one of our favourite rivers. However, the day didn't start off all that great, lol.. I'm about to jump into the car and I get a call from Ferg.. 'Hey bud, you almost here?'...I look at the radio in the car and it says '3:23am'... Damn!!!!!!! I set my alarm an hour late... Instead of leaving at 2:30am, I was leaving at 3:30 No big deal, Ferg said he'd take a snooze in the truck while I drove down to his place. After a record breaking time from Barrie > Mississauga (45mins, lol) I arrived to find Ferg dead asleep in his truck. A few taps on the window and we were off.. Met up with Mike and off we went on our adventure... I absolutely love fishing with these 2 guys, they compliment each other so well, the day is nothing but a complete blast. Ferg is a pretty interesting character.. Some of the stuff that comes out of this guys mouth just makes you howl. The sun was out, the deer and turkeys were in pretty much every field and we finally make out way down to the river. We were a bit disappointed at the water clarity, but we made due and it was on the drop anyhow.. By the end of the day it should clear up fairly well. A few small rockets and some suckers from the first place we stopped... Time to make a move. I apologize for the lack of pics, but after you're done reading this you'll understand why We hit our second spot and I hike upstream a bit with no luck.. After about 30mins I make my way downstream and Mike and Ferg are into them like hotcakes. While I was walking down and watching the action, I saw 2 double headers before I could even make my way into the spot, lol. The best part about these fish was that they weren't dirty, tired dropbacks. These were fresh chromers will lots of spunk.. 3-4 jumps per fish was the normal, blistering runs and just a non-stop battle all the way to the bank.. I finally make it down to the spot, grease Mike and Ferg out and get into a few chromers myself.. I went something like 1/4, lol. I lost a real nice fish after a massive hit and run.. ugh.. Finally got one chromer to the bank and it slowed down a bit, so we made the call and off to spot #3.. Now, spot #3 isn't a secret my anymeans and when we got there, we saw approximately a dozen or so guys.. We really weren't to worried about it though, we have a tendency to make out pretty good even in the middle of the crowds... Mike hiked it upstream a bit and me and Ferg hit a nice little seam about 50ft away from the car.. I popped 3 quick fish, Ferg popped 2 then Mike came down from upstream and it began... Mike makes his way out to this little rock outcropping and makes a drift.....WHAM!! fish on!!!... Me and Ferg start to laugh... Drift #2.....WHAM!!!! Fish on.. Ferg says to me screw this, one more fish and I'm going to grease him out!!'...... Drift #3.....WHAM!!! fish on.. Ferg walks out there makes a drift and wouldn't you know it... doubleheader!!! #4 for Mike, #1 for Ferg all in a span of about 15mins.. I yell over 'If you guys catch anymore fish I'm coming out there!!'.. Needless to say 30 seconds went by and they were both into fish and off I go!!. This is where the fun begins, lol.. I didn't take a very good route out to the spot and ended up in some pretty deep water.. I'm 6'3, so not a short dude and the water was well above my waste.. I almost make it out there, have a little stumble and both my arms, rod/reel go into the drink I'm ok, nothing down the waders I'm good to go.. I take a spot below Mike, and on my first drift the float shoots down!! This wasn't a little fish by anymeans, a good 10lb fresh from the lake rocket.. I look over at Ferg and he sets the hook into another fish and we tell Mike to hurry up and get in there also... 5 seconds later we are in the middle of our first tripleheader.. Mike and Ferg get their fish in and I'm still fighting this stupid thing. I finally get it in and try to get Mike to take a pic. These fish were super slimey, and I just couldn't hold on to it.. I drop the fish, try to grab it and down I go!! I drop the rod/reel into the drink, water goes down my waders and I am about to have a very bad day.. Mike grabs a hold of me and helps me up... I grab the Loomis and the AngSpec before it disappears into the water, right myself and try to gain a bit of composure.. Ferg and Mike are laughing their asses off at me and I gotta admit I was laughing also.. For the next 2hrs it was nothing but non-stop action.. Let's just say the locals on the bank were very vocal :) Everytime we'd land one they'd ask to meet us half way for us to give them the fish!! Now I'm all for giving someone a fish, but there is no way in hell I'm walking back across the river to hand one over, lol.. A small example of a typical fish we caught that say... Notice I'm soaking wet? I just couldn't believe it, this might have been the funnest 2hrs I've ever had steelheading.. It was 80 degrees out, a slight wind and two of my best buds smashing fresh chromers over and over again.. Things finally slowed and I lost count of the number of fish we got.. It was stupid.. Ferg had been up since 11pm the previous night so he was done like dinner.. We packed up, and finished up at our last spot.. Fish were rising all over the place, swirling, jumping you name it they were doing it.. As Ferg slept in the car Mike and I made our way down to the river and got right back into them.. My biggest fish of the day a good 10lbs.. It had a huge hump on it's back and just looked mean as hell!! What an awesome fish.. We popped 3-4 fish a piece until we just ran out of gas... Nothing but stupid grins on all our faces that day.. Definitely a trip I'll never forget..

Good job guys!!!

I just got home after leaving the house this morning at 3am. Best day of 2010 to date, double/triple headers, fresh chromers from the lake and piles and piles of fish. I'm going to bed, lol.. Shawn, congrats on getting your first fish on a pin!!

Allowed or not, I'd be lighting a fire...

That's a hell of a trip! lol

Friggin Dave, greasing people out!!!!! Tomorrow morning is going to come awful early.