BillM

That is a mint chromer, I'm sure it put up a hell of a fight!

Nice chromer!

You should have ate one and found out!

If you can, tie a palomar knot instead of a clinch...

Good job guys!

4lb tippet isn't very thin for gin clear water.. But if you can see them, they can see you.. Give them some time to calm down, I'm sure they were bombarded this weekend like crazy...

I've caught some brutes on that rod, It's weird it snapped, especially where it did... Congrats on the first fish! Raven should be able to get you a replacement piece for $30... Kemper just went through the same thing.

I'd much rather let the fish go to spawn another day, then use it as table fare But to each their own.

Gross!!!! lol

If you are a newbie and don't know what you are doing, you shouldn't be milking fish. It doesn't take that long to milk a fish and get it back in the water. NY however requires you to keep a fish if you plan on keeping the eggs.. Ontario doesn't.

I guess you can interpret this in a few ways... Got it off the MNR site.

I'm pretty sure you can milk a fish, return it and have it's roe count as one fish towards your limit. You are not required to keep the fish.

I grease Mike out any chance I get, it really doesn't help.

It was in the morning Forgot my gloves, once my hands got cold that was it. Went out the next day and got some nice ones from Marks Work Wearhouse... No more cold hands for me! I was excited to get the rod back also, lol Fished the Notty later that day, did ok.

Yeah man, it was a piss off. I had some work done to my GL3 that I needed to pick up in Owen Sound, so the day wasn't a complete loss.

I'm sure if you take a jaunt up the 400 to King Rd or even 88 you shouldn't have any problems finding places to fire off a few rounds.

Just shoot it in the backyard

My ONLY shining moment of the day was the 3rd drift I made with your rig I gotta admit, that was pretty sweet. At least we saw it airborne a couple times before she threw the hook. I hated that river with a passion, now it's one of my favs.

My condolences to his family and friends.. Way to young...

Get out of here you rube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well you did something right to make that fish hit. Just make sure you are as close to the bottom as possible, and leave it at that. If the water is a bit dirty after this rain, shorten up your lead, 18-24inches... If the water is also not flowing very fast, you won't have to bulk shot right above your swivel either. Just stick with it man, you'll get it figured out. Remember what I said about hiking? It's worth it!

Go back to the same place... You know where the fish are (I assume you saw where the fish hit), you have the rigging figured out (almost) That's where I'd go... Better odds then hitting a trib you've never fished before.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh man, that's hilarious!!! Was the bagged ripped open from the bottom, or did it look like it came undone? It's extremely easy to see if you look at the bag closely. If it was ripped open from the bottom, it was either a fish, or the stream you were fishing has some pretty jagged rocks in the riverbed.. If it's a stream with lots of smolts and the float isn't weighed down properly, they'll steal your bag every time. Did you have the float weighed down properly so that if there was anymore weight it would sink? Trotting it so the bait was downstream of the float when you were making your drift? Play with you lead? Longer, shorter? Ticking bottom? Snagging up a bit? If you actually got a fish to bite your first day out, you did great man, don't kid yourself!!!

Bad mojo man the past few trips... I dunno what to tell you!! I'll bring some dynamite along on Sat just incase.

Unless I'm expected an important call, the cell stays in the car.. And an Ipod while fishing? lol I thought the whole point of fishing was to get away!