kemper

So I lost my PCOC.

That shouldn't be a problem, it's just like replacing a Driver's Licence right?

Apparently not - I have to contact the organization who administered the course and test. Right - will do...except it was 9 or 10 years ago and I was 13 at the time.

Finally find out who administered the test - they no longer exist.

Am I an idiot, or is this the most disjointed system of all time?

Brutal - but whether its a fishing report or something like this its ALWAYS better not never mention 500 fish and the name of a river in the same post. Especially when you're dealing with small systems.

I saw my good bud Dave Fernie 'step' into a deep hole on the Bighead in November! All I heard was "save my rod" as they filled up, he got out and after a good fire we dried him out. A nude dude in November is classic. John Kerr was not there, if he was he'd probably would have said, let the dummy go!

I took a swim in the Bighead this past December, stepped on a rock that looked "wet" but with the sub zero temps it was ice. My wading belt and waterproof jacket with cuffs and waste band zipped tight kept me almost perfectly dry except for a real wet hat.

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Ah nevermind...I drive a Honda.

www.scotsmanpoint.com

 

On Buckhorn. This allows access to the try lakes without going thru any locks.

Call Andrea and tell her I sent you (Brady Kemp)

Great resort, and Andrea will take great care of you.

I'm not a dog person - I wouldn't consider owning a dog and for the most part I don't like anyone else's dog either. That said, my uncle owns the breed you are asking about and its probably the only dog I've ever been comfortable around and enjoyed the company of. Great dog - quiet, well trained, awesome with his small kids.

Take that for what its worth.

ya, and when you need to borrow, they say

 

Do you have any money?

 

No, thats why i need to borrow some

 

Well sir, if you dont have any money, we cant give you any.

Would you lend money to someone who showed up at your door with no assets you might be able to get your hands on should they stop paying you back...

That reel seat is right smack dab in the middle! A bit of a weird position..

Why is that weird Bill? I run mine pretty close to dead center, my current build is an inch rear of center. I find it hard to fish all day without some leverage under my forearm.

That is pretty cool stuff Mike, I'd love to tangle with a fish like that on the fly.

I managed to tackle one of my own this fall, he was slumming it in one of our east tribs...no lake Tahoe mind you.

Didn't put a tape on it, but had to be somewhere around the 30" mark.

Keep your car as far from CTC as possible. I took mine there once because I needed a repair on a Saturday, and it was a complete fiasco that ended in me booting it to Partsource and doing it myself in the driveway.

Also depending on what you drive it isn't surprising that a tie rod would fail. Newer Chev/Pontiac cars like the G5/Cobalt have suspension components that are made of dust, a friend of mine had a Cobalt with 40,000km and every bushing in the front end had essentially disintegrated.

People will never learn.

Thanks Bill...I posted earlier but wasn't sure if I wanted to get into it or not. I just don't get it.

There is a hairspray trick too...problem is I can't remember if you spray the outside and then turn them inside out or vice versa.

I stock up on expensive rods when they go on sale. I tend to break lots of equipment in car doors, trees, falling down banks etc. If I was out $150 bucks every time I broke I rod I would be in financial ruin.

Picked up a couple Compre's for something like $60 this summer.

I got to the point with mine where they were leaking from everywhere it seemed. I'm a student, and I'm in the middle of building a new rod so several hundred for new waders simply wasn't in the budget. $5 tube of shoe goo, turned them inside out and sealed all the seams with the shoe goo. Haven't been wet since.

Hi members,

 

Please advise if there is some shore fishing spot within 1 1/2 hrs near Whitby area?

 

Thanks in advance

Sorry, no lakes within 1 1/2 hours of Whitby. Try lawn bowling.

You could pretty much fire a cast in any direction and hit water, give it a try.

Seems pretty straight forward to me, there are forum rules to follow, post within them and you'll never have an issue.... If you need them explained to you, well check with a mod for clarification....

 

G.

I think we can end this one after that, seems logical to me.

Gerritt, what is the name of that tactic for catching fat Quinte 'eyes again?

You've missed the point yet again, but grant you your opinion

I'm fairly confident that I have caught the point, my elementary school teachers did a wonderful job of teaching me how to read. A difference of opinion does not always equate to one party "missing the point" as you have politely pointed out on nearly every post I've written in the past three weeks.

You take me entirely too seriously.

If the mods had to go through that process every time something came up that needed to be edited TJ would need to hire 500 more.

Are you going to pay them?

**edit: I should add that I have been silently edited once or twice during my stay, and it was likely well deserved.

Realized I doubled up some of those pics...they all look the same in thumbnail version on photobucket.

Here's a nice coloured up male to make up for it!

Crappy cell phone picture, but this fish had red fins. Banked this one about 3 minutes before I took my swim.

With all of this rain and unseasonably high temps the first week of December was one to remember. Made a few trips, mostly solo to lake Ontario and Gbay rivers all with a level of success that is unexpected in December. Not only were the bows hungry, but they fought like it was October with some awesome acrobatics.

As usual, I only snapped a few shots because I was alone. These are from my cell phone, I took a swim in a large, high and VERY cold Georgian Bay river this past weekend that pooched my camera. Be careful out there, my wading belt and tightly cinched waterproof jacket kept me fairly dry but without the right gear and some luck it easily could have been a very different story.

Enjoy.

And last but not least I banked my biggest of the season, easily over the 10lb barrier and likely pushing 12 or 13 but the only picture I managed to get was of his tail. As I was repositioning myself to get a better shot he decided that the water looked better than the bank and went back in the drink. No harm, I guess you will just have to believe me on the size .

For those still heading out - wear your spikes, wading belt, and don't try any stupid crossings. It's not October anymore.

I can tell, it's an Atlantic caught with egg sacks.

Egg saaaaaaacks. The bait of choice for Atlantics.

On a more serious note, mother nature was indeed kind to us this week.

Wow--still losing sight of the irony.

My eight year old gets it--others here obviously don't LOL

I was talking about Atlantics...did I miss something?

Im just bustin your balls Kemper. That is a rather large caudal peduncle. You know its big when you cant get your hands around it

Don't worry, I'm saving that report until everything freezes over and winternet has set in. Then we can all sit around and debate whether it was 16.2535 or 16.2531 pounds, whether or not it was ethical that I caught it on roe, and whether or not it is in fact an atlantic salmon.

Cheers

Thumbmaster

What the heck happened to your thumb ? You could play hockey with that thing !

Forget the thumb, look at the size of that tail!

My thumbs both do that, never noticed that it was weird...

I wish the Erie tribs would clear that fast gonna be a week at least with no rain darn clay . I am gonna give it a shot on sunday but not expecting much

You might be surprised - its December so a lot of the water that would normally leech into the systems is going to lock up in the ground.

The creeks I fished today actually got dirtier as the sun came up and melted the ice, but I expect them to be prime again in the morning