kemper

If you are really worried about how you would transport it, better to steer clear. I have a single one piece, and it gets left at home on alot of fishing trips because I just cant transport it. (friends small cars, my total lack of a car, etc, etc)

they need tp apply this on all nights...week day or not. darn university students

I have seen one landed, never landed one myself though

drink dont post and cool idea

Lookin good man, you put alot of work into that and it paid off. Next is the steel, if you are out oshawa way at all this weekend let me know Ill be out every day

Thanks for the offer, I do have some rather weighty obligations here at school though...I guess it will pay off with more steelheading gear in the future...

at least you have brakes...the brakes on my 2001 Aztec went out totally (luckily it was late at night after work in a parking lot) and i was left going...with no brakes. Ah well, no traffic or obstacles, ill just pull the E brake carefully and shell stop right... WRONG! The piece of crap didnt work either! Long story short...I put her in N and drove in circles untill she stopped. Probably looked like a tool, but hey we do what we can. Thank my lucky stars every day that it didnt happen while I was on the road!

I KNEW there was some reason I was thinking I should bring my steelheading gear to Guelph. 5 float rods... over $2000.00 float reel... $300.00 waders, vest, gear and terminal tackle... $800.00 Leaving it all at home when you are at school and an offer like this is on to table...priceless. DAMMMM have a great drift solo!

Find a trib and fish it, any trib you fish is spring will probably have some numbers in it. I know it isnt quite like fishing stateside but hey sometimes that is possible and sometimes it isnt. There is some great fishing to be had on the eastern tribs if you are looking for quality over quantity

SHIMANO SHIMANO SHIMANO

Thanks all, she is going to get a good workout this weekend. Im home friday till tuesday morning and Ill be out every day slammin steel! Also taking my little cousins out (3 and 5) for a couple hours with my uncle just so they can see a fish or two and (hopefully) gain an interest in the sport. My uncle wants them to get into fishin, (he sees how it as kept me out of trouble through my teen years) but isnt much of an angler himself so I get the kids out whenever I can should be a blast!

Welcome aboard, this is about the time you stop seeing me as I spend every spare minute of time creek crawling from thanksgiving till the opener. See you out there kemper

for trout stay away from jig heads, you will be retying all day because they seem managetic towards bottom snags. Go bead head on Daiichi hooks, you will not be let down!

Steelies too, not in the same numbers as the spring but they follow the kings up and many live in the river all winter long.

Thanks guys, adrenaline is still pumpin. This is going to be an amazing season, I can feel it!

Floatfishing - The act of racking ones brain for several (possibly more) seasons in an attempt to catch fish (namely, trout) that causes stress, high blood pressure and loss of hair. This cycle is repeated until one day when CLICK everything goes right. All side effects are the reversed and added among them is giddyness and uncontrollable giggling when a large trout flies three feet out of the water and YES, she is on YOUR line. Pretty good eh? In all seriousness float fishing is something that just takes time to learn. I spent over 50 hours on my local trib before I got the hang of it. The most important part of float fishing (IMO) is learning to read the water. - Fish in a pool are generally very localized, not spread out. If there are others in a pool doing the same thing as you, and you are not catching but they are chances are that they know the water and are drifting where they know fish will hang out. The number one producer for me are current seams. Look for the area where a fast current meets a slower one. The head of a pool will often have a faster current coming in through the middle and a seam on either side of the fast water where it meets the slower water of the pool. FISH THE SEAMS, you want your float to run right down the middle of the seam, you can tell when you have got it when your float is moving slower than the fast current but faster than the slow one. Sometimes it will even stop and bounce around and this is okay, the fish are just waiting at the edge for food to float by. Match your bait to the conditions. - Running a huge red roe bag under a float when the conditions are gin clear usually does not produce, the same as running a single egg on a #14 hook does not produce well when the river is muddy. Generally the more clear the water is the more subtle your bait needs to be. I landed 4 steelhead today on single eggs, which I RARELY use but the conditions called for it and I switched it up. If its muddy dont be afraid to go BIG. I tie jigs that are HUGE by trib standards, but when it is muddy they are very effective. I prefer natural coloured bait, and tend to stay away from greens and blues in my baits in favour of reds, peach and black. Vary your presentation. - When I get to a pool, I will fish from bottom up. That is, I guess how deep the hole/run is and then set my float there. It takes some trial and error but when I find the bottom (float bouncing around) I bring the bait up about 4 inches off the bottom and drift the hole for 5 minutes or so. USUALLY, this is the most effective depth as the fish sit near bottom but if there is nothing biting then ill bring it up another 3 or 4 " and so on until something takes interest. Also dont be afraid to switch up your bait, maybe people are catching on roe but you arent, toss a pink worm or jig out there and see what happens. Take a minute to observe before you actually toss your line in. - Watch the current, observe any fish movement and see how the pool flows. Look for rocks/logs or any current break that might hold fish and make sure to fish any structure around the edge before you get too close and possibly spook fish. Floating is a game of patience and alot of the time pure luck of being in the right place at the right time. Hopefully this helps, when I was learning float fishing it was someone here that wrote a longwinded post that put me on fish and I hope that I can help someone else out with the same kind of thing. I am no professional, but I do spend a lot of time of the water and beach what I think to be a good number of fish. Float fishing is the most rewarding kind of fish, and I can tell you that once you get into those first few fish, the rest will come easily. cheers kemper

Its really easy once you get a hang of it, I learned last season and tie all my own jigs now. those are some great looking jigs!

awesome dude, lots of snot rockets around but there are some bigger ish pike too

Got home last night, up for 6 am and on the water at 7 to search for some steel, I didnt have high hopes but I needed to wet a line. Project Chrome thunder for those of you that remember, has been staring at me urging me to go do some creek crawling with her and let me tell you her first time was a memorable one. Walked alot today, got one good chromer out of a fast run and snapped off (intentionally) two boots. As I was walking upstream I spotted a BIG chromer (12 lb range) tucked in behind a rock. Luckily I spotted it before I spooked it and I fired my single egg up past it and watched it float down towards the fish... My heart got pumping when I saw it come out from behind the rock and take a look, and then calmly inhale the bait and slide back under the rock. I was so shocked that this approach worked that I almost forgot to set the hook! After a great battled the fish took one big leap and threw my hook, which was a let down but at least I got to feel how the rod handled a big chromer, and it was EXACTLY how I hoped it would. A little more of a walk found me at a pool that is almost unfishable due to all the debris but I decided to make some drifts anyways and it sure paid off! Ended up going 4/7 in the hole, average size was smaller chromers but I did turn a bigger one and lose a big brown. Also saw a fish jump higher than I have ever seen and the coolest part was that it was on my line! All in all it was a great day on the water, went 5/8 on steel and 1/2 on browns and they sure were fiesty. Snapped off 3 boots (I really hate boots). You will have to wait for thanksgiving for the pics, left my camera at home and I am back at school. stay tuned Kemper -----thanks a million to all that helped out with the custom rod, building was super rewarding and having a chromer battle it out with me on something that I built was a really cool experience

Looks like we have the same style.. I tied these ones The bottom one is my best pattern out east, I have days where nothing else hits the water. Also I tie them BIG compared to other jigs like the riverwood. Yours look wicked, definatly detailed and dialed in. Mine are kinda rough, but the trout dont seem to care!

I have a pair of el cheapo (relative) boot foot chest waders that I got the CTC for like 100 bucks or less. Going on three seasons, no leaks and the keep my warm in the winter. Neoprene

Welcome aboard, recognise you from FF.net

Tried a bunch of new things under the float for trout this year, some more effective than others... synopsis: skien chunk under a float is KILLER when they are hungry jigs will consistantly outfish most other bait on the river pink worms still suck! (for me anyways, I see people slam fish all day on the though) white worms are cool. I tried building my own rod, was very successful and will be doing it again soon. This is probably a bad thing as I already have 4 float rods...

very cool! I actually have some rods similar with the wooden handle and steel pole. When my great grandmother passed away (age 93, toughest woman I ever met) I found some fishing stuff in her garage that had belonged to my great grandfather who had passed almost 20 years earlier. A box of lures and 3 rods, one similar in length to that one and two around 5 feet. I have them paired up with some old reels on display in my basement, and I have never checked to see if there was any value but im sure at somepoint I will. More value in the possession and to sell for me, as for you

unreal.