Joeytier

Amazing shot. That would make a nice desktop background.

I need to go work my charm as an innocent teen with one of the land owners.

Will do.

If only...

Beautiful fish. I'd love to get up there once more before the ice is gone.

There are no more secrets in the GTA. Unless I'm not aware of some.

From a fishing standpoint, this has probably been my best March break ever. I made it out Monday, Wednesday, yesterday, today, and hopefully Sunday. The last 3 days have been particularly good.

Even though there has been no precipitation in the last week or so (at least), the creeks have been at very nice levels consistently all week due to snow melt. Only today were the tribs starting to get a bit lower. Lots of fish were caught in runs that you'd never see fish in with lower water levels.

Every fish I caught was using roe, but my dad got a fair number of fish on pink worms, and orange worms even popped a few fish.

On Thursday I landed a PB, and then today managed to top that. It's been a good few days, and my best spring for steelheading thus far.

We decided to keep a hen, since we really needed roe. I don't mind buying roe in order to avoid keeping fish, but all the stores only had salmon roe left, so we kept a big hen.

Lots of muskrats on this stream.

A few average fish from the past few days.

This was my first personal best. A nice hen pushing 7 lbs.

I then topped it with this big male between 8 and 9 lbs.

A few fish my dad landed this morning.

A few more that I landed.

We decided to keep this chubby hen.

I hit up a trib with nicer water levels on the way back, and scored this nice male in a fast pool. This little guy gave me the best fight of the day.

Also got to meet Kemper and MJL on the tribs Thursday, which was nice.

Nice report. Good to see you had some better luck this time 'round.

I'll grab a patch for my vest tomorrow.

This instantly made me think of that Fish n Canada episode.

Yeah, I'm surprised at how packed it's been this week.

Those large, huron tribs are absolutely beautiful. I've yet to fish any of those rivers, but I'd really like to.

I'm already missing winter.

But the steelies are cheering me up.

No way! I talked to MJL on that same creek today, and had no idea it was him. LOL

Very nice fish. I've been fishing all week myself, and am heading out tomorrow morning as well.

I'd definitely grab one. Ever thought about patches for sewing on vests or tackle bag etc..?

Into the compost. Freezing it until the night before is a good idea. I'll definitely be trying that.

Nice going. I didn't catch a single laker all season. Just whities.

Wow, can't believe the ice is totally gone out of Belleville. It wasn't so long ago that guys were driving their trucks out there.

Nice hen. I usually don't like keeping steelhead, but if she was full of eggs, I'd have to bag that one.

A great way to close the season, for sure.

Oh god, that looks extremely tasty.

Nice going. It would've been an amazing day on the ice.

Ah, great stuff!

I would certainly take the safe way out and be courteous. In the long run, I couldn't see the other way working out very well for anybody.