Joeytier

Beautiful...if only the lake had good fishing eh??

Yeahhhh that's a good time, beautiful trout guys.

Early is relative...will it be earlier than last year? Most definitely.

Tell your wife to do some research on ice safety lol. No offense but I don't think she's an authority on the matter.

Yep, Lund makes an 'AA' series which is shallower and lighter than the WC models.

I have a WC...it is far and away the toughest, sturdiest, most heavy duty 12 footer I've ever been in, love it to death. But it's definitely not a car topper

Awesome man. The birds are definitely easy to come by out your way.

Awesome. That would be a pretty late ice-up for around there would it not?

Having been around this place for a bit, I'll add my 2 cents.

If you are expecting folks to chime in on your report, regardless of what it contains, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. No one here owes you anything. No one has forced anyone to submit a post and no one should expect anything back, that's the way of message boards.

If you need social reassurance for your social networking presence, go to face book. That's what it's for.

I am not saying don't post here or don't do a report, but complaining about not getting warm and fuzzies back from the community for your efforts in posting seems a little juvenile. You put it up on your own free will and people will either read it and comment or they won't. Expect nothing and at worst, that's what you will get.

 

HH

I don't think anybody is looking for social reassurance. Do you enjoy reading fishing reports that were written with thought and care? I do, and I remember when this board was full of them and the conversations were plentiful. I do believe that a lot of the more diehard anglers that posted a lot of fishing content have long since left, due to the endless nasty bickering in the political and other NF threads, and how the fishing content is secondary to everything else.

A few years ago if you were to come on here a day or two after a long weekend the front page would be brimming with awesome stories and photos from everyones adventures, nowadays you're lucky to see one, more than likely none. I don't think there's anything wrong with acknowledging that fact.

Beauties! Fall brookies can be fickle at the best of times, but you cracked the code. Am I correct in assuming you ended up catching them on maggots?

Gotta thank CKEWLEY for putting me onto this...was a huge Clash fan but never looked into Strummer beyond the 70's...this song and whole album is just amazingly brilliant. Alternative rock through a world music lens...

I missed this thread...living next to the Ottawa river (full of sauger) I have definitely noticed differences.

The big one seems to be water temp preferences...in the spring when the walleye are in their typical shallow early season haunts, sauger are rarely caught, but the as the season goes on and the water warms up, sauger are caught more and more frequently in shallow water. I also find that they REALLY school up, maybe due to their small size, but usually if I catch one, I catch 3-4 more not long after.

You were in serious walleye country! Would you brave that drive again?

I have been thinking the same thing Rick. The whole point for me of posting a report was more than just sharing success with fellow outdoorsman, but sparking lots of conversations and sharing information. I tried sharing a yr-end report full of wild brook trout pics and it was done after a day or two, but a thread about car tires will be hot for months. I understand that it's a community of friends first and foremost, but at what point should you just stop calling it a fishing forum. I think Chris Brock nailed it.

I'll check back when I need advice on a new BBQ I guess lol

The area where you were staying, what you call the south central arm I assume, is an excellent area in spring and summer, for walleye and lake trout both.

The idea of a barb is to help keep a fish from throwing the hook, if you're not concerned with landing it why not? Of course flattening the barbs will help reduce injury, cutting the hooks off a lure will reduce it a lot more!

I have not noticed a difference in fish landed since I started trout fishing barbless, but far less mangled fish yaps. trebles will lose plenty of fish too.

Everything I use for brook and lake trout is barbless, usually single hook too. It does make a huge difference in ease of unhooking, both for the fish and the back of your head.

Awesome. Been listening to tons of Cave last few weeks, all the way back to Tender Prey. Brilliant man, very few artists with a discography so consistently amazing.

I guess it depends on what you want to get out of the day. If catching fish is the primary objective, don't book a single day on Gbay, but if you're just looking to spend a day with a good guide and try to learn as much as you can with catching being a secondary goal, then Gbay is probably a great idea.

Just got off Kipawa yesterday, was moose hunting and not fishing, though. Lake was about 57 degrees and will be more like 54-55 now. Don't be surprised if you have a hard time finding fish. I would start shallow with fairly aggressive presentations first. Last week they were definitely shallow and feeding up.

Also, the lake is down at least 3 feet from summer levels now, so there will be hazards that aren't marked all over the lake. You'll be in the back of Jawbone's bay which is a pretty spot, work with a few people that live down there.

On a merc? Mine never gets warm.

 

S.

The stream from my 08 Merc 2stroke gets quite warm.

Did it once for one day in early June at Head Lake near Norland. This was mid week maybe 10 years ago and there was nobody around, but we did set up a respectable distance from the launch and it was just one tent and one car. Somebody must have ratted us out because cops came to "evict" us around 11 pm. The officer was great, even apologetic. He saw we were polite, neat and quiet. Asked if we had been drinking, which we hadn't. He then rephrased the question..."You've been drinking right....because if you have I can't force you to leave". We understood. Spent the night, then headed to Pigeon bright and early and found the gem called "Big Island". Stayed there for the next two days of our three day trip.

He can't force you to leave regardless, unless that launch was in a municipality that has bylaws against camping. A police officer cannot force you to leave crown land?

I think the whole idea of crownland camping for 31 days needs to be reviewed. The idea was fine 30 years ago when there was lots of unused crownland and fewer people. I think 10 day limits would make a lot more sense. Not that anyone would enforce it anyway.

The limit is 21 days.

I've camped at boat launches a few times when there are no other options, so long as it is crown land there are no laws against it, even though some lakes with higher volumes of people have put up signs saying otherwise.

nice and not too often you can feed a bird like that!

With gray jays you can almost always feed them like that.

That's a great day. I've never seen the inland bows around here cooperate like that. They're the trickiest of all the game species around here, even though just about every lakes they're stocked in has huge numbers of them.

Really enjoyed that, awesome report!

And yes, Wacky Wings is killer man! Next you come thru North Bay I challenge you to a game of hoops!