Joeytier

I laughed at that too. Good job Jeremy

Yeah, trapping wolves and yote is definitely nowhere near being financially lucrative (at least in comparison to the past). The people I know that do it take a few every year to help out the moose and share the pelt with friends and family, and to keep their trap line active. I think a lot of people have a misconception that there's hordes of people out in the bush chasing after every wolf in sight. To try and infringe on a sportsman's right to sustainably trap and hunt predator animals simply because you don't like it is seriously off, in my opinion. I'm sure if we cancelled every bass and walleye tournament in Ontario, you would see a notable increase in fishing quality on many popular cottage lakes in a few short years, but I am not about to tell a tournament angler that he/she is wrong in doing so.

That's it 100%.

Buy 9.9 stickers for your 'bigger' motor, et voila

The MNRF has politicized the issue by throwing 'Algonquin' in the name and it has since become a poster child for emotional anti-hunting/trapping rhetoric. Do you believe that trappers take wolves 'simply to kill'? That's a dangerously slippery slope to walk on as a sportsman. Do you fish just to hurt fish then release them?

Gorgeous big blue walleye!

My unit is the first generation, I just looked...no CHIRP. Having said that, I've never hooked a fish I didn't mark first. Incredible detail...I can only imagine the new ones.

As far as I know, every Helix uses CHIRP technology. These shoals are full of herring, so we see tons of marks in the upper half of the water column. I keep a split screen on my unit, one zoomed in on bottom few feet. Usually won't mark intended quarry up high but somedays you have to work them way up the water column to get a strike.

If we're marking fish without commitments, sometimes a good rip around in the truck or sled definitely wakes them up. I just can't believe that a walleye is affected by clumsy footsteps in a hut on top of 31" of ice, 32 feet down LOL

Someone usually gets one substantially larger than that one every season. I'm sure there's a record in there somewhere.

Looks amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=423eByYS8fo&t=3s I spent a couple days with good friends out in the middle of lake Nipissing chasing just about anything that swims, and my editor-in-chief (lol) put together another fun video of our travels.

My kinda trip! Looks like an amazing place, holy snow! Just googled where you were, the big crater lake!

I initially read the thread title as 'dismembered BY minn kota'

I enjoyed that! Never stop learning...

Youre overthinking it Jer. Whatever you were using for walleye before sundown, just keep it down there. They're super aggressive and predatorial. Glow spoons like buckshots tipped with a minnow arr probably the best, but they're not picky.

I live up north, and drive even further north for da brookies.

Okay that made me laugh!!

Uhhh I'm in.

Nice things tend to break on trips like these lol ?

I have a few lucky strike spoons that are very similar to that, and they work amazing for pike and especially lakers.

Yea! I've heard people call 'em switches, or gads.

There's definitely something magical about fooling a trophy trout in a small remote lake on super simple gear.

Thank you...a brook trout of that size will likely die of old age in less than a year's time, but I was not interested in mounting it, and they get pretty nasty tasting when they reach that size, so back she went. Hopefully someone else will be able to catch her before she croaks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApmdyXiCY74&feature=youtu.be We broke 'trail' (using that term loosely) into a remote brook trout lake in Northern Ontario and caught a pair of big brook trout on primitive rigs. I was so happy to be able to capture the entire battle and landing of such a special fish on camera.