muskymatt

Sorry folks I miss typed what I wanted to type. I've changed it to be accurate My fingers were two steps ahead of my brain...

What do you make of the possibility of a catch and keep only fishery in Canada. Parts of Europe already have this and according to some it's inevetable that it'll come to Canada. Anytime you fish you must keep and eat it, catch and release is not allowed. Personally I think it will never happen but who knows. Hopefully not in my lifetime.

Is it just me or does HTH and Sonny have the same avatar...only different....and one is better than the other...????

Very nice!

AHHHH...bigpikemike...nice to see you're up to your old tricks but on a different forum....found a new temporary home have ya??? Mods.....good luck with this guy

Here's a great read to get you started. http://www.muskiescanada.ca/articles/catch...elease_tips.htm

I used to fish wananish on Lac St Jean almost 40 yrs ago as a very young boy (4-7) with my dad.....great memories for sure. We used to catch all kinds of them and good sized ones too. It was nice to see the pics..thanks for the flashback

Very nice Lew!! Almost time to slime it... I guess I'll get a close up when you come to Ottawa eh?

Yes it was excellent! So many baits so little money Got everything I needed and some. Got there Friday and left Sunday, still feeling the effects.......great time and met lots of new and familiar faces.... Nice seein ya again Lew...see ya this summer

Not like this!! Good answers though.

Yes cats do plow thru the water but if you use kittens and inject them with air like with worms they retreive better when casting them.

Abu's are not a bad reel, I find they are not heavy duty enough for the bigger fish though and the drag system is questionable especially on a hard hit and hook set. I used to run them but after having failure problems I upgraded from them. I have had one fail during a fight. I consider them almost disposible reels as after a couple yrs it almost not worth replacing gears/drag. That is a good price for a decent reel but they don't even come close to the curado for quality and casting...but then the curado is alot more $$$$ This is just my experience and I'm hard on my equipment...others may not have had these issues.

Good on ya Mike for being inquisitive to your daughters needs. You are a great dad. I have 2 daughters , 13 and 12 and sometimes Dad feels like the girls are losing the desire to confide in pop....mom def. plays the bigger role as girls will talk about girl things they may not want to share with dad....Almost makes me feel like I've played my role and have become obsolete. I do however make it known regularly that they can talk to me about anything anytime and that family is #1, I can only hope they listen. We do a lot as a family together....hockey...fishing....camping.....and much more . As the awkward years play out I can only hope they have learned some good life skills from mom and dad and will make the right decisions... But as you did Mike, as a parent we have an obligation to our kids to have that sixth sense and intervene with caring and support. I hope your daughter has better luck with the bully!! M.

Great thread Boy scout camp, circa 1972, I'm 7 and had left the group to fish a small bay that had caught my eye. First couple casts....nothing....third cast with my daredaevil and it gets slammed....fish goes left...fish goes right and then it goes deep....and futher and further away it goes. I look at my reel to see it empty of line and then snap.....my rod goes and I lose my line. 7 years old and I return to camp with tears in my eyes , my rod broke and my line and lure gone.....but most important......not knowing what schooled me!!!! I think that was the moment I knew I loved fishing...as bad as it had turned out.

Looks great Lew,,,maybe I'll get to see it at an MCI outing this year??

I'm not one for rants or NF topics but this is almost fishing. I was watching the show in disbelief of just how brutal it was, meanwhle I had the laptop on my knees and I figured I would google to find out more about Moore now I wish I knew less about Moore (if that makes sence) You have to check this out!!! http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/?cat=103

That's exactly what I understand from it as well. Any land owner will essentially be allowed to block access to all waters on their property by land and by water......fences across streams and rivers to keep people off . All you fly fishing and float guys should be very worried.... And once they (harper) gets ahold of a piece of it who knows where he'll go with it.

Here is a bit more...... JANUARY 19, 2009 The Harper government is poised to erase the historic right of navigation in Canada, a common law right that pre-dates confederation. In public announcements published in the major media January 12 and 13, 2009, the Harper government stated its intent to eliminate the Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA) as part of its plan to inject billions of dollars into infrastructure programs across the country. The Harper government says the NWPA is antiquated and they want it out of the way. WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? 1) The common law public right of navigation pre-dates confederation, in fact it dates back to Roman law and is entrenched in the legal systems of virtually all modern nations. 2) The public right to navigate waterways in Canada is and important part of our heritage and an integral part of the heritage of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. 3) Navigation rights are one of the pillars of environmental protection on Canadian waterways. If you take away navigation rights, you put Canadian waters (our lakes and rivers and streams) at risk. WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS SAYING: Here’s what Transport Minister John Baird says about the NWPA, the law in place to protect the right of Canadians to travel our waterways: It’s a “…huge regulatory burden that can really slow things down," he said. The government is also talking about “…overhauling the environmental assessment process, which addresses the effect of a project on the surrounding area.” So the Harper government’s strategy in responding to Canada’s current economic challenge is to: Save the economy by gutting the environment. WHAT THE HARPER GOVERNMENT ISN’T TELLING YOU: Their plan to erase navigation rights in Canada has nothing to do with the current economic situation. The plan to gut the NWPA is part of an overall strategy to remove environmental safeguards in Canadian law. The current move to gut the NWPA dates is part of a multi-year strategy crafted within the Navigable Waters Protection Program of the Ministry of Transport dating back to the summer of 2006. This strategy hit the public last May when it became known that the Parliamentary committee for transportation, infrastructure and communities was holding hearings on proposed changes to the NWPA, without consulting anyone with any interest in preserving the public right of navigation in Canada. That parliamentary committee then rushed a report in June recommending the changes to the NWPA, the effect of which is to remove navigation rights from thousands of waterways across the country. WHAT THE HARPER GOVERNMENT WANTS TO DO: As earlier as April of 2007, the people responsible for protecting the right of all Canadians to navigate our waterways, had already crafted NWPA amendments that would eliminate protection of navigation rights on what its calls “minor waters” in Canada. The historic test for navigable in Canada is, if you can paddle a canoe in it, it’s a navigable waterway. There is probably not a more appropriate test in Canadian legal tradition than this “float a canoe” test in the NWPA. It is distinctly Canadian. It’s part of our heritage. Here’s what Transport Canada and the Harper government want to do to that Canadian tradition, a proposed definition for “minor waters” dating to 2007: Minor Waterways Criteria – Proposed National Criteria - less than 60 cm depth at high water mark - less than 3 m wide at high water mark - channel slope greater than 2 percent - sinuosity* (bends in the river) greater than 2 - natural obstacle frequency* greater than 3 Sinuosity Ratio = ratio of the length of the centreline of the stream to length of a straight line connecting the same points along the channel Natural Obstacle Frequency = number of natural obstructions (see definitions) along a stream length of 500m (250m upstream, 250m downstream) WHAT YOU CAN DO: Voice your opposition to the Harper government’s to plan to save the economy by gutting the environment. Tell your municipal, provincial/territorial and federal representatives that you don’t want the historic right of navigation diminished in Canada. You want it protected for the future.

Can anyone add light to this??? From: "Canadian Rivers Network" <canrivers> To: <canrivers> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 9:07 PM Subject: URGENT ALERT Government poised to erase navigation rights GOVERNMENT’S BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION ACT ERASES THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF NAVIGATION IN CANADA On Friday February 6, 2009, the federal Conservative government introduced its Budget Implementation Act (BI Act). This Act is in fact an omnibus bill that introduces a series of sweeping legislation changes, including amendments to the Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA). The proposed amendments to the NWPA will permanently erase the public right of navigation in Canada and will have serious consequences for the environmental health of Canadian waterways. Under the proposed new NWPA, waterways in Canada will only be considered navigable under the sole discretion of the Minister of Transport. The proposed new NWPA also gives the Minister of Transport sole discretion to determine whether or not any proposed project (“work”) on a Canadian waterway will have an impact on navigation. The proposed new NWPA grants the Minister of Transport the authority to change, at any time, the criteria used to assess whether a waterway is navigable, or whether a work or type of work may interfere with navigation. The four named works (bridges, booms, dams, and causeways), added to the NWPA in 1883 because these structures, by their very nature, interfere with navigation…have been removed. The government has introduced these changes to the NWPA without consulting with: - First Nations - Paddling organizations - The outdoor tourism industry - Cottage associations - River advocacy groups - Anglers and hunters - Anyone who uses Canadian waterways for business or recreation Our position is: - the NWPA would benefit from a comprehensive review and amendments to modernize and streamline administrative processes - this government does not have a mandate to erase the public right of navigation in Canada - these changes to the NWPA will diminish free access to our natural environment for all Canadians - these changes to the NWPA will damage Canadian waters - the government is acting irresponsibly and radically - the government is not acting in the best interest of Canadians Canada was discovered, explored and developed through the navigation of our waterways. The public right of navigation a fundamental part of what it means to be Canadian. The Government of Canada , under the pretext of helping the economy, is erasing our right, our history, our heritage. There is something you can do—raise your voice. 1) Inform yourself and others: Copy and paste this message into an email or a facebook message to your friends and encourage them to take action. We can be effective by working together. Every letter, every phone call, and every email will help. 2) Tell the government you care about Canada ’s waterways and that you do not support the proposed amendments to the NWPA or the elimination of the public right of navigation in Canada . Send an email to the people listed below and express your concerns about the use of the Budget Implementation Act to make sweeping changes to legislation that is intended to protect Canadian waters and the rights of Canadian citizens. Insist that no changes to the NWPA be made before a full and comprehensive public consultation process occurs. Email: National Manager, Navigable Waters Protection Program, David Osbaldeston: [email protected] Minister of Transportation, John Baird: [email protected] Minister of Environment, Jim Prentice: [email protected] Opposition transportation critics: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Opposition environment critics: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Opposition water critics: [email protected] [email protected], And don’t forget your own MP. You can find your MP through this link: http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilatio...aspx?Language=E

My condolences Lew! God bless Matt

Congrats on the fattie Dale. Beauty fish , you deserve it bud. I tip my hat to you releasing it and with that I hope you release many more like it. You showed true respect for this wonderful fish and deserve notheing but total praise for how you handled it. Kudos bud,,,,couldn't have happened to a classier guy.

It was sold out.... The dinner was good and the auction was very entertaining and tonnes of money was raised. $48,000.00 and counting. Bob Izumis day on the water went for $5500.00 WOW Dave Mercer did a fabulous job (nice meeting you Dave) The prizes offered would blow your mind Video tributes that were tasteful and about as classy as it gets from all the big names. Truely the best night you wish you never had to attend. Big Jim......you are well loved my friend.

No! Nobody in Ottawa has Legends. There are no "muskie shops" in Ottawa. I wish there was but there isn't!

I think we should kill every animal.....the scary ones the fat ones the small and big ones the blu and purple ones, fuzzy and wet ones ....they have no rights....how dare they encroach on our property...we were here first!!! And just because we took away their habitat and food source,,,,,shame on them ,,,they should be able to adapt in a week or 2 after thousands of years of existence. I say to everyone ...go buy a gun and shoot all the animals you can...the world will be much better for it....and get their heads mounted so you all can brag about exterminating animals for being stupid.. As of 2008 there are 44,000 species threatened on earth........think about it.