Moosebunk

Sweet nuggets of crappie love!!! Enjoy the buffet.

Hey Jack! Great way to spend a family day dood!

If tick had been in for an unknown amount of time that could have been or is greater than 72 hours, (or a known 72+ hours) you'd likely have been given a prescription for Amoxil or Doxycycline. Otherwise, tick is tested, you monitor yourself... and wait results. No news with P.H. is usually good news. You have a fully intact tick that fed less than 24 hours... your chance of Lyme is quite low. If tick is fully engorged, your chance is higher. Your family MD can also deal with this. What you do with any information is your responsibility Gerritt. I gotta CYA my butt out of this. lol.

Other than Lake Erie, another known hotbed for ticks is the Rideau/Gananoque area. In the local ER's which I work, there has been an exceptional increase in ticks... to the tune at times of 3-12 per day presenting during the summer months. Last summer of all the ticks sent out for examination, there wasn't one confirmed case (last I heard) of those ticks carrying Lyme. Not sure your area, but incidence seems to be low overall. Ticks should be removed with the proper tools. Pet stores sometimes carrying excellent ones that look like the hooks on a hammer, there are also keys (don't work as well) Ticks should be twisted out, not pulled. Try and keep head intact with body as, once you detach one from the other, the chance ot contracting lyme (if present in the tick) becomes greater AND, that head is tricky to remove once it's embedded on it's own. Canadian blood testing for Lyme is crap. It is not as advanced as the States. Our family has a personal friend who was tested here, suffered many ailments for 5 years before retesting in the States, only to find out Lyme disease had been is issue all along. Doctors were baffled by him for years, he was misdiagnosed and treated wrongly for 5 years, and today he is still recovering years afterwards from the damage untreated Lyme disease had caused. ER's do send the ticks away for testing. Prophylactic antibiotic treatment pre-diagnosis of possible prevention of Lyme seems to be a personal decision with each MD, although research does now have a relatively commonly used criteria which helps MD's make that decision. Working today, I could likely look that up. INSTEAD of ER's... you can take your tick to a local Public Health Office and they will send it away for you. If it comes back positive for Lyme, you will be notified. Testing can take over a week.

My God man! 28 of 'em in 4 hours. Nice. Gotta respeck the specks no matter what.

Smaller in spring is pretty well always better, same with slower too of course. Hasn't always had to be soft plastics but they do work best some days, 5-6 shad like plastics and even tubes... Slow rolling smaller inlines and spinnerbaits on surface and jigging a Williams back to the boat can work great too.. And like GBay says, a big dead minnow or even chunk of bait can be best when the waters are really cold and fish slow. If you chuck flies, early spring is a prime time for that too.

Agreed too with the garage guys Rob. In the house is great if you have the space because during the off season you can sort tackle, clean reels, etc. without having to drag stuff in from outside. But that's really a non-issue come a sunny spring weekend. Congrats on the move.

Familiar spot. Surprised ice is almost out up there. Looking forward to your spring troutin' tours. Cool first shot too Ace, and a couple dandies for some of that quality EAP action. You been working out dood?

Hey ya'll caught yourself a smorgasbord of American shads. Great fishing Matt.

Enjoyed that bud. Was funny for us in parts, maybe not so funny for you (pluegered Timmy Splats and such) but entertaining. Some fish caught too. Thanks for the read.

Talked with a buddy in Hearst tonight and he says the big snow has pretty well all melted away. Nakina highs and lows for the next 7 days are all in the plus.. even up to 15C. It's a beginning... and after that, the three weeks of May before walleye opener will take care of the rest. Surely hope. lol.

Hehe!

Ohhhh the horror!!! Nightmares tonight RC. Thanks alot man. lol Cool shots.

Guessing Buckhorn. lol. Hey dood, things are definitely behind last year but spring is coming. Good day out in the sun for ya Garry.

Steelheading just comes easy to you Mike. Lifetime of bangin' bows I guess... that you'll pass on to the wee lad making him a lethal tribber in years to come. Solid fishing!

I find this odd FishB as just this past couple weeks I contacted by email a Temagami and Calabogie Naden dealer, Carleton Place Marine for Lund and Rideau Ferry Marine for Alumacraft. All returned emails that day or overnight. All gave quotes by email except Calabogie, and upon having a look at the Alumacraft and Lund, both dealerships there had staff at my side willing to answer any questions. I also have a tiller. 16.5 Rebel XL with a 60HP. It has spent time on St.Clair, Quinte, Nipigon and other big waters too... sometimes a week at a time. It's also lighter and trailers well, and launches into ditches if need be. Not sure why some others have issues with Lund, I have had no issues with mine and although it's on the road 2-4 times a week and has been trailered several times across the province, you treat it like an investment and give it regular check-ups it'll be fine. If thinking CPMarine & Lund... I could try Shawn on your behalf. We went to school together. Or, if you didn't know this, Rideau Ferry deals Alumacraft and I was there last week eyeballin' boats too. They are the closest to you with this brand and the fella who met me at the door seemed a nice young lad.

That's the spirit Dan!!! May 1st what's going to happen is the heat is just gonna turn on so hot you'll be swimmin' a meltin' tidal wave downhill to Ottawa. Stop on in for coffee in the boat. lol.

Glad it's over for Boston and their healing can begin.

WTG Brian. You captured in Misfishinewfienese what they captured on vid. lol. Andy Cap... barely remember but do. lol. Tuned in from time to time today on what was happening in Boston. Simply sad and sickening really. And over the last week the big threads here have been the Algonquin Land Claim, Nipissing Gill Nets, Bad Politics and of course... crappy weather. lol. I get it... they all effect fishing and anglers of the OFC and actually are good things to know... (feel for ya too Dan)... but they're bummers doods. lol. Got word yesterday that I will have to again have to shave my beard off for work... that sucks biznalli-sacaronis too. Watched this video last night and it took me away for awhile and, got me even more excited for several adventures coming this summer. Glad it did something for some of yas here as well!

Friend of mine shared this recently posted 1/2 hour Youtube video of a few doods beating up on Lake Superior's steelies and other trout. Some cool footage and a real sense of fish adventure well captured. Figured I'd post the link here for any interested. Enjoy.

That's a pretty cool and different report Brian. The Twocoda & TroutTour . Great way IMO to spend a rainy day.

Don't own one of them fancy phones so can't contribute. Will say Nick, looks like you had plenty fun opps this past winter fishing, outdoors and drinking with the wee one. lol. Thanks for posting... the pics are pretty solid for a phone.

Right on Chris! Most must still be chompin' at the bit to be out there on the softwater already. You're out there jiggin' 'em up! Good fishing.

I think it would be real of you Gerritt to speak your mind on this. Maybe not when you're most angry... but anytime still. My initial thought on all this was it'll take years... but at the rate our present day Government is slaughtering the environment I don't think so anymore. Like you, (and after listening to that video last night) I am quite worried for where Canada's head is at right now, and where our dictators are leading us. In the long run... Harper is doing an excellent job now of ensuring big business can do as they please. And in future with the Native land owners, it'll be much cheaper for businesses to pay out 10,000 folks here or there in order to obtain whatever's needed on their lands. Thanks for posting the video, it was educational... and disturbing.

Thanks dood. And although I don't really, there are some whom likely agree with your sentiment too...