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eh thanks for the tips, that's great. cast right into the rapids and rip the bait along and i should find fish eh...awesome. yeah definitely going to bring those.

hey guys, i'm heading up to the missinaibi river (canoeing mattice to james bay) next week and i'm looking for some simple tips for walleye/bass baits...we're canoeing the whole way so i'm trying to take as little tackle as possible. right now i'm just thinking a simple selection of jigs (1/4 - 3/8) coupled with a small net for catching minnows is the simplest answer to my question, but is there anything else that i'm missing? we're counting on eating fish for a bunch of our meals, so being able to catch fish is a must!

Alright, so here it is. For the second time in my life I found myself fishing pickerel on the Ottawa River (definitely the most powerful and beautiful Canadian river I've fished) with two good friends of mine...we caught numerous pickerel, most were over the slot (15" until june 15 if my memory isn't too polluted ) but those within the legal limit were most delilcious... Fast forward a week or so, tonight I'm reading about pickerel/walleye which led me to the wiki pages relating to both fish (walleye and pickerel)........so (according to wikipedia) pickerel is a species of fish within the genus of esox fish (northern pike and pickerel), but walleye, according to the wiki article, "also known as the colored pike, yellow pike or pickerel (esp. in English-speaking Canada" are not actually related to the species pickerel nor pike...so - excuse my language - what the frig is the difference between pickerel and walleye? Reading through that "walleye" article will also lead to this sentence: "The walleye is sometimes also called the yellow walleye to distinguish it from the Blue walleye, which is now extinct." Alright, if the 'blue walleye" is different from the 'blue pickerel' I'll believe it...but that same weekend on the Ottawa yielded my first two 'blue pickerel', absolutely beautiful fish, and genuinely distinct from the other pickerel i've caught in my life.... arg.... right now if i could shrug my shoulders and show a most confused face through the internet i would...alas i can't, so just answer the damn questions!

Hey everyone, anybody know what the ice is like near Sutton, specifically Sibbald PP?

Gotta chime in and say that my buddy and I just returned from 4 days at snowfari...have to admit that it was my first time using an operator for ice fishing, actually a first time for proper ice fishing itself. Anyways, I had a blast up there...Ron was a nice enough guy; set us up with some good tips and locations, had no problems getting bait finding the fish. The cabin was awesome, had a good heater, sweet double cooking grill and a nice washroom attached to the side of the building. I suppose the only 'problem' was that we caught a single mudpuppy from the main hut, but driving to the other locations was no problem, actually nice to get out of the hut and onto the open lake.

And can someone post some pictures of their slip floats? I've never fished for trout before, would love to visualize the terms and setups I've been reading about....

mmmm beer! i make a great bitter (ESB) that everyone seems to enjoy (even those who are used to the bland macro beers) but other than that, always been a fan of wellington's iron duke, millstreet's tankhouse ale, niagara's best blonde, and tetley's english ale as a seesion beer...oh and fuller's london porter is awesome! just depends on my mood, my environment, bunch of other factors, haha... cheers