Barry Willis

Nothing special, just a few cool and interesting cloud formations. First two, not far from Juneau Alaska. Man it rains a lot up there. Puffy cumulus clouds. Early morning fog bank looking east of Calgary. Mammatus clouds, which are there more often than we realize as the sun has to be low on the horizon to shine on the under side of them in order to see them. They usually occur after a rain. First picture of them I managed to capture Hawks, one of our police helicopters looking for bad guys, so I had to get the He&$ in the house out of sight otherwise I would have taken more pics LOL.

Yeah you're right Terry. Then you reach your 70s replacement parts are are very hard to come by.

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WOW, that's a beauty Rizzo, Thanks for posting.

What's the matter, no sense of HAHA.

I would not worry about it, take a few casts and see what it produces. something different is sometimes the key. Take a few casts, have some patience you might be pleasantly surprised.

Doesn't seem to matter where one goes these days Lew, stupidity runs rampant. I saw another video about a month ago, same thing, different lake, airplane and boat.

I didn't think you were old enough Spiel to have a daughter with a family.

Have you tried Google Earth? It's a lot better than it was years ago especially when it comes to clarity. You can do a lot with it.

Farley loved it when I fired up the Char-Griller or put a fire on.

Once upon a time there were triploids in Lake Huron. Back in the early 80's Bob Izumi and I were fishing the mouth of Colpoy Creek for early season rainbow and he told me that the ministry had taken Chinook eggs and raised the temperature to a certain degree for a certain length of time resulting in the fish having no desire to spawn, just eat and grow. They were expected to reach 90lbs. Unfortunately I never did hear of anyone catching one which really doesn't surprise me on such a large body of water, If someone had it would have been pure luck. Something else I found and still find very interesting also in the early 80s, I don't remember what division they were in but two guys with the ministry were flying in a Cessna over Lake Huron not far from shore about mid summer or a little later and reported a school of Chinook four miles long and two miles wide, they couldn't tell how deep the school was, it was heading north. My personal best is 40lbs caught off the mouth of Oxenden Creek on a trip back to visit my mom and dad. I can't find the pictures right now but Lew has seen them. Not bad I figure as the largest recorded Chinook from the Great Lakes (Michigan) is a little over 47lbs. My first cast I hooked a big chinook on a half wave, I set the hook and it came out of the water right away, of course I had my back into it and it threw the lure, with my help obviously it came flying back and broke six inches off the tip of my brand new Cabelas rod I had ordered special from the states for that trip. I lost 16 Chinook in 16 casts that evening. The following morning I finally started landing them. I caught several every day smallest being 16lbs, lots of 30 pounders and of course the 40 pounder my last morning there as I had to catch my flight back out west. I caught the 40 pounder on a spawn bag. There was a large school of Chinook cruising back and forth at the mouth of the creek as the water was too low for them to go up and spawn. Upon seeing this big guy in the school for the third time I tossed the spawn bag a little ahead of him and he just opened up and inhaled it. 10 minutes shy of an hour and 200 yards down the shore in waste deep water with no waders I was finally able to tail him, I thought my arms were going to fall off. I caught him on cheap 6lb test Northern Fine it was called. (all I could afford with the new rod and reel and air fare) You could actually see the nicks in the line as he, after I hooked him buried himself in the school with the line scraping the other salmon. I still can't believe the line held. He had five other hooks in it's mouth from other anglers he had broken free of and much bigger in diameter than 6lb test. More like butcher cord. For some time after that I would not spool my reels with any thing but LOL. Anyway I guess that's enough about that.

I expect this has been posted before, I don't know. Personally I don't feel genetically engineered fish belong in the record book as they weren't hatched and didn't grow that big naturally. That's just me.

Here's a picture of Justin.

This large New Zealand brown died while trying to eat a rabbit.

That is the ugliest and most incredible thing I have ever seen on a fish. If it isn't too late I would take it to MNR and let their biologists figure it out. I'm sure they would be anxious to delve into it, It could be of some importance.

Not only that, I was wondering what I was going to have for supper. Now I know seeing the fish and chips on the burners in cast iron, the only way to fry them. They won't be as fresh as yours but I can't wait. Thanks for that, LOL.

Very nice, wish I was there.

I don't know where you are posting your add but I put my stuff on Kijiji, it doesn't cost anything unless you want it on the top of the page all the time even then it is reasonable. I sold my Minnkota within two hours on there. You can post the same item in different catagories for more exposure but you have to change at least one word in the add title and the add itself, or they will delete it. I am not all that fond of Kijiji (owned by Google) but it has been good to me. There are some tire kicker jerks on there but I have also met some very nice people as well.

Thank you very much Smitty. I will give it a shot, sounds pretty straight forward. Won't be for a couple days as I have a lot of gardening to do and am going perch, rainbow and brown fishing, weather permitting that is.

Oh no, not at all Lew. I would have thought the same thing had the pictures came from another source, especially without the time and date not stamped on it. You aren't really far off at all. Getting off topic just a wee bit. It isn't uncommon in areas east and south of the border where the winters aren't as harsh as they are out here. That's why our ungulates and other critters are much bigger here so they can survive our winters. Typically the deer rut begins in November and dies off in early December. After a gestation period of about 200 days the does give birth in May and June. In parts of North America that have milder winters the younger does don't come into season until January. Thus a later birthing season. In all there are 16 known whitetail deer species in North America, only three of these are found in Canada. Ungulates are actually an amazing mammal and have to be to avoid predators at an early age. Whitetail deer for example are on their feet within 20 minutes after birth and are able to walk within the hour and a few minutes later able to run. Amazing. Yeah I know, I got carried away here again. What else is new. It's because I very much enjoy sharing with others what I have learned over the years about the fascinating animals we share this planet with.

Man, what a shame. I expect you would have had quite the battle ahead of you. Did you at least get a look at it? Nothing I love more than surface fishing. Whether it be for bass and pike with big baits or trout with flies. Gets my adrenaline going a little more.

Howdy Lew, it's been a spell. I expect it was actually born right around the end of May when I last tended to the cameras as it was one of the first pictures on the new replacement SD card. I go up once a month and check the batteries and swap the card so I can bring it home and see what's on it. This is a very good trail cam but unfortunately doesn't show the time and dates which I do miss.

I've had a few close calls of getting spooled while hooking big Chinook, Brown and Rainbow fishing Southampton and Port Elgin using ultra light 110 Dam Quick with 6lb test Golden Stren and 5ft Garcia rod. It was a blast.

Hey Smitty, easy for you to say, but thank you very much for that. I would like very much to be posting my trail cam pics and videos among other things being a photographer for 60 years, on youtube but haven't a clue how to from our desk top, which is the only way I'd be able to do it with the SD camera cards. Hell, it took me ages to learn how to post pics here on the Ontario Fishing Community Board even with help from a lot of you guys. Even though I want to and would love to learn this stuff I have a hard time comprehending it and getting it through my thick skull. I am as OLD SCHOOL as they come. If you were to look up the words OLD SCHOOL in Websters dictionary there will be a center fold of me, fully clothed of course HAHA. What I need is to get some one much younger than myself with lots of time and patience to come to the house and show me how. Thank you. Have a super day.

A couple shots of a priceless whitetail fawn about an hour old. I have a video of them as well where the poor little guy's back legs are still wobbly and barely holding him up, a cow moose with a beautiful calf, whitetail buck and 10,059 pics of cattle which I didn't post of course Lol. The ones of the moose suck as they are on video and I can't post videos so I had to pause the videos and take a picture of them on the computer with a hand held camera.