Barry Willis

Some interesting cloud pics I missed last time. This is what I was going to post until I noticed the pike picture. The first one I thought sure was the beginning of a huge tornado as there were watches for the area, thankfully it wasn't. The next one, some of you may have seen, closely resembles pictures on the proof is out there. Came across the third one showing the price of gas back in the day. I remember when it was less than half that price LOL. picasabackground-137.bmp

Hence the old saying when a fellow talking to his fishing buddy says, all fishermen are liars except for me and you, and to tell the truth, I'm not too sure about you.

That's a good point there Glen, although I have caught, especially pike that just hung onto the bait without actually being hooked. My youngest son and I once caught a walleye with both our hooks in it's mouth. Kinda brings new meaning to a double header.

I see what you mean Rick with the word we in there which was an error on my part. I should have went into more detail. I was just telling it the way it was told to me. No I sure wasn't there. In fact my wife and I were in Goderich Ontario at the time. I just got off the phone with my grand son and he was quite surprised at this and said it never happened. So obviously my fishing buddy Eric at the time was bull ing me. All the time I knew him he had a inferiority complex, telling stories in hopes that others would think more of him as for some reason he quite often felt left out, although he wasn't, if that makes any sense. My apologies for this to all of you. I thought it was worthy of posting, had I known the truth I sure as Hell wouldn't have. But I didn't and I wish I hadn't, it is very upsetting.

Hmmmm is right. Well if it is the exact same photo and I don't doubt what you are saying I guess my fishing buddy who is no longer with us and my grand son were Bull ing me then. I am just showing the pic that was sent to me and quoting what they told me. I'll have to see what my grand son has to say about this. I am not very happy about it especially having posted it here. And they were using my canoe this particular evening.

I expect you will recognize the name Rick, Glenmore Reservoir in S.W. Calgary right off the shore of Heritage Park.

This one wouldn't let go until we tried to net the two of them.

Thought I'd lost this picture.

Hey Gil, very cool, Aside from when I am in the back country my eye's, day and night are always pointed towards the sky. The things I've seen would startle most folks imagination. I've actually seen these several times out west here and similar to any cloud formations they don't last long. It is caused by a moisture build up and the angle of the cloud verses the sun and depending on weather and time of year ice crystals. Here's some pics of the strangest one I've ever seen (the pictures suck as I had to use my phone rather than my Canon digital as I didn't want to miss the shot and the Canon was no where's near) This cloud, if I can call it that, circled the whole sky in a perfect circle about six fingers above the horizon. I should have submitted it to the weather station but never did but now that you have jogged my memory I will. The first shot appears to be the eye if you will. It was really something to see.

Not all that many pictures worth sharing out of the over 2000 the cameras took but I couldn't be happier with what the cameras have captured. Takes hours to import and go through them all. Here's the best ones. Some nice black bears including a brown color phase which has turned out to be common in this particular area, some moose. some respectable white tail bucks which will be growing their antlers for about another month and a priceless white tail fawn still wearing it's spots. Hope you all enjoy. Please disregard the date on the crappy spy point camera.

Wow, awesome shot there Lew. I don't very often see them in straight rows like that. They look like cotton balls.

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.