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On a baitcast reel most braids will be pretty good but for a spin reel I would say Nanofill will make a noticable difference to casting distance and line managability. I usually run 20 to30lb braid on baitcast reels and 10 to 15lb Nanofill on spinning reels. I always use a mono ro fluro leader connected to the braid with a double uni knot. Works for me 100% of the time.

A good policy when buying a new car is to stay well away from the F&I administrator (salesman, because that's what he is) at any dealership. They should make those guys wear a bandito mask to be fair.

I've hooked on cranks in the Grand but as others have said they are really hard to land. I found they are frequently jumpers in summer conditions

Illegal rebates on pharmacuticals of up to 70% of retail and , as a separate story, illegal 2nd (and actually up to 4)wives sanctioned by rouge Imams with pre printed contracts of marriage that apply to second wives but those same marriges are never registered so go undetected. Bet they cost however. Amazingly bigamy is a 5 year sentance here but these dudes are not worried. And of course why would they be, who has the jam to confront Imams anymore.

The overall truth about aftermarket extended auto warranties is that it is an industry that runs companies for a limited time and then they go bust leaving customers in the lurch. It started years ago with International Warranty which was mainly offered by Toyota dealerships. The Toyota reputation basically smoothed the way forward for most Toyotas leaving dealerships with an extended International Warranty. When they went bust it was a massive shock to the automotive marletplace. Think about it, if Toyota's can drive a warranty company out of business what possible chance would a warranty company have when the vehicals in question are Chryslers. Add in a 100% refund of fees paid for the warranty 4 or 5 years later and I would say that fraud would be 100% of the business model. Similar to financial advisers that just fought tooth and nail to have their scam NOT covered by a fiduciary obligation to clients or health clubs that refuse to do business without a credit card or direct monthly deposit from your bank account. With these industries basically there is no business model that does not include fraud as a mainstay of the business. When you look closely virtually EVERY business includes some sort of fraud or chicanery to make the $ come in. This weeks Marketplace just exposed 50 to 70% rebates (a polite name for kickbacks) on pharmcuticals and Imams writing up unregistered wedding contracts for guys wanting a second wife. So the best advice for consumers is to consider every business transaction they get involved with as an opportunity to get scammed and then, to govern themselves accordingly.

I used to use a guy I met at Curry's Art Supply. He was a goalie/catchers mask artist. I have since lost touch with him but try Kijiji and don't just look for lure painters or ask atya local art supply shop for airbrushers.

I've got the Rapala Concept ti 13' float rod that I bought at Sail for only $125. Except that it is a 3 piece unit I like it. At Sail yesterday it was $350 so it appears there's LOTS of wiggle room in the pricing from Rapala. The Concept Ti Bass rods also seem really nice but I have never used one. Again list price was $350 but I saw them for as little as $150. All the other Rapala offerings seemed a little clunky to me . I also have a Rapala float reel and it's ok too

In addition to all of the above I love going to a "back bounce" approach to steelheading (salmon as well). Backbouncing involves working from a spot on shore or in a boat positioned upstream from the target area. Weight such as split shot or pencil lead is applied to the line well up from the chosen bait on a 3 way swivel and this rig is then cast out downstream toward the far shore. The weight gets the bait to sink and then the current will provide the energy to work the lure as though it is being retrieved but the bait is in fact swinging in an ark across the river. I started using kwikfish, flatfish and hotshots for this technique but now I use these baits first and then move to diving crankbaits like CC Shads, Wiggle Warts, Flat Warts and deep diving Bomber Flat A's as the fish dive deeper. Nothing gets salmonoids to hit harder than this technique because it is essentially a method of enraging fish by invading their space by sticking a bright, loud reaction bait right in their face. The Saugeen, Niagara and Grand River are my favorite locations for this technique but i remember that the Catt in NY State was another good spot to back bounce.

TYhose Peto look like a big fish catcher in cool water.

There were huge flocks of Cormorants at the Humber, Hamilton even way up river in Oakville Creek. Their numbers are way down. I bet lack of easy food, which defines ailwife. Their was a series of meetings with the MNR staff re their electronic creel survey of Lake O. Essentially boats traverse the lake with sonar and determine fish populations. Ailwife were way down but there were salmon still out there but without bait clouds they hunt individually as opposed to in packs. This leaves the trollers catching sinular fish, sporadically. My personal opinion is that salmon are down here and up elsewhere on lake O but with much lower total numbers of catchable salmonoids. They need easy prey to thrive and overall, that resource is like everything else around here, precarious

If you watch west coast fishing shows you will see most westcoast anglers wear the full blue latex gloves shown above. They do it for warmth and also to keep their human smell off the bait or lures they are using. I used to use Marmot fingerless climbing gloves. They were great because they were dureable and felt dry even when wet. I checked their website and it appears they are no longer made. I like the silicone treatment on fleese gloves as getting waterlogged has always been the issue with them. For sun protection in summer I cut the fingers out of a pair of white cotton work gloves. Keeps the sun off my hands and it's no big deal when you get a hook caught in the material. I ruined several pairs of expensive sungloves by doing just that and they did not do a better job blocking sunlight. The dollar store also has green cotton gloves with a rough latex palm that is great at holding the shape integrity of the gloves. I never used them for fishing but they were great for weight training including blister producing rope workouts

Years ago I used to fish for steelhead all through the summer months at the Whirlpool. They were so fat that their heads looked like a double chin on top of the head and with heavy bellies as well. To catch them I would take a minnow net to scoop some shiners. There were millions of them close to the shore line thoughout the summer and that is why the steelies stayed around (cool water temps too). For the last 10-15 years there have been very few shiners in the Whirlpool especially past springtime. We all blamed bait dealers who apparently netted them like crazy in the Niagara region back then but that must be over now since you can't transfer baitfish for sale from different waterbodies. I don't get down to the Whirlpool much but I don't think the baitfish ever came back to 80's and 90's numbers. Sort of like everything else.

They are Euro lures. Colour names like Roach, live Roach and Mirror Carp says Europe for sure. You would not believe what a disgusting slimeball a Roach actually is. The goo literally drips off them. European Bream and Tench are also unpleasant animals. They do get big pike over there but I don't think they get them in the big numbers we do here. In the video on Rapala.ca it looks like they are a sinker not a floater or suspender. They do look nice for that type of huge lure

At Gagnons in Oshawa. They are musky big imo, but they are way more realistic than most musky lures. For my fishing they would be better in a slightly smaller size. They were $18-19 each and they only had a few.

if you go to a Chinese grocery store you will see that there are multiple colour patterns in Tillapia. This is one of those colours. The very nature of aquarium life for food fish also washes out the colour, even in the grey ones. You can see this clearly when you see the largemouth bass they sell as "Green Bass". The bass look like a ghost bass pattern with pale green and ghostly black markings. It bugs me to see largemouth as an aquarium food fish but there it is.

I caught a 4lb White Bass last year. It looked much bigger that the 4lbs. shown on my Boga Grip but I bet she could breed up some big ol'e Wiper offsping given a chance. Even if it made sense there would be a huge lobby against transplanting this species around here. I've even seen guys here complain about smallmouth bass as "invasive"".

I just came in from the Hamilton area and the radio was warning of intensely cold water just off shore of the lift bridge and jetty. They were warning that if you fell out of a boat it could be life theatening. Right now there is a very strong west wind and that brings cold water inshore at the lift bridge. Chucking from that lift bridge pier would probably result in some hookups at dawn tomorrow. At Bronte or the rocks at the Credit what you want is a north wind to move the shore water out and the cold lake water in there. The good news is that there is cold water out there. Some years the water is warm top to bottom and offshore winds don't help because the swapped water is still too warm for chinnies to bite well. Personally I've got my stuff ready to go and some north wind is all I need.

I would say 90% of the fish get caught at night or early dawn at Bronte once the staging begins. Some years going out from dusk till about midnight is best other times it's a 4am to 9 am bite. Once the boats come out at 5:30 am the bite really dies off. Can't get the power boaters to incorporate stealthy quiet as part of their approach to salmon fishing in 12 to 20 feet of water. Lots of them troll around or just zoom from spot to spot casting. This activity pretty much shuts down salmon unless everything else is salmon positive like cold,stained water following a rain. Shallow water Salmon are MOODY and careless technique does not pass muster with them. They are sharp eyed cautious animals that, in spawning colour look dumb but are not dumb, they are extremely alert. Goobers blasting around in power boats don't do well and their amatuerish approach often wrecks it for everyone else on shore or in silent boats. If you have a boat and insist on trolling in water less than 40 feet deep it's best for you and everyone around you to use a trolling motor as opposed to a gas engine. Even flatlining a casting spoon like a Cleo or a diving stickbait works while trolling with an electric motor and you should be holding on to the rod to maximize the fun factor rather than setting up like you are fishing the blue zone with dipseys, riggers or whatever works in deep water.

Get some good used stuff. The reel at least should be decent quality and I would opt for some 20lb braid using a variety of leaders from 10lb to full 20lb. Lighter line to fish clear water in the daytime and heavier leader in stained water or at night. Personally I go from 20lb test leader at night and as the sun comes up I work down to 15lb. then 12lb. then 10lb. I don't go less than 10lb anymore but I used to go as low as 6lb Yozuri Hybrid fluro (it's thick line so 6lb Yozuri was similar to 8lb in other brands) but I had a Calcutta TE 401 at the time and on 6lb leader they would run away for 200 yards OR break off my lure. AT one time I used a Fenwick Musky class rod for salmon and it did work but it was a very stout rod that required heavy leader to keep away from break offs and thus resulted in limited success in getting bit in the first place. Salmon , like Rainbow and Browns can be very line shy ( as well as temperature averse, noise averse and just plain moody). Bronte has been both good and bad in the past but you should know that the boat launch is out of commission at Bronte so you need to launch from Oakville Creek or the lift bridge if you are running any sort of conventional boat. Kayaks, toons, canoes can launch at the beach or from the kayak dock at the eastern end of the harbour.

I've never seen those Erie Style Mepps before. Those must be OLD!

I thought you asked about floating line. I use P-line Hydro Float 15lb or maybe 20lb, floating braid in high viz yellow. The ONLY mainline option in my book .

I must have missed somthing. When did Lake Erie become, in any way, a difficult or struggling Smallmouth fishery? I'm told that clearing water, ample supply of forage and high fertility make for a killer Bass factory and that's what Erie is. It's also a walleye factory and probably a Sheepie factory as well. Now killjoys want to restrict fishing access in a thriving fishery just like they do here. Better to lower creel limits across the Great Lakes region and then hire agents to enforce it. The catch and keep crowd are virtually always the problem at least as far as anglers are concerned.

If you can get on Crooked Lake in the Minden area that lake is killer. There used to be a fly in fishing lodge there that has boats etc. I did a fly in with a pilot buddy and we hammered them bigtime. I think boat/canoe access is difficult however.

tHE BEST PRODUCT FOR WADER REPAIR IS aQUA sEAL. iT'S CONTACT CEMENT DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR NEOPRENE AS WELL AS gORETEX (BREATHABLE) MATERIAL. iF THE HOLES ARE SMALL JUST GOOP IT ON IF THERE'S A RIP OR TEAR TAPE SOME MATERIAL OVER THE HOLE. uSUUALLY WADERS COME WITH SOME PATCH MATERIAL TO DO JUST THIS TYPE OF REPAIR

I also fish for salmon out of a float pontoon and i find that mostly flatlining diving body baits works best. But in a pinch you can get a Luhr Jensen Pink Lady trolling diver to take spoons down about 50 feet. I have found that with diving weights like downrigger balls and lead topedoes I can't row fast enough to get the trolling weights to work properly. Even the smallest dipsey diver is too heavy to be effective for me. It works but is not overly effective and is not much fun when you hook up as you are bringing in a heavy piece of lead on a Bass rod. I have seen anglers in America effectivly jig weighted plastics like swimbaits or 4" Power minnows for Salmon on their side of the Great Lakes. Looks like fun and I might try that to get deep salmon that are belly to the bottom but for me casting or trolling body baits is the ticket out of the Hobie.