Cudz

And a big congrats to Albert and his firsts (and PBs for that matter)

Nice report. I love how your children are now wearing life jackets all over the place, even when they don't need them. lol

I guess it was etched into your mind. And that was a sweet bonus indeed (catching smallies). lol

Probably Little Lake up by Gloucester pool. Nice fish. Looks like a barracuda. lol

Wow that is the deepest I have ever heard. Incredible. I was out fishing on simcoe the other day for smallies and started in 13' went to 18' went to 22' then I tried 4-7' Caught 5 out of 6 bass at the 4-7' area so it can be a real crap shoot at times.

I tend to find smallies in the 10-17' depth but it depends on a lot of factors. Later in season I fish 20-25' of water and in November I have caught them in over 50' of water. Be careful if you pull a smallie up from anything over 25' air sac issues. fizz might be required. Depends lots on the lake as well.

I bet I teach all of them. No names I guess. Too young.

nice. is that a 10?

aka freshwater drum

octopus 2/0 but no smaller than 1/0 circle 2/0

anyone? anyone? Bueller?

yes. Go out of the penetang harbour and find some smaller bays. find pads at the bottom of most bays. Throw senkos or frogs over pads and hold on. Smallies are more abundant and bigger. Find some boulders or fish off points with tubes, slammers and senkos and you will do well. Penetang bay itself holds lots of fish too. I actually8 caught a nice largie right beside boat launch. There is a weedbed there and I caught it on a spinnerbait

Well i can afford neither but would have either or both.

I just bought two very nice looking tungsten leaders. They are 22pound test and they are super thin. They are very supple and almost feel like braid. It shows a pic of a pike on the package but I don't know. These things are pretty thin. Can they withstand a pike bite? They are 13.8" long. The reason I want something thin is that I go to this lake that has nice smallies but mixed in with them are some decent pike. I am tired of setting hook and having nothing left on the other end. I have afew fluoro leaders but the snaps on them are too big a tube. The snaps on the tungsten leaders are really small and of good quality.

I have one thing to say about the 407. Bike carrier on your vehicle with bikes on it.

Hey Rob, Check out Harrison's profile pic. Pretty sure he is popin it as well. All the cool kids are doing it. lol

Wow. Thanks. Fun contest. Thanks again. I would pop the collar if it had one. lol!

so what is the answer?

i always use uni to uni knots.

nice work!

exactly, like a quater the price. Does regular fluoro line not tie to braid well? I only tried tying regular fluoro line to braid once in my life years ago. I had a 4' leader tied to some 20# braid. Made 2 casts and the leader broke. Keep in mind it was Berkley vanishcrapwhatever fluoro carbon so it sucked anyway but I have not tried it since. It was a costly move as I lost a LC custom paited sexy shad pointer 100 in the process. The lure was worth about $50 at the time. Nice!

I know you are not supposed to but why do I have to buy fluoro leader material for my leader instead of using a 6' piece of fluoro line from a 150 yard spool. What is the difference that makes the leader material better?

rain no prblem. I don't find fish bite better but no worse either. Wind = crap. I hate wind (I am talking heavy wind more than 10 mph. in the wrong direction on Simcoe)

I hope I don't win that boat. If I did my wife would make me get rid of it. She is good like that. I do however hope an ofner wins it. That would be sweet. Great prize by the way. When I first heard about the contest I thought you would be giving away a little g3 tinner or something like that. Cool bananas.

10.23 pounds that is a big smallie