Cookslav

I can't Think of a more deserving member thats for sure.

 

And in the same breath I have to say....

What a class act that was guys...bravo!!!

 

This kind of stuff is what makes me proud to be an OFC'r

You guys really put a capital C in this community.

 

Cheers,

My vest has a light on it all the time...comes in handy tieing line at night as well.

But the whistle is a great Idea!

 

I actualy have 3 whistles in my Safety kit...I spose I could spare one for my vest LOL!

Me thinks I'm not fishing the same waters ya'll are

 

I've not had any close calls, or near misses, or (luckily) even seen a close call.

But then again...I'm not on the big busy waters as often as some of you.

I'm not disagreeing the problem...I Guess I just find it hard to relate to the the topic???

 

I personally love the comfort that comes with insurance being a family man, but I definitely do not like the idea of having it mandated as law.

We have our hands cuffed enough I think.

Not many people would pay outrageous insurance rates to drive a 12'-14'-16' tinny worth $500-$1000

Nor would it be fair to force someone like me into paying a hundreds of dollars to drive small boat 5 times a year?

 

The Operators card is a joke no doubt...I totally agree

But I think I'd prefer to see mandatory classes to earn your operators license as opposed to high manditory insurance.

That way weekend warriors can boat once in a while safely knowing how to boat, and having been properly taught in a formal class setting.

Then mature responsible guys like me can head out once in a blue moon with out paying huge insurance rates we either can't afford or deem not worth it.

 

 

That’s sounds way more acceptable to me?

But man don't get me started on the gun registry....

New skin?

Nice to see you got into a few.

Gotta luve those flouro leaders eh?

 

By the way...."the berg"?

Thats a beautiful fish to top of what sounds like was a great outing!

 

Geeze,

I gotta get up there and try the mighty Ottawa...

Sounds like the place to be lately

I was curious to try this "lost cookie" theory and wouldn't you know it...

I just dropped about 100 votes in there LOL....

1 vote/3 seconds= 5 minutes of spare time put to good use

How does one vote more then once per day?

I don't think any one is panicking exsactly...

Very concerned...yes..knee jerk responses....yes

It's probobly a prudent approach given the exsample this species has set south of the border.

Better to nip a problem in the but right off the bat if you can right?

 

If we're lucky the last one caught 3 years ago was the last one and we won't need to deal with this issue...

I just hope that electric fence has battery back up

 

cheers,

Maybe the MNR can get that stuff killing all the carp in the Kawarthas and put it in the Great Lakes.

ehg

 

I'll third that...Might be a pretty good idea

 

This Carp thing is Bad news all around

My brother is in Grande Prarie....

He's got fish pics to prove Alberta has a great fishery.

 

Rainbow Trout are Prolific(not steel head) in some of the lakes around there, and most other lakes are chalked full of Pike & pickeral...

Like anywere in Ontario...You just have to know were to go

If its trophy fish your after I suggest Lesser Slave lake...my bro's got some real brute outta there

I'd say the higher thrust the better.

MORE POWER!!! LOL...

You can always use the lower gears, and back troll if your speed is still to fast

But if you have a high thrust motor you have the option of kicking it up in high wind, or thick weed.

Just don't forget..the higher the thrust, the more power consumption you will burn.

 

Ps.

I a lttile birdie told me BPS has a variety of trolling motors on some 50% off for a limited time....

naaaa....

its legal by the regs...

 

I just buy a sports license every year now out of principle anyway.

Its only a few extra bucks, and the MNR can use the Revenue.

No moral dilema, no legal dilema, and its money well spent...even if it is only a few bucks.

Bring it on home...we need the rain here in kitchener!!!

The radar shows lots of it, but the forecasts from both Enviroment Canada, and the weather network show only a little bit is expected...

I hope they are WAY wrong

I don't see where livetofish said it came from the rear

 

 

I could be completely wrong but I thought thats what he was implying with post #79

I've been wrong atleast once before though

Ah I see...

Definition of "engaged in fishing" buy the law is not recreational angling at all but instead is considered proffesional harvesting.

mmm...who knew?

 

Despite all that,

If this sailboat came up from the rear, and cut in as Live2fish said...

How someone could fail to identify a boat with rods and riggers sticking up all over the place, moving at 2 knots as a boat engaged in recreational angling is beyond me.

They in this instance did not keep well clear of the vessle.

A not so sypathetic lawman may agree...or not

Like I said grey area.

 

Legal or not Its either a pretty tastless move, or a boatload of clueless sailors

QUOTE(live2fish @ Jul 21 2007, 09:27 PM) *

 

tell me whos fault this was

 

 

Guy....I completely agree

What an idiot!

 

Unfortunatley Thats a bit of a grey area but...

Given the open expanse of area available to travel, and the speed of your vessle I'd say he's breaking the law as he has not given a safe birth (or even attempted to stay away or "well Clear") based on your picture.

 

If he's over taking you he's responsable for giving/makeing way...

 

Collision regulations states

"the operator of a pleasure sailing craft shall take early and substantial action to keep well clear of a vessel engaged in fishing."

 

http://www.boaterexam.com/canada/education...lations-en.aspx

 

I'd be tempted to throw something no doubt, but a call to the police might be more prudent.

Very cool,

 

Whats the time line on one of those....you must have put in some serious hours???

Thanks guys,

 

Another interseting point I forgot to mention about the Plovers was how they were discovered...

An 8 year old bird enthusiast!!!

 

He was watching killdeer's, and some swallows observing their nests when He noticed a small nest different from the rest.

He took the initiative to look up the eggs on line, and showed his Dad, and they called the ministry.

 

Thanks to the efforts of an 8 year old boy these birds got the protection they needed for second chance in Canada.

I'd sure be proud if that was my boy

Injuring yourself on the first day sucks...

I hear you on vacationing with young ones LOL

(mine are 2years 10 months, and 10 months old)

 

Certainly limits the fishing time and the level of intensity at which you can fish but....

its every bit as rewarding if not more to see your kids doing all the catching eh?

 

Thanks for the report.

Cheers,

Nice,

 

The Grand has a great bass Fishery if you know were to get in

Cheers,

Well this report is a little over due…

Just been busy and haven’t had the time to put it together.

 

Started my Vacation on the Canada Day Weekend ….started off abit odd?

My wife come into the room and says “Check out the size of this bird on the neighbours roof”

So I meander on over to see a Heron on my neighbours roof???

Very odd considering I live in the city NO WERE near any water, creeks, ponds etc…

I think he was eyeing up the neighbours pool

Anyway,

Off to Sauble beach we went!

 

With fair but cool weather on the weekend I figured we would see increased fishing pressure being it was not suitable for swimming, and beach related fun, Plus It also happend to be “Family fishing week“

(no licences required)

 

So most usual fishing spots would be well pressured…

We decided to hold off until later in the week to do our fishing and hopefully allow the fish some time to relax, while enjoying some beer, and tossing horseshoes.

 

Sauble beach is a beautiful area on the worst of days, but this year we had another added natural attraction…there was an endangered Species discovered nesting in the dunes!!!

 

 

They are called the Piping Plovers.

 

 

There are approximately 2000 in the world left today, and the pair in Sauble Beach are the only nesting pair in Canada, and furthermore the only pair seen in 40 years.

The MNR was present closing off sections of beach, and monitoring the Birds….they had to trap 4 local foxes I was told.

Appearently they were seen trying to eat these little delicacies

They had a great beach front head office set up on wheels

 

Truth be told I was super impressed at the measures taken to track these animals...24 hour Surveillance!

They could tell you were the birds were at any given time with out the aid of tracking bands....they simply had someone watching the Birds(2 adults and 4 babies) all the time.

They were very informed, and freindly.

They were more then willing to stop and talk about what was going on and inform me of anything I wanted to know.

 

The issue is Habitat loss…

As Beach front dunes become Beach front homes & Property with people moving in….these birds move out, as they are “Supposedly”

Very shy….

I guess I’m just approachable Cause As I was sunning myself on the beach when a bird ran by only 6 feet away that caught my eye…and wouldn’t you know it was Mr. Plover.

 

Sadly before we left we were told 1 of the chicks did not make it it to maturity(natural causes we're told)….

Here’s hoping we see the rest of them all back again next year.

 

Very cool birds...They run like the wind

The chicks litteraly looked like cotton balls with legs

 

Allow me to segway from endangered birds to classic cars here.

I saw this beauty parked at a local restaurant we decided to stop in at…

This restoration was Awesome!!!

Everything was intact and restored to its original splendor..including a hand crank siren!

This guy had old Batons, cuffs, uniform jackets and holsters in the back seat as well…I was very impressed at his attention to detail when it came to this restoration.

 

 

 

Ok….now to a little Fishing

Weather was cool, and windy making it tough to control the drift but we managed.

We were WAY off the beaten trail here, as we knew coming off a long weekend fish would be spooked in the usual more accessible jaunts.

We worked a very narrow section of river, that proved to be challenging but fun!

This stretch of river goes from being 1’ deep and rocky to 15’ and fertile bottom in a heartbeat.

And for the most part was completely chocked with weeds....but that was our Angle.

 

 

 

There is little to no cover in this stretch other then weeds so we knew were to find the Fish on this sunny day. The year before we worked this stretch and ran into some difficulties…

Bass were holding in the weeds and the only way to get at ‘em was plastics rigged weedless….the issue was Big Pike who were ALSO holding in the slop, and were cutting our lines every so often.

So we tried Leaders but the action was impaired, and the clasps became weed magnets.

This year we got smart and bought some 80lb flouro, and tied our own leaders directly to the hook, with bullet weights in place and power pro as our main line….worked like a charm!

The action was great, and visibility of the leaders was next to Nil

(I am very impressed with the Seagar flouro...very impressed)

 

So, we worked the slop, popped holes, and dragged plastics all afternoon.

Berkley power Craw in black & Chartreuse, Yum Craw bugs in rust, and pumpkin seed Tubes Were the baits of choice.

(Texas rigged with bullet weights)

 

To be honest…fishing was a bit slower then we would have liked but it was pretty exciting!

We could see fish everywhere!, and had so many follows it was ridiculous.

But getting them to hit was a little more difficult…the bite was light to say the least.

 

I managed to boat 2 decent fish, wile My Partner and I added another 2 littlen’s under the 16” Mark

The first fish was a healthy 20”, she came out of some heavy deep weed in about 10’ of water .

Very light bite, but a LOT of fun trying to horse out of the heavy weed.

She was apparently popular because I counted 5 more decent sized Bass following her to the boat.

One of which was notably larger…

 

 

And for the record...yes I'm wairing shorts!

After seeing the picture I realized ho funny it looked

 

And a second 17” who gave a nice Arial show, and a notably good tug.

He took it as we came into a clear rocky/gravely pocket…the cool part was seeing him and his half dozen buddies all lounging in the Sun as we drifted by unnoticed.

 

 

One funny twist was the fact that we didn’t get to tangle with any Pike this year…figures

I hope to get back out again in a few weeks to revisit this spot among others, but with the full intention of targeting the toothy critters.

Team 8 needs some of them

 

Cheers,

About moving my trailer.

The spot we're in is nice...has a decent beach, and is reletivly close, and fairly priced.

But,

 

Has small sites, Local fishing is poor unless I'm willing to drive 35-40 minutes, and I have a real donkey hole neighbor thats given us a bit of greif.

So long story short We're thinking about taking advantage of our trailers wheels, and trying somewere new next year.

 

My wife and 2 little ones are beach Gals...so proximity to a decent beach is a must

And preferably with in 3 hours of Kitchener...allthought I would go further, the wifes not big on long hauls

 

I have a few spots in mind but I thought I'd tap into the expereince here and seek out some suggestions?

Cheers,

June kicked Butt..

 

July's been crappy, and completly unpredictable...but hey

I s'pose thats just an added challenge to deal with when fishing