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how do you hold a catch like that? by the lip?, or somewhere less obvious..

I hope you tried the school boards in the nwt like yellowknife..5 miles out of town you can catch trophy pike until your arms fall off. and you can catch 10-15 lbers right in town..just sayin. oh, and grats

I think everyone needs to buy a new boat so they can join me in the with-the-price-of-gas-what-the-hell-was-i-thinking-club. The first rule of this club is to not speak about gas prices, but no one ever listens.

ive lived in 4 different provinces in the last 10 years, Ontario is by far the worse place i've lived for this sort of thing, i get 3-4 calls daily, this morning i got woken up at 0820 by a new number..

thanks for the responses guys, yea i've found that the braids are easier to untangle, i guess for the same reason that they are harder to tie but if you can't get it undone your out more money as well.

If there is a god he should be ashamed of that creation, it just doesn't look "normal"! Damn big fish tho.

So, i'm thinking of picking up a baitcaster rod and reel, i've done lots of fishing but have never seriously used a baitcaster so I thought it was about time. So far i've been thinking of getting a shimano curado, the 201 is proabaly about right, from what i can see the 301 is a bit heavier and has more line capacity, this is just for general bass/pike fishing, im not targeting giant muskie unfortunately. Also the rod..id like a one piece rod, at least med, probably mh 6.5 or 7ft, i've looked at some of the st croix models, some of the rod types like trigger vs crankbait-they look the same to me-are a bit confusing. Does anyone have any advice they can offer?

unfortunately it wasnt one of these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljyEyq5Aw4 but it was a ford rust bucket, ironically it had very little tempo

Thats great, my 8 yr old boy out fished me last night with a couple bass, boy did he rub it in!

"Spoons are a pain in the butt for fishing in weeds, but the fish seem to find them hard to resist, 'cause everybody has one in their tackle box they'd swear by." ive caught tons of pike on weedless minnow spoons, and the are for the most part weedless, try em.

turn the heat down a bit and wear sweaters..thats about as much as I can do.

good idea

yea, expensive for sure, i drifted onto a rocky shoal last night, put some fancy scratches in the hull..even with a paper chart its pretty hard to know exactly where you are on the darn thing. So i think a gps would be in order.

I'm thinking of buying a gps, and i have a couple questions. What set of maps if any would give me navigational charts for Lake Nipissing, for a reasonable price? Do these come with any base maps or is that something you always have to buy seperately? And I was looking at the Blue charts from garmin, the prices seem really high. Thanks

My boat has two stickers on it one near the throttle one on the transom, one says 5 persons, the other 4, i wonder if oneis canadian regs and one american, its a crestliner, thet're built in the US i think.

i recently had the same problem with vanish, wasn't worth the trouble imo.

No no, those folks are better stewards of the resource then you and i, they'd never over fish it...

I just noticed that Environment Canada updated the marine section of thier website, using the clickable map you can get weather data for major lakes including buoy reports. http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/marine/index_e.html

that is a great result, i almost bought one of those but ended up with a crestliner, i hope i don't have problems, but if i did i can only hope for a similar result.

Well, went back out to callander this evening, was a very nice night, didnt stay too late we were off the lake by about 0730. Started out fishing along the weed edges. got a couple strikes, small stuff. Then a bit later moved out about 50-100 yds and fished some submerged weeds in 6-8 feet of water, caught a couple small ones and had a couple more strikes in a half hour or so, so that seemed to be an improvement. We couldn't stay any longer but it gave me some hope for next time, all small fish tho, nothing over 20ins. Had hits on spinner baits, top water lures, and minnow spoons, none seemed better than the other. My 11 yr old told me how much he liked it tho, getting to see the strikes, fishing with top water lures etc, so that was good to hear, fun night overall.

well thanks for all the reply's so far, another quick question, i want to try callander bay again and i was wondering if anyone has used the marina in callander to launch from, is there a charge to use it and is it a hard surface or sand/gravel, i tow with a mini van and worry about gettting stuck. I made the trip from north bay last week, the wind was a beeech on the way back.

well yea, that was my expectations as well, but still ive been shut out, and im fishing from a boat. As far as lure sizes, if a 2-3 pound smallmouth doesn't have a problem with it i can't imagine a pike would.

i've used the fiskars? model with the long pliers for years now, still works like new.

So, i've been out a few times in the past week for pike, ive had zero luck. I've fished rocky shorlines with 8-10 feet of water near shore, submerged weed beds, weedy shorelines and haven't seen a single fish, other than the oos smallmouth on huge spinner baits and raps. I've only ever caught northerns in Great Slave lake, i've spent six hours with a follow or a strike virtually every cast on that lake, so i guess i was spoiled up there (why did i leave again?) the fishing was pretty ridiculous. In any case ive been pretty disappointed to not even see a pike. I was in callander bay a few days back fishing the weedy shorelines but nothing. Are the fish out in deeper water by now? Is there any specific techniques or lures i should be trying? Help!

I find the console more comfortable, better visibility especially if i want to stand will driving looking for rocks etc, im sure the boat is better balanced without my fat ass all the way in back as well.