blarg

It's all just too much, i've seen some of that scenery, i've been to Kugluktuk, never had the pleasure of fishing that far north, you are one lucky guy, incredible.

The correct answers have already been given, perfectly legal. That doesn't mean you won't get hassled, but it is legal.

When did the Tims in Yellowknife go bankrupt? My wife worked there for a time and I never heard of this, though the service wasn't very good, like most places in Yellowknife tbh, they were one of the busiest franchises in the country.

Condolences to you and your family.

This is exactly right, and I feel that it is this type of attitude that has lead to kids sports becoming more and more organized and more expensive ehich ultimately only excludes the kids of parents who don't have money to burn. It was getting like this 20 years ago, I can only imagine what it is like now, my kids played soccer, now they do a lot of swimming, close to home and cheap.

Those of us that buy licenses and observe the slot and don't fish with gill nets are clearly the problem. Clearly a gill net discriminates in the size and type of fish it kills, clearly gill nets are a sustainable method of fishing as has been proven in our healthy oceans. Gill nets can have no impact on the ecosystem of the lake, and being legally allowed to sell fish caught in a gill net surely would not result in increased fishing pressure, nor would government sponsored equipment and processing facilities. In fact, the experts will tell you that there should be more fish than ever. Yes that's right, commercial fishing should actually improve the fishery, and it is known the world over that commercial fishing brings much more economic benefit per fish than does sport fishing. The decline in fishing recently can only be due to sport fishing, it is after all something done by people who hate the environment and would prefer if there were no fish at all, they only take part in the sport in hopes that sooner or later all the fish will be gone. Thankfully the conservationists will be out there working hard to improve the walleye fishery with a blanketed application of gill nets, with any luck they will at the same time rid the lake of the musky and pike. The day i saw a couple dozen suckers being pulled out of one net I was extremely thankful to that fishermen, the sea gulls were hungry after all, and those fish, while seemingly harmless, were no doubt part of some nefarious plot, good riddance I say, the lake can only be the better for it.

Right, because they just happen to be talking about this for no reason at all, it has nothng to do with the lakes' ecosystem and the commercial/sport fishery on the lake, you actually believe that this would be in the news at all if it weren't for the possible impact on the lakes' fisheries? Did you read the article, you might have noticed the whole last half of it was about the ecosystem of lake Nipissing, as I mentioned though, and as with the smelts articles we have seen, the article never mentions the biggest change in the ecosystem, that being the commercial fishery. It is pretty obvious that removing a large number of predators from the food chain will have an impact throughout the whole ecosystem, maybe even affecting the water flea population, that subject just never comes up in these articles. As far as your insult goes, I hope it made you feel good.

The nugget doesn't seem to allow comments on these sorts of articles anymore, afraid that someone might mention the obvious I suppose. It is amusing that these articles don't even mention that gill netting a lake and harvesting 1/3-1/2 more fish from the lake than ever before might be having an effect on the lakes balance. Seemslike awfully biased or fearful reporting to me.

Sometimes I wonder why some people seem so bothered by people who have other concerns and like to discuss them. Maybe even discuss them without snarky comments coming from left field from people who could just..not read it.

I have been using 10lb mostly fishing jigs for bass, it seems fine, i don't think it's much different than the pp, it might cast a little better.

I just bought a 6'6" avid, its a medium spinning rod, i paired it with a 2500 stradic and im pretty pleased. I found the avid a tiny bit stiffer than the crucials which were also very nice. As far as the spinning rods go the cumara have the split grip, i dont think the crucuials do. I had been using compre's which are pretty nice as well but i can definitely feel the difference steeping up to the avid.

It's on, maybe not in full swing yet but close, I was out last night and the smallmouth were really keyed on shad flies, i saw fish rising all over the place and after trying a bunch of different things i managed one hit, shoulda brought the fly rod.

Just one more unthinking, uninformed liberal robot, congratulations, you're a dime a dozen in this country. Would you ban 12 ga shotguns? If not, why not? Do you have any concept of the power of 12ga in a small space? How about all Centre fire rifles, i can easily hit a man sized target at 500 yards, where do you draw the line exactly? O wait you don't, you like most other ignorant people choose to ban rifle "A" because it looks more dangerous than "B" when it simply is not, that surely sounds a rational thought process. Then you accuse completely rational people of being gun crazy simply because they are intelligent enough to know the reality, you are embarrassing yourself. For the record, i don't even own a semi auto .22, and have no interest in owning an ar or ak, but that doesn't mean i think one is more dangerous than the other, that would be completely childish and foolish.

If you knew anything about firearms you would know that there are many legally available arms that are in the same class as an ak-47 you would also know that some are illegal or restricted simply because they look a certain way despite firing the same ammunition as many non restricted firearms. If you knew those things and no doubt many other things that you don't you wouldn't make such ignorant and flippant remarks. Maybe you should consider your obvious lack of knowledge before you make comments on the subject. Perhaps the most problematic part of any firearms discussion are people with opinions and little to no real knowledge. Questions, how many people have been shot with an Ak-47 in Canada? How many people have been shot with a mini-14? Which one of those is prohibited and which one is unrestricted? This is so tiresome.

I just put a new garmin fishfinder in my boat and i get a bit of a rooster tail, the finder seems to be working well, is the remedy to low the transducer a bit or is something of a rooster tail normal?

Pellet guns under 500 fps are not classified as firearms, unless the are used in a crime. Q4. What is considered to be a firearm for purposes of the Firearms Act and for offences related to the Firearms Act in the Criminal Code? A4. As set out in the Firearms Act, "firearm" means: a barrelled weapon from which any shot, bullet or other projectile can be discharged and that is capable of causing serious bodily injury or death to a person, and includes any frame or receiver of such a barrelled weapon, as well as anything that can be adapted for use as a firearm. Following are some weapons and devices that meet the definition of a firearm but that are deemed not to be firearms for purposes of the Firearms Act and related offences in the Criminal Code. Some of these items are exempted from the definition only if they were designed exclusively for a specific purpose and are intended to be used exclusively for that purpose by the person who possesses it. However, all of the items listed below are considered to be firearms if used in a criminal or negligent manner. Antique firearms; Devices designed exclusively for signalling, for notifying of distress, for firing blank cartridges or for firing stud cartridges, explosive-driven rivets or other industrial projectiles; Shooting devices designed exclusively forslaughtering domestic animals, tranquilizing animals, or discharging projectiles with lines attached to them; Air guns and other barreled weapons designed to have: A muzzle velocity of 152.4 meters per second or less and/or A muzzle energy of 5.7 joules or less. http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/faq/index-eng.htm 2. Air guns that meet the Criminal Code definition of a firearm, but that are deemed not to be firearms for certain purposes of the Firearms Act and Criminal Code. These are air guns with a maximum muzzle velocity of 152.4 meters or 500 feet per second and/or a maximum muzzle energy of 5.7 joules or 4.2 foot pounds. Such air guns are exempt from licensing, registration, and other requirements under the Firearms Act, and from penalties set out in the Criminal Code for possessing a firearm without a valid licence or registration certificate. However, they are considered to be firearms under the Criminal Code if they are used to commit a crime. Anyone who uses such an air gun to commit a crime faces the same penalties as someone who uses a regular firearm. The simple possession, acquisition and use of these air guns for lawful purposes is regulated more by provincial and municipal laws and by-laws than by federal law. For example, some provinces may have set a minimum age for acquiring such an air gun. For more information, please contact your local or provincial authorities. These air guns are exempt from the specific safe storage, transportation and handling requirements set out in the regulations supporting the Firearms Act. However, the Criminal Code requires that reasonable precautions be taken to use, carry, handle, store, transport, and shipped them in a safe and secure manner. http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/fs-fd/air_gun-arme_air-eng.htm

Since were on the subject i am wondering what is the fuctional difference between a shimano crucial labelled as a drop shot rod vs one that isn't, i like the handle design on the drop shot models more.

I am looking at a new rod/reel now as well, I was thinking of a shimano crucial and stradic 2500FI, i would be willing to spend more, it's just tough to know where diminishing returns makes it not worth the cost.

Vancouver and Montreal are the most lefty, liberal, and progressive cities in the country, do you think maybe the type of undisciplined and anarchistic type of environment fosters this sort of behavior? I do. Not only did they riot, people are bragging about it on facebook..just what kind of society are we building here and does anyone think that this would have happened the way it did a few decades ago...with people feeling free to be photographed and openly brag about it? That is what happens in a society where there are few if any consequnces.

Thank goodness, after all, punishing someone who bought a license for keeping fish in the slot will surely protect the fish stocks on lake littered with gill nets.

Most of the people I know would disagree with you, and we have seen a few big ones caught too, doesn't mean anything of course, overall there have been far more very small fish and far fewer decent sized fish caught so far, maybe the best is yet to come. The daily fishing report out of Greenings Bay cottages is saying the same thing that we have seen here in terms of the numbers of small fish. Small ones are good, but not if the medium sized fish have disappeared. Btw, this wasn't a post designed to bash the natives, but im not surprised to see the usual apologist responses.

So, the pickerel fishing out of North Bay has been pretty spotty so far, the water is high and started out pretty cold so maybe that has had an impact. I have had a couple decent days recently, we actully caught some decent eating fish just below the slot, this was the couple days after the big wind we had last week. Yesterday and this moring were poor again, but hey that happens, what is a little more concerning is the numbers of really small fish being caught compared to decent eating sized fish, this is by far the most really small fish i have caught and the fewest good keeper size I have caught over the past 4 years. The perch numbers seem to be up, we are catching a lot more 8-10 inch perch than i have before, and the lake seems to be full of small ones, are the perch seeing less predation and therefore growing in size and numbers? While this is a taboo subject here, I have been told that there is a rather large net off shore of North Bay, I wonder if the smaller fish are passing through it while the nice keepers aren't, making for less competition for the small ones. I wonder how other people are dong on Nipissing, and if they are seeing some of the same trends as we are around North Bay so far?

And seeing as that is the nwt where the fishing is as good as you can imagine, especially for pike, i don't think its a problem. Pike that size are common place on great slave lake, it's not as though it's say lake Nipissing where the fishing isn't as advertised and only getting worse.

That looks like Jackfish lake, right off the road? I have caught tons of pike in that lake, and seen some big ones. I broke a rod beaching a 10 lber there.

lived in Yellowknife for 6 years, I miss that sky.