BillsTheBassMan

Pete, I must say that is ONE HELL OF A SEASON. Congrats on your continued success and best of luck cracking the 50" mark before the end of the season. I'm looking to break the Muskie cherry in the near future and you should be looking for an inbox message Cheers, Ryan Also - love the release pics - there is one where the Ski actually looks to be smiling upon release.

Well Fellas, It's almost that time of year again and we're looking like we may get that early autumn after all. I've still been pounding the rivers religiously and the fish have been on the feedbag for close to a month now. Even the 12" fish I'm catching are FAT FAT FAT and they are noticeably cold to the touch. I'll let the topic title speak for itself and pose the question: How many weeks of quality river bassing do you figure we have left? I'm thinking 3 weeks max with dwindling (rapidly) results after that.

I guess photographs would have to be submitted from the camera they were taken on, or film negatives could be the way to go. In court, film negatives are >>>> digital photographs because their authenticity is hard to refute.

Beauty Report Pete and a Great Season For Sure. Best of Luck Getting 50 This Fall!

I can't even say that I'm all that surprised

Always love reading your reports limey - thanks for sharing as always. Ryan

I see lots of bass like that as well. Nice Musky either way - looks plenty healthy from where I'm sitting.

looks like paper-machet

Man . . . that place is sweet!

If Im fishing a catch and release spot and a fish happens to die from a mishook, you have to just let it sit there . . . nothing you can do.

Huge Near-Life-Long Packers Fan (saw home opener in 1993 @ Lambeau) and tonight was a good start en route to the division win. Vikings D-Line and passing game looked pathetic. (I wonder how pathetic the Green Bay offense will look on Sunday? Maybe just 400 total yards this time).

Thanks for the kind words, and excuse me if this sounds harsh, but I've explained on two occasions now why that fish ever saw the livewell - we were exposed in 40km winds with 70km wind gusts (yeah, a gale warning), rain, and big swells. We needed to get into a sheltered area not only to attempt to revive the fish, but to protect ourselves.

Hahahaha, that's priceless HC. Nice pics!

Yeah, some donkey blew right behind our boat with the pin down in bad conditions . . . he cut off my buddies line and he lost one of his favourite lures. The other boat could have gone literally ANYWHERE else. We also witnessed a jetski come a hair's length away from backflipping, and he saw a 14' boat come just as close to hitting a big rock.

I definitely laughed when I read that Terry!

We're only speculating that it is the same fish. The Musky was found in close proximity to the tournament weigh-in where they were denied access. They also stated that they transported the Musky by stringer. Mix that with few anglers being on the water in such bad conditions, the blown belly (shows it likely came up on a rigger), and the fact that these are rarer fish and I think we're on the right track (though one 42" Musky came out the same day - caught by an Asian couple - and it was photographed once and quickly released).

I featured the story on my most recent WFN Ambassador Blog. I also added an extensive Catch & Release guide to it as well. I guess educating is all you can do.

Da na nair nair nair na nair nair nair.

Great Thread Dave . . . cheers for starting it!

It was all right but I prefer other areas of Georgian Bay . . . there's often more money than sense in that area it seems. I won't complain about it, but it seems to get POUNDED.

Woops, you appear to have made a wrong turn! The moral high road is to your left.

Well, with all due respect, for one I always carry my license. For two, it's the law, you do have 24 hours to produce. With that said, I'm sure Bruce has seen enough things to make him so eager to bust people. I say good on him for drawing a hard line. The more people here about stiff fines for minor-medium infractions, the more people will follow the regs.

I hear ya Roy. I know that moving a fish back and forth has a "half-suffocating" effect and I don't doubt that what you say about livewells is true. I did forget to mention that the fish came into the boat because we were a little exposed to the conditions where we found him and things were whipping up fast (we were pretty much ready to pack it in). We wanted to get into a back bay to stop from getting rocked around so much on the attempted revival. Tim going overboard wouldn't have helped us or the Muskie.

yeah, I know the odd Musky gets caught by bass guys or guys errantly trolling for pike . . . that's unavoidable. Based on the word around the locals (secondhand information, not third or fourth or fifth), this particular Musky was brought up on downriggers on a spoon and stringered 6-8kms beside the boat back to the derby station.

Yes sir, those are two Northerns caught by somebody else. One was 6.5lbs, one was just over 4.