SylvanOwner

I'm assuming there is some current that erodes the ice.

I hate to burst your bubble but I can confidently say that you wouldn't be the first person to ice fish out there in a hundred years because I've done it in the past 10. 1 small pike to show for the effort. Good luck if you go and be very careful of the ice out there. Thickness changed from 10 inches to 2 inches very quickly in the areas I was in and this was after the ice being in for weeks!!

Was going to try that this week. Royal Distributing sells them, http://www.royaldistributing.com/main/index.php?option=com_flippingbook&view=book&id=14&Itemid=419&firstPageNumber=136, Profile #4 is Yamaha. Turn the page and at the bottom right is the Yamaha section. You can get a 47" strip for about $12 but dealers you say.....for free you say......hmmmm.... Will let you know how it goes. Dan

Can't help you out on what ELSE there is out there but I wanted to say that I have a Shappell 1.5 Rover DX, you mentioned it in the original post, and while I mostly use it for just myself I find it excellent. It'd be tough fishing 2 people out of it but to use a base station or taking turns inside would be a good choice. Bought it a BassPro a few years back for $225. PM or post if you have any questions about it. Dan

Been that way on Cook's for a few years for me now. Occasionaly a few bigger ones mixed in but not like it used to be. The previous poster said it....time to look elsewhere. Good luck.

Can you please let me know where you bought these from, just the thing I've been looking for. I see you're from Ottawa, anyone know where in the GTA? How do they attach?

Good work Mike....looks like your fall patterns are holding up well again. Hope your back is healing up. I thought that pic with you "smiling" was actually quite flattering......given the real thing

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We go here, http://www.pigeonlakeresort.com/, fairly regularly in the fall. The cottages are basic but functional, cost is reasonable and you can launch/dock right into good water. Dan

I have an mid-80's merc 25 TILLER... ...and really have no problems with the pull start ritual for the last dozen or so years but having said that sure would be nice to turn a key....and have a charging system. Good luck with your decision.

Only knew the man from reading the Lake Simcoe board but clearly a real class act. Rest in peace.

Raf has it right. I bought my boat over 10 years ago and started getting the letters in the mail a few years after that to pay some tax. I ignored them and they seemed to have stopped, for now anyway. I probably owe a million dollars in interest......lol. Payed tax on the trailer upon registration, had a seperate receipt for it - no problems. Enjoy your new ride!!!

Just as the title suggests I'm trying to find out if chumming is legal in the Kawarthas in the non-ice season? The issue came up during conversation recently and I couldn't find anything in the regs. summary or by doing a search so would appreciate input from the community. Thanks in advance for all your informed responses.

In regards to the double return, I thought (and have experienced) the second return showing at double the distance below the surface (not half or so as this appears to be), you have to manually zoom out to a scale that displays at least double the depth in order to see this....... .....and you can only accomplish this over relatively hard bottoms. Really hard bottoms and powerful, narrow beamed transducers should be able to show a third return (according to the articles I've read) although I've never been able to produce this. My guess is that it's the thermocline......and yeah, clean your screen Dan p.s. there's a joke in there somewhere.....Terry

Thanks for the offer.....I grabbed "sunset in the pines".....beautiful, the sun is so bright I can't actually look directly in to it. Great work. Dan

I've never seen one like this either but I'll take a guess on how it works..... just like a regular bottom bouncer (as OhioFisherman says) with the weight sliding "down" the wire for storage and "up" for use. The "tail" created by sliding the weight "up" would reduce snags and also allow some adjustment for how high up off bottom the harness will track. Just guessing but I like the idea.

That's a great report. Looks like you had a terrific time with the family!! Cool musky story, not many people can say they've done that.

Did a trip to the Reserve a couple years back with some buddies. We stayed in the campground (big mistake by the way - the fishing sucked) and there was a lot of bear activity, we had one pretty well destroy one of the tents while we were out and the staff were trying to trap and relocate the "problem" bear after shooting with rubber bullets failed. We saw lots of bears driving around and since it is a reserve they don't ever get hunted, seemed like there was one behind every tree . They of course have some natural fear of people but less here than in other places I've been, my opinion. I'm a regular camper in bear country and generally have little concern, take precautions = no problem. Be a little more careful here. Enjoy your trip.

Congratulations...sounds pretty cool. I was there a year ago almost to the day for a family vacation. Didn't fish a ton but when we did it was tough, as has already been mentioned, we managed some very small smallmouth and one eater size walleye. The cottage resort we stayed at had some pretty dedicated anglers that I chatted with a bit. They were mostly walleye anglers who would troll at dusk and beyond, around some offshore shoals. A couple fish was a good night for them, but the fish had respectable size, and the evening I caught the walleye their groups hadn't caught anything and were quite interested to find I had caught this one close to shore.... . The lake is deep, clear and very scenic. The bottom has beautiful cobble.....everywhere!!! There is smallmouth, walleye, pike and lakers but I don't think numerous for anything, too bad it's a beautiful spot....have I mentioned that before?? Good luck and please let us know how you do. I'd be really curious to see what Bob and the gang knows about the lake.

Nice report. I can relate to the loon experience a bit as well as I've had one "follow" a bucktail that was being burned in, was barely able to keep the lure away from the loon - pretty cool to watch.

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I was all ready to believe you had actually caught a walleye until I read this "Only when I brought it up to the surface did it really start to fight...It took a mega long run then and peeled line like a demon possessed!".....about the only thing walleye have going for them is their quality as table fare....picture must've been photoshopped Great report!!

The missing year class(es) certainly is a plausible explanation and to help prove/disprove this it would be useful to know how long you've seen this trend, if it's been for more than 5 years or so then maybe that's not the culprit . I actually like Cram's explanation, the 1% or so of the population that turns canabalistic would experience much higher growth rates and would explode past the 2lb. threshold to quickly attain the 6+ mark. Try harvesting a 7lber and see what's in it's stomach Sounds like a cool spot.

Cool report. Glad to hear the finger is healing. Super sunset photo and I also agree about the "watershed" sign photo....got that one in my collection to, I think it's totally neat that someone even thought it was worthwhile to place a sign for it.....only in Canada I'm thinkin'

Someone mentioned it further up but it's worth putting some emphasis on.....big pike need cold water. They are quite a different beast than the 30"ers and smaller that people commonly catch. In a reservoir you'll need to be close, slightly above or below, the thermocline - look for areas where good structure coincide with this depth. In your river scenario you'll need to find deep, cool holes and/or springs. Food is certainly not the only factor involved in growing big pike. It sounds to me like you're doing pretty well with size already - although I don't know the area you are fishing. Big pike in summer in Southern Ontario is not an easy game to play. Good luck.