Dave Bailey

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Three more lure manufacturers added. There are a lot more 'cottage industries' than I ever suspected, nice to see.

How did you know? Oh, my avatar. Gotcha.

Okay, missed that bit. I'll blame old age, scotch, and stupidity.

I'm betting it's a question like "Does anyone have any good recipes for muskie?" But I might be wrong...

Now That's a fish! Another place you might want to try launching at is Beeg Park, southeast corner of Cooks Bay. Cut and paste this into Google Maps: 44.199898,-79.478566

It's something you learn from being a plastic modeler. Some guys hold the parts together and spit on them to speed it up!

Is this a small lake? I'm wondering if they're in cahoots with the cottage owners to try to make it a 'de facto' private lake by discouraging anyone else from getting on the water.

Beauty! But wait a sec... You're targeting bass and getting a walleye? When I target bass I get pike.What am I doing wrong?

Epic!

One caution to remember with Krazy Glue, and all cyanoacrylates: water accelerates the curing, so try to make sure your fingers are dry. Not easy to do when fishing, but do your best. The advantage is that you don't need to wait for the glue to dry, just chuck it into the water immediately and it sets faster than if you wait.

It's FMZ 10, regulations say 4th Saturday in June. http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d1eb8afd#/d1eb8afd/56

A buddy and I have a running joke that the first sure sign of spring is when you see a vehicle on the side of the highway with a wheel missing off the boat trailer.

Baker's Baits added.

On the butt, definitely, because it's hell trying to scratch it while you're driving home. Damned seat belts.

Harwood Water Craft added

If it floats, it's a boat! Nice job on those perch, looks like you and the young ones had a blast.

Just checked, Halfway isn't on the list. I was probably thinking of Ivanhoe.

I seem to recall that Halfway Lake is one of the parks that has gone non-operational, you might want to check.

Actually, that link takes you right back to this thread, try this one: http://torontourbanfishing.com/ I fully agree about the problem with garbage and people who don't give a toss for the rules. Perhaps the park personnel could be empowered as officers, with the ability to lay charges. I would love to see that done in a lot more places, Frenchman's Bay comes to mind.

If it ain't called the Rough Riders, it ain't a real team. Russ Jackson must be having fits.

Badger Paddles added, dead links removed.

Yup, dat be da place. The construction, or maintenance, or whatever, is going on to the left of the ramp in that shot.

Boss sent me on a run to Huntsville yesterday, so I got my first fishing of the year (multitude of reasons as to why it takes me this long). Stopped at a few places along the way back, only success was at Goodwin Park in Brunel, just south of Huntsville. Pike, a little over 2ft, no pics as it was threatening rain and I didn't want to chance getting the camera wet. Getting the hook out of it's mouth was a little confusing, as I couldn't figure out how my spinner came off the wire leader and was still attached to my line... Wait, I wasn't using a leader, just 20lb test braided! Okay, it tore off somebody's terminal tackle before I got it, and man, was it ever swallowed. The leader disappeared right down into the belly, and it looked recent. I doubt that someone would be using a wire leader for something as simple as a worm, so there's a good chance that the poor guy has a large and undigestible chunk of something down there. I put it back, but thought later that it may not survive, was thinking of keeping it at the time but had no way of transporting it without stinking up the whole car. I know we've all heard how the stuff will break down rapidly inside a fish, but I believe there's some evidence that a lot of that may be bunk. Not sure I did the right thing. Perhaps I should have walked it across the road to the nearest house and asked if they wanted it for supper. Stopped at the narrows at Dalrymple later, and the ancient Luhr Jensen spinner that caught the pike got irretrievably snagged on something in the middle of the channel; goodbye old friend. Tried a monster size Chug Bug, but on a couple of successive casts it looked like only OOS bass whacking at it (I thought it would have been too big for them), switched to a large Zara Spook but no joy so I moved on.

I was at the Hutcheson Beach Road launch yesterday, just drove to the end of the road and then turned around. There seems to be some construction going on in the parking lot so if there's any activity ask the guys where you need to be to stay well out of their way.