BIG FISH

hey folks, just a quick video of a walleye trip from this fall, caught tons of fish, but always gotta let the big girls go! do you practice catch and release???

got another vid made up "better get while the gettin's good", I know I will be back at it again in the morning. still lots of ice gotta crank the speakers rite up to hear it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWvuLAwaZog

i got out before the season closed for some last ice action, the fish are very predictable at this time of year and are not shy when they hit, oversized williams was the key i hope you enjoy the video

wow you got a good eye, i built the rod from a broken g-loomis tip. ya we were fishing shallow anywhere from 5-10 fow the perch are hitting out of aggresion right now and we caught allot of male perch that werent around two weeks ago when i pinched the tail it was 14 3/8" long and 10.75 giirth she weighed 2 pounds on the dot on the digital scale, funny thing is that the area we were fishing we pulled a couple smallmouth out and i thought thats what i had on

got out to simcoe the other day and got some nice jumbos with one real big hog that im gonna get mounted, made a little video of some of the action here is a pcture of the hog beside a 2 litre pop bottle to show its true size, makes the pop bottle look small

fresh arctic char are my favourite, never tasted any fish that i thought was better. actually... " i like it raw " its good cooked to tho i think it depends where you get it from and if its fresh or not. i think the smaller 2-6lbers taste the best. the ones i caught were on baffin island and tasted good even when i snuck a few home

thanks for all the awesome comments guys for those of you interested in the ulu (knife) i would check out the iqaluit sell/swap group on facebook or even the pangnirtung sell/swap group also on facebook and see if someone can ship you one they are by far the sharpest knife i have used. i brought back almost a dozen of em for friends and family and kept 4 for my self lol about the baby seal its an absolute delicassy. they love the baby seal meat, and also the fur is very warm i purchased a pair of baby seal skin mitts when i was up there and my hands never got cold even in the harshest arctic weather ( got to about -50) the inuit way of living is a lot different then what were used to down south, when an inuit boy reaches a certain age as a right of passage into manhood they have to kill a baby seal, we brought this guy back alive for the hunters grandson. i got to play around with the thing for a good two hours on the ride back home i was very lucky to get the chance to go up there as my cousin is a nurse and got called up there for some work. she will be returning to ontario shortly as her work is done. if she wasnt there then there would be no way i could go up there i think the hotel is like 250$ a night or something. i also got to see a polar bear unfortunately no pics as my camera was frozen (ran into this problem many of times lol) we were seal hunting at the floe edge and the hunter pointed it out to me. i could barely see it so we hopped on the ski-doo and drove right up close to it i would say about 30 yards away from it. it ran away from us and we chased it to the floe edge and it jumped into the water. the biggest most magnificent most beatifull creature i have ever seen the arctic char was the most clean and pure fish i have ever tasted, one of the hunters explained the life cycle to me (they dont speak much english so this is what i understood)the char live in the salt water and eat and get big, then in the fall they migrate up the rivers to spawn after they spawn they keep going up river and they make there way up into the freshwater moutain lakes for winter, when the big spring meltoff starts and all the snow and ice melts they get washed back into the ocean, and get big for a couple months and then repeat the process heres a picture of my ulu's, a toy owl made out of baby seal skin, some rocks from the arctic circle and by far my most prized possesion my inuit fishing rod

i recently had a chance to travel to a small fishing/hunting town called pangnirtung on baffin island. the goal was to do some fishing and hunting and learn about the inuit way of life. it was an experience of a lifetime and i hope to do it again someday. ill let the pics do the talking top of the mountain above the small town (mount duval) the fishing was awesome they had about 5 feet of ice and the arctic char are everywhere the fish are so fresh and clean like no other fish iver ever caught the meat is by far the best tasting fish iver ever had i was eating it raw as i was cleaning them and it tasted awesome also got to do some hunting the target was baby seal took us two days but we finally got one

no he kept reeling it in the top half of the rod when down the line to the lure but the other half was still good lol thanks for the comments guys my dad was super happy it was his biggest fish threw the ice, and also his pb laker does anyone know if they are good to eat that size? it was such a baeutiful fish we couldnt chop it up

got out today to test the dune buggy on the ice started out at gilford and worked our way up the lake catching lots of little perch we finally ended up near a group of huts near fox island. dropped the fish finder in and marked 80 fow, and fish on screen we thought here we go, hopefully catch a whitie or two for dinner. drop the spoons down and bam more perch we were pissed cause we had been catching perch all day and wanted something bigger. so we sat there for a bout half an hour catching dink perch and finally we said ok lets get out of here so i reel up my line and pack it up, then my dad reels in his line pretty fast, and a mark on the finder comes screaming in after it. his spoon is now about 15 feet below the ice and the fish is charging it from the depths i said to him stop reeling for a sec and let it sit there. BAM! the fish slammed right in to it , my dads little perch rod with 4 lb line bends right over and the drag starts going. after about 5 mins his rod breaks right in half got the fish we were looking for !!! and the dune buggy ran great !!!! fish measured 33" long 18" girth and was released, he was puking up 6" smelts when we brought him up heres a better pic of the dunebuggy if anyone is interested and a couple from on the ice today

they told me if there home their open

coming from belleville i took hwy 62 south, then i went left on county road 14 follow that until you get to a stop sign in demorestville (you should see a blue sign on your left) continue going straight you should be on potter road they are on the left hand side i cant remember the number but they have a little blue sign on the other side of the road infront of there house and the mailbox says bulpit on it

im in!! lol i can do it free of charge let me know whats involved caught em on a variety of spoons seemed like anything with silver or gold, i would highly recomend making a stop at a place called bulpit baits theyve got the best bait we didnt have one minnow die in our bucket the whole time. they have small medium and large golden shiners and all are 4 bucks a dozen

actually the first two days i was solo and my buddies were planning on renting a hut but i guess the hut operator had pulled his huts off of the ice because of the rain so they came up and fished with me for the last two days

day 1, lots of dink perch then mid day a big pike smashes my set line gave me an awesome fight it started to get dark and i caught some jumbos and lost a walleye under the hole day 2, caught some small pike and oos smallies (quickly released) during the day. then as it got dark the walleyes moved in and i got my limit and lost a couple others day 3, PIKE BONANZA, the pike were everywhere today realeased probably triple what was kept, got a couple walleye a jumbo perch and what i think was a herring ? day 4, WALLEYES!!! my buddy caught the monster and we caught a few pike to