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Looks great. Thanks - I can't wait to give it a try.

Yeah, of course Google will give me thousands of hits. I was hoping someone could personally recommend one of their own recipes that they use and know it's good. Google won't sort the recipe hits by "awesome" through "wouldn't feed it to my cattle"

I was given a bag of pike fillets - about 2 pounds worth. They are just filleted like you would a pickerel - so all the y-bones are still in it. I've heard people talk about making pike chowder, and that sounds good so I'd like to try it. Has anyone made a chowder (or a bouillabaisse) with pike before that was good? And if so, would you care to share the recipe? Many thanks!

How do you guys do up your smelt? I have some 10-12 inchers that I can't figure out whether to fillet or just batter, they're so big! Anyone cooked big smelt like that before?

I'm not 100% sure, but bass seasons are alot different in NWO than down south, right? Is bass season open year round? Or does it open much earlier? If that's true, you might want to look for some rivers that flow into lakes with smallies. Where I live, there's a run of smallies into a couple rivers that feed a really big lake. The smallmouth population actually has divergent spawning strategies. Some stay in the lake and spawn there, like everyone is used to. But a separate segment of the population actually ascends rivers, like a steelhead, and spawns in eddies and slackwater sections of the river. On the way up the river, they feed heavily on shiners that are also running the river. Here, this occurs in early May when the water temps are mid 60's F. I fish them by drifting bunny strips, big wooly buggers, or sculpin patterns. Big beadhead nymphs work well too. You can often sight-fish for them too, by spotting them resting behind large boulders. Let me tell you, when you hook into a 5-lb smallie in heavy current on a 7-wt rod, and they only have 2 feet of depth to work with, the fight is phenomenal. Nothing aerial - but wicked long and strong runs. It's awesome.

Some US states, including New York and Vermont, allow anglers to sell panfish (bluegill, pumpkinseed, yellow and white perch, and black and white crappie) legally caught by hook and line. There are "commercial fish buyers" all over the place, mostly operating out of baitshops, who buy them whole live weight (uncleaned, unfilleted), and the price is pretty high. The price paid per pound is on a sliding scale, but perch and crappie go for over $2.00 US per pound for fish over 12 inches, and down to $1.30 or so a pound for the smaller ones. Take 300 or 400 or 500 panfish to a commercial buyer (and these numbers can be caught easily in some fisheries in just a weekend) and that's quite a bit of beer money These US fishermen will pay for their entire week's vacation with what they sell back in the States. When you put a dollar value on a public resource, nothing good can come from it. I can't stand it.

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Brodeur single handedly lost the game for Canada, in my opinion. Look at the shots on goal. He played out of character. When was the last time you saw Brodeur, with 3 opponent skaters right in front of him, splay himself out on his belly 15 feet in front of the net to swipe and poke check a puck away?? He doesn't do this in the NHL. Why did he do it last night? He missed the puck, and the US scored into an empty net. Why did he skate out 20 feet and take a baseball swing at a puck in the air, which resulted in a goal 2 seconds later? He played out of character. He played poorly, and he lost the game. He should be benched for the rest of the tournament.

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I'm not so sure anyone who has lures pre-1970's is going to want to take the chance of losing them by fishing them, since many are likely worth something, monetarily or sentimentally. The only pre-1970's lures I have are my grandfathers, and I'm not fishing them.

Good Lord, not that crap again! Anyone notice how that "national cheer" has been mysteriously absent from the Winter Games? Thank goodness.

^.| .|What he said. .|

Just curious if anyone has ever tried putting a Gulp Alive minnow on a bare hook under a Polar Tipup and letting it sit, just like you would with a real live minnow. It's not going to swim and move like a real minnow, but I wonder if the scent alone is enough to entice some bites on a set line like this. Anyone try it?

Get some of these: TitleShot Skip Jig Match it with a 3" creature bait of your choice, and learn how to skip a jig on spinning gear with 8-lb or 10-lb braid. Hit every corner of the dock, hit every leg on the dock. Skip it as far back as you can. Let it sink on semi-slack line (so it doesn't pedulum away from your target) and watch for line movement. You'll almost never feel the hit. In shallow water under docks, bass can inhale and spit out your lure as it sinks before you realize anything has happened. Practice and more practice. But skipping is awesome once you learn how.

I knew THAT from the start!! The only solice I can take in this season is that both morons, Burke and Wilson, are heading up the US Olympic Team ... which puts them squarely out of medal contention this go 'round of the Winter Games.

Bill - great info. Really appreciated. I'll get the lat/long from my buddy and PM you. Thanks for the tips on rods too. I have some muskie rod/reel combos with braid, and some heavy and med-heavy baitcasting bass combos with braid too. I'm assuming either should work for the pike up there. Maybe the muskie stuff is a little much?

I was negative-5 years old .....

From what I understand, the place that my friend has access to is on the north shore near the native village of Obedjiwan. I don't know what that means in terms of fishing, but any advice would be appreciated. I'm looking for some big northerns. What lures would you recommend?

I have an offer to fish Gouin Reservoir in Quebec this spring. Just curious if anyone here has ever been there. My main interest is big pike. I hear the walleye fishing is pretty good, and I wouldn't mind a few meals. But it's the big toothies I'm after.

What he said, but substitute the Violent Femmes for April Wine's Greatest Hits! Oh yeah, and I forgot. Y'all gotta get THIS album! I've always loved Waylon Jennings, as I remember my Dad when I was a kid always having BX93 - the country station out of London on all the time. Then I kind of got away from country, but a couple years ago my wife and I were in the Yukon, and after spending 3 days hiking high ridges in Kluane, we went into Whitehorse for a night. We got a hotel (and a shower) and asked the girl at the front desk where we should eat and she said Klondike Rib & Salmon BBQ, just around the corner. The place looked really cool, made up like a trappers cabin inside, with canvas ceiling and walls, looks of "Yukon-y" decor. We ordered the halibut chowder and caribou stew. Both were out of this world. While we were eating, I became aware of the music playing in the background and I knew I'd heard it before. I asked our waitress what it was, and she brought over the CD case - Waylon! Ever since, this CD has been on my playlist, and I listen to it almost every week. Great road music.

Sold this .... '02 Lund Fisherman 1850 w/ Honda 115 To buy this ... '05 Ranger 1850 Reata w/ Honda 150