12footspringbok

First off in MY OPINION salmon are just as easily "flossed" in deep pools with float gear as they are in shallow pools bottom bouncing. Now back to the original topic. For rods i've used a few different styles and lengths but i prefer a 8-9ft medium action spinning rod. I use this because it is alot easier to move around with and not get tangled up in trees etc but still gives good control when figting a fish. For line i like 12-14 pound test depends where you are fishing. These past few years i've opted for the 14 due to the heavy woodwork i usually fish around. For lures some of my favourites would be jointed rapalas, spinners, diving crankbaits, and flatfish. I find different years the fish have different preferences, last year my go to bait was a rapala taildancer in pink/blue. For technique i like casting in retreiving in pools directly downstream for some sort of obstruction like fallen logs or perhaps in a deep pool right behind a sandbar that comes up shallow. As already mentioned the majority of the time if you can see the fish the fish can see you and won't bite...Unless they are undisturbed and you are real sneaky I think its true that the fish don't feed when in the rivers the bites are just reaction from the fish becoming territorial and being pissed that your invading their space. I've watched salmon come up from the depths of a pool to smash my lure with only 3 feet of line left from the tip of my rod and its quite a wakeup at 6 am Theres no better feeling than feeling a salmon smash your bait on the retreive. GOOD LUCK! Heres a couple pics of some legit caught fish from last fall... It can be done.

There probably already a few in there right now with all the rain we've been having this summer. However theres been so few salmon in the notty the past few years that i won't bother until about the last week of August.

Kinda cool watching the atlantics on that thing. Kinda sad too. Sat down to eat dinner and figured i'd see if there was anything swimming by. In the ten minutes i watched i saw several fish with lampreys attached several more with big lamprey scars on their sides one fish with a spoon hanging out of its mouth and one with a big ass weighted treble hanging in its back poor fish... Definatly neat to watch overall though.

Blue smarty, Red smarty, Orange smarty they all taste like crap.

I've been in contact with Tambo and he's definatly not dead! He is having a bit of a rough time with the treatment though. The antibiotics can be hard on the liver and sometimes you're forced to have a break from them causing the patient to backslide... As for the bullseye rash the doc that i seen in TO told me less than 30% of his patients remember having the rash or seeing a tick biting them. 99% of Doctors here in Canada don't have a frigging clue about lyme disease or they simply don't want to treat it for fear of being shut down. I seen a doctor in Barrie a few months ago because i had suspected lyme after catching the "flu" that never went away last August after a camping trip. He asked me where i got the idea any of my symptoms were lyme related. I told him i had been reading up about it on CANLYME and the ILADS website. He told me they were wrong and to stop reading these things because they are just giving me anxiety. What a joke i left his office shortly after that.... The testing in Canada is a joke and even the testing performed at the specialty labs in the states aren't perfect. Don't think it can't or won't happen to you because it can and will if you aren't careful. Just as someone else here had mentioned tick bites arent the only way to catch it.

Be careful out there this summer. Picking weeds in your backyard or bushwacking to some back lakes up north protect yourself. Lyme is everywhere and the situation is only getting worse.

Thanks for all the replies i'll try a few of these tonight!

This is actually the first place i looked for tips. I havent tried the chapstick for lube on the knot tip because i don't have any handy but i have tried vegetable oil and it has helped a bit but i still get the unsightly curve after i pull the line through.

Well i've wasted more than a few feet of my expensive roll of 50lb Seaguar fluorocarbon trying to tie up some leaders for pike fishing next weekend. I tried the polymer knot with little success i can barely even pull the knot tight enough to get all of the slack out of the knot even with lots of lube. The improved clinch knot seems to be working alright except the line seems to get a little kinked almost and looks rather unsighly and crooked after pulling the line through. Anyways i was wondering if anyone has any tips for tying with this stuff or any knots that are easier tying with before i run out of line. Any help would be much appreciated.

Its pretty good depending on how early the spring is. I'm heading up next weekend for the 4th year in a row now.

The only place around Barrie area that carried it was Simcoe Bait and Tackle. Now that its the rack and reel there hasn't been any for a while and i kept getting laim excuses why they couldn't get any. Broke down and ordered one spool of just about every test from Cabelas and it was here in 5 days. Came in yesterday as a matter of fact.

80% or more use pins on the Notty? Are you serious? You must be one of the guys that always shows up at the top of the hole when five guys are already there casting spinners and thinks he has the right of way to drift down 200 yards... By the way I along with many other fisherman would take bottom bouncing over "pinning" on the Notty anyday. I guess unless i had to line up shoulder to shoulder with all the other yahoos down at the beach and get in the "drift"...

Unbelieveable!

Nicely said. Better to be proactive than wait around for something that may never come.

I havent been out since last weekend either. I'm assuming with this snow were getting right now and the 30-40km/h winds tonight and in the morning there will be some serious drifts out there and things will possibly be tough going for quads good luck if your going tomorrow.

Ya i've been crossing the crack no problem on the sled . I've had my best luck this year between about 9-12.

ANDE! Enough said.

Lock jaw i musta been lucky then.... Back to the original question. I used to fish quite often with my dad in barrie. Caught lots of perch and a few whitefish and the odd pike right off the marina entrance in about 35ft of water. We also used to fish out in front of the dream catcher and get some good jumbos. Like meegs said though is hard to find consistancy out there.

Well looks like I'm a little late but better late than never. Seems Dr. Mcgulicuddy's wonderful potion makes one want to go to bed early after a couple long days in an ice hut......LOL Anyways heres a couple more pics Me with the biggest walleye of the trip. Pretty sad i know. Pile of fish in front of my hut. Few fish in front of fisherman's hut HAHA

Fish love the smoking. Not that i smoke cigarettes.... However twice once while cleaning walleye out west when i was a kid we found two cigarette butts in a walleye, and i think it was two years ago i found one cigarette but in a perches stomach. Kinda strange finding that one but twice. Maybe i should start using cigarettes as bait?

Ya its weird out there some days. Didn't get a single hit till they turned on at 12 yesterday. Today went with three buddies and were heading back in with our limit of whities at 9 with a couple more released and many lost.

There fixed it for ya. By the way if you want to get in and out from far remote places stay away from arctic cat, but that just my opinion and you asked.

Thank you sir!

First "Global Warming" now Climate Change" glad to see MSM has done a such a good job on people... Heres some infor on a page a read a few months ago while i was doing some of my own research on georgian bay glad i book marked it. GBF research (the Baird Report 2004) has shown that the St. Clair River has significantly increased its conveyance capacity and so is the main cause of the unprecedented nine years of sustained low water levels to date the International Upper Great Lakes Study, a $17 Million undertaking of the International Joint Commission (IJC), refuses to conduct the 3-Dimensional Modeling of the St. Clair River necessary to do a complete analysis of the St. Clair River conveyance meanwhile at least 6 Billion gallons daily more than the previous regular flow is permanently leaving Lakes Michigan/Huron/Georgian Bay http://georgianbayforever.org/about-the-georgian-bay

Thats awsome dara, if those walls could talk i bet they'd tell quite the story...lol I have been privelidged enought to be invited to a camp on the French River three years ago. Apparently it has been there since the 30's. One member is in his early 70's and has been going there for 50 some odd years i believe. He has a whole bucket full of wild stories from "back in the day". I enjoy hearing every one of them.