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Depending on the size of the perch it can take upwards of 50 to feed my clan of fish lovers.

Here at home, 10 perch is dinner for 2, 20 dinner for 4. If we have a big family dinner, 50 8-10" perch are gone in no time. Mind we have 4 licensed anglers here.

As for someone keeping 2 walleye a week/ 100 a year. Many of us were raised on fishing and hunting as a way of life. We eat fish 2-3 days a week. It has always been part of the diet. there is the sporting element to fishing, but I often take some home for table. It's meat. No different than harvesting a deer and a bear for the freezer when i still hunted.

Congrats. You seemed to get into them pretty good there. Well done.

Got to run out to the pond again today and the bite is still on. The inlet from the lake silted up over the weekend co the perch are stuck in the pond. Even the Heron has shifted from eating minnows to scarfing down small perch.

Despite the wind , a beautiful day. Caught enough for tomorrow's dinner.

Hello, and welcome, Hairwig.

Despite the weather, looks like you had a pretty decent weekend.

It's been fed to me smoked and in chowder as a kid. Never tried cooking it myself.

busy day indeed Bruce....great stuff....who is Curious George?....lol

Curious George is smokin joe's young lad. He has a penchant for getting into predicaments

Regretably, the outdoors enthusiast is a minority in this country. Never say never. We could not stop the gun registry. We could not stop the closure of the spring bear hunt. What makes anyone here think we have the political clout to prevent a catch and kill policy?

That is a great shot of the Heron.

Now that's a fishing story A day you'll never forget.

The idea of population control for the human species is just a simplistic, yet logical, hypothesis. Not to be taken seriously. Same with quick fix solutions of reducing limits or increasing fines. there aren't enough CO's around to effectively enforce current laws.

What is needed is proactive resource management. Something the average taxpayer does not want to pay for in Ontario. As long as we destroy spawning areas and habitat, pollute, develop wetland, dam rivers, drain down lakes for our consumption, the fishery suffers. Reduced limits are not going to make up for the damage being done. Increased hatchery outputs might help, but that, too, is just a bandaid approach.

Habitat protection and rehabilitation, and spawning ground protection, will achieve superior results. Ensuring that a company like EB Eddy can never again wipe out a fishery with another chemical spill. Stop the development of wetlands. Reduced speed limits in prime shallow water breeding areas. These are proactive ways to help the fishery, but they are expensive.

in the near future we will only be allowed 4 sheets of toilet paper.

cmon this is george orwell at its best.

Hasn't anybody told you about the 3 shells

.. but what if they wanted to start with you?

I've had a good run at life. It's not like I would have a choice if it were done.

That doesn't seem very logical. Even if the population was decreased, do that mean fishing would be any less popular?

No different than 'managing' populations of game and livestock through controlled hunts or culling. Thereby keeping the human populace within a comfortable margin for the food supply.

A little Malthus, a little Orwell, a little "Logans Run", and for good measure, some "Soylent Green". Unpleasant, unpalatable and unpopular, but hypothetically possible.

You can be nicked for impaired on a lawn tractor, or a bycycle as well. If you are operating some/any manner of vehicle on a public roadway, or body of water, you have responsibility of care and all the rules of the road apply.

this is exactly what i'm suggesting with also maybe reducing the limit 'slightly'.

human population continues to grow meaning more and more fisherman.

 

seems logical to me.

How about limiting the human population instead. Seems even more logical. Hypothetically.

As long as we vote in inept governments, bureauceacies will be just as inept.

Are you suggesting only 1 species per day should be harvested? The limits per species are fine. There are additional limits on size as well with over/under rules for pike and walleye.

Truth is fishing has improved substantially since the late 70's in all the areas I fish. Species distribution has change in some areas, and I've learnt to target the more prevalent species as well. Who would dare to admit to fishing carp or catfish back in the 70's? No one.

That's a great catch you got there Bruce Thanks for the great post and pics. We're gonna have to get out together again in the near future

D'you think Curious George can get out of bed?

Figured I'd start the weekend off at the pond again. The Mrs dropped me off at the park with a stern scolding to check in every few hours Another beautiful day out there with not a soul around, except this fellow.

This is the first time I've seen a beaver in the pond. He wasn't happy to see me at first, but after 15 minutes he didn't seem to mind. It's good to see them make a comeback in the Niagara region.

It was a very busy day with a constant bite from 10am. onward. The minnows are running back to the lake and the perch were in hot pursuit. While I caught lots of perch, this heron was gorging himself on the minnows.

It was easily a 100 fish day. In a weeks time the perch should be back in the lake and the primary target in the pond will be cats and carp again. This white perch was huge.

Tonights dinner guests.

Today, fishing.

Tomorrow, fishing while dodging raindrops.

Sunday, time with the Warden

Monday, fishing.

Funny I don't ever recall either of my folks ever really giving it to me...hit,smacked yes...but nothing life threatening But I do recall that when Mom said " Tell your father what you did when he gets home"... I was in deep deep doo doo.

 

And I do recall my brother and mom having an arguement and she hit him and he HIT her back. Don't know what happened when dad got home. But I was scared poopless for him and I know he NEVER did hit my mom again...EVER.

 

It seems that much of my generation....I'm 45.... has dropped the ball in parenting skills. Seems too many of us wanna be our kids friends instead of there parents.

 

I heard an expression years ago..."There is no such thing as bad kids...just bad parents. I pretty much agree with that statement.

We did not mouth off. We rarely talked back. My kid brother told the stepfather to ---- off once when he was 15.

It took 20 minutes to pry his head out of the wall.

I have paddled both my kids when necessary, and that was rare. Yes they could have called children's aid. I handed them the phone and gave them the choice. "You can live in my house, or you can live in foster homes with complete strangers. You choose."

I would argue that if you starting getting into trouble as soon as you were big enough not be afraid of your parent's it wasn' very effective. Things were not all so innocent back in the day. Teenage pregnancies were more common in the 50's than they are now. Drug problems were there, especially if you count alcohol. The mafia was quite active back then...

Don't know where you've been hiding, but teen pregnancy has, again, been on the rise for some time. It just does not have the same stigma attached to it any more. No more 'statutory rape' charges, no more shotgun weddings, no more forced adoptions, No more insinuations of 'dirt' or 'trash' on the girl.

My mother kept the wooden spoon factory in business... and heck I turned out alright...

My son had a very close relationship with 'The SPOON'. None of that cheap store bought stuff. Carved from solid cherry, or birdseye maple, with a handle 3/4" thick, they don't break. I carved 3 and I still have 2 of them.

He was a good kid too til he was 17. Then he discovered wimmins , and its been a downhill slide ever since.

The public ramp at the narrows is not a good choice for big boats. Narrow, rough, shallow. It's fine for my 16' boat, but not for a big ranger or other 20' boats. What's worse, the ramp fee or the repair bill?