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Contrary to the above poster, cheesecake is probably my favourite desert although of course not a pie.

Went to my in-laws for a turkey dinner Sunday night, it was quite delicious.

However, tonight we fried up a couple dozen perch fillets and a can of beans. Mmmm... Happy Thanksgiving!

I don't care how many cars you have in your driveway...fit em in with a shoehorn if you have to. My problem is when you park them all over the street. My neighbor directly across from me has 4 grown kids still at home and they all have cars... so 6 adults equals 6 vehicles PLUS him and his son's company work trucks make 8. AND there garage is so full of junk that they can't park in it. So usually 4-5 vehicles on the street ALL the time, and that's not even counting when they have company because all visitors park on the street as well. It can be a little frustrating getting the boat trailer in and out of the driveway sometimes

 

Totally illegal for them to park on the street overnight in the winter because of our snow removal by-laws...but the rest of us are trying to be good neighbors and not complain....but it's getting harder and HARDER to keep quiet.

 

I'm just patiently waiting for there kids to stop suckling at the teat and move out.

Totally agree with this, happens across the street from me as well. Also in the townhomes here, their garages all seem to be packed so they park their extra vehicles on the road.

Great post thanks for sharing. We went out Sunday morning for pike as well, were on the water at about 8am (Freezing in 4 degree weather mind you). We only landed one pike a little later a few hours later.

Is fishing for pike in the fall better once the day warms up? It seems so by your example and I've also read this elsewhere too but never applied it. I think we just wasted a morning, although a day fishing is still a better than not.

I always have them in a ziplock bag in the sink (no air in it) and just turn the tap on cool right over top (you don't need to it on full blast). Just let it run. Just flip the bag around every 10minutes until they are ready.

Awesome, looking forward to the report!

My wife USE to let me go out to get my fix as needed but now that we have a 1 year old, this past season hasn't been so easy to convince her.

bring back a bucket of perch and after 1 session you'll be a pro adopting your own technique. It's really about comfort with the knife and letting it do what it's suppose to do. Keep it sharp for good results.

Jays are so much more fun to watch, too bad they only get half the attendance of the leafs in a stadium nearly 3x larger.

At the very least, I'd put "The Club" on. While it's not exactly professional car thief deterrent I think it would prevent most if not all amateurs. Professionals take your car to sell it, amateurs take them for joy rides & pranks. I would also at at least install motion sensor lights where the car is parked, unless it's on the street. That way you would probably notice when they attempt it.

Roasted garlic and butter, fish crisp. Just dip them in the mix. Cook on low heat, make them nice and crispy and enjoy!

Thanks, sounds delicious.

Just had some of my catch with chronzy's breading tonight, tasty.

What's the best way to cook butterflied, scaled perch? I did a couple of them, practicing my knife work but don't really know the best way to cook them. Would you just flour them and cook them in butter & garlic? Or maybe even on the grill? thoughts?

All this perch talk lately had me going to the shore early this morning.

24 keepers, most were around 8". Largest 10.5", going to be good eaten tonight. Also hooked in to a smallie & a largie, both released obv.

I love cronzy's breading. I just wish it was a bit less salty. I use to like making batters but it's just too messy for me to really care unless someone else is going to do it lol. I put the mix in a ziplock bag. Dip fish in milk, then toss around in the bag before dropping them in. Mmm

Wow, Brandon those oustanding pics, you do great work - keep posting please.

Also, I didn't realize Bisons were that large, holy crap!

When I was growing up my family's annual summer vacation was renting a log cabin for a week in North Bay (Right near a little place called "The Owl"). Anyway, those big Mayflies would cover every sign and entire sides of homes. A white house would look brown. Quite a disturbing scene really lol.

I've heard Nippising has been just horrible for ice fishing last couple seasons? There's been a few rant posts here about it if I remember correctly.

Just to clarify for others, you only require the pleasure craft license if your boat exceeds 10hp, hence why everything is 9.9.

nice fish!

Is it strung on rope or is that the standard fishing line they use out there lol.

I prefer Chronzy's breading & batter, it's quite salty but darn tasty. Since my wife is on her own diet thing, I've been heading to the shoreline and grabbing some perch & sunfish for a weekly fish dinner. Yum.

That would just freak the crap out of me.

In my personal opinion you'd be best off targeting perch as that would get you the most fun with your experience and probably easiest to target on simcoe. You should get yourself some very small jigs, then rip off small pieces of your worms (1"-2") and hook it straight through the ripped end with the lively portion off the hook a little bit. Now there are so many ways to set it up but you may just want to to you get yourself a very small float and place it about 3-4' above your hook (Don't put on a 3" giant bobber, the fish won't be able to pull it down and you'll never get a single fish).

Look for weedy areas and maybe 10' of water. Cast it out 20' from your boat see if you get any action. If you get no action after 15 min of persistance there's likely no fish or they are much deeper than you have your hook set (or they simply aren't biting). You could take the float off and just cast it out and let it sink to the bottom. Very slowly real it back to the boat once it's hit the ground, that'll tell you if they are hitting from the bottom.

I've never fished from that area on simcoe but from what I've heard, I'd go west to snake island, and work around it. Careful out there, they are currently calling for high winds on Thursday, Simcoe is very unpredictable and if it's wavy out there, don't go out. Just fish from a local dock.

GL!

Nothing is more fun than a camping/fishing trip to a back lake. What a great haul too, thanks for the report.

Very sorry for your loss, thoughts are with you & your family. He sure has a nice "grandpa" smile to him.

more pics:

http://www.icoverthewaterfront.ca/homes/26/slide/index.htm