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http://fish.shimano.com/publish/content/gl...d_Spinning.html I use this one for pike and when I am tossing lighter muskie lures. There is another one rated over an ounce...but couldn't find it. I like that it is two piece and it's long enough for when a bigger fish runs under the boat. They have strength and can handle muskie. I had a 40 pound king moving down river and the rod held up with a beauty arch.

That one put a smile on my face.

You may want to buy him a fish identification picture book for Christmas.

What you may have seen is Sturgeon. I've been on that river system.

Dave saved us on our first Kesagami trip. Our motor conked out on a wickedly cold and windy day, and he spotted us from 2 miles away. Leslie was never happier then when she knew were not going to spend the night out there! We hired Dave for our first day, in memory of his heroics, and to also give us a leg up. After that we like to fish alone. We have a busy household and don't have much personal time together, one major plus on a trip like this is being alone together. It was warm and muggy when we arrived. Luckily we got into camp before the cold front. Large bands of rain were only a few hours behind us in Cochrane but that weather took the day to make it up there. And then the cold front sat still nearby so we had this really weird mix of weather for about 4 days with some powerful storms moving through. One day we had 5 hours of the heaviest rain. Another day it was on and off with the wetsuit all day long. Before we came they had just had 4 days of over 30 degree weather. Dave tried his best to put us on big fish but we only got a few dinks that day. It was really weird. Water temp at 72 but not the weed development you would expect at 72. Fish feeding on a summer pattern but the mayfly hatch was just starting.

Middle aged men like to dream and play. I liked this sandbox! Of course silly men do stupid things, notice the orange hands and red face! The face is a natural colour, the orange hands come courtesy of yellow food dye put into Yum bait products. I wanted yellow bait. I'm left scratching my head wondering if there is some sort of adhesive ingredient added to their products. That dye didn't come off easy. Sure was nice to live the dream. Some people think grown men are nuts about fishing. Well then, how about this newly wed couple? What woman would want to go 50 miles south of James bay for their honeymoon? How about a girl from Cochrane. I took along a cute girl. She likes to fish! We got up early most everyday... ...and fished late some nights. The weather sure was crazy. There was a cold front that took four days to move in. Sometimes you could out race a storm. ...and sometimes you couldn't and had to put to shore. Look closely you should see lotsa skeeters all around us. It was harder fishing this time around. We came on the busiest week, with 20 boats on the water. Some of the choice bays were like a Tim Horton's drive threw with 5 boats in them at a time. You had to wait your turn to fish spots. If you are thinking of going, avoid the week after school's out. Lots of dad's with their sons were up. Our favorite area was too warm to fish. The water was 73 degrees on the main lake. So we got right out of our comfort zone and trolled points and open water. Leslie who had never caught anything trolling liked trolling Kesagami. Two minutes of fishing and bang you have a double header and three fish for shore lunch. She loved shore lunch. She even caught a 31 inch pike trolling. This skinny 38" came off the same structure. It was day four and we were very happy to finally find a pike pattern that produced. We took some time to look around. Sure was purdy up there. As the cold front finally settled in, we found another pattern. Water temps dropped over 15 degrees in 4 days. Leslie with a fat healthy 38 incher on our last day. As luck would have it, we were grounded for an extra day because of weather. Some people were disappointed. Charlie let us fish in the afternoon, boy was I sure happy. All of our stuff was packed at the camp so we went out with the bare minimum. We could only find the cheap tape measure, that stopped at 40". So we guessed that this one was 41". Never got to lift this one. Leslie thinks it was 44-45 inches long. It wrapped itself around our windsock line. I had to twirl my rod around the lines several times which created slack. Still, the fish was on and she made some spectacular runs and leaped out of the water twice. Finally she came to the boat. Leslie was looking for the proper tape measure in our only bag with many pockets. I played a tired fish and had good pressure, and then she flung her head...pop she was off. Shouldawouldacoulda. If I had only put her in net as soon she was tired. Oh well. We fished some more and Leslie caught this beautiful 26" walleye. Had to go back or we would have missed dinner. Our best day was this short afternoon of fishing. So it goes!

Seeing that the Sturgeon is a bottom feeder, they don't mature until 15 to 30 years of age, and can live for 150 years...I'd be a little worried about toxins. Beautiful fish! It gave you the fight of a lifetime, and remember most anglers never catch one.

Thanks for the ideas!

I'll be headed north soon to a flyin where i know the boats are fiberglass. Last time there the suction cup kept coming off. Eventually we duct taped it to the bottom of the hull and it did give us depth, but you can't get temp that way. Is there anyway of keeping a suction cup on fiberglass, or do I need to bring up c-clamp and rig something up?

I fish it a few times a year. Walleye are smaller and you got to work for them. Fair bit of fishing pressure, you will see boats out there. Temper expectations, target pike or bass and you should do okay.

Sturgeon...... Your devotion to fishing is unmatched.

Prescription Maui's...about $450. Worth every penny.

When pike are in the mood, you don't need much. I like something that can also make noise on the surface and it doesn't have to be a buzzbait. It can be a spoon, spinner, or plastic. With pike one lure for weeds is good. You don't want to be snagged every cast in the slop or close to shore. When you can't catch, it's more a case of you finding them...and just going slower, smaller, and deeper. So in a nutshell, it's not so much the right lure, but more the right location, the right time, and the right action. Lures do their job....that's why I own so many of them.

I recognize that place.

Yeah right! Crime like shooting a police officer? Knowledge is a key ingredient in any successful police operation. Do you think a police officer is going to go running to the media because he didn't get shot?!??? Remember these facts? *73% of trained police officers state the registry influences the way in which they handle a call. *81% of trained officers say it has been beneficial during major operations. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/a...illed-shooting/ Back to the US example where three policemen were murdered on a domestic call. What was that all about? Apparently a pet had peed on the carpet. The killer who murdered the police officers, ambushed the first two police officers at the door by shooting them in the head. Had they known that he owned several weapons I'm sure a lot more caution would be used. The killer believed that President Obama was going to take away his rights and his guns. He owned an AK-47 rifle and several powerful handguns, including a .357 Magnum. Now do you folks honestly believe that such information wouldn't be useful to a cop coming to a domestic disturbance call, and could have prevented the death of police officer? And do you also really believe that a similar situation hasn't happened already in Canada? Ideology to the max!!!

How would you ever know that? If the crime is prevented there is no statistic. If the police use that data base 3.5 million times a year, they ain't doing it check their lottery ticket numbers.

I saw this on a t-shirt. Guns don't kill people...they just make the bullets go a heck of a lot faster!! The correlation between the amount of guns in a province and the death rate from guns is very robust. http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/informa...sur-son-eng.htm *The registry was used by police 3.5 million times last year. *78% of trained police officers use it in their day to day functions. *81% use it in responding to service calls. *73% of trained police officers state the registry influences the way in which they handle a call. *81% of trained officers say it has been beneficial during major operations. Looks like you folks have been duped and are swallowing the NRA propaganda whole. The data base is being used in a major way, and most police officers see it as a useful tool. I'd respond to all the other comments because I disagree with most of them, but there are too many.

You are wrong on #2, see my previous post. Do you honestly believe that a police officer should treat every call as if the owner is armed to the teeth, with guns drawn...ready to shoot, with several police officers involved? They want to know what sort of individual is in the house and the gun registry gives them valuable information. The police once talked to me about a renter, they wanted to know what sort of individual he was, if he was violent. With guns drawn there is always the chance of accidental shooting, and I can see why they wouldn't have guns pulled every time they knocked on someone's door.

You don't think it would be important for the police to know that an individual had say a dozen weapons including handguns, say vrs a single rifle? You would think that getting a gun license would be difficult for someone who is mentally ill but there are privacy laws. My brother who was a schizophrenic before he committed suicide(not with a gun) had no problem getting a gun license and it was only during the waiting period that through the extraordinary efforts of my mother, that he never got the license. He would have been dangerous with a handgun. Not that he would kill someone with evil intent, rather that he was so delusional who knows what he would have done.

Another fine example of propaganda making it on to OFC, and OFC allowing to exist because the moderation team is too biased to realize this. What are moderators doing posting on a thread like this? Fact - the majority of police officers think the registry helps them in their job, especially when they can check right in their cruisers if the parties in a domestic dispute own guns. http://sify.com/news/international/fullstory.php?id=14878802 For instance there is a good probability that the three policemen killed recently in the US would be alive today if the US had a gun registry. They would have known that the eventual killer of the three policemen owned several guns and would have been much more cautious before attempting to enter that house. The gun registry also benefits society in keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.

Sure, long weekends make a reservation...but midweek or non-summer or holiday weekends...how late can you typically arrive.

Thinking of taking the Chi-Cheemaun. Anyone take this ferry regularly, and if so how close to departure can you arrive and usually get on?

A damn good piece of story tellin'.

It was our last day at Kesagami in June 2007. My wife Leslie came up with me and fished like a trooper for the whole week. I had been worried since this was her first fishing trip ever. It had been a really good week in so many regards, and we lingered that early afternoon over her first shore lunch of fresh walleye. My wife wanted some action to finish off the trip, so I brought her to place were we had seen some hammer handles earlier in the week. After about 10 minutes she hooked into an absolute monster. Thick as a brick and we worked together to bring her in. The lodge has a barbless policy so we brought her in perhaps a little too green. Of course it had rained a little that day, and of course nothing was where it was supposed to be in the boat. Coats and other layers of clothing were strewn about in a haphazard fashion. We had no idea where the camera was. And there SHE was is in the net...at least 44 inches by my estimation and probably a few inches longer. It could have been the largest fish to date caught at the lodge that cold spring. Leslie was actually frightened by it. I told her to find the camera. I knew she was worried that I would ask her to hold it up like she had held up a smaller pike earlier in the trip. I should have said, get a camera we need a picture of this. She started complaining about how messy the boat was but I think she was really just trying buy herself a little more time to mentally prepare for how she would grab this thing. I had unhooked the pike and held it just by the jaw in the water. I should have kept it in the net just below the top of the water but the thing was oversized for the net.....Time elapsed and you can guess what eventually happened. Just one picture.......a head shot would have put me in heaven. Here she is holding a pike she caught earlier in the week. The one that got away would have been more then a foot longer and probably about double the weight of the pike shown here. She had no idea how special that fish was until we were eating dinner and we went around the table and most of the guys said they had never caught a pike that big.

http://www.bcfishingreports.com/forum/ Try that forum out for info. They are very helpful.