archie_james_c

If you are strictly going for perch like you mentioned, then a stiff rod would not serve you any good. A stiff rod will give you the backbone to set the hook on a fish with a bony mouth such as a pike, that is heavy and you can pull it in without breaking your rod. For perch, all you need is an ultralite, that gives you the sensitivity you need to feel every nibble. A perch has a very thin, paper like mouth. An ultralite is more than capable of getting a good hook set.

 

However, if you want a more all around rod, then a medium light would be better, or a medium if you plan on going for pike or walleye or anything along that line.

Agreed, but a ultralight with a fast action or extra fast would be ideal. As a perches throat (where the hooks usually end up) is very rough and tough. Usually when I haul them up the treble hook is barely caught in their. Their lips are soft though.

I suppose I'll agree with you on that one Bill, Croix ice rods trump the fenwicks elite techs all day every day.

I'll likely throw my Elite Tech in the closet and buy more Croix Premiers.

Sounds like you werent getting light hits, just setting the hook too soon. Switch to an ultralight rod like folks above have mentioned, but change your fishing style.

With perch you get the usual "tap tap tap tap tap tap"...let them hit it over and over until they pull the ultralight tip down a couple inches then set the hook. Usually perch will suck in half the shiner and chew on it for a few seconds (sometimes a looong time) before they suck it right into their mouth.

Ditch the jig as well. Run a little williams wabbler with a 10" dropper down to a #14 or 12 treble hook, hook the shiner through the mid back and drop him down to them, dont hook them in the lips or tail, you'll lose more shiners than you can afford

Its that easy. Im going tomorrow mornign maybe I'll try and make a video.

Nice archie_james_c

 

I especially like the golden shiner, very nice.

 

How do you like those smile blades???

I see you have some work to do

The smiley blades...I could give or take. I haven't been in a situation yet were I said "man I wish I brought smilies with me today!" . They catch fish, its just that I don't think they work any worse or better in my home waters. I'm sure the Lake Erie guys will trumpet differently, but as said, for my riggin' they're no different.

3, #4 or #6 Raven Octo-Beaks for worm/leech rigs

1 #4 Raven for Minnow rigs

14 pound Suffix Mono...walley dont care about flouro

Barrel swivel on the end

Northland holo-colorado's

Solid colorados, indianas, willow leafs and hatchets

Firetiger of the above as well

Mine look like this, and leave much to be desired...

Floating spinners do work too, in skeeny water, these get 1, #6 regardless of bait, as if I run these I'm essentially lindy rigging them.

Shortcut keys, better split screens, dual memory card slots, and a bigger screen makes the 8 the clear winner. I own a 7 and my boss runs the 8 and I gun with him regularly and use his. I wish I bought the 8...

Make a damn fine stained water walleye rig

I'd have just shot it between its see'ers. Quartered it, butchered it and then resumed Deer hunting.

Hard to pass a bear up.

Yet another fisherman that has been caught by the glimmer of some new fangled piece of tackle!

 

Don't worry, happens to me quite too often!

Ive seen your wall of spoons and crankbaits. To say you have a problem is an understatement

I think you're dreaming in Technicolor. No reel should be treated that way. And I like my Stradics but they're not made for that at all.

Im well aware of what they were made for. I just know guys who run their gear hard, some of it works, some of it don't. I need to find the former

I have Team Daiwas up to the Advantage-A and they are very tough...but not impervious. I know impervious exsists. I just need to source it out

I have never seen or heard of a 100% waterproof spinning reel....if you know of one, buy it....thought you just wanted a rugged, time tested, proven, reliable spinning reel....that would be a Daiwa BG series....I have 2 (BG-10 BG-13) that have lasted over 25 years now and they are still catching fish. Not many reels last that long or are even still available to purchase these days...most are here today and gone in 3 years or less.

 

http://reviews.basspro.com/2010/2038/daiwa-daiwa-black-gold-series-spinning-reels-reviews/reviews.htm

 

http://www.tackledirect.com/bg10.html

As said, I have reels/rods that will last a lifetime of normal use, and I use them normally. A Steelhead spinning reel, in these parts does not get used normally

I may be stuck gasketing my Tierras myself, and seeing if they hold up.

Looking for something on the upper end, 150-200$. I'm not talking a reel you got rained on for an hour and it kept working. I'm talking a reel that can be dropped on a sandy bank, submerged in chest-high crossings, hold up to being slammed on rocks and ice and take it all in stride. I hear the Stradic's have that in spades, my Tierras are nipping at its heals but the gear train is the big problem, its vented and very susceptible to silt and sand in that stupid gear box. The drag is quite water proof but after a dozen or so submerses in the wet stuff it starts to chatter, and thats no good when you're slumming 6 pound leaders in fast chutes...

They look pretty in my tackle box, thats about it.

Looking to pick up a hardcore, workhorse Steely spinning reel. Needs to be waterproof and have a 100% waterproof drag system. I run Daiwa Tierras which have fairly waterproof drags, but even then they begin slipping/chattering/etc after a few hours in the wet stuff. Also their gear trains are susceptable to the sandy rivers I fish, I've cooked 2 Tierras gear trains last season...

Anyone have any ideas? 'Pinners need not preach.

Oh come on..the OPP charges for impaired operation of a pedal boat...too bad that got thrown out instead of settled

Ooooooh ya, the OPP are great and helpful folks

The OPP lady called me back 4 days later and said she was coming out to "investigate", I said "dont worry the MNR already came out and did your job for you, and they did a pretty poor job at that."

She didnt know what to say....

34" Heavy rod, down rigger reel (all I have handy) 15 pound braid, Abu Koster and half a minnow on it.

28" Med-Heavy, baitcaster, braid, williams wabbler, little cleo, etc.

Tip up, wabbler dropped to a snell with life minnow.

28" Med-Heavy, Daiwa Tierra, braid, tube jig.

Which ones/how many get brought out depend on how ambitious Im feeling that day. Some days it all comes out, others I take one, and dont even punch a second hole.

Why wouldn't you call the OPP? Why would you call a conservation officer to report impaired boating?

Perhaps I called both and neither parties gave a rats...well you get it.

Also for what it's worth, for 30K I'd look long and hard at used Rangers.

Stick to Alumacraft or Lund. And for god sakes don't put a black motor on the back of it.

Seems like simple inflation to me. The cost to stock, manage, and enforce our natural resources goes up in an inflating economy. Remember when gas used to be 90 cents a liter? Same thing.

Gas didnt inflate, it skyrocketed. I know this because I had the honor of changing the sign at the Husky East when I worked there from 90 cents to $1.25 overnight. And it never went down.

Ok let's compare apples to apples shall we.

We will look at licensing in BC.

 

Resident fishing license: $36

But if you want to fish steelhead add another: $25

Want to fish for salmon too add another: $10

Want to fish the good water for salmon and steelhead (the classified waters) add anorther: $15

There are a couple of other specialty permits for Shuswap and Kootney Lakes if you want to fish them as well.

 

But let's compare what you get with your Ontario license for $27 where you can fish for salmon and trout and don't have to pay to fish the good public water.

 

Ontario: $27

BC: $86

 

That's more than 3X the price of an Ontario resident license.

 

You don't want to know the cost for non-residents.

What BC residents let their govt. rape them on is no concern of mine. If they want to change it then they should make an attempt.

This is about ON resident fishing, and the fact that our MNR is about the laziest most useless bunch of idiots in this country short of every Federal politician.

If our MNR actually tried making a difference, walleye re-introduction, musky introduction, repairing the DESTROYED Salmon fishery in the Great Lakes, etc then I wouldn't have a problem.

But instead they dump some yearling Splake into a few lakes and say they're trying their damndest.

Hell even their "policing" is piss poor on the best of days. When I was working at a fishing lodge I reported an impaired boater who almost hit a boat full of a clients sons and daughters and then proceeded to drive recklessly to tick us off. They came and took my report in person TWO DAYS LATER...ya...they came looking for a drunk in a boat that almost hit a bunch of kids TWO DAYS after the fact.

Our darn tax dollars at work. But hey...theyre trying!

WOW 27 whole dollars.

My yearly Alaskan license is $145 and if I want a king stamp it's another $100.

NY licenses are $70 PA is $52.70 MI is $42 and Ohio is $40 so $27 seems pretty cheap to me.

Luckily my NWT license is practically free at $10.

Thank you for comparing Non-Res licensing to Res. What is this a pissing match "Who spends more on tags?"....

Frankly I don't care what you pay to go and fish the States, what I DO care about is having my RESIDENT freaking licenses jacked up every year for nothing, especially when the MNR is doing NOTHING with the extra money except lining their pockets...

Its all Bull, we get the shaft, the Govt. gets the $ . There won't be any increased stocking, there wont be any increase in policing, there will just be more $ in their pockets.

And THATS my daily rant....

I think my ice is fairly safe now.

 

 

 

I could punch that with my 8" FinnBore ...... *grin*

Wax worms on a #12 octo-beak hook, no weight. -10 FOW on bottom for still line. Jig the smallest flutter spoon you can find, gold/silver, tipped with a wax worm. As said before, jig as soon as you punch your holes, trout are attracted to the noise like flies on filtered try again please.

I like 15pound braid with 8pound floro from the swivel down while fishin for lakers. Not much stretch in the 100FOW when i switched to braid i started catchin allot more whitefish i just never felt the hits with mono.

What he said.

Although, I've been known to slum straight 6 lb flouro for April whitefish/steelhead through the ice.

Tomorrow Splake are on the menu, 6lb Sensation Solar Orange mainline, 6 lb chameleon leader, changing it up only to say I did

Hard to beat 15 pound braid with ________ leader.