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Now I have had a couple of guys move onto the far bank of a pool wearing bright yellow rainsuits and shut it down after I'd been getting fish steadily in my camo deerhunt raingear

I thought small Mercs were Tohatsu's too, looks like they'll have the market cornered

Fantastic pictures and fish.... is that an Aurora??

Here's one for Thanksgiving, was filmed on Thanksgiving weekend stateside if I recall right but all but one of the performers are Canadian. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/J2z7LXpAX3Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

1300 for sure if you're steelheading on a stream, I use a 1300 shore casting here for Browns with 8 lb test, but if my casting included pier fishing with chinooks on the menu I'd probably step up to the 1600 for the line capacity with heavier line 10 or 12 lb. , bigger diameter spool also gets you a few more feet on the cast.

Could have had a minnow bucket?? I've caught a few larger creek chubs from similar waters with hook and line in the fall for pike bait under a bobber, sometimes the creeks also held trout but as long as they are not sanctuaries under the regs after Sept closer, it is legal. edit: lota is obviously a faster typer than me

Blackbirds, crows and jays are all very susceptable to West Nile Virus, personnally I'd not touch it.

For future reference, Ringnecks should have been called Ringbills I can see the white ring around the bill in about half the birds. That with the fact that you were hunting in a marsh rather than more open water and it is still pretty early to have Bluebills/Scaup down in any numbers, plus now that you say they tasted great... Ringnecks are a better bird on the table IMHO, I bet that they were all Ringnecks. Great day in the marsh anyway

about a hundred maybe less on sale. Old school eighties design that haas stood the test of time for that application.

Daiwa Whisker SS

Nice bag of birds, look again though , think there's at least a few Ringnecks in there.

thanks for relating all the experiences, good and bad. The one consistent thing seems to be is once you are called there is no way out, guess I make the best of it

So this week I get a letter in the mail from the Attourney General.. Sheriff's Office-Jury Administration.. fill out the questionaire and mail it in.. hec I'm a good citizen, vote and jury duty in the same week So. I'm retired and I think this might be kinda interesting to do... am I delusional . Any one who has done this have any comments? what are the chances of being selected ? Do they feed ya and pay mileage as I would assume I would have to go to St Catharines about 20 miles ?

Isn't it easier to just add 500 ml. of oil to a 25 litre jerry can when you fill up

There's a fish ladder there as per the regs it is illegal to fish within 75 feet of the downstream entrance of a fishladder anywhere, anytime in the Province of Ontario. Some have wires some don't, the practice is even more flagrantly illegal where there is a wire

I'd double check that with some one in the know better than the girl on the gate that answered the phone, just because the park is open to the end of Nov. doesn't mean it is legal to fish trout in the pond. It would be zone 16 and the only trout pond I see listed that is open past the end of Sept closer is the Waterford Pond, pretty sure if any other ponds in zone 16 were open they would be listed specifically as well. That would be my take on reading the regs anyway edit: private owned pay to fish ponds are another story, I was just referring to public Prov. fishing Areas.

When it gets real cold I'm a fan of oversized bootfoot waders and if you are duck hunting, stockingfoot waders and wading shoes just don't do well in black stinky marsh muck

Very nice, another fan of cohos in the tribs. They seem to make it farther upstream in better shape than the chinook boots, that actually fight more like a boot too Watch for period runs of coho thoughout the fall, years ago one of the biggest influx of cohos happened just b4 freeze up.

Seen a few good catches out of a couple marinas on the south shore just east of Hamilton, marinas are not fishermen friendly at least until the boats come out though.

http://www.bocabearings.com/bearing-applications/fishing-reel-bearings-by-model/islander/steelhead-center-pin-reel This might help

I've had this happen a few times, at least on my old 2 stroke it had to do with the lube getting thick on that spiral gear that engages the flywheel, it is forced into the flywheel against a thin spring by inertia of the starter spinning. Cold weather the lube gets thick and it just spins without engaging the flywheel, shot of WD 40 will get you going until you can replace the lube with something thinner in cold weather.

Actually my wife came across this and sent it to me, had to share <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wubR3FTRhrw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

yup, pretty much the way it was, didn't get married till just shy of 50

swap out the flour for Italian seasoned bread crumbs and a sprinkle of parm cheese

More great fish and pictures How did the Atlantic perform in the river ?