dave524

Those long tailed ducks look like "Oldsquaws " to me

Gotta be careful though Craig, almost all of these small creeks, ditches and stream, many unnamed, close on the regular closer the end of Sept. and don't open till the l4th Sat in April, at least for salmon and trout. Think it is only Northumberland and Durham that states all water south of a line is an extended season, west of TO and the south shore it is only specifically named creeks that have the extended season, bummer

30 years ago when I first moved here there was much more flow year round and Chinook reproduction might have been possible, especially since the fry hit the lake before the summer spike in water temps. Doubt that any of the other species would make it as they have to spend a summer in the creek before hitting the big water, water gets too warm for them. Now they only really get upstream during weather like now and when the water drops they end up stranded in a few pools or beached. In the 80's several hundred made it past the QEW, Main Street and further, back then they was always a mess of dead ones behind what was Miracle Mart back then, Food Basics now. Gotta be lost stockers now though IMHO.

Lots of creeks, ditches and flows will get a few salmon, especially with all the present rain and the with the quality of the these flows, successful spawning and smolting of fry would not be possble. The fish going up these less than satisfactory waters would be lost stockers that were dumped in harbour mouths as fry with little imprinting. I'm pretty sure a wild fish, that was hatched, grew up and smolted from a creek that would support natural reproduction would be sufficently imprinted with its home water to return when it was time. If it runs into Lake Ontario and a fish can get up, they will try, seen salmon and trout in some pretty strange places along the south shore come spawning time.

They are not a native species but have been widely planted with a lot of older trees around in established neighbourhoods.

I suspect the ones you have are not the edible kind but the Horse Chestnuts. We did have an edible chestnut but it is virtually wiped out due to a blight like the Elm Tree. http://www.canadianchestnutcouncil.org/ edit: you have this one I'm guessing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesculus_hippocastanum

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.