dave524

That would be the call of a Bittern, I used to be a park naturalist at Long point Prov. Park in my younger days, fielded that query more than a few times.

I'm betting on a Blue Jay too, they have one call they make that I swear sounds identical to the creaking of a clothesline pulley when my Mom used to hang out clothes when I was a kid, about the same interval between calls too as hanging clothes. Your desciption kinda sounds like that call.

Gotta second the gang troll suggestion, at my parents cottage nearby in Haliburton it got to the point where that's all we used, the numbers were so much better with them. Get a baiting needle, take a 2 footpiece of leader material with a treble on the end, insert the needle nesr the tail of a smelt or we used about 5/6 " chub, run it out thru the mouth and a half hitch to keep the lips closed and a slight bend in the body so it rolls , tie on a snap swivel to the other end and clip it to the troll, we used large hammered blade Les Davis/ Luhr Jensen trolls with a half chrome half copper finish, adjust speed for a rolling action. FWIW we caught most of our fish fairly high in the water column, temperature probes usually showed a distinct thermoline between 30 and 40 feet depending on the lake, month and wind, we found the most active fish just below in water in the high 40 degrees.

I still have a large one, little over a foot square, good for a gross of worms. Best bet is to soak it well, laundry tub over night. I've also ussed well wetted spaghnum moss as a bedding , not peat moss, keep the box and bedding moist and the worms will be cool through evaporation cooling. I'd be inclined to keep them on a concrete basement floor rather than the garage, might be a little cooler.

I second the EasyClip frames for prescription glasses, light and almost unnoticeable polarized clip ons. http://www.aspexeyewear.com/

The best two products I know of for keeping worms are the old " Oberlin Bait Canteen " and a bedding called " Buss Bedding". The bait canteen was a pressed fibre that was best presoaked and would keep the worms cool through evaporation, the bedding was a finely ground newprint by the look of it.

On the other hand , make sure you get it high enough that the kicker is totally clear when up on plane. http://www.garelick.com/product.php?pnumber=71057# I had one of these with an Eazy Steer , when I had my rig, there was plenty of adjustment to get it low in the water with a short shaft 9.9, but it was marginal to clear at full up, you definitely don't want it dragging under main power. Wish I had it mounted an inch higher at times.

You would have to go with dual filaments on the side markers and more wiring. Your request reminds me of one one of the strangest wiring snafus's I ever saw. Friend's trailer, the right turn worked perfectly but when he put the left signals on the whole trailer flashed, man we were sure it was a ground problem, a few pops, pulling wiring and hours later found it. He had replaced the left tail signal light with a single filament bulb where a dual filament should be, remarkably the contact on the bulb bridged the 2 contacts on the receptacle so that when the left signal were turned on , power was getting into the side marker taillight circuit. Was a real head scratcher for a while

The one I have is the middle one on the right hand side, the glo phlorescent green, it has very stout galvanized hooks, probably got it for pier casting staging Kings at night. Flatfish type lures were at one time very popular for salmon in the lake, Heddon had one called a " Tadpolly " I did well with on spring Kings, Luhr Jensen had the "Fireplug " a spring fishing staple in the late 70's, " Kwikfish " was popular as it handled speed better then the Helin " Flatfish " and my personal favourite was the "Canadian Wiggler " in the jointed model great on salmon and deadly on Erie eyes too, for eyes we would add a bit of nightcrawler to the front treble. There were probably others too.

Think it is an old Luhr Jensen " Fishback ". believe I have one somewhere edit: did the google thing, came up with this , looks like them http://s975.photobucket.com/albums/ae237/Old_Relics/Lure%20Displays/?action=view&current=IM007410.jpg&currenttag=Fishback%20display%20Luhr%20Jensen

Very nice, the pics and the poem. Fun knowing where a big one lives and how many times you can fool him in a small piece of water. The chinny really is a strange one, early run jack ?? a smolt that never went to the lake ?? its way bigger than most before they hit the big water.

Used them a lot for trolling walleyes in the evening, used the Gapen BaitWalkers in various sizes depending on depth with a floating rapala or a worm harness 30 - 36 " off the back. Google Gapen Bait Walker and there's chart showing recommended weights for various depths, these worked well for me.

Save yourself a lot of headaches, for the past ten years coming into anything at the Convention Centre, Air Canada Centre, CNE etc or even stuff like the Museum and downtown businesses I just drive from Grimsby to the Burlington GO train, hop on and get TTC tokens at Union station if required, not much more than the parking if I drove and a lot less stressful. Maybe there is something coming from the north that could work like this for you.

Same thought here. Used a few of them back in the late seventies when salmon fishing was taking off on various boats, believe the endplates were a red bakelite material back then, don't know if they been upgraded much over the years but for $120 you are close to a Garcia 7000 which I had on my boat, still got a couple, don't know of anyone still using their old 209's.

I used bait exclusively in the evenings, dewey, crayfish or lip hooked frog or salamander, CHECK the legality of salmanders now ? Once you position yourself, stay still and often it will betray it's presence once it has moved from cover into it's evening feeding lane. It is really surprising the size of some resident fish in very small streams, browns of 18 or more inches where brookies top out at ten inches. Not done it in years but most often it was an individual fish that I had previous knowledge of and was determined to outsmart it

Bigger fish are more prone to leave their daytime lairs for open water feeding positions at night. Bigger fish hit bigger baits, frogs mice crayfish etc. Bigger fish are much harder to land in small creek, they know their surrounding and will use it against you. ie.heavier tackle Bigger fish are usually solitary, they are predatory, somtimes cannibalistic, lack of other fish is a key to their presence sometimes. My best browns when I fished Norfolk County when I was younger came when concentrating on specific holes after dark with bigger baits and heavier tackle. Nice fish and good hunting

the garlic mustard is a horrible invasive, nasty. http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/hort/news/hortmatt/2005/10hrt05a4.htm

Ran one of these for years when the mood struck me downrigging on Lake Ontario, not a true moocher, but a lot of fun, used it with a 10 1/2 foot Fenwick E-glass medium action steelhead rod I built with a grip for that style of reel. I'd recommend it, if you wanted to search for a good used specimen. http://www.mitchellreels.net/index.php?option=com_easygallery&act=categories&cid=530&Itemid=72

You're right, must be a very recent change. Seems the Credit is that way now and the Grand you still can use a barbless treble in the restricted areas. thanks

While it may be better from a release standpoint to use a single pointed, barbless hook is not a treble a single hook as of a fairly recent reg change ? A treble with all the barbs pinched or removed would meet the single barbless criteria if I am not mistaken. I have seen single siwash take out the eye of many smaller fish lake fishing.

Mine is CTC Centro, there is 2 things I like about the particular one I have. first the grills are very heavy duty cast iron and second the rear burner for the rotisserie is not a simple single tube with holes but a long catalytic bar, if I have to replace in the future those are two features I would demand from another unit. The rotisserie with the main burners off and a drip pan is a joy to use after the old one with constant flare ups cause you cooked with the main burners on rotisserie. Nothing beats seasoned cast iron grill grates either, ocassional scrub down and brush with oil .

The reel was made by " Lucky Strike " I see yours is mounted flat to the rod, the one Dad had when I was a kid mounted in the normal way, it had a braided copper line on it. This link shows it. http://ontariolures.com/reels/luckystrikereel.html

A small diameter, deeply cut spinning reel spool is not the best choice for Fluoro. They are coming up with larger diameter shallow cut spools specifically for Fluoro. Perhaps your reel choice is not helping. This video helps explain somewhat.

Nice, should work well in extremely shallow water.

I wouldn't really classify the Grand below Caledonia as a trout stream, if trout made up more than a couple of percent of the fish I'd be surprised, and those are seasonal fish at that.