dave524

There is different wall thicknesses, get the thinner it is not too heavy and I leave it in the van after I rig up and suit up. Will get a pic outdoors tomorrow.

Go to Canadian Tire or any home supply store. get a piece of PVC pipe of the corresponding length and enough diameter to handle your guides and a couple of test caps. Been using the same case over twenty years and the same rod too. sorry didn't realize you wanted to keep the reel on the rod, that makes it tough

The one bait that has saved the day for me more times than any other, even under low clear conditions, has been the lowly garden hackle. The best ones were what were marketed as baby dews, they were like a half growed dew worm without the collar, thread them thru the nose on the hook the length of the shank. Haven't seen them in a while though for sale.

2 other holding spots to add to the list would be mid water obstructions in a faster area , they will often tuck up close to a rock out of the main current and my favourite is often the tailout section of a larger deep pool where the water starts to become shallower and the current speed quickens rather than the head of the pool where the water speeds in, that is the more common holding place of resident fish.

I remember a conversation I had 25 years ago with a local fellow, well known steelheader in the 70's and 80's, very good at bottom bouncing about the increasing popularity of centrepins and float fishing. Basically with bottom bouncing, it is an slower learning process requiring a greater degree of acquired feel and experience, while float fishing will put a neophyte into more fish in a shorter period learning process. There was concern that instead of 10% of the anglers catching 90% of the fish that the playing field is more level with minimal experience and a float rod resulting in larger numbers of fish being caught.as a result. More success for greater number of anglers might not be such a great thing for our fish stocks.

Hamilton didn't even get a team and they're still only 1 point behind the Leafs.

Everything Bill said and I prefer a rounder float in faster water rather than a slimmer profile.

Thanks, looks like I'll probably be OK with traditional guiding, it would be a beefier stick that I would want. Maybe, tape the guides on before making a final decision on which route to go and doing a test bend might be the best route.

I started in the early 80's with a Grice and Young bushing reel, I see that that are being manufactured again on the original tooling by Eagle and for sale new at one place for $99. Match that up with a Daiwa or Shimano rod that are available for about the same and you are in for two bills. You will get a taste of it before dumping more money into the pit.

I have used this knot for thirty years now, always used an up eye hook, never had an issue with knot strength. http://www.steelheader.net/knots/whip_finish.htm I use it because I think I get better hook sets, because of the direction of pull and the alignment of the hook when it is tied to the shank. I also use it cause I run a lot of yarn, making them on the water as this is an eggloop style knot and lends itself to quickly to yarn. I just take about an inch of yarn and insert it under the line between the knot and the eye of the hook, Slide the knot up to the eye and while holding the bend of the hook pull on the line to tighten. Grab both ends of the yarn and pull them and trim the yarn in a curve so that the yarn flairs in a ball to looks like a single egg. Maybe retighten to get a better flair if necessary. Often I will mix colours, like a peach egg with a few strands of red added so it looks like an eyed egg. If I am running roe bags and don't have the hot colour for the day, I will add a few long strands of yarn in that colour so that my bag looks like it has a pice of skein attached. A piece of white yarn left untrimmed is a flesh fly. Sure many of the steelheaders made note of drifter's beads, yarn lends itself to the same creativity somewhat and its buoyancy gives it possibly a more natural drift.

While not an exclusively fishing show, hunting was also featured, the best I remember was the original " American Sportsman " with Curt Gowdy. High profile guests from an age when Hollywood embraced hunting and fishing, most vivid memory was one were Bing Crosby and Phil Harris were bird hunting with comical chat and razzing between them, Robert Stack who was skeet shooting instructor to the stars when he was encouraged to try acting and also sports figures like Ted Williams, probably one of the best flyfisherman that ever lived. Now we got the Hollywood P3TA wackos.

I carry an old Shakespeare 1810 underspin in the back pouch of my vest that I swap out with my float reel when I want to chuck a few spinners or quickfish or even soak a spawn sack bottom fishing. Even put it on when I need to cast some distance with a float and Wallis is not going well that day or windy. Question for the baitreel guys: On the longer rods that I assume you use, do you put all the guides on top or do you do the twist thing that was popular with rigger rods so that the line does not crisscross the blank when under load ??

Next to the Grand River, which is about the largest river system in Ontario on the Great Lakes, Big Creek is the next biggest river system on the north shore of Erie. I have fished it for 50 years now, actually the very first migratory rainbow I witnessed caught , my dad got there in the spring of 60 or 61, the term steelhead for migratory rainbows was not even generally used in Ontario at that time. I'm sorry , but all I saw was that someone named the river that flowed through a certain town, no different than the Credit flows through Mississauga or Streetville. Specific info ?? no way, in that time and 2 years of living in Port Rowan I never got to all the fishable water there.

I don't think that is the biggest problem here, that has been clarified. What would bother me if I was a C.O., would be that you participated some way in the hunt, especially since you are using the same vehicle. Say enroute to the area, you spot a cow in a beaver pond meadow, you got a bull tag so he shoots it after getting out of the vehicle, were you a participant?? Its just not a situation I would want to be in personally, too much open to interpretation of what actually constitutes participation.

I throw a float reel on a 9'6" extension butt fly rod for one Erie trib, a 15 footer would touch the other side in some places.

Looking at the specs the 11'6" rods appear to be true noodles, probably similar to the Fenwick HMG 1441's of the early 80's, The IGFA 2 and 4 notation implies that is the pound test they are designed for. Not at all what we want for a float rod , even for oldschoolers like me who cherish old Loomis IM6 1562's. Have to watch for further models I fear.

Unfortunately, you can't save them for more difficult times. You got a woodlot that can support say 20 deer, the population of that woodlot will be 20 today and 20 in 50 years time, with some slight variation over the years because of environmental conditions. The only way you can save a deer for food is in the freezer.

Very nice, looks like a " Delhi" tower, at least you would save on the delivery, if they are still made there. I've got a 48' here that I got used in 87, still strong, they are good towers if you pour an adequate base for your soil type.

I remember Jason Blake doing something similar during a shootout last season, trouble is, if you are successful you are a hero, if you flub it , you look like a idiot. Gotta admit though , the kids has hands for a 9 year old.

See on the news today that some one had a golfball chunk go through the window of their SUV and another suspected piece has been found, this one is a biggie about 17 inches by 18 inches, ouch! that would leave a mark.

I always find that Coho have a redder flesh than Chinook, would the diet be that much different or is there some variation between species? I'm talking fish from out in the lake , well prespawn or staging fish ?

I remember them from long ago, probably the 60's, they were "Arkansas Travelers" back then if it is the same manufacturer that I am thinking of, fairly popular at the time.

For the most part the main reason is that I think it just simplifies enforcement. People targeting out of season fish while maintaining they are fishing something else. You got the same thing while hunting, can't use anything bigger than #2 shot or a .22 rimfire while hunting during big game season without a valid big game license. For some reason , certain people have a " loophole mentality " . Not all sanctuaries fall in this category, some are actually management tools, but a lot just give the CO the power to charge before or without actually witnessing an offence.

Maybe you do have to pay to take a walk in the park, this is getting insane http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandg...375496-sun.html

Hearingfish, I bet a lot of hunters don't realize what is useful in a lot of popular fly patterns, other than bucktail for jigs. Maybe compiling a list of materials you would find useful would be appropriate.