dave524

It's been a lot of years but I used to launch off the end of Howey Ave, there was a small parking lot on MNR property there and a launch area suitable for smaller boats, it was mainly a launch for when the Waterfowl Management Unit is open to hunting . It is free if it is still open to the public.

I like the idea of the large diameter spool , there is really no advantage to a small diameter spool other than size and weight , everything else about a small spool takes away from the performance of a spinning reel. I would look at one for steelheading and shore casting for trout . The 180 SX with 170yds of 8lb. test @ 7.3 oz. SWEET thats the weight of my old 308 Mitchell.

First time I saw them would have been early 60's and I would have in my tweens, Dad and I used to go trout fishing in Youngs Creek at Vittoria and Big Creek between Lynedoch and Delhi in Norfolk County. I swear they were over 2 foot maybe 30" long and lined up like cordwood in one pool , but they may have grown over the years, it was one of those sights you don't forget. Fished that area fairly frequently later on my own in the seventies and never again saw them that bad.

Just this morning I was in a waiting room and picked up a mag with a guy in a kayak fishing, it was a spring issue of " Kayak Angler " . In it was a buyers guide with 99 different fishing models listed with specs and prices as well as some interesting articles. Curiously I thought it was very activity specific fare for the emergency room of Grimsby hospital, somebody there must be into it and bringing their old mags. Don't know if you can still find it on the news stands but would make for good browsing to see whats out there.

it's all the fault of the catch and release crowd

my parents had a cottage on Loon from 1968 until 1988, yes, in the later years there Dad got a few muskies while trolling walleyes and also lakers, initially when they first got the place it was strictly bass and walleyes.

I spent a few summers working at the Prov. Park in my younger days, did not have a boat but caught a ton of fish. If you are willing to bring a set of waders there is a network of dredged channels and duck hunting ponds from the causeway on out to the end of the prov park on the bayside. Bring up google maps and you will see the channels and a lot of dredged rectangular ponds that are used for duck hunting blinds in season, fish these, it is hard slogging at times but there is a lot of pike , largemouth bass, crappie and bluegills.

Not sure if you prob with wire leaders is spooking the fish or impeding the action of the lure but looking at your photo , but I see starting at the lure a split ring, a barrel swivel, a snap and another barrel swivel. The terminal tackle connecting the line to the lure is almost the length of the red and white. Why don't you try a simple wire leader , barrel swivel about a foot of wire and a duo-lock snap on the other end , tied to your line, I assume the red and white came with the split ring and chrome barrel swivel, remove the chrome barrel so it has just the split ring and hook the snap of the wire leader to the split ring. I think that would be less impeding to the action and visible to the fish than what you have now, running without a leader.

Im looking at the Credit River Anglers Association page and they are saying "Artificial lures with a single pointed barbless hook must be used. No live or organic bait allowed " near the bottom. http://www.craa.on.ca/new_regulations.shtml Possibly, they put up the signs and are being over-zealous in their interpretation of a single hook EDIT: in another area it is simply single barbless hook, could there be two special regs for different areas?

I agreed, you entered at a road allowance ie. public property and the water is navigable as evidenced by the government published canoe route map. My point is that some think they are OK as long as they are standing in water , sometimes the status of that water as navigable is quite debatable.

at one time you could get siwash hooks that the eye was slightly open and once you cut off the treble you just closed the ringed eye on the siwash with pliers, some quick work with a Dremel and it could be barbless.

Thanks for the welcome, the published canoe route is a pretty clear cut , sometimes I think the " I'm standing in the water and you can't touch me " mentality goes too far at times. I am only familiar with the Rocky from a few trips in the 70's when we used to take the varmint rifles up that way on the weekend for a Saturday of groundhog shooting and then we hit it on Sunday where it crossed the Markdale Road for a dinner of pansize Brookies . At that point I would have to say that I would hesitate to wade through private property.

Is this a navigable waterway ?

This is not the first time that concept has been tried. Wish I could remember the manufacturer but I recall pictures of a reel from ads in the 50 or 60's that instead of an eyelet had a piece of square stock with a twist in it that when it revolved would lay the line on the spool evenly. My dad was a tournament caster in the late 40's and early 50's winning T.A.H.A. championships at the C.N.E. , learned to fish with better quality knucklebusters of that era , Langely's , Inglis/Shakespeares , was pretty into it as a teen. EDIT: found a pic of what I remember, was more of a trolling type reel from Penn, but the concept is so close I would wonder about patent infringement if it applies after 35+ years http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Penn-LEVELINE-...=item1e5726aa86

I understand that the Dunnville Airport was a WWII training facility and that the marsh was used for bombing practice with the possibility of a few pieces of unexploded ordanace existing buried there.

Why not a spincast ?? the best of both worlds Actually I use a Shakespeare 1810 on my float rod, especially at night or when I want to be nostalgic. they do have a pretty smooth drag

faced with these conditions I would grab a flyrod and a box of woolybuggers, that kind of water is custom made for fly fishing.

I'd be more inclined to think it was a weak governor spring rather than a carb problem

Blakemore Roadrunners deserve to be more popular as a smallie lure

toilet paper, just in case

Agreed, you'll go a long ways driving west before you find pike water, none that I know of between Wilberforce and Minden. Highlands of Hasting and Madawaska Valley has got them

My family had a cottage between Haliburton and Wilberforce, sorry to say that pike are the one fish that seems to be absent in the Highlands of Haliburton. Lake trout and smallmouth bass are most frequently encountered with some lakes having been stocked and producing muskies and pickerel ( walleyes). Speckled trout are found in some streams.

Derby winner I believe, rules.

reminisient of the old Helin " Fishcake " but they didn't have legs, are they maybe added on later?

looks like the honeymoon is over and Obama is game for political comedians