dave524

Think we had it better before so called " LEGALIZATION " 4 grams , unless the operator was obviously stoned out of his gourd, in most cases wouldn't have resulted in a charge or you might have been asked to dump it over the side. Of course in my days CO's and cops weren't pr---ks.

Everyone that steelheaded back in the 70's/80's knew of John, one of the founding members of the "Ontario Steelheaders" and one of the best outdoor writers on the subject of Steelheading. Always enjoyed talking to him, passed too early last summer.

I went to another paper graph, a Sitex HE357, had a wide angle 50 khz transducer , actually, in the end preferred the narrow 192 khz of the Lowrance, even for downrigging, ended up with both on the centre console. Yeah , Loran C sucked, never owned one but had some experience with it on a buddy's charter.

Today you can get a HiTech 7inch with GPS for about what we paid for those back then and even at that they ate a 5 buck roll of paper every couple of trips, but at least you could fill up a 5 gal tank for less than $10. The X16 came out in 85, think I got the 1510B in '80 or '81, had it a year or 2 before I got the boat in '82, got it at Shortwave Marine in Port Credit when they were still on Stavebank.

Weighed a lot of fish with that old brass Chantillion during the 20 years I fished derbies on Lake Ontario, always kept track of the cutoffs for the money and weighed and released anything that didn't place, saved killing fish that didn't quite make the cut.

Actually, I started hauling the " Salmon Boat " with the riggers , sideplaners , graph and other goodies to Erie for Pickeral in the late 80's and got limit catches, nothing has changed in 30 years and it is a catch and keep fishery.

Thanks, there's plenty to share with the Yanks. Yesterday, a 2 man limit on a Niagara forum out of Crystal Beach, couple look like possible double digits

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Congrats to him ?, me too Bill, my best was a oz or so shy of 35 back then , I watched as it slowly dropped on the weekly leader board till it finally won a couple of bulk spools of Blue Stren in the old Star Derby, think it was '86 , the same year John Slade RIP. won it and I had to pass that prize winning boat and truck every day on the way to work ?

Last I knew 2 rods were allowed if boating on Lake Erie and Erie is anything but a featureless puddle going out of Port Colborne inside of 40 or so feet of water, lots of reefs and shoals to take out a lower end many yards from shore, but yes once you hit the main basin outside of 40/50 feet of water the bottom virtually straightlines picking up only a few feet of water every mile or so out.

I've had one of these for like thirty years, they come in several different sizes depending on the species you target, fishing salmon derbies it was always bang on with the official scales. https://www.midwiferysupplies.ca/products/chatillon-scale?variant=30022743748 edit : i didn't get it from that place, it was just the first google came up with ? Edit: mine is 0 to 30 lbs or 15 Kg. and I didn't pay anywhere near that, got it when some one thought an Orvis Shop could make it in Stoney Creek and got it half price when they went out of business. Strange a birth shop mentions it is IGFA certifiable

Years ago the MNR put them in the lake dad had a cottage on in Haliburton. None of the cottagers wanted them in a bass/pickeral lake, bunch got caught and none released, actually, while not as good as walleye on the table they were on a par with the bass on the table, bony though and smaller than the crazy minimum size limits on some waters, maybe a slot limit for eaters would make sense.

Somewhere in the basement , there is a 40 year old Lowrance 1510B that runs 4 inch thermal paper if anyone want to go retro. ?

Glad you had a good day, you can go a long ways up river and it's an enjoyable cruise. I really only fished walleyes there and would get them trolling the deeper channels with worm harnesses years ago, recommended more on being a safe bet you could get out no matter the wind, but there is almost everything in that river.

I used to launch here , it was free and you can run over ten miles up to Cayuga, I targeted walleyes but there are bass , pike and panfish as well. edit : click on the satellite view in the bottom left and zoom out

Jordan Harbour is a no go. It has pretty well silted in and extremely shallow since the 80's. Campbell's Marina on the harbour side is long gone with the boat launch, the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority now has it and I'm not so sure that they even allow power boats there anymore even if there was a launch ramp. The Grand River if you launch in Dunnville above the dam gives many miles of calm boating and various warm water species.

Bass fisherman ?‍♂️Probably never fishes deeper than 20 feet most of the time, fish are displayed at 1/4 scale ?.

I'm not understanding the apprehension of hitting Lake Erie with an 18 footer with a 140 on the back , a 14 foot tinner with a 9.9 yes, but your boat is very capable of a lot of days on Erie.

Van is still the Man

Hope all turns out OK, we are the same age if I remember correct.

Grimsby has one https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=45139 and if we go Erie , Port Colborne got one too https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=45142

Retired 11 years ago here after 31 year's in the steel industry, in, where else, Hamilton. Last few years I was one of the 2 slitter operators, got me off weekends and 12 hours shifts, no 12 hour nights was treat. Along the way I operated a crane for around 15 years then quality control for a 10 year spell making it to lead hand and waste water treatment technician for a bit, then the slitter. Retire and save gas, we went to one vehicle and that is a 2006 just about to turn 90,000 km. ?

They really like that scrub willow. good pics?

Back before I retired in 2008 the Loonie was actually for a while worth more than the US dollar, it being at 75 cents not does help.

Port Colborne east to the mouth of Niagara River for smallies anyway.