dave524

The first week of November is usually deer season, not sure if there are many organized deer camps in the area, but, and I know you have just as much right to be there as they do, if you are small game hunting in an area where camps are running organized deer drives you won't be the most popular guy in the bush.

Glad all I need is a birth certificate to go fishing . I'm so sorry I supported the adoption of a resident angling license back in the mid 80's on the promise the revenue would be used to enhance the resource, it has turned in nothing more than a money grab anymore with the revenue going into the general pot.

The best winter steelheading gloves I ever had were hand knit by a friend's mom years ago, Only the tip of the thumb , index finger and middle finger were exposed, the ring finger and pinkie were full fingers. I both fished spin tackle and float reel with them no problem, she did a few pairs for guys, unfortunately moths got to mine after many seasons of use.

It was just as bad maybe even worse before social media, idiots just are more visible today. You be surprised how many salmon, especially males are accidentally flossed and the guy actually thinks it took the bait.

Reminds me of Forty Creek where it passes under the north service road, it's open all year and I have caught Bows in the spring and salmon, bows and browns there in the fall, but not in the last 20 years have I gone there rod in hand and it is a 5 minute walk from my place, just not my idea of fishing.

U of T Forestry Grad here, stayed in a residence for professional students, doctors, dentists, engineers, architects, foresters and pharmacists, etc., NO arts students, '69 to 74. I bet 10% of those professional students that started never made to the end of the first year, dropped out, let alone pass to start a second year, wasn't a walk in the park those days. Actually I lived just south of Varsity Stadium , OSIE was just north of Bloor from me.

In my life I have found many people educated far beyond their level of intelligence. Does the school system at the elementary and secondary even fail kids today ? They must get a rude awakening at the post secondary level .

Pretty much my favourite station the past few months http://cocktelera-blues.playtheradio.com/index.cfm

A blues rock internet radio station http://8.38.78.173:8240/stream

Like this article states they have been in Erie and Ontario and tribs for years , I saw them on occasion over 50 years ago as a kid.

Beautiful scenery and nice fish, didn't Robert Redford shoot a movie there ? ?

I saw a 15 grand US price tag, for that money you can get a real boat.

I see that one too. Got the box preloaded along with a IPTV service just a few weeks ago. Terrarium was recommended by the IPTV guy and never looked at any of the other stuff. Really not up to speed on these boxes yet, I'll be seeing him sunday and see what he has to say. Bunch of other stuff I see if I click on apps, have to explore.

Any suggestions now that Terrarium is DOA, I got tired of constantly maintaining Kodi on a PC and switched to an android box a while back, Terrarium was a hundred times better than any Kodi addon, but now sadly it appears to be gone.

Yeah , nice chompers. I never figured out why a hammerhandle pike can bite you off in the blink of an eye on straight mono and a much larger Walleye can't.

When I let the dogs out just before 6 this morning I could hear the waves pounding the south shore, offshore winds for the north shore all night I'm guessing.

This explains the origin of the name Walleye, even the Ontario Fishing Regs were still calling them Yellow Pickerel in my youth 50's and 60's, the name Walleye really didn't see widespread use till the 70's here in Canada, Americans seemed to adopt it earlier. https://ontariowalleyefishing.com/ontario-walleye-biology-fishing-resource/

One of my online blues radio stations http://streaming.radionomy.com/Cocktelera-Blues?lang=en-CA%2cen-GB%3bq%3d0.9%2cen-US%3bq%3d0.8%2cen%3bq%3d0.7

Thanks for the links, interesting read, the Sandusky Register mentions the last good age class of fish occurring in 1958, I would have been 8 or so , I liked them as I could stillfish for them but Dad trolled for Yellows with bait casting gear, usually with a June Bug spinner and worm, they pulled too hard for a 8 year old to troll. Smaller size, deeper cooler water all goes along with my 60 year old memory, just don't ask what I had for lunch yesterday ?

Blue Pickerel/Pike were more than a different coloration. Their eyes were larger in relation to their body kind of Sauger like and they never got any larger than 2-3 pounds tops and were found deeper and preferred cooler water than Yellow Pickerel. I recall Dad got them anchoring in 40 plus feet of water with minnows much like perching in Erie today but we trolled for Yellow Pickerel much shallower.

We called them Blue Pickeral when I was a kid, cross the Niagara River to New York and they called them Blue Pike. Port Clinton would use the U.S. common name of Blue Pike.

Actually smallies are not native to NW Ontario but were introduced, story was they carried in milk cans along the railway and dumped in lakes along the line and spread from there. We weren't too happy about them getting into Spec Lakes in Haliburton either when dad had the place there.

I enjoyed the 2 to 5 pounders we used to get in Haliburton, smoked , baked, BBQ'd even battered and fried, the ones from Lake O and I suspect Simcoe tend to be greasers because of the oily baitfish like Alewives and Smelt and smoking the best option. I suspect some of the Haliburton Lakers were insectivorous.

yes they are invasive, for most of my time on earth there was no limit on Crappie , Perch and Sunfish, keep your limit and eat them frequently, and catch another possession limit, DON"T feel guiltly

I bought a Lowrance 1510B paper graph from them , '80 or 81, they actually were on Stavebank for a few years before they moved to Lakeshore.