dave524

I've caught Bows with loose eggs, ready to drop them, from Oct right through winter until past season opener in May, so what you propose would basically shut down any river steelheading, really, does it matter if a fish is a little prego or a lot prego ? if it is caught and kept it's not going to spawn again.

I actually helped make license plates for about 20 years going back to '77. No, not there, but the place I worked at precoated galvanized coils and then slit them to license plate width, then about 2000 the business went elsewhere. The years I drove crane I would load them on trucks going to Millbrook Correctional, the drivers explained about the 2 gates system for inspections on entering and leaving, looking under the trailer with mirrors on selfie sticks, that sort of thing, they said it was a PIA going there. I don't know where the business went after we stopped doing it but that is when the decline started. We only did the white basecoat, Milbrook would press and stamp them and add the blue paint to the lettering. At first there was a few other colours, like yellow and maybe blue, old farts will remember when we got new plates every year, blue on white one year and then white on blue the next and not on your birthday

Gotta support the hometown distillery .

Steve Cropper and Donald " Duck " Dunn, those two played together a lot right up until Dunn's death a few years back. I believe I posted his death. edit: doesn't seem like 5 years http://ontariofishingcommunity.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=62769&hl=%2Bdonald+%2Bduck+%2Bdunn

Single malt Scotch is out of my snack bracket, I do enjoy a bit of Forty Creek Barrel Select though.

I'm seeing posts on facebook that the shore casting season has begun, time to respool and walk down to the pier and wash off my Cleos and Krocs.

Thanks, Me 3, along with the Approach to to Niagara River and Welland Canal and the Lake Ontario Olcott NY to Toronto off the same site

This would only apply to Town Parks, basically south of the 401, parkland that is property of the Conservation Authority, like Sylvan Glenn would not fall under this, or am I wrong ?

Walleye, Rainbow and Lakers can be caught all winter.

This looks really nice, but then I'm more of a Great Lakes kinda guy. http://www.kijiji.ca/v-powerboat-motorboat/kawartha-lakes/2001-19-ft-proline-sport-centre-console-125-merc-2-stroke/1230116863?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

From the glory years of CHCH TV Hamilton, another King , caution don't start unless you got an hour to kill.

The least well known of the three Kings

The boat launch and the river at Fort Erie are clear of ice , if anyone is so inclined, saw a video taken this morning. Those mudpuppies are the ugliest, we would catch the odd one icefishing in Gravelly Bay at Port Colborne years ago. Great Video

You can tap Silver Maple if that is what you have, also Red Maple or Box Elder/Manitoba Maple, you can even tap Yellow Birch, but the ratio of sap to syrup would be poorer.

The launches at Crystal Beach and in Fort Erie are both open and clear of ice for those perch hunters that fear to tread on ice.

Out of curiosity I went to fish online to check on my Brookie haunts when dad had the place in Haliburton, years ago. Seems that smallmouth bass got into a few either accidently or on purpose or even accidently on purpose and the brookies are expatriated, one of the best is no longer stocked as there is no longer access and some are now splake lakes instead of brookies. Another option , there are a few back lakes in Haliburton with some nice Rainbows stocked in them, don't know if they are open year round or how you go about locating the bows through the ice, they really weren't structure orientated even in summer.

Also in those pre Global network days, CBLT Toronto was on channel 6 later moving to channel 5. I remember as dad had no remotes in the 50/60's. Think it was the Wednesday Leaf game you would catch already in progress, usually in the 2nd period.

Spent 2 mornings last week at St. Joes while my wife was getting tests done, listening to music stored on my phone. I keep getting drawn to Van Morrison's " Astral Weeks " and " Blowin Your Mind " albums. 50 years old this year, the groove of this tune still amazes me , the hospital setting was appropriate that morning although not as gloomy as this situation.

So far McIlhinney gets the number 1 star. That goal of Matthews reminds me off an old highlight reel goal of Bobby Orr's.

Just hit 60 on the Friendly scale here in Grimsby, N side of detached garage in the shade.

I live down by the old pump house/ water plant in Grimsby on the south shore.

That black 6500 has got a few years on it, got the mate to it. Mine dates back to the 70's, probably got a few tons of salmon to it's credit on Lake O. A spare spool loaded with heavy dacron and it doubled as a musky reel for a while.

These look pretty stable http://wavewalk.com/blog/

I live a 5 minute walk from the marinas and can see the lake from my front yard, it was a madhouse at the marinas and on the lake for the salmon derbies, especially the spring derby, but today there is but a handful of boats out at any time now where in the late 80's there were well over a 100 on the weekends and one of the marinas was usually a weigh in, it is a non event here anymore, no combat fishing here.

Crap, when the guy around the corner won it , Every morning going to work, I had to drive by a 20 foot boat with a big outboard on the back and a big Dodge pickup up front to pull it with Toronto Star Salmon Hunt all over it, that was probably worth more in today's dollars than the grand and weekly prizes totalled today. How low can they go and people still pay the big bucks for a ticket, WAIT, they are probably Leaf fans