solopaddler

Wow!, not much else to say.

Those are amazing fish and true trophies.

Awesome fish, congratulations!

Well, after contacting ebay in an attempt to get some confirmation on the legitimacy of this auction, within 2 hours they pulled the listing and contacted me saying do not provide this person with any information.

Guess it was what it appeared to be, a scam

Well his feedback seems to be okay. I would guarantee with Ebay that the insurance is there to cover the deal first in case anything goes wrong. Otherwise, he only has 3 bad feedback and has been dealing on ebay since 1989.

 

Joey

Damn you woman, stop putting ideas into my head!

No worries, my momma didn't raise no dummies .

Find it amazing that such an obvious scam would make it onto ebay though.

Usually they're pretty vigilant about that kind of thing.

Hmmm...Took out my code book....if you look at the highlighted/bolded letters in his response you get....

 

motorissucky...or motor is sucky.

 

Hmmm...be careful!!!

 

Ok...can you tell I'm bored??

That's funny!

Out of Miami Fla., naaah. You may want to pass on that one.

Boat is actually located in Dickson Tennesse (supposedly).

It sounds as though he lived a long and fruitful life and was loved by many,

may he rest in peace.

Condolences to you and your family.

Wow!!! Great boat and awesome deal! Hope it all works out for you!

Yeah great deal, maybe too great. Seems too good to be true....

It's currently listed on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/2000-LUND-MR-PIKE-17-F...1QQcmdZViewItem

I emailed him saying I'd buy it for his asking price of $3500, but had a bunch of questions including wanting to talk to him directly..

Here's his response to me:

"I would first like to let you know that the boat is in perfect condition and will be come with a clear title. Price is $3,500.00 including the shipping, my associate will ship it via BoatTransportQuotes. I`m currently in Miami running a reseller business. If you want to buy it, email me your shipping address including the full name and i will initiate the sale through eBay. After that, you will get an online insurance from eBay with the payment instructions. Please also include your eBay ID in your reply."

Thank you

Check your pm's Cliff

Hey that's awesome!

I can relate as well, I did a very, very similar conversion to my 16' Lund SSV.

Man you sure do get around!

Beautiful fish, beautiful kids and beautiful wife (congrat's on making her an honest woman ).

cheers, Mike

Awesome Drew, some of those shots of the sturgeon jumping could be magazine covers.

Looks like you guys had a heck of a trip!

This link is invaluable. Once you've gone a couple of times and have a yardstick to measure the flow rates against you'll pretty much know what the water levels will be like....

http://scitech.pyr.ec.gc.ca/waterweb/formNav.asp

Brantford sucks! Hamilton Rules!!!

 

I think we need to debate this over a pint!

 

hint hint..

 

Gerritt.

Great idea, let's do it!

What's an X box? Some kinda fancy tackle box to hold all your X Raps?

Read through all 4 of your posts Wayne, what a fantastic summer!

Very impressed with the stonework you did for your woodstove, it looks great!

Noticed the baseboard heater, are you guys on the grid up there? Didn't think any

of the remote access cottages had electricity...

Dundas

Well just woke up and suddenly had the urge to go floss some fish in the nearest thermally stressed stream .

Later guys....

Hey Wayne, yeah I was up to the cottage last week and really noticed a dramatic change in the colours above North Bay as well.

My favourite time of year, love it .

Anyhow, I'll keep at them at the mouths and piers as long as they are around. I'm no longer interested in pursuing them in the tribs. Sure, the crowds can be bad at times, but I just feel better knowing that they are being legitimately hooked. That and they are so much nicer looking when you get them just as they come in from the big lake.

Timely words Cliff considering some of the recent posts.

Some nice fish, congrat's!

Quite a rant Louis .

Do agree with everything you said except that the 'nooks won't gobble up a roe bag when they enter

a river. When they're unmolested and relatively fresh run they will.

I'll be fishing tomorrow, and most likely MUCH lower down than most of the flossers and liners and am more interested in the ho's anyway.

You know as well as I do they'll hit a roebag .

Who would be envious of dirty half rotten salmon way upstream. Knowing Nater personally, he's an avid steelheader and everything he knows about salmon and steelhead comes from the years he has fishing for them on his belt.

 

I could understand if you haven't caught a salmon ever in your life before.. but Im pretty sure that 'avid' steelheaders such as D Masse himself know that salmon mean nothing to them. Why do you think I spend over fifty bucks on hooks a month once the steelhead are in with the salmon? I hook a salmon and snap it right off. I sure wouldn't like to deal with a half deteriorated tail and milt all over my breathables, especially all the bonus hooks you get with landing a salmon. It could sure send you into the EM if you do happen to get caught up in that treble hook.

 

Some say they hit out of agression and everything and I believe that because I have seen a salmon hit a shiny streamer before, but more than half the time you are 'flossing' them in the mouth, this is exactly like the pier marshmallowing technique. I have taken friends who have never caught salmon to that hole recently shown in the pictures above. They came out quite happy with the results, but they have understood what I was teaching them and they began to understand the concept of 'lining' or 'flossing' which makes tributary salmon fishing quite different, especially when you hook in the dorsals and other parts of the body more than half the time.

 

Bring on the fish that actually take a roebag or a fly for a change. BRING ON THE STEELHEAD!

 

Just my 0.02 cents,

Bojangles

I'm not a huge fan of salmon fishing once they've entered small trib's like that, but it is fun

and a good means of harvesting eggs for the real fishing later in the fall.

Many of these fish are indeed flossed, but don't kid yourself, they definitely do hit...no doubt about that, especially when they first enter the river.

Floatfishing the piers/estuaries/breakwalls with skein chunks can be electrifying as well. No doubt

about the takedowns there, they're absolutely savage.

I'll be hitting one of the western trib's myself tomorrow....scuzzy old boots or not, they're going

to be there in numbers with this rain and I guarantee you they'll be hitting aggresively.

It's already been mentioned twice, but yeah, cat hair works just fine as dubbing.

It can be used as an effective substitute for a bunch of standard nymph patterns.

Another great source of free tying materials is your local furrier (they make fur coats).

I know they're becoming pollitically incorrect, but they're still around and usually have

no qualms about giving away any leftover scraps.

One of my favourite patterns for years was a strip leach streamer tied with mink fur .

Be creative, you're imagination is the only constraint when it comes to developing and

tying your own flies...