solopaddler

If you want an informed response you have to be a little less vague. Exactly how much do you want to spend and how far do you want to drive from Hamilton? Great fishing is pretty much a sure thing flying in.

Thanks for the detailed report Gordy, sounds like a great week.

1.Moon River basin Georgian Bay 2.Lake Muskoka 3.Vernon Lake

You know Dan I used to think exactly the same way you do. I know exactly where you're coming from. You really should try a braided line though first before you decide. Anyhow I don't mind Duracast in the lighter weights for walleye. However I'm still somewhat stuck on Power Pro. 4 and 5lb for most of my jigging (it's unbelievably thin, limp and strong), and 10lb for trolling cranks.

Sounds horrible. Seriously. (Just kidding )

Well said Aaron and your post made me realize a particular fact which as far as I know has never been mentioned in any of these tiresome discussions. I use roe quite often myself, and like you may not have to harvest a fish this year because I already have enough. Why? Simply put because I don't chum. The biggest problem most here have with roe harvesting is the indiscriminate slaughter of salmon every fall. Seeing dozens upon dozens of fish with slit bellies along the banks does nothing good to promote the use of roe as bait. Who actually needs or uses this much roe? Well, there's two culprits at work here. One, the lowlifes who harvest mass quantities for ilicit sale, and two the guys who constantly throw gallons of chum into a hole attempting to induce a hit. While I'm not against chumming, the way most of these knobs do it is ridiculous. If you think there's 6 fish in a hole, throw 5 eggs, not half a gallon. In any case I neither chum nor sell roe illegally and I'd hazzard a guess that most roe users don't either.

I have 600 odd photos to sift through now, it's a mind numbing task. Bill sent me a ton, plenty of shots of me now. We actually do have a couple of bear pic's. Not of the aggressive one though. And it wasn't coming up behind me, it was a full frontal assault. I was pretty calm I thought. I had a much closer encounter with polar bears many years ago. Billy was a bit excited though.

I feel like I'm back in high school with a huge report overdue that I don't want to work on. I'm headed back up north on Wed, so I'm going to try and whip it off either late tonight or tomorrow night.

Can you imagine the quality fishery on Nip in a few years if they banned winter fishing and gill netting? I'll bet it rebound quickly and in a big way. It's unfortunate that the powers that be can't see the benefits of such sweeping changes. Or more likely don't have the stones to rock the boat quite that much. It's really too bad, I used to love fishing Nipissing. It's been about 10 years now since I've fished it and unless things change I doubt I ever will again. Very sad.

You were about 41/2 days behind us Harry. Yeah we had super high water but by and large very nice weather. Only one day, Thursday the 29th it rained all day. We left nothing behind, so no I don't think the wood was from us. Sorry to hear about your mishaps.

Under those circumstances alone I'd agree to a roe ban as well.

Outstanding report! Thanks so much for taking the time.

Nice! Hopefully this lights a fire under your boys butt now LOL! Glad to see there's still some big bass in Gull, I fished it for many years as a young child and teenager.

Great story Dan and exactly my kind of trip. Glad you had the experience.

Welcome, great intro!

So that's what you've been up to, figured as much. Good to see you got the young lad out, and I'm glad that I helped in even a very small way with your coffee choice LOL!

Some nice memories for sure Matt, thanks for sharing!

That was a pleasure to read, thanks bud!

That's some high praise, but I have to agree. Spiels rods are pretty hard to beat.

Just catching up on the reports now, was looking for this one. Glad it went well for you Dan, and you're right that lake is breathtaking! Carribean-esque

You're becoming quite an accomplished angler, well done!

Gorgeous looking fish Roy!

Well done gentlemen, what a remarkable day!

Outstanding intro and report! Methinks you'll fit right in.

Holy cow!