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How the heck are ya Beans?! Brings back memories... Toronto is all well and good, but what's the story with the Otonabee river? Last I heard the Koi herpesvirus had devastated the local population of slimy "Sewer Salmon" 🤣You wanna talk about 'urban fishing' check out what's going on over in the L.A. River! ⬅️

You wanna talk about a guy that has seen it all around here! 💯 godspeed!

I feel like an idiot for not knowing about Curve Lake Gas, until now, considering the boat is at Young's Cove just a few klicks away!

I just stopped by to say that I've never been so confused about "why things are the way they are" in Canada in the year 2023, compared to previous decades. To try and dissect any one of these hundreds of issues makes me nauseous and frustrated. Not sure where it goes from here. I don't know if it's a valid reaction or not but I feel a certain sense of victory whenever I buy anything on the reserves. Admittedly I've only ever been to two: the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan aka Golden Lake?, and the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte aka Tyenadinaga. Does anyone have a link to a map of all of them around Ontario? Always good to know where to go for friendlier service and cheaper fuel and smokes!

Yeah, hard not to lay at least some of the blame on the organizers... you can't assume people won't cheat when there's so much money on the line... they should put an invigilator on every boat

Apparantly, another competitor commented that a significantly larger walleye that he caught came in much lighter than a smaller walleye submitted by the cheating duo. This was the beginning of the end as the ref started probing... can we go salmon fishing now please

Another reason why I stick to recreational fishing... make anything competitive and it can bring out the worst in people. I hope they get stripped of all titles trophies and prizes won in fishing tournaments.

Right on! Which baits worked well for bass? Had a tough go with them on southern buckhorn just now...

IIRC there's a way to opt in to an at home 14 day quarantine like in old times if you don't have the shots, paperwork or a phone with internet .

I must have really pissed someone off because when I tried to bring up a picture to see what is an argo, this is what came up 😅 Also, hello

Peter, this summer once they relax the restrictions I am taking YOU out for a day of fishing on buckhorn lake 🤘

So much nostalgia from one post! I remember reading and admiring every post and every photograph that you (+ your co-conspirator) shared from your Toronto Islands fishing adventures back in the mid 2000's. I was about 16 at the time, so the fanaticism was at an all time high. I remember the impressive Canon G5 shots (try to impress someone with a 5MP camera today!), the fishing hook necklace, the tats, the big hoop earrings, the ahead-of-its-time website design, the dozens of impressive catches, and of course the dedication to the Mepps #3 in black/yellow! If I remember correctly, the last post I read from you was from a fly-in pike/walleye fishing trip you took to Little Vermilion Bay also quite a few years ago. I just can't believe this many years have gone by! Back when I first started posting on OFŇ I couldn't even grow a beard, and just as with the pike, you have again 1-upped me. 🥳 Glad to see you too have made it this far and continue to pound the waters. Cheers!

Anyone heading out this week/end and wants some company out on the water? Trying out my luck just like in the old days !

Peter! How are ya? How's the pike population in the Harbour been? Still got the Lund? Catch any more monster carp in the Humber lately? Hello TJ ... never quite got the meet the big boss !

I'm back in the GTA for the last few weeks but pretty much all of my fishing buddies have either left the city and/or have left the sport! I'm also partly guilty because I've been travelling a ton the past few years, living abroad, and fishing sporadically... How time flies... it seems like it was just yesterday that I was posting pictures of my pike and carp catches from the Toronto Islands ...