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I saw this video making the rounds today. What kind of fish is this gator carrying?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c76_b7hQXrs

I think there has now been enough of a snow melt to warrant extra caution in areas with flow. There's some visible runoff starting in some places, even though it is a little unusual to see it in February like this.

What was the verdict on the taste compared to crappie? You said delicious, but which would you prefer? Was it flakey? They certainly have an odd shape, and the body tapers to almost nothing ahead of the tail. Were they tough to clean?

Anyone else around back in the day of the usenet and rec.can.fishing using dialup and an OLMR ( offline mail reader ) like Freeagent so you didn't tie up your phoneline reading . If you are really old, your local BBS was a Fidonet node and you had access to a forum type discussion using a DOS based OLMR like Bluewave. I don't even think most ISP's even have newsservers any more.

usenet groups are fed/hooked into google groups it you want to relive it all.https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/can.rec.fishing

Erie alone can keep a fisherman happy with it's amazing fishery. After dozens of trips I have not caught a single walleye under 16" with the average being 24-28"

Isn't that a bit worrisome from a "healthy, sustainable lake fishery" perspective? I would have thought that the presence of young, undersized fish would be needed for the future. Or, is it just that the younger fish hang out in different parts of the lake than the larger fish?

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Just kidding, mostly and I've been up there many, many times. I like it. It is probably tougher to measure Southern Ontario visitor counts because we get to use the same license up there as we down here. Americans have to pick up a non-resident license.

And for you southerners. How can you live without ice fishing ?

 

What's the furthest south that people do ice fish in a normal year, I wonder?

The original question was can the non licensed person given the fish be able to "transport the fish" from point A to point B and the answer is yes. If the fish are clearly id'd. The crazy thing I have learned is that a non licensed person can possess more fish than I can with my conservation licence. So my non licensed, non fisherman room mate/wife/son/daughter/renter/mother in law/ stranger on the couch can possess a full sportsman limit on their side of the fridge and I can only possess for my conservation limit on my side of the fridge. The same goes for anyone else that lives there. They can have more fish possession than I can and I'm the one paying for an Outdoors card and license. C'mon Man!

I think it needs to be thought of like this...

A conservation license is an "opt in" - you're sort of declaring that you want to follow conservation practices, and in return you get to go fishing for a wee bit less license money, if that's your thing.

Isn't it against the spirit of the whole conservation "opt in" to then complain "hey, my non-fishing, non-licensed neighbor gets to possess more fish than I do!"

The unlicensed neighbors/friends aren't impacting the fish count in the lakes or rivers at all.

 

with all the animals stopping by in your backyard, it would be nice if you had a trail camera and shared the photos with /quote]

 

+1

I think you would be amazed at the stuff passing through in the middle of the night. Great fun.

the boundaries for the rivers to the closed walleye area's have been set for the lake, see attached.

 

so my guess is that you might be able to fish the rivers for them provided the river isn't a sanctuary?

Are you able to cite a source or provide a reference to an official copy of these boundaries? An attachment to a posting on a fishing forum, while appreciated and useful, isn't going to be considered a supporting legal document although I am not a lawyer.

Kinda pointless isn't it? You can't fish the lake for walleye, but you can fish the rivers when they spawn? SEriously? Just shut it down....all of it. Simple.

 

S.

There's nothing simple about phrases like "all of it."

The boundaries have to be set somewhere, and the lines clearly marked. Scugog and Sturgeon are connected by a river and it would have been way too ambiguous if they hadn't marked things out.

http://www.ontario.ca/document/ontario-fishing-regulations-summary

i think in the past there was a notice of any changes...did any happen this year or am i missing something?

It looks like changes are highlighted in red text. Here's an excerpt from the ZONE 17 exceptions which highlights the all-year closed Walleye season in red.

It looks like there might be some ice-making weather starting Friday Dec 18, with overnight lows forecast to be around -10.

I wonder if there's a unique opportunity this year to try open water crappie fishing in places like the Kawarthas? I think the water is around 4 C.

Have the crappie all checked the calendar and moved off to deeper water anyway, or do you think there might be some hanging out in some of the spring/fall haunts this year?

I can't help but wonder about boundaries for a year round closed season exception such as this. Will the Nonquon River be included, or East and West Cross Creeks? How about the Scugog River between Scugog Lake to areas above the dam in Lindsay?

It doesn't look like anyone in Southern Ontario will get frozen lakes as a gift this year.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/14-day-weather-trend/canada/ontario/barrie

On the other hand, I'm not complaining that I haven't had to shovel a whole lot yet.

Why strip the GPS coordinates from your fish photos when you could have so much more fun replacing them with the coordinates of the settling pond at the sewage treatment plant?

I'll know for sure when:

• there's 4 inches of water running across a certain road I usually take to work.
• I hear my sump pump kicking in and out all night long.
• there's perch and walleye for awesome viewing below the dams on the TSW.

Apparently Target or the liquidator, is over pricing the stock so that you are actually paying regular price when you get the 30% off. someone at the Oshawa Target found a higher price sticker over top of the original price sticker, when brought up to the manager they were told to leave their purchases there and get out of the store.

Unfortunately, it sounds like it may all be deteriorating into a somewhat bitter parting of the ways, with both sides trying to get the most out of whatever remains. Target is trying to draw the most money it can from bargain-hunting customers, and these "customers" are going there in search of rock-bottom prices, many shopping there for the first time. Target is pulling out, so there is no relationship left to salvage at this point. Buyer beware. It seems unlikely that anybody is going to come out a winner.

they taste horrible @ that time of the year when feeding on eggs.

Ah, so their beauty is skin-deep.

Pound-for-pound, specs give a pretty good fight - same with the Dolly's?

 

That fish is a male Dolly Varden (cousin to the Arctic Char) in spawning colours.

Feature-wise, they look like they carry a lot of similar traits to specs. Did you eat any?

Rice lake is still under flood warnings, and still rising.

 

S.

Little Lake in Peterborough is right in the midst of it as well.

http://www.ptbocanada.com/journal/2014/4/17/look-flooding-in-peterborough

The live underwater camera on the Wolf River is in full swing with water temperature at about 44 F.

Just this evening there has been:

- sucker

- walleye

- largemouth bass

- sturgeon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tc3RALgU0Q

If you have a smart TV with a web browser, it's an interesting live streaming URL to display in full screen mode.

Structures are under water below Lock 19 in Peterborough.