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PB GMO SLT (Personal Best genetically modified speckled lake trout) Beauty fish. Those dark colours are friggen wonderful.

Ha! Hilarious. Even getting unstuck is weather dependent.

Nip just keeps producing. I expect a really good year this winter. I also expect the regs to change soon. Get ready to keep smaller ones, me thinks.

I question that during deer bow season, could I carry a bow (for deer) and a riffle (for bear) since I have my bear license and the seasons overlap? Not that I'd want to do this since it make for awkward walking.

Awesome!!

Nice goldeye

Cool. Wish I had tribs with rainbows nearby.

Social justice!!! Nothing wrong with letting the organizer know about the potential issue, in fact that was very considerate of you; posting it online, not wise and it shines a light on a very minor issue.

bahahaha that's hilarious! Kind of reminds me of my daughter who used to put grass in the "grass tank" of her big red car.

Such as Teddy Roosevelt who was a well-documented hunter He set aside ridiculously huge chunks of public land, in part, because at that time it was becoming clear that wildlife populations were severely diminished. They started wiping out the wildlife long before the 1900's. I agree though... hunters aren't universal saviours. I would be silly to think that any statement holds true in every single part of the world for all time periods. In modern times, i argue that well-managed and well-intentioned hunting culture has shown to be one of the absolute most effective means of changing over-harvesting behaviours and raising funds with the intent of protecting wildlife populations, and having measurable positive results.

Yep, Nipissing can be tough if your looking to go home with a full feed. If you like being busy, catching multiple-species and potentially landing a big fish, then Nip is great!

I said 'generally', and my statement holds very true for North America where we have pretty much the best hunting/ wildlife populations in the developed world. Local government support generally comes from those who have an actual vested interest in the animals and purchase the licenses, and contribute the excise taxes (in the US anyway) to governmental resource managers, Not the feel-good, crowd-funding, 'like' button, stuffed animal crowd that knows nothing about wildlife other than what they've read on their favourite self-biased websites. Every animal dies eventually, you know that, right. Hunting doesn't necessarily reduce a population, especially if you focus the kills on older animals and support the younger, more prime-breeding animals. Hunting is the furthest thing from a free-for all. It's a highly controlled management system usually overseen by educated people like biologists. There are a billion (made up that number) car-attacking deer in ontario and still it's very hard to get a doe tag in many places. Legal hunting is very restrictive and is based on population studies. And yes, in places where the animals have no monetary value to the locals, they get poached and eaten and nobody cares about them. Louis Theroux has a good documentary that highlights this. Africa can swallow the entire North America plus more, one link to Zimbabwe elephants doesn't not cover an entire topic. Who's simplifying now. Your statement of "Somehow I knew it was a little more complicated then this." couldn't be more accurate. It's a super complex topic, but looking at the best examples of proper management, you see that hunting is often a major contributor of creating vested interest and genuine care for the animals, as well as a constant flow of money towards management. If we didn't have our modern hunting management systems in North America, our game-species population would be fraction of their current selves. We were well on our way to killing everything including habitat prior to this (yes, our old-school hunting forefathers are an example of how hunting can go BAD! Management, management, management).

Hunters and outdoorsmen, and/or people who have a financial stake in wildlife generally pay for the vast majority of habitat protection and wildlife management (thank Hunters for the Elk in Bancroft - thank trophy hunters in Africa for paying for anti-poaching programs that will save our charismatic mega-fauna). A few less coyotes and wolves through shooting will have no perceptible effect, if not the opposite effect (see below). First of all, I'll give you 5 guns and unlimited bullets... now go find a shoot a wolf/coyote while you still have a normal life/job/family/everyday concerns. Goooooood luck. I never see them on my large property that is loaded with them, and I spend a LOT of time alone in the bush (only saw one coyote while driving my bush truck on my trails). If people did not wipe out wolves in the late 1800's to mid 1900's (like we did with cougars), then they are at no risk of currently becoming endangered. Timberwolves in particular are extremely well-adapted to north America, just like white tail deer, they are fine and will be here forever. With coyotes, if you start killing them off, it will trigger the mothers to have MUCH large litters. If anything, shooting the coyotes is a dumb idea because their will be a natural bounce-back. It's crazy stuff Any hoopla associated with wolves is just hot wind with political overtones.. nearly nobody is causing any serious damage to their populations... if you can identify an individual who is being a turd, then he should be reprimanded on an individual basis. I suggest reading Dan Flores' coyote America.

All the hours you spent fishing specks without a camera on you.... all you needed was an audience to catch your trophies!

"greatest fish ever invented" hahaha good one Those are two days of solid fishing. Some people just have the knack for catching big trout...

Guys 30 years ago wouldn't believe the quality of some headlights (or lightbars) nowdays. My stock '98's headlight was considered 'good' at the time; now it would be considered dangerous.

Yeah they were really ON that night. When fishing in daylight isn't enough, go ling fishing! Nice video.

Some of the comments refer to "printed paper tags" for hunting... I couldn't find that in the actual regulation... maybe I missed it? Seems silly to print your own tags if in fact that is the case Nevermind, I was reading the current regulations, and wasn't looking at the 'proposal'. For reporting back to the ministry, hopefully I don't have buy a stamp anymore. I hated that a Government agency asked ME to buy a stamp to send THEM information on the practice THEY licensed me to do. Yesss, I know, it's like $1, but I still don't like the idea of it.

There is tons of water flanking Alg. Park, east of Hwy 11. I'd be putting all my focus on that area. Rainbow lakes, splake, year-round speck and I'm sure some pike and walleye lakes. Fish online is a good resource with good quality satellite imagery. You should be able to find some good isolation and you can probably just bring maggots/wax worms for bait. The forecast shows cold temperatures, bring a chainsaw for a good supply of firewood, you'll need it.

Good stuff. Those pickeral are beauts. At least you know somebody who is able to catch real muskie haha.

Try it! There are definitely some big Lakers in there. I've just never caught them... I didn't fish Lowell a dozen times because I thought it was empty.

Rabbit lake, or Temagami, even Net Lake might be better. I'm assuming you chose Lowell because you can drive right to it... if the conditions are good, you can also drive onto Temagami and fish around the ice road. Whitefish, lakers, pickerel all The other option is Nipissing. If you can find/get to a good spot, the fishing can be lights out awesome.. it'll keep everyone busy and entertained. Sometimes we even drive cars on the ice (exception more so than the rule) My wife and Jerpears with ling.

I put in many hours on Lowell. I caught a few small lakers... nothing of real substance. I did see a monster pike come out of there. Some nice rock cuts to slide/jump off if you have enough snow.

The baffins are awesome. Awkward, but warm as hell. I bought Muck boots... they are super comfortable for walking, but my feet get cold. Not impressed with the warmth factor

Go to this official public input site and click on "submit comment"!! You have 55 days to make your voice heard. Environmental Registry. https://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/displaynoticecontent.do?noticeId=MTM0MDQ3&statusId=MjAzOTE4&language=en I sent a letter to the "Environment' Minister deriding this proposal a couple days ago. [email protected] ... the guy with zero environmental experience/education on his resume. I won't post it here, it's too long. Admin, take this down if this is considered political. Gasoline usage is on its way down, ethanol is lower quality, they already subsidize better renewable technologies like solar and wind, why do they still bother with the highly subsidized ethanol industry, that is mixed with another slowly-dying highly subsidized industry (oil)... ... GreenField Specialty Alcohols Inc. is the biggest liberal party donor...hmmm. I like renewable resources and don't mind subsidizing startup technologies. Ethanol is already old technology and should be considered no better than gasoline. Barely more renewable than oil which is also an organic product made by natural processes. I'd replace gas right now if it was reasonable but we aren't there yet. I'm not scrapping my 1998 polaris XC just yet, i'd only have to buy a new one made with more non-renewable products anyway.... ethanol contributes nothing to advance energy solutions/technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_ethanol tell me this is a state-of-the-art and/or simple process? How much power, transportation and farm land does this take? They still have to farm it, crop it, transport it, process it in massive industrial complexes (that take lots of resources to build and maintain), further refine it, load it into trucks, ship it, mix it with gas, ship the mix to gas stations. etc. etc. etc. Crazy Bull.