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80 IMO is not overkill, the more thrust the merrier, go for 60 inch shaft as well, as the thrust is no good if your motor is half out of the water in those windy days

Eagle claw 42s are a great hook, especially for failing eyes as the hook eye is larger then most and threading line through the eye is easier, Also still use a retro green and silver 1810s just for fun when I want a change from the CP And tied a Raven RV9 with the old Pucci guides that were very light weight and fairly common in the late 70s and early 80s till the small shop in Italy went out of business, they were double foot guides

Trolling T60s for Muskies, and I assume Lakers, what happens is the violent shaking of the lure, and in between the violent shaking there is a slight pause, or slack, that causes the S10 Salties to raise, and pop out of there position, and your rod and reel are now heading to the water if not tethered, Trolling normal crank baits there is always a constant drag or pressure which keeps the holder in its place, not with T60s though, as there is that brief pause or slack when things can go wrong

you are in waters where there arguably more 50s than any other body of water, fish waters with big fish and you up your chances dramatically, I know of no waters that would hold more 50s than LSC right now, and because of the VHS that happened a few years back, you now have the big girths to match those lengths, which was once thought of as a trolling bite, is now open to all techniques, as fishermen like you get dialed into to patterns and locations, next year your 50 will come and in multiples, warm up on the Sharks

Ya say ya want a revolution, and not the centrepin variety

A great singer and frontman, for STP,

Steve Hackett, a truly extrodinary musician still hard at it, just played in Lindsay Nov 27th, Wind and Wuthering was Hacketts last album with Genisis, and still very much prog music, Phil took Genesis in a different direction, more mainstream but very successful as well, but my favorits were the Hackett Gabriel era

Nice fish there Rog

Where the line ran through the bail was fixed and not a roller that created some grooving issues and frayed lines, I used a Mitchell 410 a bluish reel with a high speed retrieve and kept up with no issues on Sept and Oct Steelhead in the mid 70s, although 8 pounds was a big one then, when the 18 pound plus fished first showed in 79, and carried on through the late 80s Cardinal 3s were the norm, although drag washers burned out frequently, and Cardinal 4s were better, but not as popular on the rivers,

As Shane said recruitment is key, and recruitment on Scugog is next to nil based on MNR survey nettings, and creel census, your NOT likely to see a big difference unless recruitment appears, on the other hand and this might be the smoking gun, if the Crappie havnt reached there peak yet on Scugog, and started their decline which is natures way of finding balance, you could see this fishery bounce back, although not too the glory years it once had. That's if Black Crappie are directly responsible for walleye recruitment, which IMO is the case

Atta boy Patrick nothing like a good party

Great shot cliff, nature at its best in an urban setting with ample green space available,

zone 17 closed on Nov 15th for walleyes, muskies and bass still open till dec 15th

Ive seen 2 in Peterborough, one off Atckinson Road in a field, and the other toward Emily Park, quite possibly the same cat as they do have a large territory, a farmer in Downeyville by Omemee had one on a trail cam with one of his chickens in her mouth, as he told the MNR and they would not believe him so he put up a cam, and now they believe

Bring in more immigrants and refugees, lose track of them when they get here, they get a free ride, while the rest of us pay there way, and the next thing a few of them are terrorist in our soil, while the rest are still free loading off our taxes and contributing nada to society

Those Montreal Boys at least practice safe sex, lots of used Trojans floating to the surface, as shown on TV, those creamy white globuals is not Cormorant Poop floating on the surface

Justin is planning a 10 million dollar taxpayer paid upgrade to 24 Sussex which was fine for Mr Harper for the past 10 years

Sorry for your loss Mike, I remember seeing that article and remember the name Biss Andress as it was not an ever day heard name, and those names seem to stick in my head

Trojan tackle makes great tethers, I tether my trolling outfits, my knipex pliers and all release tools, and Frabill BK net as well, as they don't work when there on the bottom of the lake, as Lew says 4 foot is fine, and just unclip them takes all of one second and there out of the way

A wold class muskie in any body of water, and a clean spottie to boot, congrads

Garnet you didn't tell us if you caught any fishes

Unfortunately my quote button does not work on this site Float n Fly read my previous quote correctly im talking about the true fall spawners ones that spawn in Sept and Oct, when you gfo to the ladder its full of Chinooks but you would be hard pressed to find any measurable amounts of steelhead, and yes steelhead do over winter, but that is long after Chinooks have died, I have fished steelhead for over 40 years most of it at the Ganny before Corbetts was built in 1974, When you say the numbers at the ladder and by the MNBR are enough proof for you. When I was on FMZ 17 council, one of the members had to take an under water video of over wintering steelhead because on prominent MNR biologist did not believe us, and thought they just run up in the fall rains but fall back into the lake till spring., Coho's are a great river fish, and can be readily be caught on all kinds of tackle, and you can feel the tug when they do actually bite, Chinooks on the other hand are the opposite, they sit with there mouths open, and guys like you who actually believe they do hit, but rarely feel the tug, because your fly or roebag or whatever either falls into there open mouth, or your line gets in there mouth, and the river current allows the line to move through the mouth until your bait hits the mouth, usually on the outside but sometimes on the inside as well, when you line stops you set the hook, not because you actually felt a hit. and that is flossing, and if you are fishing upriver for Chinooks especially the visible ones in clear water YOU are a flosser bar non, and the true ethical anglers will not go up river and venture into the zoo, preferring to keep there morals and standards high. On rare occasions I have seen chinooks bite, one was on the upper Bighead, where I visibly seen the fish move 20 feet to grab a flatfish, but that is a rarity and not the norm, on the piers or in the lower estuaries they will and do bite on spoons, plugs etc, but by the time there in the white water they have one thing on their minds and that's spawning period. Happy Thanks Flossin F n F

Float n Fly, Chinooks create money when there in the lakes and create A Holes when there in the rivers, and that applies to all rivers and yes the Credit as well, as I lived there in 1983 and watched the Erindale Slaughter there as well, By the way the Ganny has next to no Atlantics, only a marginal population of Browns, when compared to the Chinook and Steelhead numbers, although that can vary from year to year, and 99.9% of the Steelhead spawn long after the Chinooks have died except for the true fall spawners Sept and Oct spawning steelhead which are almost non existent on the Ganny, and were most prevalent in the late 70s and early 80s but again a rarity

Ill bite, first shut down the ladder in the fall, which is totally fuelling the large Chinook run due to natural reproduction only, this will eliminate most all of the river Chinook run in 3 to 4 years, and force the undesirable anglers to get their roe supply elsewhere, to allow the fall spawners through ie Brown Trout, they would have to be netted and transported up river above the ladder to access the great spawning waters, this is done on other rivers and can easily be done on this legendary steelhead river.

I take it the Chinooks are in LOL