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Rick I recently signed up for imgur and it's real simple and easy to use. Not many pictures yet though but here's my garlic harvest this year. Just clicked copy on bbcode and pasted here. Easy resizing too.

 

Doesn't show a bbcode on mine????

This is a great story. Love hearing stuff like this that keeps the kids entertained and gets them into fishing.

 

Can't wait to hear how round 2 goes

It was a great time! But if round two goes down today it's gonna be mid day to give them a better chance at landing fish.

It went from +25 at 5pm to only +10 at 8pm, waaaày too much of a cool down.

I was hoping it stayed warm because it was a beautiful sunny day and I figured the top water bite was gonna be on fire.

The kid(Joey) that won is a natural. He's been fishing for a month and has a wicked cast with a baitcasters. First thing he tied on was a chatterbait, and im thinking this kid knows what's up lol

He did get one gnarly backlash so I showed him how to get that out. Showed them a few new knots too and how to properly handle a northern.

So, I found this epic "looking" shore spot. Decided to check it out this evening with my bro in law, son and two of his friends.

I figured as the sun set it would be perfect for pike/bass.

But, the kiddos came up with this 30 minute derby idea, to which I agreed.

Me and my bro in law took a seat and let the kiddos have at er!

Biggest fish of any legal species took bragging rights!

It was so fun to watch them running running shorelines, docks, re tying baits/lures, trying to sabotage each other lol.

30 mins and no fish landed as a cold front moved in, unfortunately.

So we went to a 5 minute overtime.

One kiddo landed a pike, maybe 24-26" in the last minute for the win!

I had an absolute blast watching and it was alot of fun! They all had access to my tackle bag just to make things fair.

All the kids were asking if we could do it again tomorrow lol

If I can figure out how to post the pics I will(some are awesome!)

If I cant, can someone shoot me a pm of their email to post?

Anyways, what a wicked fun time!

Love those days!

Congrats!!!

Nice one Geoff! Looks pretty darn long!

" The abandoned net contained approximately 880 kilograms of several species of fish including walleye, yellow perch, lake sturgeon, white bass and white perch, in various stages of decomposition."

 

Lake Sturgeon are an endangered species here in Ohio and possession prohibited, I wonder what they would fine a recreational angler for having just one?

No idea of the laws there. But if caught in NW Ontario you'd be fishing up s**** creek without a paddle

Agreed grimbsy.

Good thing momma could see her cub Lew! Glad your ok!

About 5-6 years ago I was shore fishing and to my east was very tall grass. I suspect her cubs we're in there.

When momma showed up on the north of me maybe 150 feet away, I thought nothing of it but to send my kids home through a trail around the rapids and tell Mom Im in trouble.

That bear charged me and stopped about 5-8 feet away, stood up and started smacking the ground.

This lasted maybe 30 seconds but it felt like hours.

Then she stood down and calmly walked into the long grass

My heart rate never calmed down for a good 5 hours and I'll never forget it!

I've had hundreds of encounters with black bears and they honestly never bothered me one bit

But that experience, im def alot more cautious now

Those pics are brutal!

Personally I'd avoid that place like the plague that it is

Probably see some cool pics from the Midwest US. From Ontario it would only be partial anyhow.

Here it's cloudy and raining so I didn't see jack, not even in a Limeyangler video

Oh I hope this works out!

Fishing is indeed the best therapy for many in need!

Wow! If ya woulda told me bill never caught a muskie I'd call ya full of it.

That's one heck of a fish bill!

Congrats!

Let's just chill. We know people of all backrounds poach and that is a fact that doesn't really need to be pointed out.

Nothing worth arguing over other than discussion about abused waterways and bad "fishing" techniques

Facts are facts. Offensive or not, these are facts. Come see for yourself.

Yep, just said it's offensive. Not that I don't believe ya!

Not that im gonna lose sleep over it or anything, but it's offensive.

But as a believer in free speech as well, it is what it is

Great looking fish!

Awesome report as per usual Mike! Looks like a great time was had!

You sure have them dialed

Not going to lie, canned moose sounds disgusting. Meaning I have to try and Im betting I will love it!

It looks disturbing lol. So fricken good though!

I have some Berkley lightning rods myself, and no complaints, especially on price!

 

Their flipping stick was rated a #1 value a few years back.

 

http://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/fishing/bass-fishing/2013/05/bass-fishing-flipping-rods-under-50

They are great rods!

I own everything from $30 rods/reels to $400 rods/reels

To me it's like work boots. Middle ground is what works best for ME.

Actually, my fav. Spinning reel is lower end, okuma avengers. Retail around $50

Favorite rods are my Shimano clarus

But I probably fish most with Berkley lightening rods more than anything

to top it off buddy was purposely hiding his over limit walleye in another location of his boat. Friggin dink

 

I think the even bigger problem here is that these dinks do this, get caught and only get a 1,500 dollar fine? Im gonna go drive 200kmh on the 401 what kind of trouble I would be in?

 

Your car gets impounded, your license gets suspended and you get between a 2-10 thousand dollar fine.

 

We need to toughen up the regs on these bum holes...With how little enforcement exists out there, the penalties need to be much much more severe.

 

Their fishing licenses should 100% be suspended for a very long extended period, heck suspend their boating license as well. The fines need to increase as well.

I agree

On that note, I got my second only visit from OPP while fishing off a dock the other day. Nice to see that boat that sits in emo 99% of the year in use!

Pleasant guys too! Quick license check/chat and off they went

Roy Orbison on the playlist tonight.

So good!

Use two o rings..cross them over and stick the hook where they cross...the hook will also sit perpendicular to the worm, not parallel like it does with one ring.

 

You guys up there usually pay more than we do here in Yellowknife.

Our current price is $1.139L

There is no reason for it either.

Yeah it's bad in NW Ontario. I still remember it being around 90 cents in fort Frances and it was around $2 in ear falls (where I worked at the time)

Darn man, hopefully this work of art stays safe(along with you of course)

Amazing work!