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Especially if he is walking the dog, or mowing a lawn... Can't wait to see what he gets while doing snow removal.

bwahahahaha. Didnt him making an ice rink involve fish as well???

Haha thats wicked Gallie!!! Limeyangler came and fished with me a few years back and caught a rod we lost a few months earlier. Pretty funny i spent hundreds of hours if not thousands at that spot, and limey hooked it and landed it within a half hour or so haha

Thats funny:) but consider yourself lucky. That border can be brutal alot of times. Go catch some ontario fish!!!

My son lost a rapala xrap to a pike. I told him id get it back. It took 3-4 hours but low and behold, i caught it and got our xrap back. Crazy thing is, we got two xraps back, both identical. Bonus!!!! Another was me and my daughter, 8 at the time, entered a local walleye derby. Well it rained that day(in winter) and the derby was cancelled due to unsafe driving conditions. My daughter inisted we still go. I told her if she caught a walleye in the 8 to 10 lb range, i would pay her the money we expected the derby to generate for biggest walleye. About 4 hours in, right when the derby would have finished, she lands a beauty walleye! 30", but no scale, i guessed between 8-9lbs. On a pink jig. That promise cost me $800. Now my daughter thinks fishing is easy, all it takes is a pink jig and a stupid father, lol

Im just happy to watch hockey again, no matter what. Some of this trash talk is fun and games, others just take it too seriously. And however compared klarkson to stevie y has serious mental issues.

Bunk, you have a serious gift, or gifts I should say. Your reports make me feel like I was right there, experiencing the fishing, the food, the nature and the laughs. Please ponder writing a book, pretty please? Your reports are much longer then the average, but not long enough... I would read a 1000 page book written by you, probably in a day or two. Only to be mad it wasnt longer. Your stories envoke envy, but a good envy. They make you appreciate all that is good. Thats a special gift bunk. Thanks for sharing that gift with us

Yeah real high water this year. Turned out good though. We seemed to have a real good walleye/pike/bass spawn which is awesome. The high water also brought in perch and crappie. That walleye my son is holding is not as big as it seems. He was helping release tourny fish. That wasnt our catch, it was our cousins. If i remember correctly it was 8.41 lbs. Still a beauty though

Yeah real high water this year. Turned out good though. We seemed to have a real good walleye/pike/bass spawn which is awesome. The high water also brought in perch and crappie. That walleye my son is holding is not as big as it seems. He was helping release tourny fish. That wasnt our catch, it was our cousins. If i remember correctly it was 8.41 lbs. Still a beauty though

Its been awhile since I posted, so here is some fish porn:) ive been busy with a new job so I havent had much free time, but ive certainly tried to take advantage of it! Hope everyone here is enjoying life and catching alot of fish;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wow! I'm on first name terms with a few of our guys up here, and see them a few times a year on the lake at least and probably half a dozen times in walmart and one guy five days a week when we greet as he drives past me at my son's school bus stop every morning.

yeah it must be different up here. I've gotten to know 3-4 COs pretty darn well over the last 5 years. Even out on the back lakes i still get checked probably 50% of the time. Always nice other then on time on big sawbill one guy was fairly rude

 

Yup, but peppermint is.

lol yes but i never said anything bout peppermint hahahaha. Bonus. We found two small wild strawberry bushes today, oh the odds! I have no gardening skills at all, Dave how can you replant these? Or are we better off just leaving them be? I've seen wild strawberries twice in my life, and omg! If love to replant these if possible

 

My in-law's place up at Horseshoe is surrounded by them, one of these days I'll transplant some into our yard.

oh man thats awesome. Id jump all over that!

Oh and watch and inspect what your kids forage! My daughter found what she identified as honeysuckles. After mom checked it out it was columbine and thats poisonous. And Dave, not all mint is hybrid, there is a mint family, some native some not

Neeeeeice!!!

 

There's peppermint and spearmint.

nah i think its a hybrid, false apple mint maybe? I'll ask the better half tomorrow

I listen to all of you and think; I know so much but I still have so much to learn! Wild mint I know, chocolate mint I do not know.

we have another kid of mint here as well but the name escapes me. A good book to have is edible and medicinal plants of canada. Its a good start for those without an education in related fields or just want some general info on plant/herb/tree identification and uses

Awesome Rick. My eyes are always trying to spot edibles in the bush. Nothing better than a mitt full of raspberries down the gullet followed by another one.

yep our eyes are always open and we are almost never disappointed. I always bring 2-3 or those reusable grocery bags when were in the bush or just out and about. Last week we found a wicked blueberry patch. Walked out with enough for a whole year after 2-3 hours, and still left plenty for the bears lol. One thing we have found i abundance is chocolate mint and wild mint. Makes awesome teas when dried out. That stuff is everywhere here.

Lots of lola in this thread:)we forage everything possible, from raspberries, raspberry leaf, plantain, dandelion, stinging nettle and the list goes on and on. Out on fishing trips my kiddos can identify plants, rinse and eat. Makes me proud

In the last 10 years I've seen 4 in NW ontario. One right here in manitou chasing a deer across the road. One on cedar narrows road where we see about 15-20 rabbits ru across the road, looked at each other and thought that was weird, looked forward to see a large cougar in pursuit, crossed the road in one stride! One in eagle river/eagle lake, again chasing deer in an open farmers field. And one sickly dead one on our weigh station when i worked in ear falls. That one was might thin and appeared to be diseased or starved. MNR were called for that one. Very small cat, maybe 60 lbs

I had to try it. Waste of $. Took it off the spool after a few outings and in the garbage. Nothing but the original these days. I loved 832 for a year or two but the quality seemed to diminish.

Oh thats a float tube? Lol, sorry i got sun glare on the phone. Even gnarlier yet!

Wow wicked fish!!!! That must been fun in the yak, howah!

 

Yep, thats right, you got me, the thought that the people we know net the lake might have left these nets in the lake was clearly racist, and not in anyway a logical extension of, idk, reality. More likely are the conspiracy theories espoused by some, anyway, you're clearly the better man what with your paternalism and what not, i acquiesce to your assessment of my character, coming from you I have no doubt that it must be correct, you have me all turned around on the subject.

meh, you going fishing today blarg? Beauty day up here in NW ontario:) gonna take the kiddos out fishing and swimming. Hope you and yours have a great day;)

 

Yes of course, what are the odds afterall that the nets belong to some among the group of people who are allowed to net the lake, or who net many other lakes in the area. But of course we should give them the benefit of the doubt, and be thankful the nets we can prove they use have little tags on them to identify them, because those nets arent also destroying the fishery on the lake. Of course these nets couldn't belong to one of the many native gill netters who aren't sanctioned by the NFN, fishermen we know exist. These non commercial fisherman dont sell fish illegally just like native hunters don't sell wild game illegally. None of these things could be happening, and we must always consider that while any rational person would think it very likely that these nets belong to some in a group of known netters as soon as those netters appear to be doing something wrong we should then invent the equal possibility that someone else is in fact responsible. Yes, that all makes perfect sense.

this is not a crime committed by ethnicity nor a community. So i find your views to be quite racist and innapropriate. Your flat out stereotyping and you should know better. Since most drinking and driving offences occur with Caucasian males should i assume your a piece of garbage to society? A piss poor parent and a waste of human that should rot in jail??? To crosshairs. Great info. Obviously i am not privy to how large these commercial fishing outfits are etc. plain ignorance on my part. Here commercial fishing is much different so i was wrong to compare the two. I've seen similar situations here with C&C and it can be pretty horrible. Hope the FNs can find a resolution for the people and the resource. Bye bye

This crime could be committed by anyone. Until someone is caught, i will not pass judgement. May be Caucasian, Asian, native, etc etc. helps no one nor the fishery to point fingers with no proof. Guilty until proven innocent dont slide with me