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Ughhh, scool

Lol Limey. Nice vids as usual! And wow at max! Every kid in his school will be jealous of his stories. Seems like yesterday my daughter was born, she starts s hook next year, crazy

Insane amounts here this year and about a month or two late. Hard to now the lawn but the kids sure don't mind catch and releasing them:) I'm expecting a lot of big pike and bass here this fall

The sens suck, j/k. Wicked fish, super thick!!!

They were having too much fun for that to be legal. Next up, hair fishing equals one rod lol

It's not a difficult learning curve. Main thing is just to spool it properly (two or 3 different ways) and spool it as tight as possible.

I have a plane old plastic fold up table that I got for like $20. Works great, east to clean and takes up no room. Also use it to prep food while bbqing. Of course this doesn't answer the original question, but I just thought I'd share a better option (IMO)

I use 10-20 lb power pro or suffix 832. I fish a lot of shallow bass and big pike/walleye in heavy current full of rocks. It works great, I ver ver rarely get bit off or cut off. I use nano fill for jigging though and it is awesome line. Only downside is it frays oh so easily

Everyone mastered the art of angling and no longer needed to buy tackle.

This is not gonna win over teammates and coaching staff

Just go in with variety and confidence. Lotw, rainy lake and lac duel are all similar, absolutely deadly fish factories! You'll have an absolute blast!!! Now it's your turn to think of something equally as awesome as your significant others gift...

Jedi has the same tent as me. I love it but got I just got it last season so I can't really say too much about durability. They were on sale last year and I snagged mine for 179 half price if I remember correctly. No leaks, easy set up and tons of room

Was there an offer he turned down? Sorry, leafs fan here but haven't been able to watch any news for abit. Suppose I could google it, lol

But he agrees that if you can find current with a break, near shallow water and sand/mud bottom on a warm day, 4" Berkeley ripple shads in fire tiger work well too. But these are isolated fish and require patience

My neighbour says 20-40 feet off drop off and weed edges using a Johnson silver minnow tipped with a 4" white grub

Ok, here is the real advice. Bring a 5'6" medium rod spooled with 4lb mono and go walleye fishing, haha. Seems to work 68% of the time, every time! Lol

Have you found the bass? This time of year on rainy river(which isn't too far from you), when the bass start to feed heavy the pike are right near by. They mix in at periods then move back out a little. I'd look shallow early and mid/late afternoon. This time of year I'm tossing plastics crawfish (black red fleck), booth pot belly spinner baits (black/silver, chart, white) and money minnow swim baits or Berkeley ripple shads. Hope this helps. I'll also ask my neighbour, he guides on the English river as well

I just lip it. Just make sure you have a good grip and don't fidget if the fish shakes. I've caught a lot of smallies in my life and rarely do I have them shake once lipped

Wunderground for weather wind and radar. Navionics and that's it for me

Congrats on the fish!!! Holy geebus that's a monster. Oh and congrats on still having your hand after removing the hook haha.

Almost all my lures are rapalas. Reasonably priced, great selection of styles colors, and the action is what they say it is. I also use some strike king lures, northland tackle lures

Just down Down from my house I see catches quite often and some are comical to watch, pulling boats all around the river lol. They are so strong it's crazy! The big one I landed from shore took a little over an hour to get to shore. Caught it first cast and that was the end if my day lol. My shoulders and back just took a beating, as did my bass rod. I could feel the pressure right down to the reel seat. Incredible fish, I'd love to be able to catch and release one day

Oily but good smoked. You can only eat abit before you'll be running for a washroom

Yeah, I've worked in fort, red lake, ear falls etc. now I'm just outside of Emo in manitou or RRFN

 

I've seen them in the river right from the paper mill. Awesome sight. I also remember going to a bar in International Falls that had dozens and dozens of photos on the wall of guys holding massive Sturgeon. Sportsmans bar maybe? There's a river a few hundred yards from my house that has a good population of Sturgeon as well, but I've never targeted them there, even before the regs changed. The only one I've ever caught was in the Winisk River, which flows into Hudson Bay. I remember seeing dozens of them in a single pool up there. Some of them were almost a foot across the back and 6 or 7 feet long. An incredible sight.

yep that's sportsman. There is also a tackle shop in Nestor falls that's had a lot of photos taken right by my house, lots of 7-8 footers. Next time your around fort Frances hit me up for some fishing. We can hit rainy lake or rainy river, or any of the crazy good lakes up cedar narrows on the 502