Ron

I seen it with my own eyes last night at our MCI meeting. Rapala has a "Sturgeon Rod" out on the market. These were on sale at the Carp show last weekend. The rod is actually rated for 20 - 80 lb test comes with a line counter reel. 8 ft long, lure size 2 - 8 oz. IM7 composite. (please note, this is what I recall from the conversation). All this for $80.00! I don't think you can find a better deal than that. 35 - 40 members at our MCI meeting last night and most of them said this would be a great outfit for just getting into muskie fishing and some others said they would definitely buy to use as a full time trolling outfit.

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Thanks!

My fishing days are numbered, or so my daughter thinks. A bit of background here..... My daughter has been riding horses going on 12 yrs now, we bought our first horse just over 2 yrs ago. The horses name is "Pork Chop", it has good blood lines and just didn't cut it for being a Quarter horse racer. Steph has been working on her for Barrel racing for only 6 months now and on the weekend was her first competition. She was successful at teh races winning both heats with the fastest overall time in her class. She also won the "Dash for Cash" as well. There were about 40 horses entered in the various classes and Steph had the second fastest time overall at just .055 of a second slower. She definitely turned some heads as people were asking who this "kid" was and where does she train? So now her next competition will be near Hamilton where if she does well she could come home with some serious coin. This will be held on opener of the walleye season in the Kawarthas. A small price to pay to see my daughter live her dream. Enjoy the pics... Cheers, Ron...

Looks great just the way it is! I like the idea of setting pictures under glass on the top instead. Awesome work man. I'm sure he will remember what it was for without the 50 on it. Now for one of the pictures, perhaps you can talk real nice to Terry and ask him for a 50 dollar bill with your Dad's picture on it and put that under the glass. Cheers, Ron...

Bomanville zoo is great, especially for the age of your kids. If you find that you go through it too fast and have ore time to spend, you could still take in Jungle and Cat World in Kirby or even better you could spend the day at Peterborough Zoo where I believe admission is free and the kids will have a hoot in the monkey house feeding the Carp that come in looking for the food which you buy for a quarter. Cheers, Ron...

What time did you want to rendezvous at the ol Pine tree up ahead?

I always liked the area of the fork in the Moira. I didn't think other guys knew of the area. Cheers, Ron...

Thanks for posting that TB. I was just about to post the reminder myself. I will be attending the Coboconk, Peterborough, Port Hope and possibly the Oshawa meeting. Look forward to seeing some familiar faces in the crowd. Cheers, Ron....

In 28 days???? Getting a late start this year? ha ha ha

Just like the wings Meely, always room for one more!

Not that I am aware of. However I did see a post on here in regards to the Credit River if I'm not mistaken.

Ho hum Just like the rest of my life, never on the front page..... but I did get on page 3!

Just a reminder that our meeting is Tuesday April 14 at 7PM. Remember, we have a new meeting place! Riley's Olde Towne Pub Cheers, Ron...

Hey, you know that walk bridge you walked under??? well, this was the weekend before, the reason we had to cancel. Cheers, Ron...

Actually the spawning period for Crappies doesn't start until the water temps reach mid 60's, well after opener. It would be nice to have the chance to fish for them much sooner than the 4th Saturday in April. Unfortunately I have to drive for at least an hour and a half before I can fish for Pan fish this time of year. The sad part is I live about 10 minutes away from Rice Lake. Hardly seems fair that FMZ 17 is the only place where you can't ice fish other than Algonquin Park in Ontario.

Yup yup, Was indeed a great day. Once my daughter is done her Barrel Racing tomorrow, I will post the pictures of the water levels from the weekend before. That foot bridge you walked under has 8 inches of water over top! Cheers, Ron...

Well it was great to see the turnout! There had to be over 50 volunteers and double the amount of spectators! Many thanks to everyone for participating and that much more who got their "feet wet". Sorry I never met you JBF, I do recall seeing someone taking pics of Carole in the water, that must have been you. It was great chatting with Carole afterwards, you got a great girl Cliff, don't ever release that one back into the water! It was great to see the active youth getting so involved with this, nice to know our future fisherpeople have a hands on experience. I kinda felt sorry for the couple of well guarded kids doing the "Polar Dip". The little buggers though, troopers as it were, back on to shore, drain the waders and right back at it! God love em! ha ha ha Special thanks to the MNR staff, FMZ 17 advisory council and also the amount of Muskies Canada members who attended. In total we lifted 204 rainbow trout over the dam so we can call this one a great success! Thanks everyone! I hope to have pictures of todays event later on and post them. Cheers, Ron...

Is that why you drink Diet Pepsi instead?

The Cobourg fish lift is a go this weekend. Look at teh top post for all the information. Hope to see you there. Cheers, Ron...

Well, We hammered down a new location for our monthly meetings. How can it get any better than on the second Tuesday night of every month at Riley's Olde Towne Pub, where on Tuesday nights, it's wings night! Meetings start at 7 PM. This month's meeting we have Cupcake and Bobyk showing us how to tie Muskie Bucktails and Cowgirls. Hope to see all the guys who were asking there! Cheers, Ron....

We have also received the information for the public consultation meetings which I forgot to post. Mike Brown who is also on the advisory council has a well written up explanation of the public meetings. If you are in the area of any of these meetings, I strongly encourage you to attend. I will be attending 3 perhaps 4 of the meetings. Coboconk, Peterborough, Port Hope and possibly Oshawa. Your input on the regulations is very important. Cheers, Ron... FMZ 17 Public meetings

Ben..... You didn't see the smile face at the end of my post???? :D Cheers man Thanks Skud, bout time you admitted you were wrong once in your life. ha ha ha Cheers, Ron....

Further looking at the Pike, you can count the sub mandibular pores and if I'm not mistaken there are 5 on it's left side. Take a very close look at the scaling on it's cheek and you will be able to see that the lower portion of the cheek is also covered with scales making me believe this is indeed a nice fish!

I first thought Pike as well but once you look at the other markings, I went back to agree with Limeyangler(sp). After all, he is the one that caught the fish in question. Not knowing the actual length of the fish other than judging by the size of the jig head, I would say a small pike. Look at the tail, soft, rounded. There are horizontal white patches on it similar to a Pike as well. Below is a Pike I caught in the Timmins area. Definately a Pike because there are no Muskie in the lake I caught this one in. It also has the vertical bars similar to a muskie. I would be more apt to believe juvenilles have this similar striation to help camouflage in the weeds.