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I've never once heard someone say something like, "I wish I could keep this otherwise legal fish...but I checked before I left the house and I've got a limit in the freezer already."

Well, I have.

And I've been that guy too, the one time I still had a couple caught walleye in my freezer.

Some people strive to obey the regulations, no matter how slim the chances of getting caught are. Others, apparently, strive to do whatever the hell they like.

Dana,

I can pick it up & get it to Mississauga for you if you can make arrangements for the rest of the way.

Thanks for the offer - much appreciated! However, that's still about 5-6 hours away from me, and I don't know anyone there or have any plans to travel anytime soon. Thanks, though!

I want a bucket full of rainbow trout (up to a maximum of five, of course). Most of the lakes that have them around me are tough to get in without an ATV or sled, and haven't had luck [yet] at the others. Both through ice and in softwater.

I'd like a bucket of perch, too. I catch them from time to time, but never anything eatable.

I'd like to catch a laker in softwater (tomorrow, maybe).

I'll try for auroras again too, some day. But likely not for another couple years.

Aside from that, I'd need to travel hours away to catch fish I would like to catch but can't around here, like largemouth bass, brown trout, and musky (though I don't plan to buy musky gear, so I'd have to borrow/rent).

Man, if I lived near there, that'd be mine. Quite the deal.

An angler catches a limit of fish and eats 2 for lunch. Am I to understand that said angler is not allowed to catch 2 more to fill his/her limit? The fish have been consumed therefore allowing an angler to fill the limit again. Basic math, no? Illogical to say the least, but nothing new.

Read the Regs??? Exactly my point !! (The Regs) are full of holes and riddled with non sensical bull, and to think they pay these public sector lightweights money they'd never earn in the real world. I'm all for conserving our resources but until those who govern us step up and give fair value for what they take from us I guess I'll just have to keep on having shore lunches. Not my idea but its certainly something I can sink my teeth into.

Did you really just say that you're going to purposely ignore regulations because some of them don't make sense? What part of "daily catch limit" doesn't click with you?

Congrats again on the wedding! And those are some great pics, and great fish.

PS: not my fault you couldn't remove your lure from that pike... Let me know when you wanna meet up again and you can get it back. I keep it in my cupboard next to my coffee, so I am reminded several times a day.

No....if you catch and keep your daily limit, you cannot catch anymore fish even though you eat 1 or 2 at midday. However, it would be hard for a conservation officer to be able to prove that you ate some fish during the day.

It has been done. I saw it posted here, even. MNR busted a few guys, and then pulled carcasses from the lake and charged them for each fish they went over. Like I said before, maybe you should have to take a course before getting a fishing license, since people don't seem to understand the regs.

Why freeze them anyways? Just go catch enough for a meal every week and your good to go! I like mine fresh!!

If you eat fish once a week, OK. I eat fish at least 5 days a week, but usually 7. I don't tend to catch enough trout to fill my limit in a day, let alone fill my plate each day. So I buy.

Almost every week I buy fish. I don't just toss the filets in the freezer how they come packaged, either. I wash them and pack them in ziplocks in some water. The exact same way I do with fish I catch and keep. And I don't keep my receipts for any food I buy, either. That's ridiculous.

Not surprising, it was right in the strikezone.

Nice report! Those are some gorgeous pics (even the ones without fish in them)!

I haven't caught lakers on anything other than white tubes (as I said in your other thread) but I also have only targeted them a couple times and didn't really know what I was doing.

That being said, my go-to for other trout is the blue/silver Little Cleo. It landed me my first brook trout of 2011 and many since, including trolling, casting, and jigging through ice. It also caught my first soft-water splake this weekend, so I would say have at least some of those in there. I'm confident they'd catch lakers too, I just haven't tried much yet.

My girlfirend just assumes it's because i'm not fishing.

Yesterday, I was sitting on the couch, not moving or talking, just kinda frowning I guess, and staring at the window. I was thinking, and I was watching the wind on the trees.

A couple minutes later, my wife looks at me and then says: "Are you thinking about going fishing?"

Good for you and your buds! I am in the best shape of my life, and I am still nowhere near being capable of 18K in a day, nevermind with obstacles and such.

I'll second the "go cheap" recommendation. I think money should probably go into better gear for more critical applications. My own ultralights are pretty decent little rods that I sometimes use for catching specks. Two identical setups: Shimano Sojourn 5' 2-piece, paired with Shimano Sienna 1000 front-drag reels. I can fit both into one Plano ultralight rod case for carrying through the bush. The rods were about $20 each. Reels about double that. I use 6-10lb Tuf-Line Duracast on them, but whenever I respool I may go with 4lb P-Line fluoro.

Congrats on the catches! It looked like you guys really knew what you were doing, too. I didn't see anyone taking the lure out with sticks or anything!

For lines, the majority of people seem to like PowerPro. I don't care for the noise it makes through my guides, nor the tangles I've had with it. I haven't tried the Super8 stuff yet, so maybe that's the way to go. I may give it a shot next time I have to respool, just so I have tried it at least.

In the meantime, I'm happy with recommending Tuf-Line Duracast. I use 10lb, generally, and have had pretty much no issues with it.

Edit: I have it on four spinning reels, and will be spooling up my ice rods with it this winter too. I don't own a baitcaster, so I couldn't tell you if it would work well on one of those setups.

Man, that's some bad luck.. Two tires blown in one trip, that's never fun. Back in July I blew out two tires on my van when leaving Lake Temagami. Sucked pretty hard.

I have fished the river a lot, but have yet to pull out a walleye; always just pike and bass. But I also fish it further south, and always from shore. Seems you did not too bad up there.

Careful what you wish for...

 

...boater exam

 

 

 

Obviously my statement was in jest, and in reference to the boater exam. However, thinking more on it, given the two routes to the same end result, I would rather have had to endure such a course than the wrath of self-righteous fishermen with no tact.

I've yet to see the person whose understanding of a given situation is improved or changed by preaching, lecturing or confrontation.

Well, I used to weigh my fish, but after some... uh, "education"... from guys on this very forum, I tossed my scales in the trash and now I only measure length, if that.

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Early this year, when there was still ice to stand on, I had posted on a social networking site that I was "3/4 of the way to my 2012 fishing goal." Someone who doesn't fish much (maybe 3-4 times a year) got right pissed at me, claiming I was damaging the fishery and "imagine if everyone did what you are doing." Must've been thinking that I caught and kept nearly two thousand fish, before ice out, hahahah... Obviously that wasn't the case at all, with "2012" being the year, and my goal of the year being simply to catch one of each of the four trouts available in my area. Still, goes to show that some people are passionate about the fishery, even when they use it only a few times a year themselves.

I would agree with Terry and say that law-changing is the way to fight unethical practices, because in my limited experience and observation, education from fellow anglers more often than not boils down to angry berating and belittling, with very little in the way of trying to convey reason and transfer knowledge. And at the end of the day, that gets you nowhere. Maybe to get a fishing license, you should have to take a course...

Its in a conservation area. Id rather use lures will the syclospes work?

Do you have any Little Cleos? I don't know much about pond fishing (only did it once as a kid in winter, and we used a hook and piece of corn.. But I suspect we could have used a bare hook). However, I've caught lots of brook trout from stocked lakes using those, as well as small Panther Martins. Mepps #3 dressed work well too, though I've not caught on those (fishing partners have).

I wouldn't know about the Syclops - I've casted them a bit but never had a hit.

I tried all kinds of lines last year and a couple this year, including Spiderwire, Fireline, PowerPro, and a bunch more. The one I keep coming back to is Tuf-Line Duracast.. I don't know anyone else who likes it, but it's pretty much all I will buy. I do have a spool of 4lb P-Line fluoro that I like too, for brook trout, but I wouldn't use that for pulling spoons through weeds.

Man catches muskie with his bare... foot

Someone asked me if I was related to this guy, on account of the matching last name and love for fishing.

(Sorry if this was already posted - I looked and didn't see it, thought some of you might get a kick out of it).

Im officially hooked on laker fishing! Lol. We spent about 2 hours on one lake fishing walleye, then about 11 hours on lakers. Had two great shore lunches and landed a ton of fish. Only question now is can i get out 2 more times before the season closes???

Good job! What did you end up catching on? Did you beat out your dad?

Im sorry did you say they are IN megadeth lol. Or did you mean to say "into" megadeth. If you mean they are in the band, ill be hittin you up for backstage passes.

IN Megadeth. The Drover brothers.

Good cover, by the way. I don't listen to this band, but I love the genre. Maybe I'll check them out.