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Welcome! I only just found this site not long ago, myself. I was searching to see if something like it existed, or if I'd have to register yet another domain and whip up a site to do it myself. Luckily, I found OFC/OFC.

I recently moved back here, and was wondering if anyone else from the Tri-Towns area is on this board? I know I saw a post from someone on here ice fishing in New Liskeard during a visit home, and Nipfisher gave me a few ideas of where to fish around here, too.

Some of the closest lakes to me in Cobalt are fishable (Crosswise Lake, for example), but you can't eat the fish or swim in them due to the arsenic and mercury levels thanks to the mining history. I don't think you can fish in Sasaginaga Lake (even though the MNR sees fit to list the species found in there on their map, basically like a big tease) due to it being used for drinking water.

Mostly, I've been exploring right now, looking for lakes and rivers, finding back roads my car can make it down, etc. I don't really wanna take my canoe into Lake Temiskaming, and I'm new to fishing from anywhere but shore unless I'm a guest in someone else's boat, and then they choose the spots to fish, so I am just learning where to go and whatnot. That's why I think I'm planning to spend a lot of my time in Gillies Lake and Sharp Lake, as both are close to home and accessible to me (I'm not sure if Gillies has a public boat launch, but my wife's uncle has a cottage there and welcomed me to use it whenever I want). I took my Sportspal in there this week for the first time and caught a pike to take home, and one that I lost at the side of the boat while waiting for the net (shouldn't have waited.. my buddy was slow). And then another couple fish that got off before I could see them. I've caught a couple bass from shore at Sharp and had about 5 topwater strikes in an hour of fishing from a dock in Gillies a week ago or so. I know there's fish in there.

I know I could drive an hour+ away to find stuff north or south of here... I intend to hit Latchford soon (I'm a fan of the Montreal River, to be honest, mainly due to it giving me my first bass ever). And I did check out the Blanche River for a few hours, but man, what a name. I couldn't even see my lure until it was on the shore again, the water is so dirty. Probably should have been called the Black River. I tried everything in my tackle box, as well as a regular hook and worm, and didn't get a bite. But it was really, really nice to drive up to, and fish from shore. This is about a half hour or so, I guess, out from Diamond, mind you. I don't mind driving, but I kinda want to get something to show for it.

Anyhow, I was just curious of what people thought of the area and any experiences you had, or if you have any suggestions I should check out.

Very nice footage - and Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters... great taste in music.

I realize we're a fishing community here, and we're talking about water and beaches and whatnot, but this is a general problem with humanity as a whole. Or at least here in the West. In town here (and when I lived in North Bay) I see/saw people's trash blowing into my yard ALL THE TIME. It's really sad... If you're going to litter, at least leave it on a shelf in WalMart so the staff there have something to do!

http://www.rodrule.com/

I'd never seen a pike follow a lure before, until last month. I saw one follow a Lucky Strike Bug Eye right up to the shore of the Montreal River, and along the side as I walked, watching it.. I don't know if it was because of the leader, but I was using a wire one. It was odd to see.

To successfully deter theft, my advice would be to tape a photo of Celine Dion to the boat. I do this with my house, car, and all of my valuables, and it hasn't failed me yet.

Trust me, this was no mistake!

Not in this guy's case, for sure. But I'm surprised at a few people I know who think the limit on walleye is five in our zone, when it's actually 4, with size restrictions. I guess there was a change at some point and they don't bother keeping on top of it.

Thanks, all. I hope this loaf of bread works... at 120 calories per slice... :\

So, even though I was being careful, I think I still managed to get a pike y bone stuck in my throat.

Has this happened to anyone else? Any advice to try before I go to the ER?

Dana if your ever down in my area let me know i can pull smallies in like that out at my parents.

Heh, cool, thanks for the invite. I'll keep it in mind, but in all honesty, I don't get out all that much. The last time I was even close was to see Iron Maiden in 2006 in Toronto.

TONS of lightning here last night. Lots of rain, too. I love the rain, but I'll admit, it was kinda worrisome being out in it, up on a big hit, trying to get lightning photos. lol

I love fishing in the rain, but when there's lightning, no thanks.

Man, I wish I could find a place where I just keep pulling them out like that.

This guy in the vid reminds me of one of my uncles, even his voice is similar in some ways. But my uncle doesn't say "Boo yah!," at least not that I've heard.

Thanks for sharing anyhow, it was entertaining. I think I'd give that a shot, actually.

There was a lot of lightning tonight, but nothing really nice like you guys shot. Mostly not visible, but some bolts were in my FOV. Only one pic even remotely turned out, but my camera doesn't go to 30 seconds, it only goes to 15, and my aperture only goes to 8.0.

According to my grandpa, pike will hit an ANCHOR tied to anchor line!

Heh, nice! It looks so new in the first pic. Might be just the sponsons or whatever they're called (side foam is my name for them), because of the round washers or whatever (mine has lengths of aluminum, curved. Hard to explain, I don't know the proper term. You could probably see in the pic anyhow).

I wanna go out today but the wife isn't feeling good and my buddy is out of town. I need more friends. Might try off the shore, I guess.

Yours looks too new to have rusty bolts letting water in. Also, in that pic, it's sitting much higher in the water than mine does. I took note today, and for sure the water level goes over the bolt holes when I'm in it. I may be sitting too far back... I also sit really low - I have to reach my arm up beside my head to steer, haha. I should try like you're doing in that pic. What are you sitting on, anyhow?

Well, I pulled out all the old bolts, and some were super rusty and snapped in half when I was twisting off the nuts... They might've been the original bolts from 1968, heh. I put washers on the inside of each bolt, and then on the outside of the boat I put a gob of Marine Goop, then a washer, and then a nut. Then I put the side foam on, followed by another washer and nut. Now I have to trim the bolts and put something on them so they won't loosen.

I did that a couple days ago, and today we took it out on Pike Lake for a few hours. No water came in the canoe, so that was definitely the problem. I'm pretty happy with it. Not too impressed with that lake, though. The water was warm and the boat launch area nice and sandy. We went up one end where it got really weedy and really shallow a lot, but not even a single fish bite. I tried a couple Lucky Strike lures, a Williams, Hula Popper, a frog, and some other stuff, no luck. LOTS of weeds, though, and almost every time I cast, too. Oh well, we had fun.

Welcome! Your grammar and spelling are better than a lot of people two and three times your age, if my Facebook experience tells me anything. It's nice to see. Almost as nice as your fish.

I assume we're talking about just movies here, because I can think of tons of great comedy TV shows... And not standup comedy videos, right? Even so, for just movies, Top 10 is way, way, WAY too hard to think of... Instead, let me just say a few that immediately come to mind, in no particular order:

The Princess Bride

Monty Python & The Holy Grail

Naked Gun 33 1/3

Space Balls

UHF

Strange Brew

Fubar

Robin Hood Men in Tights

Happy Gilmour

Super Troopers

Saved

Team America World Police

And let me predict one that hasn't been released yet, but hopefully will be:

Arrested Development

I did post some of my P&S pics in another thread so I won't duplicate those here, but they turned out not too bad. But to contribute, here's one that I liked a lot and was my favorite pic of mine until recently. I took it long before I knew anything about photography, with an Epson PhotoPC 650 1MP, held in my hands. It was a lucky shot, really.

I know there are benefits to both, but there are things I can't do with my P&S that I wish I could... Polarizing filters, high zoom, wide angle, gradients, etc.. But as I learned with my musical endeavors, sometimes working with limits can breed creativity. I'd kinda rather try (and hopefully succeed) to get good shots with a crappy (comparatively) camera, rather than get just decent shots with something that costs about as much as I paid for any of my vehicles over the years.

My P&S that I use now is a Canon PowerShot SX130 IS, and I paid less than $200 for it last Christmas. It has a few features that my previous cameras did not have, such as manual, Av, and Tv modes, up to 15 seconds shutter time, 12x optical zoom, image stabilizer for when not shooting on a tripod, HD720p video recording, and more. It's enough for me for now, but my next camera I'd like it to have RAW capabilities. But this cam is a huge step up from the camera that took the above pic. Not only was there a decade difference between the two, but that Epson didn't even have zoom or flash or much of anything! But it did have threads for lenses. My previous P&S had a super macro mode which is curiously absent from my current one. I miss that mode...

In all honesty, I will probably stick to P&S for the rest of my life. I don't have much money to split between my hobbies (music, gaming, fishing, photography) so if I limit myself to P&S, I think I will get by. And yeah, you can get nice shots with them. I guess I am just not too good a judge of my own work.

There's also the fact that P&S are very portable. I could slip my cam into my pocket if I needed to.

Oh yeah, and I know people who own DSLRs, they have only one lens that came with it, and they shoot in full auto the entire time. You'd never know they spent a couple grand on a camera. :\

Also, check this out (there are a few others in the series):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUkKtkEZNjs

I'm a little jealous. Good job.

I think I see a possible solution here Dana,stop lickin the slim off of fish.

Well, I wasn't sure if I should keep it or let it go. I needed a sample to see how it'd taste.

No prob bud, just didn't want to see you get crucified.

Thanks.

The moon was nice. I want to go out tonight too, but the wife works late and she's got the car. And then she wants to watch videos when she gets home. :\ might be another 12am trip.