SirCranksalot

 I cannot comment on the fishing further out as i just have a canoe. I have canoed a lot out on G Bay, mostly in the FR area and I have seen quite a few instances of those seiche flows thru narrow channels. We live on the Notty just off the bay and have seen the water rise and fall at the beach. The water level in the river for quite a few kms upstream also depends on the onshore winds. It took me a while to realize that. I had always thought that the level was solely determined by the flow coming downstream. The level on the bay can change by at least a ft, esp in the fall when we get sustained NW winds. There is an online gauge at Cwood. If you check it out you can see how much the level can change. 

8 hours ago, riverwader said:

 

Never been to Massassauga PP and would like to try it in my kayak this spring.  I would be day fishing so not getting to far into the park.  Would you recommend launching at Pete's Place, or the Park on Three Legged Lake.  Thanks in advance for any advice.  

I am not sure what your kayak is like or how strong a paddler you are. My bud with a kayak has a much smaller range than we would in a tandem canoe. Others are suggesting going beyond Woods bay. That would be further than my bud could go w/o a great effort. There are other closer areas of course, eg, to the North. My bud and I were there in a canoe last fall for the first time and just caught 1 keeper bass each. I think we would do better the next time.  

I read somewhere that goretex will pass water if you are sitting on a wet surface. I don't know if that's true or not but my old goretex don't keep me dry any more.

So the OP posted his question about a year ago and hasn't come back since!!. Sorry, but any more suggestions I might make would not be related to fishing!

Looks like your 2 months of bad sleddin' are long gone!😃

Beer works quite well too.

FISHON is a good resource for finding ramps

On 9/11/2023 at 4:39 PM, TJQ said:

Bees are nice... wasps love drinks.. and are dicks.. lol

Yes--big diff. Bees normally don't sting unless provoked. Wasps are agressive and nasty, like to buzz around food, beer. etc.  I got a wasp trap for my deck. I've had to dump it out a couple of times because the new arrivals were just walking on the corpses of earlier ones. I took a certain amount of sadistic pleasure in seeing them drown.

On 3/4/2023 at 5:17 AM, dave524 said:

R.I.P.  David Lindley, always enjoyed his work with Ry Cooder, Jackson Browne and solo. There was not a stringed instrument he couldn't master in a short while  

 

“Farewell, Mr. Dave”: A hometown bids goodbye to David Lindley - Fretboard Journal

We have a portable HEPA filter unit in our living area to help with my wife's COPD. We have a open plan so the kitchen and dining area are connected. It seems to work quite well. It has 3 speeds indicated by blue, orange, or red indicator lights. It runs continually on low(blue) and is almost silent. Sometimes when we are cooking, esp if we are frying, it will kick into orange or even red for a little while before reverting back to blue. I suspect that it does that faster than our furnace filter would clean the air in the whole house, which is about 3 times the volume.

6 hours ago, AKRISONER said:

Honestly, if you aren’t cutting chicken and keep the board oiled, wash up is a simple rinse with water and you are done. I never use soap on my cutting board. The oil basically makes it none stick. 
 

I legitimately have not sharpened my knives in over 6 years, and you can come see for yourself they are razor sharp.

OK, thx. I am surprised that a plastic cutting board would take the edge off a knife but your experience suggests otherwise I guess. I will try doing my cutting mostly on the one board we have and see if it helps.

Thx for the invite. Maybe I will come by.😄 Where do you live? 😄

Thx for the comments, guys!

I was a bit mistaken in my original post. One of my 8" chopping knives is a Henkel, prob bought from CTC as some of you have done. The other one is a Slitzer. 

AK---maybe you have identified my prob. I normally use a plastic cutting board. We have a few of them and often use 2 at a time. It would be a PITA to switch over to wood though in terms of use and wash up. 

The pic below shows what I use for sharpening. At the top is a 120/240 oilstone. Below that are 3 whetstones in 400, 600, and 1000 grit. I can get a very sharp edge using those----not just slicing thru paper on edge at a 90 deg angle but at small angles down to about 15-20 deg. I sharpen all the kitchen knives with those. Maybe I have become a bit compulsive about that.

The other thing that I may be confused about is the idea that chopping knives have quite a lot of curvature on the cutting edge. Maybe I got that impression from watching clips of chefs chopping vegs, but when I Google  'chefs' knives' or similar all the knives seem to have a minimal curvature at the point end just as mine have.

On 5/23/2023 at 1:42 PM, misfish said:

These will be fun to fish I am sure 

are those dry flies or wet flies? thx

On 4/20/2023 at 12:50 PM, 410001661 said:

Key river to Georgian Bay 

French River PP

Lots of good bass in every shallow bay or passageway. 

Hey guys

I know many of you do lots of cooking. I don't but I have been doing lots of chopping for my wife who does most of the cooking, at least for the fancier stuff. I am using what I think are fairly cheap knives with a straight cutting edge. I can make them very sharp but they soon lose their edge. I seems to me that a knife that has some rocker to the cutting edge would work better.

Your thoughts?? TIA

On 4/22/2023 at 10:21 PM, smitty55 said:

 So you had let out as much line as you want then attach the sinker and then lighty pinch your line in that ring loop to hold it in place. When you have a fish on once the sinker hits your rod tip the line pops out of the pinch and slides down to your lure, or you or preferably a buddy could remove it manually but for that period of time your rod isn't in play to fight the fish so that can be touchy. Just have to make sure your line is heavy enough that it doesn't get damaged by the pinch. They work quite well for their intended use.

I'm not sure if I am reading this right. I have only tried mine once or twice and did not get a hit. My understanding of the 'proper' way of using them(if there is such a thing as 'proper') was to attach them a short dist from the bait---maybe 5-10 ft?----and that when you did a vigorous hook set they would slide down the line. I may well be wrong on that

Or these?

anybody use these?

Sorry---I didn't realize you were fishing an area where bass season is open tear round. My apologies

Just so that those reading know---targeting OOS fish is illegal

My bud and I have not had much luck the 2-3 times we went for 'ice out' lakers. Is it best to wait a little while------ maybe 2-3 weeks------or go right after ice out? As a kid I fished a lot for specks. They didn't seem to bite at all when the ice first went out. Two or three weeks later the fishing was generally quite good. Do lakers follow the same pattern? thx 

If you have never fried it w/o batter i urge you to try it. I pan fry mine just lightly coated with flour. Nothing much to detract from the great taste of fresh fish. My bud is gluten free so uses no coating at all, 

On 3/9/2023 at 6:25 PM, dave524 said:

You may like this reunion 

 

Thx for that. I quite enjoyed it.

Here's a tribute by one of people who knew him best and appreciated his talent, Jackson Browne

Jackson Browne Mourns ‘Genius’ Guitarist David Lindley – Billboard

No big surprise that it showed up 2 weeks or so later. I guess he took the slow and painstaking process approach that he takes to songwriting.😄

Here's a bit if trivia for you in case you hadn't already heard it: JB was taking so long to finish "Take it Easy" that his friend Glenn Frey kept offering to finish it for him, which he eventually did and made it a big hit for the Eagles.

Thx for posting that. Here's another---starts about 1:12. A true eccentric by all accounts

JB apparently encouraged DL to go out and have a solo career. JB was quoted afterwards as saying that was the craziest and stupidest thing he(JB) ever did

I have never seen that video. Is it on Youtube? thx