bucktail Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 (edited) Went down to Bronte today after being skunked AGAIN catfishing on the Grand yesterday. Met Percher coming off the ramp, no good new. He tried from 10 to 300 feet of water with no love. Decided to hit my favorite early season Brown spots along the shore. Runing a 3 rod spread of 2 #9 Blue and silver Raplalas and a Luhr Jensone Minnow in 7-12 feet of water. Trolled about 5 miles with only one small hit when the wind stopped blowing from the west at .60k. It was during this lull that the flatline 150 feet staright out the back decided to start screaming> Big fish and lots of weight, took about 5 minutes to get a look at her. One minute I think its a brown the next I think it is a chinook. Jonny finally scoops her in the net and onboard comes a big bold and beautiful 27 inch brown! Hooks are in the gill unfortunatly so I curse having to keep such a beautiful chrome silver fish. Its at this time that something doesnt look right.... hmmmm...... head is very slender...... no dots on the adipose or tail. Get home and count the teeth on the tongue and count the rays on the anal fin..... 9 rays... dorsal fin clip amdtoungue matches up. Seems this is a big Atlantic, probably one of the original stockers. Here are some pictures.... barring a DNA test she is an Atlantic! Hard way for team 4 to get 27 inches for a salmon.....dont I get bonus inches!!! Pics a in a few minutes Edited April 19, 2009 by bucktail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Good thing it was 27 inches long eh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucktail Posted April 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Yea no kidding , I was trying to remember the minimum size on it. Thank god I got it right. Cant catch a friggin catfish but I can catch a big atlantic......go figure. Took the laptop right out to the fish and did the ID on it. Too bad we had to keep her....bummmer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemper Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 I hope no one tries to dispute THIS one. Full of eggs? nice fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Send that pic to Cronzy. Nice clean looking fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greencoachdog Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 I got one too!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aniceguy Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Send that pic to Cronzy. why is canadian tire having a special on his batter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThisPlaceSucks Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Send that pic to Cronzy. Why? He can't EAT a picture! Beauty fish. Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThisPlaceSucks Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 niceguy beat me to the punch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Now Louis... someone that's drank as many beers with him as you shouldn't be doin that.... unless you had to pay of course!!! What a hog Bucktail !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siwash Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 We're seeing more and more Atlantics coming out of Lake O. I've seen a few this spring already on the salmon board... Looks like the stockig program is starting to work! That's a healthy looking fish... We'll be lucky if these things take... fantastic fighters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Nothing to do with eating it. It,s about his hatred of the Atlantic stocking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThisPlaceSucks Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Chronzey's favourite thing to do in the world is criticize the MNR. Next to eating of course. He's completely out of touch with his sport. Like the Don Cherry of fishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 (edited) Now lets not go ruining bucktails post with Choronzey banter... especially from someone that's working the fishery. Do some history...Darryl's done more for the fishery in Ontario than anyone on this board... that's a fact. Nothing wrong with him getting a tad older and a little crusty. lol Edited April 19, 2009 by irishfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickingfrog Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Now lets not go ruining bucktails post with Choronzey banter... especially from someone that's working the fishery. Do some history...Darryl's done more for the fishery in Ontario than anyone on this board... that's a fact. Nothing wrong with him getting a tad older and a little crusty. lol Done more and done more good are two different things Wayne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishdawg Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 thanks wayne, I was gonna type the same great Atlantics Bucktail, ill agree im skeptical of this programme as well, sure hope it does succeed, hate to see it all be waste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Now lets not go ruining bucktails post with Choronzey banter... especially from someone that's working the fishery. Do some history...Darryl's done more for the fishery in Ontario than anyone on this board... that's a fact. Nothing wrong with him getting a tad older and a little crusty. lol I said it,s a nice fish didnt I? Yes the man has done great work,but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,never mind. SRY buck. I use to catch them out in the mouth of the Humber yrs back.Great fighting fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greencoachdog Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Done more and done more good are two different things Wayne. Frogs are soooooo critical!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvio Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Nice fish but what a shame o well nothing you could have done dam that a nice fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Nice fish Bucktail, and you too Glen Its a shame about keeping her but that's the way it goes sometimes. Joey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PERCHER Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Ya we just went out and warmed them up for ya.Way to go nice fish. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outdoorguy61 Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Thanks for posting the photo of the Atlantic. It is nice to see them come back, and a real bonus to have a fish that is capeable of doing mutiple spawning runs. outdoorguy61 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinker Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 There have been a few reports of Atlantics this weekend. That one is a beauty!! Sinker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solopaddler Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Nice fish bud, how's your eye? Are you regaining your vision? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhare Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 AWESOME FISH!!! congrats on the catch. Chronzey's favourite thing to do in the world is criticize the MNR. Next to eating of course.He's completely out of touch with his sport. Like the Don Cherry of fishing. Im not a Chronzey fan but this comment proves that you are infact "out of touch" with this sport!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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