THE ALL MIGHTY MEEGS

[Moosebunk]

Beauty Brian!

 

And the Meeger makes some great lures.

[LeXXington]

Nice

[akaShag]

The short rods were basically all anybody used in open water for splake, whities, browns, bows, you name it up on Georgian Bay back in the 80s. Mind you, most were custom tied rods and slightly longer than your average ice rod. And yes, jigged vertically, most often with roe. It was my favourite fishing of the year!!! And that was when I was spending lots of days in the various rivers and streams chasing steelhead. As much as it was a blast to tie into a chromer on the long rods, it was just fabulous jigging the short rods for good numbers of often good sized fish.

 

My biggest whitie weighed 12.49 lb on a grocer store butcher scale. I had weighed it with my spring scale in the boat and it was showing about 14 pounds, which was close to Terry Frook's record of 14.6 as I recall, so we hauled up the anchor and drove to a grocery store to weigh in my "potential" Ontario record. Well, it was a full two pounds under the record.................and we did eat it.................and never even took a picture of it!

 

Good memories, and thanks Brian for that trip down memory lane!

Doug

[Rodbender]

The short rods were basically all anybody used in open water for splake, whities, browns, bows, you name it up on Georgian Bay back in the 80s. Mind you, most were custom tied rods and slightly longer than your average ice rod. And yes, jigged vertically, most often with roe. It was my favourite fishing of the year!!! And that was when I was spending lots of days in the various rivers and streams chasing steelhead. As much as it was a blast to tie into a chromer on the long rods, it was just fabulous jigging the short rods for good numbers of often good sized fish.

 

My biggest whitie weighed 12.49 lb on a grocer store butcher scale. I had weighed it with my spring scale in the boat and it was showing about 14 pounds, which was close to Terry Frook's record of 14.6 as I recall, so we hauled up the anchor and drove to a grocery store to weigh in my "potential" Ontario record. Well, it was a full two pounds under the record.................and we did eat it.................and never even took a picture of it!

 

Good memories, and thanks Brian for that trip down memory lane!

 

Doug

Yep we did that at the mouth of the Notty fun when you got a nice Bow on the short rods my biggest Whitefish came from flat line trolling at the mouth of silver creek in Creigleith it was 12.3 LBS weight at the small tackle and bait shop in the house In Singhampton

Edited June 6, 2016 by Rodbender

[misfish]

Ah the old days of the mouth of the notty. Now theres some great memories. Splake and whities.

 

Thanks gang