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  1. earltwitty....looks like a nice 4-5lber. Hard work for 1 fish though. Not at all like in the day when they were as easy to catch as their smaller sunny and crappie cousins! Way to get after it though. These fish are still present. Something tells me some diligent hard work and open mindedness to working new techniques, rather than the old ones that used to work so well (just about anything!), will unlock the secret to these lately hard to get smallies. Like also to know if anyone knows of, or just are, good deeper water scuba divers who can get down there to thoroughly, visually, verify the existence of the smallie populations in the Big O south shore. Maybe camera surveys. We know they are schooling, grouping "social" fish....not loners. Where there is one there have got to be many more around. We also know they are hardy and native. And I do not think they have been over-fished for any commercial reasons. When has anyone seen large amounts of black market bass fillets for sale. I know it happens occasionally, but not to the extent it would deplete them. I keep believing they have made lifestyle adjustments.......

  2. zackblain.....boy.. it's crazy about how so much phosphorous compounds from fertilizers leaching into eutrophic (shallower generally) lakes from some sources has affected the plant growth (cyanobateria) in lakes like Honeoye and Erie and others. The fish are still there though. Like fleas, it makes for some weird fishing scenarios. I'm wondering if there may be a couple of especially knowledgeable folks  out there on Honeoye catching plenty of eyes with no competition....and are mum about it. I do not believe there are any fish die offs there....just fishing die offs. Which may just be good for the populations.......Tg8.....ever try Gulp Alive! small baits with your rigs? I know fish really love eating on that stuff. I mean just some soft baits. But maybe the scents as well....? That might trigger some more serious bites......

  3. mostlymuskies..... The whole west coast salmon fishery has been impacted by the drought which has most heavily affected California but also Oregon and Washington. Kings are hanging tough but the cohoes have been placed into threatened category in Cali. Mostly because water flow levels have been low due to low water at their entrances to the Pacific. Which almost completely seals off with silt many of the rivers. Not enough rain (snow) far inland into the mountains. Major flows like the Sacramento and Columbia still are good enough for kings, but it has even been tough on steelies as well. Fish can't get up to spawn and others like steelies to eat the salmon spawn. Hopefully this will be a wetter season coming to re-energize the anadromous salmonid fisheries in the west. Is there a way to import water from the drenched east to the parched west......?   :P  One key to everything is balance.........BTW, you are totally right about how really good the flavor of salt water grown salmon is compared to freshwater only lived fish...... :yes:

  4. Tough bite....2 little guys and a keeper....if kept. Been down to see if Honeoye has cleared from the blue-green algae yet? Now is the time the eyes should be coming easier there now and for the next month or more....if it's not too cold. Especially from dusk on.

  5. Evening caught fish.....OK. From a novice (actually complete rookie afa targeting them) musky fisher, other members of the esox family seem to be mostly daytime feeders. Some of what I have read seems to say the same of musky. Is it unusual to come upon them  after dark? Or, like "grownup" people, do the big folks in musky land get to stay up late and remain active....? Are coming upon actively feeding muskie after dark an accepted game? Any difference in that regard between river (flowage) and and lake water fish?    :wondering:

  6. Good catch of some fun fighting and good eating bass! And within a couple of hours too. Looks like the one that was cut is a largemouth. Now, here is my nerdiness..... Is the reason that was the only one cut to bleed is because it was a largemouth (looks like the small one he is jaw-to-jaw with is a largemouth too)? And here is the nerdy part.....Do you think largemouths do not taste as good as smallies?..... :thinking:...Or is it that you just hadn't gotten to "doing them up" when it was decided to take the pic, and I'm thinking way too much into it.....? :dull:

  7. Kevin..... The fellow came too close in open seas, snags your equipment, then brings it in and then throws it back into the water....? What, the FF? Or the copper....or both? Seems like he could have brought it onboard if for no other reason than to not to pollute the lake up with junk. Sounds like "not firing on all cylinders" to me.......At least you got an apology and stuff....but GEEEZ! And a charter no less?....  Kind of a big picture of "where's their head at"....... :shake:   Everybody makes mistakes.....but in layers?   :speechless:

  8. EsoxAC3......Instant death.....? Doesn't look like it from that perch!   :P I guess, to me, bleeding out sunnies and perch sounds like a lot of work (like hand scaling...which I have done often :no: ). They taste great to me un-bled. I also have had no issues with bass and walleyes, save for the occasional "muddy" flavor in bass, which is due to a different chemical situation then blood. I think I would definitely try it on bigger salmonids though.....taste testing for verification...... ;) 

  9. Thanks fishmaker. I see it there just east of Georgian Bay and north of lake Simcoe. Looks like smack dab in the midst of many great (?) fishing waters. I say....(?)....because I have never fished "inland" Ontario waters. Too much good fishing near here! But will have to venture into Canadian inland waters more. Seems like many lifetimes of potentially good fishing. Noticed on the regional fishmuskoka.com forum a guy who picked up a nice 8lb+ 'eye from a Mooseknuckle lake (couldn't find on google maps) this summer. Are walleyes often called pickerel up there? And pike are called pike I assume....if they aren't also called pickerel by some. I see lots of smallies, pike and walleye and lakers are in Muskoka. Must be the general mix everywhere up in that "endless lakes" area.

  10. Old man......... :rofl:   :rofl:   :lol: ......I've had hand to hand combat with 'coons at the campsite in different places. They can be really something....to say the least! But I'll tell ya.... you might be on to something with what you attempted to try. Like you said, I too have witnessed how esox family members hunt, and that video is it. At least one favorite way. In a body of water with plenty of sunnies and pike or whatever nearby, chumming them like that might possibly work. So, what would you call it if it worked consistently.....and would it be legal....? It would be a nerdy way of fishing. But so is noodling for catfish....... :thinking:

  11. What....? A vegetarian musky...??  :D   I can't tell if he had gone after and got one of the sunnies, or whether he (or she?) was trying to nab the bread that was being feasted on by them.....Don't believe those 'gills were unaware of it's moving in on the scene.....he's too big. Plus they all live there and probably know him. But I'm no fish in a pond....what do I know? :shake: That reminds me of pike and pickerel I've watched literally at my feet easing in, watching something, and slowly waiting for the right time to ambush.....Wait for it.....wait for it.....hold it......now... CHARGE! Even baby esox members exhibit this lay-in-wait and charge method of hunting. Like cats. Cool video and story of a really cool thing   :nod:   Thanx Ivan.... :yes:

  12. I've caught big crappie, bluegills, rock bass, pumpkinseeds and perch on only the very few times I used them.....only reason was because somebody else I was fishing with bought some and we used them. Makes me wonder why I don't use them more often. Bass and an eye also fell for them. I tend to use artificials more. The Berkley Power baits and Gulp! stuff work great in leech patterns. Their (real live ones)  toughness on the hook and activity must scream DINNER!! for any fish nearby. A small lake in the eastern part of the state, Canandaigua lake and Honeoye lake are the only places I have experience using leeches and they worked great each time used.....and better than I had believed they might. :yes:

  13. Kevin.....yes I guess so. The last time I fished the St. Lawrence with nightcrawlers on the bottom in 35-55fow was before the gobie invasion. I imagine they would get to the worms before the bigger fare would. Maybe send live gobies down on a hook........ :thinking:  I wouldn't believe they'd be hard to get......Just an offbeat idea......But not really offbeat......

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