dave524

12 hours ago, honeyv said:

I'd imagine a lot of developement in the region has to do with the loss of habitat. 

Not really , it was a very localized area and only about a half dozen homes built in the last 60 years there

14 minutes ago, honeyv said:

Yeah I know they have put in some stocking efforts in Short Hills (C&R only I believe), but I don't actually  know how well that program is going. I see signs when walking my dog. Personally, I wouldnt mess with that area if its that sensitive. 

I do have some Brookie spots, but they're at least a 2 hour drive from where I am in Niagara. 

We got them as a teen in the '60's up to 14 inch was my best, the Shorthils Park area was actually downstream of the better fishery and stream habitat. Lived in Port Rowan for a while in the 70's, there were a few there in Norfolk County back then if you knew where to look

19 hours ago, honeyv said:

Beauties! Wish we had some good Brookie streams here in Niagara. 

You were born about 60 years too late

I recall as a kid the eclipse of the early 60's. It was a Saturday and we were either driving on vacation going north or maybe coming home, no hullabaloo, emergency measures act or any BS like that, got somewhat dark for a couple of minutes , dad might have turned the headlights on, pretty soon it got light again , expect this one much the same as I am staying home with all the craziness out there  edit : would have been this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_20,_1963#:~:text=A total solar eclipse occurred,for a viewer on Earth.

6 hours ago, Port_D_Guy said:

They like twisting up line.

I fished them off a 3 way swivel with the sinker on a dropper , lower Niagara, never a problem with line twist

The Italian " Pedersoli " stuff is a step up from the low level Traditions stuff

On 1/30/2024 at 1:17 PM, smerchly said:

Very short clip  ...where can I buy this gun ?  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_nYEOvPNE

Could try Canadian Tire , only in Alberta though 

On 12/18/2023 at 7:14 PM, smerchly said:

Ha !  They got me on the cabbage too Dave .  I didn't know until I got home and checked my receipt .

 

I got a cabbage at .49 cents a pound at Superstore yesterday, lowest price I've seen in a while, big ones too

Many years ago we camped at Round Lake where the Bonnechere River enters, did alot of canoeing on the river,didn't get much other than hammer handle pike and the odd largemouth

Got caught like that one time on Cabbage, gone are the days of a whole cabbage or turnip for under a buck

Lazer Audio is about the last real shop that knows what they are doing around, CB is about dead

8 minutes ago, Dan Andrews said:

These cops don't have confidence in their trade? 

 cops are no more firearms experts than master mechanics but they use guns and vehicles

Erie and Ontario both fluctuate greatly with wind direction , offshore colder , onshore warmer

MTD makes a lot of different brands, Yards works and Troybuilt are some of them, should be easily found

Forget about pistol, that option is gone thanks to Trudeau

It was a local hotspot for Largemouth in the 80's, got fished heavily, probably excessively. Sure ain't the same with Campbell's Marina gone, new bridge over the QEW and all silted in.  

9 hours ago, knightfisher said:

There was a video a while back that showed a heron eating a ground hog in the middle of some field. I could not

believe what I was seeing. Takes away the affinity I have for them to a degree. Thinking they munch on fish and such

is not the case.....

 Ducklings are a delicacy 

23 hours ago, smerchly said:

Was the fish still alive Mark ?  I've seen herons take a larger fish than that crappie, and sometimes the fish escapes . 

Was there cormorants in the area ?  They are an eating machine that I've seen take a good size trout down their throat !  

Herons can get something pretty big down 😀   

Used this stuff as a kid , really worked but they took it off the market along with the 100% DEET stuff, Smerch will remember it https://mhc.andornot.com/en/permalink/artifact15221

21 hours ago, smerchly said:

Grimsby Tackle had a guy who repaired reels (RIP) and he fixed my very old Stradic 4000 (new bail arm)  I bought from John Rasso in Welland ...back in the day...

The reel was fixed very quickly and I bought an ultra light rod for crappie, perch etc. when I picked up the reel .

It's good to have local reel repair/service  available to keep cranks turning !

Our small bait & tackle shops are run by people who know their stuff and are willing to help with any questions you have .

 

John Gadzo , good guy , lived along the lake in Grimsby, left us in 2018

On 3/29/2023 at 12:34 PM, Tony said:

Denis (great guy) ran Fishin Niagara........................I didn't realize that it wasn't open.......................

Follow him on Facebook " Fishin Niagara " good source of info and conditions on the upper river

5 hours ago, Tinyboatcam said:

Left hand

 then your left eye is your master eye, that is the  determining factor , not if you are right or left handed, same as shotgunning

shouldn't pike be going up ditches off the canal and Lake Erie to spawn very shortly ? I recall going pike spearing in a few creeks off the Welland River as a kid in the 60's, think it was early March

22 hours ago, smerchly said:

I remember that beautiful stream very well . We were about 14 and we biked up the mud road all the way up to the rail tracks where there was a 4 ft. water falls where we caught our 1st little brown which had a nice purplish tinge to them . They would hit worms & grasshoppers and we also used flies like the McGinty in the shallow rapids downstream to Glendale Ave,where there was a nice little spillway and pool before going under the road. There was two spots where the water went under some large timbers & we dropped our lines between them & got some nice  browns . What a time we had there .....until they built the new Haulage Rd.for the auto plant where I worked for 30 years !

Here's a snip from the Niagara Navigator maps (1954-55) . The small red dots were pike ponds  and yellow  spots where we got trout . At the bottom the yellow spot is the 4ft water falls which was  close to the CNR tracks . On the right was train trestle where we also got pike using silver spoons .Those were great days !

Thanks , think I would have been around 8 at the time, I caught some Rock Bass on a level wind, bobber and snelled hook with worms, Dad had a spinning outfit with mono, think he used a Mepp's type spinner for the trout.

8 hours ago, Markster said:

I agree. It looks like they are still using it. Too bad it wasnt open to the public.

The ORA shoots there, I think some Swiss club as well https://ontariorifleassociation.ca/ranges-descriptions/