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On 3/9/2024 at 6:52 PM, smerchly said:

I also prefer the floro for a leader and have never lost a pike with it . The steel leader seems to work ok when the water is a little brackish . I'll make up a few floro jobs for the next pike session , don't need much gear when tossing swim baits .And I didn't take my net for that pike ,just slid it out on the flat bank. 

It was very tasty , my wife did it in the oven with Greek feta dressing & oregano & bacon . The pike would be proud . And Miss Perchy joined her mates to tend to her family ....  ☺️

You do realise that "brackish" means a mixture of fresh water and saltwater? It doesn't exist in Niagara.

1 hour ago, smerchly said:

And about that Rapala knife that has more than doubled in price like some Rap lures have also , .....I really don't think the workers wages have more than doubled . Me thinks we are being gouged BIG TIME & I will not buy at that price so they get zero from this old fisherman .  

Who's gouging you?

The store? Doubt it, since they're paying a lot more for stuff these days too. I work in a store, I see the invoices. Our prices have gone up like crazy. 

Is Rapala gouging you? Doubt it. For the past 18 months all we've heard are stories about higher raw material costs, higher shipping costs, and supply chain meltdowns. I'd bet Rapala's costs have also gone through the roof too. 

If you're getting gouged by anyone, it's a certain group of people in Ottawa. Inflation might be a worldwide problem, but we're making it much worse than it has to be by adding a pointless carbon tax to fuel. Every single thing you buy gets to the store in a truck, and trucks need fuel to run. So higher fuel bills jack up the price of absolutely everything.

On 12/19/2022 at 10:00 PM, bigugli said:

Keep the businesses here alive instead of making Asia richer

On 12/19/2022 at 10:55 PM, smerchly said:

Retailers want to make big profits so China gets the jobs paying slave wages & using kids .

You guys go on and on in threads like this about 'keeping the jobs here" while at the same time whining about how much things cost. How much do you think your Rapala knife would cost if it was made in Niagara Falls instead of China? By some union plant no less, where no one makes less than $35 an hour with benefits?

Stuff is made in China because consumers are cheap. Consumers won't buy a Canadian made T-shirt because it's going to cost $45. Instead, they whine about how expensive it is, then rundown to Walmart to buy a Chinese t-shirt for $5 - and think "that's more like it."

There is no free lunch here. If you want to support Canadian manufacturers, and you want people working there to make a fair wage, then stuff HAS to cost more than it does coming from China. 

If you want stuff to be cheap, then guess what, it won't be made here. 

That's reality. Get used to it.

You can get a $40 NAAT test at any Walgreens or CS pharmacy, even right through the drive through window. Results in 3 hours, good for 72 hours. Not worth it just to save $20 on a box of suds, but if you're there for a couple of days to fish then it is.

And if you want to read further you'll note that the "waters of the basin" Michigan tried introducing cutthroat trout into were inland lakes in the UP, not the Great Lakes.

12 hours ago, smerchly said:

The Beacon Marina closed before that and also sold Tohatsu motors after Merc went to China . 

 

Merc's factory in China builds 50hp and 60hp only. They opened it in 2005.

Peter's is good. So is Grimsby Tackle. Support independent dealers, they will look after you right and give you good advice. People at Canadian Tire don't know anything.

On 12/13/2009 at 12:47 PM, kevin said:

Here's a pic of a cutty, or cuttbow, whichever way you want to word it. Just a cross between a cutthroat and rainbow. I'll see if I can dig up a picture showing the bright slash marks along the gill rakers.

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o220/redneck_80/cutty.jpg

There's actually quite a few around, but unless you're really looking, you won't notice the slash marks. From the information I've been given, from the MNR, is that quite a few cutty eggs were mixed in with one of the original transplants of Mcleod river strain rainbows back in the 1800's.

Look man from 11 years ago, I don't want to pee on your parade, but that isn't even close to being true. Cutthroat trout have never been stocked in any of the Great Lakes. Write to MNR if you don't believe me, they will tell you the same thing. No one - not MNR, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, New York, Wisconsin - no one has ever stocked cutthroat trout in the Great Lakes.

The fish in your pic is just a heavily spotted rainbow trout. Again, ask MNR. Any biologist will tell you that. Spotting, color and overall appearance on rainbows is highly variable. Some fish have lots of big spots, some have fewer fine spots, some have hardly any spots at all. Still all rainbows. You can't identify them by just color pattern or spotting alone.

For what it's worth, the so-called golden trout or palamino trout that Pennsylvania used to stock in the 1990s were also just a color phase of rainbow trout. They were not a different species at all.

Email your photo to MNR and ask them. They will also confirm that cutthroat trout have never been stocked in any of the Great Lakes, by anyone. They don't get "accidentally mixed in with some rainbows" that is not how fish hatcheries work.

Not trying to be a dick, but that is just complete nonsense.

Most fish scales aren't even close to accurate.