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Ha you're right. Rule number 3 is rule number 1.

A few years ago a couple of friends of mine and I embarked on our first, highly anticipated, fly-in fishing trip to a housekeeping-only lodge up north. Seeing as it was our first time on such a trip, we quickly realized there were some essential items that we were glad we brought and a bunch of...

This is great. Lots to work with here. Thanks!

Oh, also as you head into B.C., I'm not going to talk about specific tribs or locations in this public space but if you're driving into B.C. through the Crowsnest pass in the south, the Crowsnest River and Elk River are definitely must visits. If you take Hwy. 1 west into B.C., the Simpson River...

Awesome. Thanks for your help.

When in August are you heading out? Late august is usually the best time to hit the Eastern Slope streams in the Alberta foothills. My favourite rivers for rainbow, cutthroat and bulltrout are the Highwood, Livingston and the Old Man and their tribs. Everyone talks about the legendary Bow but...

Thanks for the reply! I hadn't been able to find that document in its entirety.

Hello, I'm looking for some advice on different ways to arrange split shot on a float rig. My current rig looks like this: spinning reel spooled with 8-10lb. Nanofil with a 6 ft. length of 8lb. Maxima Ultragreen connected to it via uni-uni knot. My float goes on the Ultragreen above a micro...

Thanks guys. Nope, never fished a tourney but I'm definitely interested in trying to find someone to take me on as a co-angler sometime in the future.

My wife and I officially moved back to Ontario. Between the house hunt, two moves and searching for a job I didn't have too much time to fish but I still managed to get out a couple times. It's nice to be back in a province with bass! http://forthemassesfishing.blogspot.com

Check out this video I put together of a big bull trout attacking Rocky Mountain whitefish we hooked in the Highwood River in southern Alberta (not Ontario but related to the topic). Unfortunately we didn't have any lures big enough to actually target the bull. Sorry for the swearing...

Thanks for replying. It's hard to beat fall bass fishing in Ontario.

Actually, now that I think about it, location is more important than what you use. Look for weeds that are still green; especially mid-lake humps for largemouth as the green weeds are still producing oxygen and holding bait fish. I often find smallmouth bass in deeper areas than in the...

As mentioned above, drop shotting X-Zone slammers or other plastic minnows or wacky rigged Senkos are my fav. Topwater stickbaits, like Zara Spooks, or poppers work well too. Bass are eating big minnows to fatten up for the winter so slow presentations with minnow imitators work well.

Fished Fifth Depot Lake this past weekend. The fishing was quite good. The big bass are out fattening up for the winter. I had the most luck casting black Hula Poppers over weed beds in the evening and drop shotting a smoke-coloured X-Zone Swammer around mid-lake weed humps and sunken timber...

I fish Fifth Depot Lake, near Napanee, pretty often in the summer time and have been doing so for a few years now. I catch a lot of smallmouth and largemouth bass and the odd 4-5 lb pike but I have never even seen a walleye come out of there. Do any of you catch summer time walleye on this lake...

Blair>> lol to the 4 lb. comment. Yeah, that lake is a beauty. Lots of big smallmouth too. I caught this fish on a silver minnow Rapala Countdown.

Caught this guy in Fifth Depot Lake. I guess around 5 pounds...I should really get a scale.

One of the best tips I ever read was to soak the spool of your reel in warm water for 5-10 minutes after spooling with mono. This sets the spool memory of your line to the size of the reel's spool, rather than the spool the line was bought on. No more line exploding off your reel as soon as you...

Hey I just stumbled across this forum while looking for steelhead info. I moved out west to Alberta 4 years ago where I've been fishing the incredible mountain and foothill trout rivers we have access to out here. Let me know if you're planning a trip out here and I can shoot you some info. When...