[Great Big Shark]

You guys are all wrong, it's obviously a Norwegian Blue Shark and it's not dead - it's resting.

Pete

[Hello from Ontario, Canada]

Hi Gary,

Welcome to the board.

A fellow Canadian Carper,

Pete

[Oh Canada...]

A great story and great pics!

Pete

[S#*T Kicked My PB]

Nice one Sask, sounds like one hell of a session!

Let's have some details.

Pete

[A crappie Mike D would be proud of!]

How bout big gills? You like fishing for em?

Now I'm turning green.

Pete

[*New PB Drum* 4.26.04]

Stripped,

Do you eat your drum?

Do you know the story about drum otoliths?

Drum otoliths are good luck.  When one angler give another angler an otolith from a drum BOTH will have good luck that day.  They should be saved and given, either back to the same angler or to another angler on a different trip.

The drum has two otoliths.  I have a beautiful collection, using one side for good luck and saving the other side of both mine and those of fishing companions.  It works!  Never have I given an otolith in the spirit of friendship that we didn't both catch more fish just as the ledgend promised.

Phone

The last time I was out fishing an old-timer was showing me some of those otoliths, he called them "lucky stones".

I was surprised that they seem more like glass or porcelain than bone. All his were white, he said there were pink ones, but that they were rare.

He didn't offer me one .

Pete

[tHE TOWN OF CARP IN CANADA]

I've been through Carp a few times. No ones sure why the town's named Carp but it's thought that it might be because The Carp River that flows through the area was full of white suckers and that was the closest name the European settlers had for the then unknown suckers. I didn't know they pronounce it "KERP"

Pete

[Finally, my own web site]

That's a nice job your daughter did for you Tucker, welcome to the forum.

Pete

[What species & why]

Newt,

If we didn't have our stupid one-rod-only law here , I'm sure at least some of the time I'd ledger for carp and float fish for bluegill or crappie, but as Jessie Jackson used to say "the point is moot" for me. I don't mind the occasional incidental catch though; my personal best walleye was caught on sweetcorn .

Pete

[New category..]

Hi Miguel et al,

Just noticed this thread, some great lookin' fish there!

Pete

[Hello all]

Steelhead1

What Newt Said. It's very popular here on the North shore of Lake Ontario for float fishing for steelies. Unfortunately, my wallis cast is not a thing of beauty.

Pete

[Hello all]

Hi Steelhead1

Welcome to the board. I like to do a little steelheading when I get the chance to (not very often). Do you do any centre pinning?

Pete

[Hello]

Hi Len,

I'm located in Kingston and mostly fish around here, but I make it as far west as the Ganny in Port Hope on occasion .

Pete

[Hello]

Hi Len,

Welcome to the board from a fellow Ontarian.

Pete

[Just out of interest ...]

I remember as a kid fishing below my local dam for rock bass, huge schools of carp would appear and you couldn't help but be amazed. I eventually I hooked one on a worm, and he quickly made for the fast water and spooled me. I still remember helplessly watching the line peel off then snapping! It made a big impression on me but I never managed to hook another one, though I tried off and on. I could never find any information, no one fished for carp in my area and any that were caught met a cruel fate. Many years later, on the way to work I stopped at a magazine store and discovered a copy of David Hall's Course Fishing. After a few issues I was able to figure out what the hair rig was, and from there on in, there was no going back!

Pete

[New Hollywood Article @Fishing Wherehouse]

I crouched with the net and gave the usual fishing partner advice, as you do in those situations.

"Keep the rod tip up etc," utterly useless, as we all know, but it does make one feel better doesn't it?

Heh Heh... priceless

Pete

[Hello All!]

Hi Enríquo,

I'm in Kingston, around three hours east of Toronto. The closest carp-spot to Toronto that I'm familiar with is in The Ganaraska River in Port Hope. It's a fairly well known trout river, but a great carp river in the summer, with a unique scenic backdrop (a nuclear refinery) we always joke that's why the fish are so big. So send word and bring your lead underwear if you're coming down

Pete

[Hello All!]

Hi Dean,

There's plenty of river fishing up here below dams, river mouths etc. but also a lot of still-water fishing, in the bays and marshes connected to Lake Ontario.

Pete

[Hello All!]

Hi Keith,

Years ago, I found an old copy of Ransome's Rod and Line in a used bookshop and it's since become one of my favourites. You can see in my signature, how perfectly he captures the spirit of fishing. It took a while before I realized he was the author of Swallows and Amazons which I'd read and loved as a child.

I guess the answer to your question is yes.

Pete

[Hello All!]

Thanks Dean.

Still waiting for spring...

Pete

[Hello All!]

You might remember me from my infrequent posts at the old Carp.net board. Glad to see this new forum. I'm not the most prolific poster, but rest assured I' be lurking and learning. Up here in southern Ontario it's still pretty frosty so I have to make due with rig-tying, float making (and now this board) etc. to satisfy my carp-fever.

Waiting for Spring

Pete