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Just wanted to take the time before the madness starts to wish everyone a safe and exciting 2017 on the water! Lots of guys getting new bigger/faster rigs this winter and i'm excited to see them! Can't wait to see everyone on the water!

Posting for a friend that is being a good Samaritan: “Found – ice fishing shelter up the Dorion Cutoff. If you lost a shelter while ice fishing this winter, text 620-7958 with a description and arrangements will be made to get it back to you.”

See the real problem here is more people need to start fishing like me, I just donate lures to the river and help support the local tackle shops. Don't need to catch fish when the rocks put up a better fight than any measly steelhead! But seriously, if anglers were wiping the steelhead out, we'd know by now. Habitat loss and pollution have always been much bigger concerns than recreational anglers. Besides, people have been fishing for steelhead since they were introduced here, if anything they are doing better now than they were back then, now that catch and release + stocking have become more common EDIT- I'm from Southern Ontario, up here is paradise.

Well I joined. I think I met this guy 2 nites ago. I was talking to a buddy on the Mac and we were talking about Thunder Bay Fishing. We were talking about how great an information source this site is. I am originally from s.ont. You think this area is bad, go fish down south. Now back to my point of tail out. He came up to us and asked if we were talking about this site and if that is how we found out if the steel head were running. We said yes. He then goes on a rant. Unbelievable. I just want to say that I have met 4 best friends because of this site. That was the best thing for me about this web site. And by the way tailout. Are you a dentist? Just asking because you do an amazing amount of flossing on the river.

Seems to me that if anglers can't cooperate in positive ways to protect the fishery, blaming others and resorting unreasonable solutions like censorship and secrecy instead, our only recourse is to let the Government of Ontario close the fishery in all Thunder Bay waters during the spawning cycle. Ultimately, its the Ministry which must decide if the wild stocks are valuable enough and pressured enough to warrant that sort of drastic solution, I don't fish for steelhead in the spring, so it would be no sweat off my back. However, I trust the present regulations with their strict limits ensure there will be a healthy return every spring. On the other hand, there are other reasons to keep a spring steelhead fishery open besides the fun of the fight. http://mntu.org/north-shore-steelhead-need-your-help/ Snagging and poor handling, including clandestine roe harvesting, have been a nefarious part of the fishing culture since rainbows started appearing in the Lake Superior watershed. I witnessed it when I was a kid. I don't think these negative practices have increased proportionally since then. I would like to think that we have progressed since the days when many considered steelhead as just another meat fishery.

No defense required here tailfeathers..... Your argument is lame at best with zero backing I would say that your responses are classic depleted cries Love troll fishing....all catch and release lmfao

Mabey try hittn the search button and looking thro the treads over years and what has been discussed on hear and read a little before being so quick to jump the gun about a public site that isn't hurting anyone except YOU it seems ! Rather then go out their and educate the the newer fisherman of their practices and ways ur just another TROLL on the site looking to cause problems, ur not helping the stealhead by coming on hear and blaming a website! I'm die hard steelheader at heart and everything I learned was from being on the rivers, asking questions or watching the guys do it, and I was approached by avid steelheaders on my practices and techniques to properly handle or care for the trout, that's how I learned and most others do as well, so instead of being a TROLL why don't u go out their and be a teacher to those inexperienced anglers and not worry so much about a public forum that isn't the case of anything here!

The gig is up Roger !! I told you that all those off shore accounts that you have will eventually catch up with you. !! You pay me 1/2 of what is in those accounts and I promise not to post those pictures of you treble hook snagging all those steel-head and then using them to practice your Javelin throwing. The Stalker P.S. Will contact you later to tell you where to place the money in a brown paper bag. I want it in coins and no 2 alike!!

Also. To add one more thing. I dont believe roger even steelhead fishes. But every year he gathers a group from this site. To go walk rivers with garbage bags and clean them up ! Id say thats worth some praise !!