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CCB,

Happy anniversary... and what a monster fish. I look forward to reading the complete epic. I guess your wife is used to you coming home smelling a little fishy.

M

On my browser, Fishing Talk displays 50 topics. I scrolled back a month or two and in no place were there more than two of these so-called "controversial" or "political" threads represented on each page. So fishing reports and Q&A threads consistently account for more than 98...

Hi...interesting.

Well, having only a very few pike among many muskies is one of several ecological situations that are likely to result in mis-matings and hybrids.

Very pretty fish, no matter who its parents were.

Nice fish. Me thinks # 1 might be a pike-muskie hybrid. Are pike present in this waterbody?

Michael

Good releasing to alll!

Graembo wrote:
just mother nature i guess

G

Hmmmm...that would be a guess Graembo. Such events may have natural or unnatural causes. That's why all fish die-offs should be investigated.

Michael

[disclaimer - the following is largely speculative] I haven't heard confirmation of the muskellunge die-off beyond the Thousand Islands. There is much we don't know about this unprecedented mortality event. Given the very limited science associated with wild fish health generally, and muskies in par...

Salmon nailed it - female common merganser

"lawn dart" to my friends in Nipigon

Goosander to the ex-pat Brits here.

Here's a low-res shot of a mated pair on Stony Lake.



Thanks for sharing the cool in-flight shot.

Hmmm....maybe hybrids?!!

Nice report...cute pike.

Thanks.

Michael

Joe, Good looking little fish. I believe it's a perfectly normal young-of-the-year northern pike. The white bars will break up into spots as the fish matures. A more certain ID would require a mandibular pore count (<5 for pike) and a check of the extent of cheek scalation. Thanks for sharing. Here'...

Very interesting point QO. Where would you rather fish? Values, mores and ethics can certainly change when you cross a border. Even further south...in Bolivia, I observed signs on all of the x-country busses asking passengers to please discard all of their garbage out the window (rather than leave a...

Well said Cassie. It's troubling to many people who post here. We'll never know how many people visit this site once and leave for ever after seeing OOS fish celebrated in photographs.

Maybe it is because fish are our fulltime business ( I know about me and Michael but not sure about CCB ) that we seem to care just a little more then the next guy. Thank you for running such a great site. Yikes Richard...I think we all REALLY like fishing. I don't agree that you (or I) care a litt...

Fish-Hawk and others, I really goofed in the wording of the poll question. I was aiming for something short and sweet and ended up with something that was worded like a referendum. Ugh! That's not what I'd intended. If I could do it over, I'd begin each option with: "I would prefer that....&quo...