Thursday, April 27, 2006

Bass Pro Shops Toronto

A few weeks ago, I was on yet another business trip to the big boring city when I forced my friend Chris Vickerson, his wife Betty and his 2 kids to drive me to Vaughan (just on the outskirts of town) for my initiation to the Bass Pro Shops experience.

My first impression was that it reminded me a lot of another huge outdoors theme store called Gander Mountain. I visited Gander Mountain in Plattsburgh NY last year, spent at least 4 hours in there with my buddy Terry Phillips. It was a great experience.

In any case, I spent approximately 3 hours in Bass Pro Shops. I bought about 10 Rapala Shad Raps on special (I think they were $3.29 each!), a ton of crawler harnesses (they were almost giving them away) a pile of clear plastic tackle organizers, and a big boat bag to store my tackle.

Of course, 3 hours were not nearly enough to go through everything, but it was closing time and my friends looked a little bored (!), so we made our way out of the store.

I'll be back.

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Thursday, April 20, 2006

Doré noir, Doré jaune

For those of you who are wondering what doré noir and doré jaune are, here's the deal:

doré noir: sauger
doré jaune: walleye

Thought I'd translate these terms so everyone is on the same page.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

New Tackle for 2006

Anyone find anything impressive in this year's crop of fishing gear?

Nothing really caught my eye this year, seems like the marketing machines over at Pure Fishing ran out of juice, or maybe they're still tyring to make people buy last year's stuff?

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Saturday, April 15, 2006

Walleye season opens in less than a month

I'll be on Lac Saint Pierre on friday may 12 for the 2006 walleye opener. Every year, walleye anglers from everywhere in the province congregate there for the first weekend of open water fishing in months.

The popular areas are the dams, this year I may try to explore some of the less popular dams with my buddies, everyone tends to rush to thi sone area, it's not rare to see 30 boats drifting over the same area at the same time.

I have to get my electric motor to work again, there is something wrong with the wiring or a fuse is busted somewhere, but I have no control over my boat other than drift socks.

Also this year will be a record for the number of fishing trips I have planned.

Early june is Gouin reservoir (4 days fly-in with dad)
Mid june is Gouin reservoir with a bunch of guys (5 days)
End of june is Club Scott with another bunch of guys (4 days)
August is our yearly expedition to our buddy's fishing camp (4 days)

LIfe is hard ....

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