Ian, Iain, Iain........$75.00 for a seasons fishing ANYWHERE in Ontario is a steal young man!!! When I think what my fishing cost me in the UK, $75 pales into insignificance. I have spent that...and more on a DAYS fishing in Scotland...and not for salmon either.

Living on lake Ontario I now fish as and when I desire...(and that's quite a lot )....

So if the desire becomes overpowering and you want a day here on the Bay of Quinte...drop me a PM and we will set it up..........

P.S......a conservation licence is a lot less....see

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business...02_165326.html

there is carp in the Bay of Quinte so we have heard? Ever seen any there?

Yeah, but $75 is TWO days of golf here...you see my dilemma, I KNOW I like golf, and fishing is an unknown quantity at present

Didnt know about the different licenses, so thanks for that.

I'll give it a go with my neighbours on the river this weekend, and see how it goes....I might yet take you up on your kind offer though

Their certainly is...and big too. See them this time of the year cruising around.....

Never fish for them though...and rarely did in the UK either. Don't like sitting behind rods waiting for buzzers to go off....boring.....

Having the odd round of golf myself...I see your point, however, the fishing licence fee is a 'one off' payment...then you enjoy without a further fleecing.......Golf I enjoy, but an expensive, on going costly pass time...so it's limited accordingly....

Its going to be a bumper year for salmon. Coho are in, just waiting for the sockeye, pinks and then the big hogs to turn up.

Licenses are crazy cheap here. I was shocked when I picked up my freshwater license the other day for a measly $22 and fro the local convenience store too. Can`t even remember what my old license used to cost back in England, but I know it was a hell of a lot more than $22!! It was probably closer to $150.

Couldnt agree more! But at least hes relaxing whilst waiting for the alarm to go off- although now hes got the super long range alarms which means he can work on the cottage and then runs like the clappers when the alarm goes off- who says men cant do two things at once...

And this pursuit is still classed as fishing.......whatever rows his boat....if he gets out here he can really start fishing...where the rod is actually held in the hand......and a great excuse for only being able to deal with one interest at a time...fishing!!!!...diy, 'honey do list'....a work in progress....

couldnt agree more!

We just go fishing in Lake Midnapore - no licence required (it's a private community lake), and is stocked with rainbows. They get up to 5lbs in there!

We have just taken up fishing here (salmon at the moment) and wanted to know what any of your views were on bonking and bleeding the fish. Apparently it seems a must especially when catching Pink Salmon. We'd never heard of it but they say the Salmon taste better if bled. I wonder whether commercially caught fish are bled? I've never asked a fishmonger if the fish i'm buying has been bled either.

An old aunt of mine here says that the first nations bleed their fish because they used to hang fish to dry out and this would preserve them and asked if I was going to hang mine, but told her my dogs would probably eat them first.

Between me and OH we caught 6 Pink yesterday, 2 of which were humpies (males). Have any of you eaten a humpie and would you say it was as good to eat.

Another thing we have found here is that there tends to be a lack of etiquette among some of the fishermen and it's not just us who gets pissed. Fisherman on the Fraser River/Vedder can stand as many as 3-4ft apart and you sometimes get the one that turns up late and cannot find a spot and jumps right in your path with his waders on. I've also seen two men squabble over who caught the fish when their lines have got caught. We like to go to a nice quiet spot where there are no hassles.

Gonna have to learn the art of canning I think. Anyone got any tips on this (don't have a pressurized pot). Thx.

Just read a good article in Mother Earth News about canning, look out for it

As for fishing, I've never done it but the property we've just bought has 4 stocked ponds on it, so I guess I better learn, as the dogs need to be fed Do you have to have a licence to fish on your own property?

And, he said he was good friends with Paul Weller, who now might spend the winter olympics at my place. [/QUOTE]

Paul Weller lived a few doors away from me (just at the time he was starting to make money!) my brother and sister were in school with him, decent guy they tell me.....I was way to young to know him.....just remember seeing him with dolly birds hanging off his arm!!

Sorry......nothing to do with fishing, got carried away with a little ' claim to fame' !!!

Linda

Check out your provincial fish and wildlife association for fishing regulations specific to your province (Google should help you out there). You should be able to get a resident's licence if you're able to show a local address (a resident's licence is considerable cheaper than non-resident). You also need to figure out where you'll be fishing.. in Alberta if you're on a "trophy" lake, you'll need to get a supplement to your normal fishing licence to fish that lake. There may be different regulations and licencing if you're fishing freshwater versus saltwater. As far as I'm aware, in AB, SK and BC, kids under twelve can fish without a licence, though they must observe the fishing limit.

As for fishing styles, ya got yer lake fishing (generally "trolling" from a boat, using some sort of lure from jig to rapala depending on what you're after - even a downrigger if you're on a deep lake after lake trout, sometimes sitting in a boat, casting into the weeds and reeling like hell if you're after northern pike and it's a good day), ya got yer river fishing (can be sitting with a line and a bobber, fly fishing, or casting for trout/salmon using a spin rod), and ya got yer ocean fishing (like lake fishing, except much bigger scale and higher test line). For all of them, ya bring yer beers (though if ya've got yer hip waders on and are heading upstream, a bottle of more concentrated stuff may be more advisable).

If you're fishing with kids, there's not much more fun that running into a school of perch, or sitting outside a weed bed catching little jackfish (Northern Pike). They're pretty good smoked too, so long as you get the y-bones out. For that, use a lure with a single hook because sometimes those little fish can swallow a multi-hook lure down to the bottom of their gullets, and it's a complete shame (both for loss of hook and damage to fish).

I don't know anyone in Canada who thinks that fishing for carp is worthwhile - there's a lot of better catching and eating fish out there. Then again, my fishing experience is western, so I can't speak for the central and eastern folk.