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louisbear
Number one on my fishing bucket list would be to travel to Labrador and catch a nice size Arctic Char.
Number two would be to spend the summer in NFLD fishing for Atlantic Salmon and native brook trout.
Lastly, I would like to go tuna fishing…maybe out of Antigonish or PEI. Catching one would be a big bonus.
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Tyson10gauge
Done the NFLD fishing yrs ago , It truly is a excellent place to fish .

White Sturgeon is on my Bucket list in B.C Fraser River,
Next would be to go back to Labrador and as you say Henry do some Artic Char fishing .
3rd would be to go out Muskie fishing .
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Off the top of my head id love tarpon on the fly. Minipi region labrador brookies. Somewhere north for lakers. And either patagonia or new zealand for big browns.
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superslickie
Yellowtail, dorado and large grouper
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KEVIN
Been fortunate enuff in my lifetime to fish a lot of places in Canada.
Lots of places in NFLD for brookies ( the best tasting and orangest flesh ever)...Cold Lake AB for pike...Lakers and muskie. Southern AB for bows and browns...Vancouver ( Fraser river) Victoria BC, Comox and Port Alberni for salmon...Steelhead...Bass and Bows on Vancouver Island...NWT for Lakers...Nippissing region for Walleyes, bass and Lakers...the list goes on and on.

The last spot for me would be the Eagle River and Minipi River systems in Labrador where the 5 to 9 lb brookies eat lemmings !!
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hope one day to go back to Labrador, float plane into some remote spots - with my sons & grandson of course.
the spot in the pic - caught char & lakers. Both had real red meat, mmm-mmm.

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KEVIN said:
Been fortunate enuff in my lifetime to fish a lot of places in Canada.
Lots of places in NFLD for brookies ( the best tasting and orangest flesh ever)...Cold Lake AB for pike...Lakers and muskie. Southern AB for bows and browns...Vancouver ( Fraser river) Victoria BC, Comox and Port Alberni for salmon...Steelhead...Bass and Bows on Vancouver Island...NWT for Lakers...Nippissing region for Walleyes, bass and Lakers...the list goes on and on.

The last spot for me would be the Eagle River and Minipi River systems in Labrador where the 5 to 9 lb brookies eat lemmings !!
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Not as many provinces or opportunities as you but was also very fortunate that my work took me to many provinces where I could fish on the weekends Loved Nippissing area and fished there too many times to count winter and summer Landed this 10 pound sucker there one weekend in may . By far my favorite eating fish That area had it all from pike to sunfish and many ugly garpike :( and we went after them all especially through the ice Regret I didnot fish in BC when I was there in fernie with the cable belt installation but just too busy and only there 6 weeks
Would love to fish grayling again in alberta if one is even still allowed since I remember they were close to being protected and that would be the 80's and think it is illegal now to fish them but may be wrong As everyone says nothing like the rock or labrador but my god the flies are a big as blue jays :( when we worked on the main belt for IOC Got lucky there the guy in charge of maintenance and my main contact was a crazed hunter/ fisherman and trapper so took me to many fishing spots and hunting caribou Could have never done it alone and seen what I did with out him


Yep here we are roughing it in what they called THE shack on Nippissing :D Minus 40 that day and these were my moose hunting/ fishing buds from there that worked in the nickel mines where we met Yep we had a great thing going for about 10 years I would go up there to hunt moose and fish with them and they would come to the cape to hunt deer and fish salmon with me until the deer vanished in the cape :(

This dude was taken there also Not my favorite eating fish by any means
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Daddy Duncan
louisbear said:
Lastly, I would like to go tuna fishing…maybe out of Antigonish or PEI. Catching one would be a big bonus
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Tuna are strictly fished under a quota and tag system regulated by DFO to keep the stocks healthy ? But tuna go to warm waters down south in the winter and migrate back along the US seaboard. Any American can sport fish a tuna and can sell. So we protect the species while the Americans rape the stock.
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KEVIN
DD..Our tuna also travel to the medditeran..(tagged and GPS'd)..they're not protected there nearly as much either !!
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gary said:
hope one day to go back to Labrador, float plane into some remote spots - with my sons & grandson of course.
the spot in the pic - caught char & lakers. Both had real red meat, mmm-mmm.

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Gary, that’s what I’m taking about!
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Daddy Duncan said:
Tuna are strictly fished under a quota and tag system regulated by DFO to keep the stocks healthy ? But tuna go to warm waters down south in the winter and migrate back along the US seaboard. Any American can sport fish a tuna and can sell. So we protect the species while the Americans rape the stock.
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I get the impression Canada does far more to protect fish stocks than just about every other jurisdiction.

I remember meeting a guy that worked at Highliner (spelling?) years ago when the ban/restriction on cod came in. He said at the time that the management there would have scraped the ocean clean of fish if the ban had not been put in place. I guess we're as bad as the rest in many ways when it comes to money. :(
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Having done fisheries patrols with the Navy, I know how badly some other countries rape the ocean.
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Put me down for artic char !!!
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KEVIN said:
Been fortunate enuff in my lifetime to fish a lot of places in Canada.
Lots of places in NFLD for brookies ( the best tasting and orangest flesh ever)...Cold Lake AB for pike...Lakers and muskie. Southern AB for bows and browns...Vancouver ( Fraser river) Victoria BC, Comox and Port Alberni for salmon...Steelhead...Bass and Bows on Vancouver Island...NWT for Lakers...Nippissing region for Walleyes, bass and Lakers...the list goes on and on.


Cold Lake - now that brings back a ton of great memories. Some of the best years of my life was living in Cold Lake. My father was in the Air Force (Avionics Tech) so was one of the places we laid down roots other then France and Greenwood. What a spot for a young fella to spend 8 years (10-18 years old). Four activities were forefront for me (hockey, girls, hunting and fishing). School was secondary lol.

Yes Kevin, Cold Lake was the spot for large pike and were especially good in the early spring. After spring when the water warmed up the pike (or Jackfish as we called them) weren’t so tasty. But my favourite fish there were Walleye - “by the gee“ they were some, right tasty! Remember peddling my “single gear” gold CCM bike to the local back creek river catching some nice Walleye on yellow and black jigs, stringing a stick thru their gills and peddling home ”mostly uphill” having their tails slap against my knees.

Then going on hunts to Cherry Grove (30 minutes away) for deer and or prairie chickens. Best of all tho was the experience of being able to go on two moose hunts to Lesser Slave Lake with my father and brother.

……… so after all these years I still play hockey a few times a week and still fish and hunt. My annual NL moose hunt is still by far my favourite activity. Oh yeah, chasing girls - not so much now. Lol.

Heading out to see my son and daughter (son in Edmonton and daughter near Drayton Valley) in mid June and we have two trips planned. One to the Badlands and the other to Cold Lake to see all the changes.
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