OOS Bass Pictures

[JBen]

Thats true TD.
Ontario is a huge province, with numerous zones and seasons. Whats in season here, may be out of season there and vice versa.

This image is in this months issue.


Can you imagine the damage to Ontario Out of Doors professional reputation if someone recognized the back ground, and could say....That was caught out of season? The trees and landscapes of NWO (where bass is open) are very different than the trees/landscape down here.

Just last week, there was a good thread (that typically became a train wreck) about those in the industry who will do anything for the "money shots". Everyone rained hellfire down on TP.

The forums while "different", are still a face of the mag. If people are posting OOS pics, or pics of activities that are illegal and against regs...Say not wearing Orange during a gun season.......

Better "safe" than "sorry"....Or walk the talk. Be legal (and be safe) at all times,

[400bigbear]

I coulda started a storm posting trout pics.You should share some of your pics, don't forget some of us on the forum trout fish all year long down here in the southern part of Ontario.

Lets not get anal but you tell me where a real trout lives that the season is open down there before April . Not your import rainbows either . Other than great lake or Niagra . Your closed . Even bows close . The point being BASS are open year round in NW Ontario as they are in many states . THATS THE POINT .

TD

[400bigbear]

Understood JB but since when is every pic timely in the magazine ? We see moose etc pics before the season opens in Ontario OUT OF Doors . I've seen guys get hammered here over the years that caught bass through the ice . Half the pics out on OOD and COOD when the mag comes out are OOS at that time of year . That's my only point .

TD

[JBen]

I think I understand what your driving at TD. As I said, the mag is slightly different than the forums, but while different, it's an arm.Also, keep in mind, I am theorizing, I don't know for fact.Im not an admin, nor on the in.

Maybe this will help explain..not sure.
I have learned (quite painfully ), not put myself "out there", it's taken many beatings, many getting dragged into things, more..you know what they say about the road to hades being the best intentions ..Sometimes I'm a slow learner....

There was more I could have, might have added to the TP thread. Thankfully, I didn't. It like many others went downhill fast.

Insight from someone who is "in the industry", what its like to have the pressure of having to produce. Still photography is a little different, than video production. But I can't use pics from "elsewhere", nor another "time". Its the same/similiar. Can you imagine the damage to OOD, if I went to Lodge X, caught nothing, used pics from lodge Y instead and then someone recognized from the background that the pics weren't from lodge X? There was so much more I might have added....

What does that have to do with this?
Any pics I take "now" (month of May) can only really be useful for stuff thats in season and seasonal. We outdoors people know things........Like what the grass and trees, and shrubs look like in March.....in May....In Oct. What hunters/anglers wear in April, and what they wear in late June.....If I tried to pass a picture that was taken in Sept off, as a picture that was taken in April....Viewers would know. I sure as heck do

While Magazines often run things that are "out of season", the story, images were done/taken when X was in season, the previous year. Readers want for example to read about Turkey Hunting in Mar/April/May...not in August/Oct.. So I might go Turkey hunting in May 2014...Any pics or vids I do, would then get used in Mar/Apr 2015.

Forums.
Basically ( I suspect/beleive) it comes down to, for lack of better words. Walking the talk, be safe, be legal at all times.

Back to Thomas Pidgeon.
He was tarred and feathered..."Its all about the money shot".
Henry and Italo...Filming OOS

Hunter Orange
Would it be acceptable/ok to for the magazine, or here on the forums to show pics of people hunting without hunter Orange? Would it be ok/acceptable in the mag, or here, to have pics of harvested game that haven't been tagged? The law says to tag them "immediately".

While there are different seasons and Bass is open in NWO, closed in S Ont. The magazine and the forums, have to

Walk the talk..
Pics of fish that are OOS.....
Pics of BG that haven't been tagged....
Pics of guys not wearing Orange....

[Roe+]

Well boys where I fish we have no Bass, and truthfully that is a blessing, they take no time at all to be the dominant fish in a lake.

When I had a few guys, from this board, up fishing, they wanted to go for Pike. So off we go, to the shallows and rock ledges, throwing spinners for them. I am not sure how you fish for early Pike down south, but what you guys are talking about is how we fish for Pike up here.

That's how we were fishing for them in Wollaston Lake last Sunday and went 3 for 6 with my wife losing one after it bit through a 40# fluorocarbon leader. Not one bass, in a lake that has both largies and smallies.

Pike are post spawn right now and the shallows is where you find them. End of story.

Roe+

[B Wilson]

Pat the Bass in The Northern States face the same conditions as ours. The Bass in Minnesota are even more north then us and they're still fine. Anyone who has ever fished for Bass during the Spring will tell you that we don't target the smaller males. Plus both males and females are on the bed. The females roam 3-6 ft away from their beds.

Every year there is a nest at the end of my dock. Every year the big female comes and spreads here eggs. Every year the smaller male stays on the nest. Every year I never see the female again after she has spread the eggs. This has been going on for years. My lake is so clear that I can see 50 feet in all directions.

Females do not stay on the nest.

I am sure Werner has the same observations over on his side of the lake.

[seabast]

I guess I do take it personally - I live on a small lake which has some nice large and smallmouth bass. Every year there are people fishing the shallows where the bass nest...and I know from 10 years of fishing the lake that you won't be catching pike there. Why should most of the fishermen wait for bass season to open while a few guys go out and pull the bass of their nests?

There are lots of places to fish for pike and rockbass that won't lead to very many incidental bass catches. Why not fish there instead until bass season opens.

It's not a case of if you're catching more pike than bass then its okay. If you're catching any bass, you should be moving on.

It's not a case of simply releasing OOS bass you catch, its doing your best to avoid catching them in the first place.

What I do see from the discussion related to OOS bass is that there are lot of people who don't think the laws apply to them w.r.t. avoiding bass before the season opens - which makes the number of people I see out on the lakes catching OOS bass a lot more understandable.

So who is making the rules now?
There is no rule that says you have to avoid bass! I fished for lake trout two weeks ago between 5 and 15 fow on lake Jo, we caught 9 bass and 4 trouts in two hours. Why would I go anywhere else to catch trouts? I'm not breaking any rules!
It seems like you have some kind of passion for bass but for may peoples, including myself, they are a nuisance. I respect the rules, I throw them back asap but there is no need to be so upset about it. As far as I know they are not endanger, are they?
Seabast

[Rugger]

The point has been made.
Things are getting a little too personal.
Till next year...