Ranking of major fishing gear suppliers in Southern Ontario

[MuskieBait]

(02-05-2013 11:36 PM)Giuga10 Wrote:  

(02-05-2013 10:43 PM)MichaelAngelo Wrote:  I do support my local tackle shop through my constant bait purchases. I wouldn't say that they're "family run" though. Jeremy, anywhere besides Bass City to buy bait in Markham?

Petsmart? In all seriousness though you could probably use the crickets, feeder goldfish and minnows, and the wax worms for bait.

Giuga10

Please do NOT use feeder goldfish or any aquarium fish as bait. The Ontario MNR made this illegal for two reasons.

1) It introduces exotic species to our waterways
2) It introduces exotic bacteria, virus and parasites to our waterways.

If people start using feeder goldfish as bait, I have no choice but to introduce Northern Snakehead to our waterways to control the exploding goldfish populations.

No, seriously, no feeder goldfish!!! That's how someone ruined a favourite childhood lake of mine...used to have 2-3lb largemouth and smallmouth bass in the lake and you can catch them pretty easily...until someone introduced goldfish into the lake. For a few years, all you would see were these 2" goldfish and 3" stunted bullheads...

Not sure what happened after, but the lake is now slowly recovering. At least to the point where I didn't get pestered by tiny bullheads on every cast and there were actually three species of sunfish in the lake (Pumpkinseed, Bluegill, and a couple of surprise Green Sunfish! I've fished the lake for over 15 years and this was the first time I caught Green Sunfish there!)

Too bad the good ole days of big bass, big rockbass, big perch and crappie galore were gone...

DO NOT INTRODUCE GOLDFISH!