Ontario Shore Fishing Forum

Just stumbled upon this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0X6m1ko4JA

From uncut angling:

Three teams of fierce multi species anglers compete for an entire weekend, from early Saturday morning to Sunday sundown (39 consecutive hours), from thousands of miles apart, in the least contained and most closely documented fishing competition...ever? The longest fish of every species is worth one point, and all techniques are fair game. Next episode released right here on January 11th, 2016. Presented by Travel Manitoba.
Team Shimano is Paul Castellano & Taro Murata.
http://Fish.Shimano.com/
http://www.CastAdventures.ca/
http://www.TaroMurata.com/
Team Manitoba is Aaron Wiebe & Manny Milas.
http://www.HuntFishManitoba.com/
Team Saskatchewan is Adam Konrad & Sean Konrad.
http://www.TourismSaskatchewan.com/
http://www.FishingGeeks.net/

Meh...

When you have a 12" minimum rule, you are then only fishing for species that are big enough for most viewers to care or get excited about.

I lost quite a bit of interest from the start simply with the 12" minimum rule.

Then a Tiger Trout was counted as a species. Scientifically, it is NOT a species. It's a hybrid. It does not count as a Brook Trout nor a Brown Trout, because it is neither. It is completely flawed when a hybrid is counted. It is multi SPECIES, not multi genetically-variable-animal, competition.

As soon as I saw that, I didn't care for it anymore.

Yes, I am quite critical about it. If you use the word species, make sure you are true to the definition. It makes people who are just a bit more biology literate puke.

Yeah I'm leaning towards Ken's perspective on this. Although I might be inclined to allow NATURAL tiger muskies and splake simply because they are extremely rare and occur naturally. Tiger trout, spar, etc don't occur outside of hatcheries as far as I know.
Having said that, It's a pretty intense competition they have going

Looks like a fun promo thing to me.

Enjoy it.

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most times......... but opinions vary.............



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(01-06-2016 07:21 PM)MuskieBait Wrote: [ -> ]If you use the word species, make sure you are true to the definition. It makes people who are just a bit more biology literate puke.

Do you puke when you crack open the fishing regs summary?

...or Fish ON-Line?


Sorry, just had to Nah I agree with you about the other contest, it's obviously not about multispecies fishing the way we use the term on this forum, it's just a size-based fishing derby for multiple (conventional game) species.

The use in the regs...

Species - Crappie or Sunfish or Pacific Salmon: The use of Species as a heading in that case, is completely correct. It is referring to Crappie species (2), Sunfish species (actually there are as many 5, with the Warmouth as an SAR) and Pacific Salmon species (3). Nothing is wrong with that.

Yes, technically, a Splake is not a species.

(01-07-2016 04:37 PM)tweedwolfscream Wrote: [ -> ]

(01-06-2016 07:21 PM)MuskieBait Wrote: [ -> ]If you use the word species, make sure you are true to the definition. It makes people who are just a bit more biology literate puke.

Do you puke when you crack open the fishing regs summary?

He does. I've seen it.