*NEW* Fun Poll - Thur Sept 23

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Which of the following fish is not a warm water gamefish in Ontario.

Ling
13
22%
Carp
2
3%
Whitefish
22
37%
Bowfin
8
13%
Black Crappie
0
No votes
White Crappie
9
15%
Northern Pike
6
10%
 
Total votes: 60

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*NEW* Fun Poll - Thur Sept 23

Post by Markus »

*Sorry, I had to delete my last poll...I mistakenly said "width"when it should have read "circumference". So...A new poll.

Which of the following fish is not a warm water gamefish in Ontario.

Don't scroll down or look it up! Vote now.
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Post by wolfe »

OK, Markus.

I've never heard of a ling, so that would seem too obvious. So I am voting for white crappie.

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I think Whitefish.......
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Post by M.T. Livewell »

I gotta say ling, only cause i don't really know what they are.

If this is a trick question, I'd say pike cause they prefer cooler waters.

Markus, my brain hurts. Got any spinnerbait questions. :cry:

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Post by Canadian Bacon »

Markus, my brain hurts. Got any spinnerbait questions.
When shouldn't you toss spinner baits???...LOL
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Post by Squib »

Im thinking that the "gamefish" is the key, so I go with bowfin, yup we have em, but I don't think they are considerd a "gamefish".
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Post by Bobber »

Marcus,

I love this trivia poll thing. Perhaps we can do some real cool stuff with it....ohhhh there goes my head again. We can chat about it to make it something permanent. :lol:
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Post by big-o »

Geeeeezzzz Marcus....I had to guess again....I thought I was up on these type of Questions :? :oops: so far I'm batting 1000....all Wrong :x ....keep up the good work :D
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bobber just add another post-it note to the inside of fish-hawks garage :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by Brad »

I think White fish as well
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Post by Markus »

Well the answer is Whitefish.

But there is some grey area with this question. Thanks to Sam for bringing a second species classification chart to my attention. Both charts were issued by the MNR. One chart is broken into warm and cold water species. The other chart is broken into warm, cool and cold. Futher categories was fine. The cool water species on his chart were in fact all in the warm water on my chart. The odd thing was that on my chart, ling (also called Burbot) was listed as warm and on his it was listed as Cold.

So in fairness, anyone who voted for Ling...your are correct as well. :P
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I feel so ashamed :oops:

Learn something every day. These are great Markus!
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My buddy caught a ling last winter at our ice shack on the Mississippi in 8' of water. It was odd to say the least. We'd always herd some of the "well seasoned" (old timers) talking about ling in the Miss but never really believed it since they usually hide out in the depths with lakers.

Talk about an ugly fish. Just picture an eel tail mounted on a catfish head.
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Post by slushpuppy »

Markus wrote:
So in fairness, anyone who voted for Ling...your are correct as well. :P
Phew! :o didn't want to mess up my perfect record. :wink: :)
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Post by Misses Livewell »

i knew what a ling was, i knew, we used catch 'bar-butts' (that's how we thought it sounded) with my uncle when we were kids! he would put them in the tub and let us play with them. we forgot them in the tub once..... i don't think my aunt ever recovered!! ahahahaahahahaah :lol:

i have no clue what's cold or warm species, and i'm not sure what makes a fish "cool", but i'm really learning alot from these polls.
yay marcus!! :wink:


ps. they may be ugly, but they tasted great hot off the Hibatchi!!!
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