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This article focuses on the narration by the author on his fishing experiences on Lake Couchiching in Ontario. He says "I suspect most Ontario fishers got their start with 'panfish' and then move on to bigger quarry. Perch have become mainstream. Even seasoned anglers are getting swept up in a craze to catch jumbos topping one pound. Simple gear still lakes them, at times, but improved ultralight tackle and tiny artificial lures that rival real bait have added more challenge and interest to the pursuit. While residents and businesses in all these areas claim they have the best perch fishing, the Ministry of Natural Resources' angler diary programme shows the highest catch rates are in deeper mid-lake water, a huge area accessible from just about any marina around the lake. INSET: PERCH HOTSPOTS.

Focuses on the characteristics of eutrophic lakes in Ontario. Concept of eutrophic lakes; Advantages of fishing in eutrophic lakes; Presence of walleye fishes; Habitat and behavior of walleyes.

The article presents the various differences and significant similarities between the electrical sector of the U.S. and Canada in terms of its overall size, marketing groups and structure. It mentions that unlike the U.S., Canada will be stepping lightly on consolidations. It relates that both countries have associations for agents in the electrical market.

The article discusses the author's experience during ice fishing in Ontario, Canada. He saw a female polar bear which approached their site and suddenly grabbed a sweet potato and backed into the water. From that moment on his vicious polar bear image is forever shattered. He was fishing the whole day and able to catch a smorgasbord of fish. With two days of traveling and fishing, he imply that if one wants to go ice fishing, one should stay a little longer to have a good catch.

Presents the writer's account of a walleye fishing expedition to the French River where it exits into the Georgian Bay at night. Description of the course followed by the French river; Historic and present day significance of the river; Types of fish inhabiting the region.

Focuses on the availability of fishing rods, reels and lines for catching walleye fishes in Ontario. Physical description; Considerations in selecting rods, reels and baits for fishing; Types of lines used for fishing.

Focuses on the different kinds of trouts in Ontario. Difference between trouts and salmon; Description of the habitat of the largest trout; Location of trouts.

The article offers information on the opportunities for Canadians to support worthy causes. The Prostate Cancer Canada (PCC) raises money for prostate cancer research by supporting the November Global Action Plan in November. The second annual Perchin for multiple sclerosis (MS) Fishing Derby is being held by Ontario's conservation officer Doug Poirier at Sibbald Point Provincial Park in March 2012 to support MS research, and Ontario's Family Fishing Weekend will be held in February 2012.

The article presents a discussion on the Federal rules of long gun registry in Canada, along with an introduction to few videos in the online version of the journal. The Bill C-19, under discussion seeks to do away with then list of long gun owners that the government keeps with itself, so as to protect the privacy of law abiding gun owners. Information is also provided about two videos, one on trailer bearings and one on trout fishing that are present in the online version of the journal.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses the switching of several issues of journal "Ontario Out of Doors" and winners of Outdoor Writers of Canada National Communications Awards.

The article focuses on the federal Conservatives winning a majority after the snap election held in Canada in May 2011. In northern Ontario, most MPs of the National Democratic Party (NDP) who changed their vote were re-elected. Newcomer Conservative Chris Alexander defeated three-term incumbent Mark Holland by more than 3,000 votes.

The article focuses on the Algonquin Land Claim for expanded reserves, land and resources in Canada. He states that the courts have declared that the First Nations get first dibs on fish and wildlife. He also states that the First Nations are in need of more land for continuing their heritage hunting and fishing lifestyles.

The author reflects on the issues related to the long gun registry, legislation requiring registration of all guns in Canada. He talks about the failure of Member of Parliament (MP) Candice Hoeppner's Bill C-391 to abolish the registry. The author says that registry supporters are promoting the misinformation that the long-gun registry saves lives, lowers gun crimes, prevents suicides and violence against women. He elaborates on the efforts of the Canadian Outdoor Network against the registry.

The article presents the author's opinion on natural resources conservation officers in Ontario and the Harmonized Sales Tax in Canada. He talks about how he enjoyed interacting with some conservation officers while fishing in Lake Simcoe in Ontario and thanks them for helping the fish and game population recover. The author also elaborates how the Harmonized Sales Tax will increase the cost of travelling to outdoor locations and cost of accommodation and negatively affect hunters and campers

The article focuses on the move of Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, to change the long-gun registry rules. The first move against the registry started in late winter with the tabling of the private member's bill C-301 that proposes to end the registry while streamlining Canada's firearms licensing system. Harper's appearance as the keynote speaker at a conference in Mississauga, Ontario led to public polls that leaned in favor of C-301 that resulted in the opposition changing stance.

The article presents the author's comments regarding the changes in the waterways act. He states that canoeist groups oppose that any reclassification of navigable waters that will impact on them. He says that a reasonable request was made for the waterway changes. He comments that with the bill almost a done deal, the Minister of Transport, Canada, can now give approval to waterways project without any further checks or environmental assessments.

The article reports on cormorant culling in Canada. The federal government received a go-ahead for a cormorant cull on western Lake Erie's Middle Island when a federal court denied animal-rights activists an injunction to stop it. Middle Island contains provincially rare vegetation and snakes and is an important area for other breeding birds. Nesting double-crested cormorants have caused a 41% loss of forest canopy on Middle Island.

The article offers the author's views on the winter report of Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS, Environment Canada) on proposed waterfowling regulation changes for the fall 2008. It states that the changes offer longer waterfowling seasons which will keep abundant resident birds in control. The author opines that the increased hunting and bag limits might boost the number of waterfowlers and migratory-bird permits sold each year, which means more money to conserve waterfowl and hunting heritage.

The author discusses the decisions made by the Canadian Liberal and Conservative party on issues related to outdoor recreation. He discusses the Liberals party's attempt to enact animal-cruelty bills against anglers and hunters. He says the Liberal party attempted to impose an unscientific ban on lead fishing tackle and change the explosive regulations and boater licensing systems. The author argues that Conservative party is ready to treat the community better than Liberal party.

The article presents information on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's move on the long-gun registry by law-abiding hunters and recreational shooters. The biggest challenge before Harper is to change a judicial system that continues to go easy on gun-toting punks. The article also focuses on the misuse of hunting guns by criminals.

This article reports that Ontario will let the Metis Nation of Ontario issue up to 1,250 harvester certificates permitting holders to fish and hunt outside of many regulations governing non-native anglers and hunters. The deal came as a result of a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada last September on a case dating back to 1993 when conservation officers seized a bull moose taken in the Sault Ste. Since then, talks had been going on between the Metis, people of mixed native and non-native ancestry, and the province to develop a method of legally identifying Metis based on shared customs, traditions, collective identity.

This article focuses on the closing of a trout fishery in Ontario. Anglers hoping to fish for Aurora trout in Wynn and Borealis Lakes when the season was to open on August 1, 2004 are out of luck. It will remained closed. The catch is that Aurora trout, an isolated strain of brook trout, come under the federal Species at Risk Act, passed last year. Ironically, the ministry has brought back Auroras from the brink of extinction. By the 1950s, acid rain had nearly wiped out Auroras from Whitepine and Whirligig, the only lakes these fish were known to inhabit naturally.

The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has proposed changes to the Lake Simcoe fishing regulations. Whitefish seasons and limits in adjoining tributaries would fall in line with Simcoe rules to make enforcement easier. The lake's muskie angling season might also be closed. Once abundant, muskie declined when competing pike invaded Simcoe in the 1920s and spawning areas in Cook Bay's Holland River and marsh degraded from agricultural changes and runoff. According to a 2001 report by the MNR's lake assessment unit at Sibbald's Point, the most recent estimate of the spawning population in the Talbot was 8,152 in 1982, down from 10,000 to 15,000 in the mid-1970s.

A Cormorant cull at Presqu'ile Provincial Park was completed last month, despite attempts by environmentalists to stop it through a request to the Ministry of the Environment. Droppings from nesting cormorants have killed trees on High Bluff Island and vegetation on another island is in danger. Minister of Natural Resources David Ramsay told the Ontario Legislature the request was turned down because "scientific evidence has proven that a prompt decision was necessary." New York officials also culled cormorants this spring on Little Galloo Island in their part of eastern Lake Ontario.

Biologists are looking at Rice Lake, Ontario, in the lower part of the connected Kawartha chain, for answers to why walleye populations are dropping. As recently as 1999-2000, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) sample fall gill netting in Rice produced the highest catch rate of walleye in southern Ontario. MNR trap-netting this spring turned up only about 4 walleye per net set, down from 10 in 2001. The Fisheries Research Unit is working in partnership on the study with the MNR and other government agencies, Shimano, Fishing Forever Foundation, the Trent-Severn Waterway, aided with a $20,000 grant from the Canadian National Sportsmen's Shows.

Heeding a Great Lakes Fishery Commission emergency declaration that American eel numbers are down here and along the Atlantic seaboard, the Ontario government has banned commercial fishing for them in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. According to the Canadian Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Ontario's commercial eel harvest peaked at over 500,000 pounds in 1978, but fell to 30,000 pounds in 2003. Eels didn't even show up in MNR creel censuses last year on the Bay of Quinte, and only 84 were tallied in the Lake St. Francis portion of the St. Lawrence River.

David Anderson, minister of the environment, Canada, announced in late February that he will soon propose regulations to bring about an eventual prohibition on the import, manufacture, and sale of fishing sinkers and jigs containing lead. The use of lead sinkers and jigs weighing less than 50 grams (1.765 ounces) was first broached more than a decade ago, tied in to the ban on lead shot for hunting waterfowl that took effect in Canada in the late 1990s. Scientific evidence was strong that a buildup of lead pellets in popular hunting areas across North America was poisoning waterfowl that ingested it, but the case against lead fishing sinkers and jigs in Canada is weaker.

The article reports that, two yellow perch caught only a day apart in March 2003 are poised to break the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Big Fish Registry record for perch, a 2.25-pounder taken out of Lake Erie in June 1995. Wil Wegman of the Aurora Ministry of Natural Resources office, reports that John Delicata of Alcona caught a 2.35-pound perch on March 21, 2003 from Lake Simcoe in the Gilford area, a well known late-ice spot for giant yellows. Wegman, himself a perch fanatic, says that, unknown to Delicata, angler Dave Leslie had hauled out a 2.42-pound perch from the Long Beach area of Lake Erie the previous day.

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) plans to change angling regulations for yellow perch, crappie, and brown trout. This includes province-wide perch and crappie catch limits. Chris Brousseau, MNR senior fisheries biologist, says this is part of an on-going process to streamline and simplify the fishing regulations. According to draft proposals, although pointing out that perch and crappie are not overfished in most of the province, the MNR states restrictions are also "to place a value on the resource and to prevent overexploitation where necessary."

A Kawartha Highlands Signature Site bill was introduced by Ernie Eves through the Legislature in late June 2003. Bill 100 turns the 87,271-acre semi-wilderness near Apsley into a park that's exempt from Provincial Park Act rules that restrict activities such as hunting, trapping, baitfish harvesting and vehicle use. Greg Farrant, manager of government relations and communications for the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, said the new legislation expands on Minister of Natural Resources Jerry Ouellette's Recreation Reserve Act and still provides for a management structure outside the normal park process. The park designation does not apply to privately owned lands in the site. Hunting, fishing, trapping, snowmobiling and other vehicle use on pre-existing roads and trails will continue. Motorboat use on some lakes might be restricted when a management plan for the park is completed. Eves said an 11-person Management Advisory Board of stakeholders will be appointed to help with the plan. He also announced funding of more than six million dollars "to help build park infrastructure such as roads, signs, boat launches and recreational facilities such as trails and campsites." There are eight other signature sites in the province being considered for parks or other special protection.

Canada House of Commons passed a motion in June to accept two, change one, and reject two Senate amendments to Bill C-10B, the federal animal-cruelty legislation. A decade in the making, in various forms, it started as a popular government move to increase fines for cruelty to animals. Critics say it evolved into an open-worded bill that would have paved the way for animal-rights activists to challenge in court just about any use of animals.

Presents information about tourist related activities on the northwest tip of the Manitoulin Island in Ontario. Details of the facilities and accommodation provided at White Sea Resort and Charters in Meldrum Bay, Ontario; Contact address for reservations.

Focuses on the 2001 annual Lake Ontario report released by the Ministry of Natural Resources in Ontario. Issues put forth in the report; Estimation of the walleye population in the region during the winter season; Steps taken to ensure stability in the walleye population.

Reports on a four-pound chinook salmon fish caught by angler Ron Bennett from Lake Nipissing in Ontario on January 11, 2003. Origin of chipnook salmon fish; Areas crossed by chipnook salmon fishes to reach Lake Nipissing; Information about mature chinook fishes by Bennett.

Reports that the Police Association of Ontario (PAO) voted to continue supporting the federal firearms registry in a meeting held in Chatham, Ontario on February 3 and 4, 2003. Number of delegates who attended the meeting; Views of executive director of PAO Bruce Miller regarding the concept of registry of firearms; Increasing cost of firearms.

Reports on the formation of a joint venture under the North American Waterfowl Management Plan for gathering information on the biology, habitat and population of sea ducks in Ontario. Fall in Newfoundland eider ducks numbers as a result of the increase in population of sea ducks; Content of a report by the Sea Duck Joint Venture Management Plan on sea ducks; Species of sea ducks that breed or migrate through Ontario.

Reports on the provisions of a Canadian animal cruelty bill. Definition of an animal in the bill; Lack of protection in the bill for people who legitimately deals with animals; Recommendations of several groups on the provisions of the bill.

Announces the formation of a Nuisance-Bear Committee at the September 2002 Hunting and Outdoor Show in Missisauga, Ontario by the Ministry of Natural Resources of the state. Members of the committee; Purpose of the formation of the committee.

Focuses on a sign revealed on September 19, 2002 which honors people who contributed to the rehabilitation work by Ducks Unlimited Canada at Oshawa Second Marsh, Ontario.

Reports the reintroduction of Bill 135, the Heritage Hunting and Fishing Act in the Ontario Legislature in Canada. Overview of the bill; Failure of the Act to receive approval on the first reading; Benefits of the legislation.

Reports the dismissal by the court of appeal on the bear hunt challenge case in Ontario. Reaction of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters on the decision; Authority of Premier Mike Harris and Minister of Natural Resources John Snobelen on cancelling the bear hunt; Appeal on reinstating the bear hunt.

Focuses on the size limits of walleye anglers in Ontario. Measures to conserve walleyes; Decrease on the number of walleyes due to habitat changes and overfishing.

Focuses on the abundance of brown trout in the lakes of Ontario. Variations of brown trouts; Details on the habitat of lake browns; Characteristics of brown trouts.

Focuses on the abundance of rainbow trouts in the rivers of Ontario. Tactics pertaining to river fishing; Use of baits in fishing trouts; Guides in casting lures.

Reports on the proposed changes of fishing regulations in Ontario. Review of the muskie regulations; Changes in the regular angling licence of fishes; Retention of the muskie regulation under the conservation licence.

Reports the proposal of the Canadian Wildlife Service to reinstate a full regular hunting season in Ontario. Reason for reinstating the regular hunting season; Advantages of the proposal; Introduction of hunting restrictions along migration routes in 1994 and 1995.

Reports the release of wild pheasants in Lambton County, Ontario. Purpose of reintroducing the pheasants program; Keys in re-establishing wild turkeys in the area; Supporters of the pheasant reintroduction program.

Reports on the legislation of the Heritage Hunting and Fishing Act in Ontario. Denial on the vote for motion on the second and third reading of the bill; Importance of Bill 135 to the hunters; Public support for the bill.

Reports on the imposition plans of fishing ban by the Ministry of Natural Resources at Bay of Quinte in Ontario. Conservation measures on walleye fishery; Factors affecting the decrease in walleye fishes; Growth in spear and gill-net fishing.