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No...sold that place 10 years ago and bought a place on Crow/Bobs Lake in Eastern Ontario. My wife would spend the summers on the island...she can drive a boat, but was always worried that if there was an emergency and it was stormy or at night she wouldn't make it to back to the marina. As you know, lots of boating hazards in that area. So...we bought a "drive to" cottage on the same lake as my family had a cottage on back in the 80's. Yeah, the world record Ken Bailey fish was caught at Blackstone. In my time there, I saw some that were probably almost as big....always got my knees shaking when you see one of those monsters...getting them to bite is a different story. My best success was with silver Bulldawgs in the deeper channels around the outer islands in late fall. Whitefish would stack up with big hooks on the sonar mixed in.

Front eye shallow....rear eye deep.

Closer to the front end or the back end. lol

asking a fisherman "which is the best jet ski to buy" is like asking if they would rather have a punch in the face or a swift kick in the gonads

As you can see from a chart there are literally 100's of offshore reefs out there. Some are absolutely loaded with Smallies, some are barren of fish. The best reefs top out in 10 to 15 fow, have broken rock (not smooth) and ideally have some sparse weed growth on top. If you find one with boulders from softball to basketball size, you've hit the jackpot. Best approach is to map out a bunch of them, pick a flat day, and then run 'n' gun. You'll know within 5 minutes if it's a productive reef. Once you develop a milk run...it's easy pickn's. Top water bite usually peaks with the "frog migration" later in September when the water cools a bit...and the SM come back into the shallows for awhile. That being said, there always seems to be a few eager ones willing to slurp something off the surface in the morning or at dusk, regardless of the calendar. Sometimes, in the middle of summer right at sunset I've caught them on topwaters in over 70+ fow. Packs of Smallies will drive Cisco/Shiners/Shad to the surface. It's almost like saltwater fishing...you'll often see a bunch of Seagulls and Terns swooping down as the baitfish boil, jump and scatter on the surface...with the Bass underneath.

Thanks for the words fellas. Muskie definitely are a tough go in Woods. I raised probably the biggest muskie I've ever seen in Blackstone last year, one of those fish that just stuns you. I completely stopped reeling and just stared at it. It didn't come in super hot, so who knows if I could have figured 8'd her but man, there are some great genetics swimming out there that's for sure. Crowman, she was close to Wahsoune I'm sure you've probably tossed a cast at this spot once or twice in those 12 years you no longer up there?

Nice...thanks for the report. Yeah...that area is a Smallmouth factory. I had a cottage on Wahsoune Island for 12 years. Kept my boat with Chris at Moon River Marina. There was an offshore reef that I had waypointed on my GPS...maybe half an acre across and topping out at 10 ft (during the low water years). Most people would just fly by it. I once made a bet with my buddy that was visting for the weekend that I could catch 10 Smallies on 10 casts...I ended up at 17 before I finally made a cast without a fish. Musky were a tough bite in summer, but come November they would set up in some of the outer passes chowing on spawning Whitefish...still few and far between but yeah some of the thickest fish I've ever seen...

Well done Bill. Love the Moon. Spend lots of time here and have the smallies dialed in (more so in Iron City Bay up to Sharpe Island and into Moon Bay). Good job on raising the ski, they are a rare sight on the Moon but when you do see one they are big! My PB for the area is a 47 but easily the fattest I’ve ever had. Didn’t get a girth measurement as I usually just get a quick length and put ‘em back asap. Good luck hunting it down when you go back. Reef

Yes it seems like there's not many or is it just the idiots that stick out in our minds? What about the bass, walleye, and musky boats that are bosting 300+ hp motors. That blast off from the dock (not talking tournament) to get to their fishing fields; is that OK? I cannot count the number of times out on Long Point Bay; that I've been drift fishing in my 16 foot tiller. Only to see a fully decked out (downriggers, plainer board mast, ect.) boat hurdling towards me and zooms by at 3-4 hundred yards away from me? Lets not even go there that on plain there's less wake. When the wake takes me from drifting to bottom bouncing that's a bit much. Is that OK cause they have a fishing rod in their hand? All I'm saying is that there are all kinds of idiots (me included) out there, regardless. Hey Billy Bob I just put an different engine in my car. Want ta go for a rip and see what she'll do. Yea that was me, loved street racing; that's until my first child was born. Dan...

I’ve registered a few trailers as homemade. It’s pretty easy with small trailers. I’ve also slapped on old plate on with zip ties To bring a new boat or trailer home on several occasions. The odds you’ll get pinched are very slim. I’d wager 20 percent of trailers aren’t properly licensed, maybe more. Anyway as the guys above mentioned It really shouldn’t be very hard to do.