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Winds were ripping yesterday, so muskie fishing was a definite no. Decided to see what all the fuss was about on Simcoe. Winds weren't bad until later in the day, got into a few footballs.

Very nice, wish I was there. Some very good scrappers I'm sure. It's nice to see some small mouth pics for a change and decent ones at that. Thank you.

Just with the talk of Bronte...I thought there might be some confusion. I'll be walking my dog down there today...I'll see if your post brings out the hordes to give it a try...lol

You should know...it's Oakville. If you were launching your tinnie, they'd probably slap cuffs on you. But if you were launching your half million $$$ Beneteau, they'd roll out the red carpet...lol. Seriously though, I launch my canoe at the dead end past the gazebo...to their credit, they do leave that one dock in fairly late into the season. Yeah, the pup is getting a little grey in the muzzle...although at 8 years old she still has great nose for Grouse....

that has and will always be one of my favorite spots on Bronte creek

Yeah, haven't we all LOL

You always seem to get into nice fish Bill no matter what species your chasing.

You can still fish the west pier at Bronte...now that the Salmon crowd is gone, Mark and Richard are pretty well the only daily regulars. Joe goes out with his little catamaran to fish north of Lakeshore as it's no longer a sanctuary. BTW, those coordinates are for 16 Mile...

I hope to have this first one off prototype (third attempt) completed in the next few days then assembled on to the rod in the coming days, fingers crossed. Stay tuned for the reveal, soon I hope ........ 😉

I heard about the Ban I can guarantee you I will fish from shore if I do ever come back that way in the summer. Ill take the hit for it as, an OG Brontonian its my heritage right, %&$*em ! the picture is in the cove between the ramp and the bridge on the ice you can still slide in with the boat yes trout in july there has been a couple good runs over the years So where does Joe and Smitty and the Newfie fish now???? Cheers Peter

New Terrova definitely has better spot lock then my older motor. However you can upgrade the old models to the new Bluetooth setups (New head, GPS, etc) That will give you all the features of the new motor without having to shell out the entire cost of a new motor.

A true artist, very nice Chris

I live a stones throw away from that spot. Unfortunately the town basically banned fishing from shore in the harbour...you can only fish from August to November between 9 pm and 12am. An elderly lady was walking her dog on the pier, and got a hook in her eye with some idiot's backcast. So...town council over-reacted and just shut it all down. It was the last straw for the town, as the clowns during Salmon season were leaving behinds piles of garbage and there were numerous pic's in the local paper of waterfowl tangled in fishing line. But yeah, I've been in town over 50 years...I've pulled plenty of 40" + Shovelheads out of there over the years after ice out...along with piggy Bronzebacks in early summer. We would even occasionly have a prolific mid-summer Steelhead bite off the pier, when a few days of a strong north wind would allow cold water to up-well close to shore. Oh BTW, docks and boats are still mostly in the water...town employees were on strike and just settled on the weekend.

The spotlock is certainly better on the newer trolling motors. in fact I’d argue the spot lock on the new terrova is the best I have used. It’s better than my Garmin force’s I’ve used both models I had a Gen one iPilot on my old boat and have now used the Gen two on my dads boat and it’s certainly way better

Bill My Terrova is the same vintage as yours. The present Terrova has many hours on it, But it is still working good. I also don't like all the Ulterra stories but then you get users like Simon and Cowman's buddy I am going to look into a new Terrova in the spring. The availability will be the issue I bought the current one at Radio World but at this time they have no stock.

I've had a Terrova for 7 years...not a single issue, except periodically pulling out my grandkids fishing line from behind the prop... My buddy had a boat with a Ulterra for 10 ys +, never had a problem. He sold that boat last year, and bought a new boat which happened to have a Terrova (36V...it's heavy). He just turned 69...after a season of hauling it up by hand, he's now talking about selling the Terrova and getting another Ulterra.

I can't eat fish, allergic....

Nope...not a single soul today at those coordinates....so much for the theory that social media/internet burns fishing spots....lol However, over at Bronte I found a net strung across the creek...bank to bank. Spoke to a fella at Parks & Rec down there, and apparently it's a survey net. Halton Conservation is trying to determine if there's any Pugnose Shiners (endangered species) in the creek. Yeah, I scratched my head on that one. Not a great time of year to do it, as I would think it could potentially interfere with the migration of trout and Salmon. Hopefully no harm, as it's only being deployed for a week or so. That being said, there's really not anywhere for them to go until we get some rain. The creek upstream is only ankle deep.

Ya, I've been wondering that for years now..... lol Geeeez, those were the days. Last I was there in late fall to launch (Bronte) they had the ramp blocked off, pricks.