mike hagan

Hi All. Heading down to Florida next week and i,m renting a boat from holiday park in the everglades.Going for large mouth but not sure of the structure to look for or what works down there.Any help would be great will post pics when I get back. Thanks.

Thanks for all your help everybody. Will check out Steve M . Off to do some late Muskie fishing tomorrow . anyone else going out.

If i go for bass it will be on lake O . The only guides i've seen are Haughunters not sure of the rep or the quality of the guides.Been talking to the office and offered me brett Isackson???

That would be great but I forgot to say I just have one day to fish.

Hi All. Will be heading to Fort Lauderdale in late December and early Jan. I have a delemma on hand and was hoping you could make up my mind on what to fish for. I know a lot of you are Bass fisherman out there so this survey might sway towards bass. But I mostly fish for bass here in Ontario and love every chance I get to land that trophy bass ,but the biggest one i've caught is just over 6 lbs. I know in fort lauderdale the chance of catching a 10 lb is good and would be a once in a lifetime to land one of these monsters. But I have always wanted to hook into a monster Tarpon and will never have that chance in Ontario. So what would you suggest , Monster bass or Tarpon. If you have any knowledge of Fort Lauderdale it would be a great help in influencing my decision. I will be hiring a guide so if you know of any quality guides in the area with numbers or emails would be great so I can discuss with them personally. I look forward to your reply and thank you in advance for all you suggestions.

Well went out to couch last week and found the fishing to be a little tough. Bigger lake that I remembered. and the waters were rough. Found it hard to stay on locations with the wind blowing so went searching for calmer waters . Didn't matter what side I was on because even the calmer side was still swerling the boat around. But managed to land a few nice ones plus one tagged fished from the MNR. Located most just on the inside of the pencil reeds going out to deeper water. and the biggest one on a pile of cribs that produced a couple. Tried deeper water for the smallies but didnt have much luck .Just a couple of small ones.

Spent a couple of days camping on Cold lake off of Gold lake. Weather was unbearablly hot and fishing was hard . But managed to boat three 5 lbs. and a few smaller ones . Overall not a bad couple days of fishing.Want to go back when the weather is a more favrabitle time.Looks like this lake could pull out some monsters.

Just picked up a new spinning reel fro BPS and noticed the gear ratio of 4.7-1 This is a slower reel than i usually use,and not sure what you you match it up with rod and bait. Any help?

Hello all. Will be heading out of pickering today and was hoping some one might help in directing me into what to use. Will be fishinglake ontaio for salmon /trout and not sure where to go depth lure ect. Any info would be a great help since I'm just trying this for the first time this year. Havent had much success in previous years eather so any info. will help. Thanks in advance.

Thanks guys . wonderful info. All I have to do is catch them now.

I need a lot of help in technics and equipment to use when fishing for bone fish. Will be heading to Exuma in late December and would like to try some fishing for bone fish. Never used a fly rod before so if I can get around without using one would be good 1.What type of equipment should I bring .can you use spinning reels or do you have to use a fly. 2.Type of bait to use ,flies,small cranks ect. 3.Fishing from a boat or kayak,or walking the flats. 4.Any particular spots I should be targeting. 5.Best time of day to fish. 6.Will be staying near Moriah harbour but I believe this is a marine sanctuary,if anyone knows this area can I fish this area or do you know where in this area you can fish.I hear out near the bridge that goes to little Exuma is good. 7.Can you eat bone fish. Any information would be greatly appreciate , thank you in advance a good fishing.

Nice hawgs . My fishing buddy hooked me onto that lake a couple of years ago,and have been going at least a couple of times a year.The river that goes up to OLA is quite good in certain location ,but I find more big boys up in the backbays between Limerick and Mephisto.Pulled some really nice ones out this year . Pic. of my fishing buddies son on this huge bucketmouth on the backlakes. He was so happy he caught it.had to help him hold it up for the shot. If you are going back up there PM me and will give you some locations.

I'm surprised to here that. I use a Okuma Nemesis with St. Croix Triumph for the last 3 years and is my favorite rod /reel combination. And have never had any problems with it. Sorry to hear the service /warr. sucks on it but would defiantly buy another,and hope nothing goes wrong with it.

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Well just got back from Wadsworth lake and to my surprise was a excellent bass lake. After posting last week for any info. on this lake and was discourage with what was reported on the fishing on the lake . Average fishing not much size,Try another lake,was going to drink a lot of beer. Well all I know is this lake was awesome.It felt like a fly-in a couple of years ago .That it did not matter what you tossed in, they where just bitting. Arrived mid afternoon Sat. and launched the boat.told the wife I will be back in a couple of hours . Had to try the lake out ,came back 2 hrs later and only had a couple of foot longs to show for it. Looked like the reports where dead on. Sat back and drank beer the rest of the night contemplating stragies for the next few day. Got up early morning and trolled out to a flat in the middle of the lake with good weed line .first cast. hooked into this injured fish.looks like a prop. might of skinned him nice size though 2.5 lbs. Next cast in another one 2 lb smallie. went on a six cast six fish streak in one spot. Average size fish was in the 1.5 lb to 2 lb size. On the first day I'm guessing over 50 fish no lies.Granted most where foot longs but catching 4 to 5 in a row on numerous locations was a blast. Started trolling back around 8pm and hooked two nice ones just out side of the cottage . Headed out the next morning and typical the same results just finding more locations that are holding the bass. Dumb dog thinks there fishicles.has to lick the fish for some reason. Day three we decided to portage the aluminum up to the north end lake ,a little ,no cottage lake with tons of bass ,again didn't matter ever second cast there was a fish on.was starting to get really boring. On the way back the daughter hooked a nice one . Then came back a chilled on the dock. Well seems like I ran out of upload space so I will add another reply to post picks. Well after getting bored of catching fish on that lake we decided to try beaver creek just up the road from us that feeds into steenburg lake and limerick.Great fishing there two and nice scenery with a couple of portages over some falls . All in all this is a great bass fishing lake most fish were caught in 10-14 fow. average depth 18 fow deepest spot I could find was 25 fow. Best record on the lake 12 cast 12 fish .was lots of fun. Nice sharp drop offs by the shore line with many different structures about 20 flats with heavy weed lines. Small lake don't need a big boat can fish the lake in one day but may take longer finding the locations . A canoe would be ideal to portage the north lake ,limited camping location. Weird things that happened when we where there. 1. cruising the lake we came across a seagull in the water when we got close the bird it just barely moved away from the boat ,but it dint seem to be scared when we got close so we just keep on going .Came back the next morning and the bird was in the same location,so knowing this bird was stuck ,strapped on the gloves and pulled up beside it. it had a crank bait hooked into both feet with the line snagged to the bottom.Cut the line and pulled the hooks out and set it free . 2.Driving down this dirt road and a hawk came flying out of the bush with a big game in its claws ,flew 10 feet in front of the truck window high and drops it prey right on the road. right in front of the truck.It was another hawk about the same size, that was just weird. a truck was coming the other way and we both stopped and talked about what we just saw. 3.After coming back from a canoe trip up beaver creek.the daughter says she sees a snake. thinking nothing of it I start loading the canoe into the truck.She brings back two snakes one in each hand 1 Gardner snake around 3 ft long and 1 water snake 4 ft long.don't know if the bite but get them away from me.Crazy kid.