tbayboy

What a great way to spend time with your daughter - maybe next time she'll let you win

Sweet tiger and a nice smallie too. Congratgs!

Congratulations on the largie. Sounds like a fun day.

Hahah, you guys sure have fun out there don't ya

Hey Cliff, nice bass there. Sucks to here about the launch incident - we had a crazy busy landing as well but luckily no boat bashing. Enjoy the fireworks and don't let it get to you.

Sounds like a nice morning to me, couple nice fish for sure.

Sounds like a fun tournament Steve. Figured it wouldn't be long til we saw you holding some smallies

Couple nice bass there Steelcat , sounds like a great day on Rice except for the typical inconsiderate guys - always has to be one

Very cool. Mepps is becoming a regular Canadian fishing cover boy

Very cool Weeds. I've just been converted to a suick fan myself. Lets see that crummy pic !!!

Very cool report - we've all done that "test fish" first pose

Don't worry Johnny - we're going back tomorrow and I'm hitting BPS and/or Lebarons tonight to make sure I can even the score. Also going to try to "accidentally" drop his super lure while we're flying along rooster tailing it in the boat

Wonderful report TJ. So cool to see all these reports showing camp Jiggy Jiggy from a patch of trees on the shore to this wonderful family vacation. And congrats to Monique on landing that pike - I think that's where all your walleye have gone

Hey Forest, sounds like you go t a nice mix. Was surprised we didn't see any smallies but maybe next time. We almost got off the lake in time - rain started just as Mike was backing the trailer into the water. Lot of boats behind us though got pretty damned wet I'm sure

Ok weak title but luckly thats the worse part of the day Mikeh and I had today. Started at Mikes house at 6am and by 6:45 we were near Port Perry - at least we think we were... <a href=" title="Foggy Morning by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2622112551_2c129fe0af_b.jpg"'>http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2622112551_2c129fe0af_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Foggy Morning" /></a> Nice foggy start to the morning. Once we got to the water however the fog had lifted and it was actually a pretty nice morning - overcast but no rain. We headed to our first spot and we both put on top waters. Why topwater? Well beside being just about the most fun you can have fishing its the easiest way to deal with Scugog: <a href=" title="Can anything be in there by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2622124513_c5786597f0_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Can anything be in there" /></a> Sometimes its hard to believe how many fish are lying below there but 3 casts in with his new lure (more on that later) and Mike gets the skunk off the boat and the Bass season started <a href=" title="3 casts in by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3073/2622939304_6496ce1a11_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="3 casts in" /></a> That lure is a white X-Rap Walk 13. Do yourself a favour and just go buy one now. That lure put a beating on the Bog today. All day long that thing was getting hits. Largies and Muskies both (though someone missed the hookset on the Muskie - not pointing fingers but I didn't have one of those lures..... ) Actually I shouldn't say anything as my topwater form was way off - I probably missed more than I got. I think Mike was getting sick of seeing me jumping up and down on the back of his boat swearing at myself . Luckily the fish were pretty aggresive and the firetiger skitter pop produced my first bass of the year <a href=" title="Skitter prop bass by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2622115091_365102616f_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Skitter prop bass" /></a> You see I WANTED to use my x-rap walk but someone left it in his pike box at home ..... So I was mixing up all day trying to compete with Mike and the magic horseshoe up its behind super bait but nothing compared. Even when trying for Muskie I got downsized <a href=" title="Big bait big fish? by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3143/2622116783_26a94ffb2b_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Big bait big fish?" /></a> Meanwhile Mike just kept plugging along <a href=" title="Another Xrap Walk Largie by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3248/2622118093_9ab4022acb_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Another Xrap Walk Largie" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emosworld/2622945144/" title="Come to daddy by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3245/2622945144_a5402a8383_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Come to daddy" /></a> <a href=" title="Mike with another by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2622120865_330aeed36b_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Mike with another" /></a> Not that I wasn't pulling in my fair share of the real lunkers <a href=" title="whos your daddy! by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3029/2622947812_ecceefa068_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="whos your daddy!" /></a> Took a bit of a break to admire the herons - they seem to be doing well this year, seeing lots of them wherever I go <a href=" title="Scugog Heron in flight by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3257/2622123163_2bf530373e_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Scugog Heron in flight" /></a> In the meantime guess what Mike's doing <a href=" title="Yep, the largies like the weeds by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3125/2622951762_f0dc4798f1_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Yep, the largies like the weeds" /></a> We moved away for a while to try trolling for some muskies but it didn't take long before we got the itch so we went back for one last trip to where we started the day. Of course guess what lure Mike ties back on .. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emosworld/2622127353/" title="Xrap Walk yet again by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2622127353_bcde0e153d_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Xrap Walk yet again" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emosworld/2622954310/" title="One more for the show by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com /3055/2622954310_1267a0c9f0_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="One more for the show" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emosworld/2622955432/" title="Ole Bucket Mouth by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3228/2622955432_825e974f65_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Ole Bucket Mouth" /></a> The last was the biggest of the day - nice big mouth but thin, they were all like that, big mouth empty stomach. When she came in we could see some nasty weather blowing our way and heard our first thunder boom so we called it a day and headed for the launch. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emosworld/2622956544/" title="Time to leave by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3030/2622956544_b2037d4198_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Time to leave" /></a> Couldn't have timed it much better. Well ok if we'd left 5 minutes earlier we would have stayed totally dry but compared to the guys in line to get off the water behind us I think we got off easy <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emosworld/2622957670/" title="Got out just in time by Sean Maurik, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3007/2622957670_1b0b5f0298_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Got out just in time" /></a> All in all a fun day. I have to get back into topwater form (wait for the feel of the fish you stupid rookie!!) and I need to find my X-Rap walk and then I'll show Mike how to fish the Bog (I'd better cause I won't be able to use the - 'I don't have that good bait' excuse ) Take care everyone Sean

Nice stuff, love that picture of Manna resting her head on the Shippers knee.

Nice looking fish guys, sounds like a fun day flipping. Sucks to here about the carp again though

Wonderful report Joey, some really great pictures there.

Congratulations, the super pimped toon strikes again. Sounds like a great morning to me.

Good on you Brian and everyone else involved. Great to see kids getting out - I can't imagine I'd have ever finished my schooling if someone had put me in a bass boat at a young age and then sent me home with a rod, reel and a tent

Nice job Mike. Glad to see those worked for you.

Damn, how'd I miss that. Is there anything that boat can't do?

Congrats. Nice collection of smallies there for sure.

Left the house at 6 in a torrential downpour with lightning and thunder - got to Kitchener and it didn't rain a drop. Too bad the Grand had turned into a chocolote milk highway. Ah well. The weekend isn't over yet.

Congrats!