Christopheraaron

 

They cruise those weedy flats and feed hard. Long casts from a distance. Next time you go (this time of year), assume they are there and approach with stealth. It's like fishing for stream brookies from a canoe...use your stealth and sneak up on them, they are hungry.

 

Was just wondering about the paddle... I find my 60" is a bit long but I like the 'beavertail' shape. My Dad's 57" suits me better with the beavertail.

Now that I think of it 35" is a little on the small side, it is a little over 50 I guess.

A small practically unfished lake near Hamilton? Did you make a deal with the devil? LOL!

 

Nice fish

I did say "let's say Hamilton", don't worry guys you aren't missing out on anything.

Not sure, I'd guess around 35" or so, good for standing and paddling when I want a better view. How would you target those shallow fish? They were certainly feeding, not just cruising but I couldn't carry a bait far without getting covered in weeds and frogs were spooking them, I'll probably try a wacky rig next time.

I got a tip at work last week about a lake up in lets say the Hamilton area about a small practically unfished lake teeming with big bass. Access looked to be very interesting, it appeared that the only way in was through a small feeder river that crossed a road upstream. But we thought what the hell and drove around to some of the cottages around the lake and ended up finding a proper launch (whether or not it was public I'm not sure)!

We get the canoe in the water and it's glass, minnows are boiling everywhere you turn and in the distance you can hear fish slurping on the surface. Tempted by the thought of a big largemouth on top I ditch my initial plan of covering water with a swimbait and go for a popper, 2 casts in and a small geyser erupts under my bait, it's game on! I fight it a short distance to the boat, look down, and it's a smallie! This is supposed to be a largemouth lake! Oh well, I guess I can live with it...

So I keep at it and after a good 20 minutes without any action I go back to the swimbaits, nothing. Until I see another school of minnows get busted by another big bass, on goes the skitterwalk. First cast an explosion just behind the bait, next cast a wake that follows the bait then turns into a boil that misses the bait my inches, followed again by a hard take.

After that we got winds in the high 20's and a good bit of lightning so we paddled hard and landed on an old abandoned lot, the storm cleared in about 20 minutes later and we were back at it.

We fished some docks to no avail, then came across some pencil grass, I threw a jig in and got hammed by a big largemouth right away but missed him. One thing that I noticed on the map is that there was a large bay of slop at the other end of the lake, since the docks weren't working I figured that maybe they liked the jungle more in this lake. Upon arriving to the bay I spotted two large bass and spooked several others, the water was only a foot or two deep and was filled with really just slop, not many pads or weeds, just slop. The presentation took a little tweaking and I think it could have been better but once I got it I got two respectable fish within 5 casts of each other on a 6" lizard.

I can't wait to get back for more than just a morning!

If rivers are an option (no cattails) most silt bottom rivers have undercuts.

Anyone know a good place to buy marshmallows? LMAO!

Nice fish man!

how bout. hickory nuts... walnuts and yes ... wild strawberrys in southern ont.

mmmmm, wild strawberries, in my life I have found 2 of them! Granted I haven't been searching for them but they certainly are a special find.

Anyone want to fish the csfl at scugog with me?

 

Misfish- we should really hunt for those simcoe smallies together in the fall!

If i had a paycheque yet then sure! Good luck man!

I'm working part of my weekend then Sunday or Monday I think I'm doing some canoeing/canoe dragging in to some hard to access lakes around the kawarthas.

It doesn't get any better than flipping grass and trees!

Haha, there's nothin like the old stuff, here's another band I've been hooked on lately.

Yup, never had a problem using heavy mono.

Damn, wish I had something to offer up!

See if you can find some time to get into Aaron Ostoj's shop in St. Helens, it would be awesome to browse his materials! You'll have to give him a call if you decide to go. Here's his site.

http://www.aaronmostojfeathers.com/

Happy birthday Roy, hope you have a good one!

Looks like I'm good to go! Got to find some time to get some pledges now!

There are lots of carp in the creek, I've never fished the lake but I would imagine that it's similar.

I hope to be there but may not be able to make it. Regardless some prizes are coming your way again Ryan!

Possible but really what would it be? That fish doesn't appear to be nearly large enough for a great white or bull shark. Dorsal is too high for a carp as well, my money is on cat.

Cool idea, do you know of a solution for apple users (like a website with a barometer)?

I'll just go with a 1/8 oz bullet weight, sometimes with a nail knot above to stop it from sliding.

So when do I get to come up? LOL

Amazing fish Brian!

Does anyone know the results of the island lake tourney last weekend? I fished the tournament on the Saturday but not on Sunday. Just curious if anyone knows the size of the fish that won. Fishing was tough on Saturday for me. Caught a 1 pound Bass but that was it. Weeds were really thick.

Same story for me, there were a lot of good fish that came in late on saturday though, seemed the dam was the place to be.

I much prefer heavy mono or fluro for pike, but I would pack leaders as well just incase you find they're chewing through them.