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Thanks! My first day out there (10 days ago) we moved around a few times. Finally we found some fish in 80 - 85 ft and it has been producing the last 3 times out. If nothing is biting in an hour of fishing in the hut, I move. If it was warmer out there I'd probably not set-up the hut and move after 30 min of no action. Works for me, hope you get into some. No flasher would be tough for sure. I think a good depth finder is one of the most important pieces of equipment for ice fishing, more so than during the soft water season. Cheers and good luck!

Now I understand. When I'm using 2 lines in a hut, I don't use baits that swim such as jigging raps or darters otherwise I don't do anything too special. Maybe just lucky?

Good question! I always have two rod holders ready. When I get a fish on, I put one foot on the holder to keep it steady and then crank it in one handed, while holding the other rod with the other hand. Works most of the time. Otherwise it would be a real mess.

Laker-fest on Lake Simcoe Blog Entry – Febuary 9th, 2011 I’ve been out on Lake Simcoe four times now and the fishing has been steadily improving (or my skills have gotten better, not sure which). Here’s a video of yesterday’s action: To catch these fish I have been using two rods (as per Lake Simcoe ice fishing regulations). On one rod is a live bait rig and on another rod I am jigging a Norland Mimic Minnow (Tube/Jig). Some days live bait works best, other times you need a quick moving artificial lure to entice strikes. Most of the action has been in 80-85 feet of water, setting the baits about 1-10 feet off bottom. If you want to try ice fishing closer to Peterborough don't miss the Bridgenorth Winter Panfish Festival at BEL Rotary Park in Ennismore, on Saturday, February 19th between 10am to 4pm. Cost is free, equipment is provided and there are prizes all day for children. For more information contact [email protected] or (705) 874-0519. Tight lines, Andrew What worked? - “Ty Rig” a 1/8 oz split shot about eight inches up from a lively shiner and a #12 treble hook - Norland Mimic Minnow - Found the most active fish at 84.4 feet of water Conditions: - 8” of solid ice - High of -7 Celsius - West winds gusting to 35 km/h (felt more like -20 C)

Can't you just park on the ice?

I didn't catch it, but this was the biggest bass I saw all year and he weighted it in at a tourney. Caught by James Paluch during the BPS Lake Simcoe Open Oct 2010 - 8.05 lbs! It's the one in his right hand ;-)

I was thinking the same thing, but instead went for a reaction bait like a Lindy Darter and such. If I knew a bass was there I was going to try drop shotting some gulp, but never got the chance.

I got out for a couple hours today looking for the last smallmouth bite of the year. Drilled lots of holes, but no bites. Tried mid-lake humps and rocky points; mostly deep 15ft+. The sun was out in full force, so that made for a comfortable outing. There was 6-7 inches of ice on this small lake just off the Trent. Be careful on the bigger lakes, not sure they are ready yet. Next stop lakers and whitefish on Simcoe! Hopefully sooner rather than later. Cheers!

Thanks for the positive feedback guys. I was using an Aqua Vu MAV unit, worked great all year. I still can't believe how many fish I don't catch, but they are right beneath the boat. It can be frustrating at times, but hopefully with some more practice I'll get a few more hook-ups. Cheers, Andrew

Three minutes of Aqua Vu underwater footage. Lots of bluegills and a few largies in there too. I have seen numerous carp and muskie also, just didn't have the camera recording at the time. Hope you enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSoPjPF1tXU

Thanks guys. Thank you Ben for that link I had missed that post. Ron, What were the measurements on her? Nice fish and great pics.

Just wondering what is the biggest muskie caught in the Kawartha's? (By weight using a length and girth calculation) Have any 50+ lb muskies been verified? Thanks!

From worst to first all in one weekend! It was a busy fishing weekend for me, but I am certainly not complaining. Saturday I competed in Canada's premier one-day bass tournament and it certainly lived up to the hype. On Sunday I fished in a tournament on a premier lake in Haliburton with some friends from the Kawartha Lakes Fishing Club. Saturday - Bass Pro Shops Lake Simcoe Open The weather was near perfect for this tournament with light winds no rain and cool but not cold temperatures. In pre-fish I used my Aqua-Vu underwater video camera to locate a mother load of bass, and big ones too. The problem in pre-fish was catching these fish, but I was confident on the day of the tournament my fishing partner (Dan McMullen) and I would be able to figure them out. After fishing our number one spot for several hours and with only one small fish in the live well we had to make the tough decision to "leave fish to find fish"; a motto most anglers believe is a mistake. We tried a couple other spots and found some more fish, but we were still unable to coax them into biting. With 30 minutes lefty in the day we surrendered to the Lake Simcoe fishing gods and made our way back to check-in to see how the rest of the field fared. As expected the great weather allowed anglers to reach their spots and to fish them thoroughly; a combination that proved to be historic. The first big moment came when James Paluch and Shaun McKay came to the weigh-in with an impressive bag of fish at 23 lbs, but it wasn’t until they brought out their big fish that the crowd came alive. Their big fish stretched end to end in the tank and weighed an outstanding 8.05 lbs! Good enough for the Big Fish prize of approximately $5,000 and lots of cheers from the crowd. The next exciting and historic moment came when Mark Moran and Joe Muszynski came to the stage. The current Canadian record for the heaviest five fish limit ever caught in a major tournament was 30.35 lbs and Mark and Joe smashed the record with an extraordinary 31.50 lbs, a historic moment which won them the tournament and over $45,000 in cash and prizes! Even though my fishing partner and I did not get on the right fish this day I was pretty happy to just be in attendance to witness that spectacle. It was easily the most exciting weigh-in I have ever been too. Congrats to all the anglers for some truly impressive bags of fish! Sunday – Kawartha Lakes Fishing Club Haliburton Event This small Haliburton lake is a gem nestled just an hour north of Peterborough. In 2008 the big fish was a 6.4 lb giant largemouth bass and in 2009 the winning weight was over 21 lbs of largemouth. There are numerous smallmouth in the lake, but each year it seems green fish win. I was paired up with Jason Zigomanis for the day and our strategy was to try our largemouth spots early and go smallie fishing if the largemouth didn’t cooperate. I’m glad to say we never had to chase smallies this day as by 10 am we had a couple good largemouth and went searching the lake for a kicker (big fish). Over the next few hours we upgraded a few of our fish and culled five times, but without a big fish we knew it would be tough to finish first. At the dock I was surprised to hear that most of the competitors had struggled to catch largemouth and only the smallies were biting on this cold and rainy day. Jason and I ended up with a bag of fish that weighed 14.2 lbs good enough for the win. The fishing season is surely winding down, with only one more tournament left this year. I hope we get a warm autumn that will allow me get out many times for some fun fishing before the lakes freeze over. Tight lines, Andrew What worked (KLFC Tournament)? Lure – Black and Blue Strike King Bitsy Jig with a matching Zoom Trailer Depth – 4 to 8 feet of weed and weed/rock Rod – 7’2” Shimano Cumara medium power, extra fast action Reel – Shimano Chronarch CH101D7 7.0:1 gear ratio Line – 65 lb High-Vis Yellow Power Pro braided fishing line Weather Conditions: Cloudy with light rain all day Winds from the east at 10 - 15 km/h Surface water temperatures 49-50 Fahrenheit Air temperatures reached a high of 7 Celsius http://twitter.com/RedsFishin

You are correct Phil, I will not leave shore with out it! I am also going to buy some Dramamine, Sea Bands and some sort of inhaler I heard about.

The Quest for the Cup - Blog Entry Oct 3, 2010 This past weekend, I competed in the 4th annual Canadian Bass Anglers Federation (CBAF) Fed Cup. The Fed Cup is much different than most tournaments, as it is team based, with the Trophy going to the club with the highest combined two-day weigh from their top six boats. Our club may be small in numbers but we planned on taking home the cup this year. The federation clubs range from Ottawa all the way to Waterloo and this year seven teams qualified and 150 anglers descended upon the town of Belleville and the Bay of Quinte for this annual tradition. Day one of this two day event went exactly according to plan, a new occurrence for me this year. I was paired up with our club president Chris Water for the day, and we had a fantastic outing catching 19.74 pounds of smallmouth bass. We placed third after day one only half a pound off the day one leader JP DeRose. More importantly our team was in second place, just six pounds behind the Simcoe Bass Anglers. Day One Smallies (H. Chow) On day two nothing went according to plan for me and Jay Bendall (my partner for day two). Due to small craft wind warnings much of “the Lake” (Lake Ontario) was deemed off limits and only the north shore including Amherst Island and 5 miles off it was in play. This tough call was made by tournament director JP DeRose and I’m sure it saved a few of us anglers from putting ourselves in harms way. After an hour boat ride Jay and I got to our first spot on the downwind side of Amherst Island and quickly netted a small keeper on my first drop of the day. Knowing that a five fish limit of small bass would not help us, I decided we had to make the painful three mile journey to a spot on the upwind side of the island which would be a very challenging and rough location to fish. In prefish we got a couple of really good smallies off this second spot, so I had lots of confidence we could net a big bag there. About ten minutes into our first drift and my partner was beginning to show signs of succumbing to motion sickness. I have seen this scenario play out before and I knew Jay was in for a tough battle. He managed to hold on for an excruciating 30 more minutes before giving me the “I can’t take it anymore” sign; a decision I do not blame on him as I think his eyes were going to pop out of his head he was so sick. An hour into the boat ride back to Belleville, Jay decides he’s feeling well enough that we can try to continue fishing and we attempt to squeak out a winning bag on “the Bay” with the remaining few hours left. Finally after fishing for a couple hours with nothing to show for our efforts, we start to figure out a pattern as Jay lands two nice largemouth bass within five minutes of each other off a shallow rock/weed shoreline. As he puts the second largie into the live well I ask him what time it is and he says 2:44. That gave us only fifteen minutes to get back to check-in. I fire up the main motor and race back to check-in at 70+ mph. We get to check-in with only a minute to spare and thus ended our day with a disappointing 6.44 pound day two limit for a combined two day total of 26.2 pounds and 35th place overall. At the weigh-in I learn that the rest of the Kawartha Lakes team has had another good day on the bay and that our team might have a chance at the Fed Cup this year. As the individual awards are handed out, Kawartha Lakes Fishing Club hauls in an impressive seven, including first place for Rich “KVD” Jenkins as overall top boater of the weekend. Suspense builds as CBAF President Rick Weatherill reads out the winning team weights. In third place congratulations goes to Golden Horseshoe Bass Anglers with a team weight of 344.8 pounds (applause!). And second place congratulations goes too… …Kawartha Lakes Fishing Club (groan!), with a team weight of 354.7 pounds only twelve pounds behind the Simcoe Bass Anglers who won with an impressive 367.4 pound team weight (applause!). Some quick mental math and I realize that had I weighed in close to my previous day’s weight I would have won the individual award, but more importantly our team would have won the Fed Cup (admittedly a difficult task to accomplish on a wind blown Lake Ontario which impacted all the teams especially Simcoe). Congratulations to the Simcoe Bass Anglers with an impressive showing this year. And congratulations to all the members of the CBAF and especially the Kawartha Lakes Fishing Club for putting in some remarkable individual performances on a body of water as vast and as difficult as the Bay of Quinte. Special thanks to all the federation members and volunteers for putting in numerous hours of preparation and hard work again this year. I know all the members of the Kawartha Lakes Fishing Club look forward to this event with much anticipation and without all the behind the scenes work, none of it would be possible. Way to go Rick and gang! Tight lines, Andrew What worked? Lure – Green/Smoke Strike Zone Slammer Depths – 35+ feet of rock adjacent to deep water drop offs Rods – 6’ 10” Shimano Cumulus rod medium-light power, extra fast action Reels – Shimano Stradic CI4 2500 6.0:1 gear ratio Line – 20 pound Phantom Red Power Pro braided fishing line Weather Conditions: Cloudy with sunny periods Saturday, Mostly overcast Sunday Winds – northeast 10-15 km/h Saturday, northeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 km/h Sunday Surface water temperatures – 58 to 61 Fahrenheit Air temperatures – a high of 14 Celsius Saturday and 12 Celsius Sunday @http://twitter.com/RedsFishin

Lake of the Giants (Part 2) What does a tournament angler do that has the entire week free to pre-fish the bass classic in Haliburton, but didn’t qualify for the classic? Hit a lake with the best shot at a monster bass. And that's exactly what my buddy (Doug Strong) and I did on Thursday. This was the second time in two weeks that I have fished this lake (which shall remain nameless). Like I have said before, this lake has an ability to cough up big bass which can be an addiction no avid angler can kick. When you fish this lake, every cast, every pitch or flip has the potential to produce a big fish, so it takes a while to get into your grove and get down to serious fishing. The weather forecast was calling for a severe cold front this weekend and thunder storms in the evening so we knew the window of opportunity was now. At our last outing on this lake Doug landed a 5 lb 8 oz beauty, but this time we were out for a six plus pounder. We started the day deep pitching to mid lake weed beds and working rock/weed points. Nothing produced for us in these locations so we stepped in a bit shallower working the mid depth inside and outside weed lines. These areas produced a couple more bites, but nothing of any size so we went shallower still pitching docks and finally found some quality fish. One of the areas we found was in a back bay that had a bunch of shallow docks. I was casually chatting with Doug as I pitched my jig beside a very ho hum lacklustre looking dock. As soon as my jig sank a couple inches, I see my line moving in the opposite direction at a hundred mile per hour. Finally my brain kicks in and a big hook-set hits home. Doug hears me grunt and sees what he said looked like a small child doing a cannonball off the dock. After a couple back and forth bulldogging runs, I put my thumb down and crank her home. Doug reaches over the gunnels and in she comes, all 6 lb 1 oz of her. After a couple high fives, in the well she goes for a few quick pictures. (For reference the bass in my left hand weighted 4lb 3oz and looks like a baby next to Shamu in my right hand.) This was definitely the biggest bass in my boat this year and I am really glad we got out for another great day on the “Lake of the Giants”. I sure hope the weather stays nice this fall as I would like to see what this lake can produce when the bass put on some more weight before winter. To be continued… What worked? Lure – 3/8 oz Hack Attack flipping jig with a Berkeley Chigger Craw trailer Rods – 7’6” Shimano Crucial Medium Heavy / Extra Fast Reels – Shimano Curado 201E7 Line – 65 lb Power Pro high-vis braided fishing line Weather Conditions: Overcast with occasional sunny periods Winds were light 5 to 10 km/h from the south west Air temperatures reached a high of 26 Celsius @http://twitter.com/RedsFishin

Good Luck to all the Classic Competitors! Classic Champs 2009 Cory and Chris Johnston www.luresandtours.com Hundreds of anglers from across Ontario are descending on the Haliburton’s this weekend, in preparation for the upcoming Bassmania classic to be held on September 3, 4 & 5. Practice is allowed as of Saturday August 28th, and most anglers will be taking advantage of every day to learn this challenging body of water. Speculation is that the five-bass limits are gong to be lighter than past classics, but you never know what will happen when that many great anglers concentrate their efforts on a multifaceted body of water that makes of the Haliburton chain of lakes. In fact it is not such a small body of water as there are several lakes that anglers can choose to fish including Head Lake, Grass Lake, Kashagawigamog Lake, Soyers Lake and Canning Lake all accessible to the anglers that wish to fish them. These lakes have both small mouth and large mouth bass in them, but I speculate it will be smallies that win the tournament. A largemouth after the second day will be pretty hard to come by as most shallow cover will have been thoroughly worked over by day three. Even though these lakes can be tough to fish it will still be a great competition; all the anglers will be fishing the same lakes under the same conditions. I suspect there will be a few donuts (zero fish weighted-in) over the three day classic, and the final winning three day total limit of bass may be just over 30 pounds. Consistency is going to be key, and anglers will have to be happy with days where five bites are all they get. Up for grabs for the winners of the classic is two $25,000 Lund Boat Certificates. Second to twentieth place will compete for thousands of dollars in prize money. Each day’s big fish pool will be about $1,000 for any lucky angler that catches the day’s biggest fish. Attending the weigh-in is free for spectators (bring a chair!). Weigh-ins will be held at the town docks in Haliburton from 4pm till 5pm each day. The final day will see an exciting drive by weigh-in process with only twenty anglers fishing for the top prize. Congrats to all the teams that qualified, and good luck to all entrants. Be safe. Tight Lines, Andrew

Thanks GBW, but Lake Kashagawigamog is the home to the CSFL Bassmania Classic on Labour day weekend. Any other time and I think that would be a good option!

Me and a few buddies rent a cottage once a year for a get together. I don't see these guys all year, and I really look forward to this weekend to catch-up, shoot the bull and fish a bunch. Unfortunately this year one of the buddies had to bail on our regularly scheduled weekend and the only available weekend all five of us could agree on is Labour day for only 2 nights! I'm pretty sure we are out of luck, but thought maybe someone on this board knows of a last minute cancellation that we could take advantage of. I'm going to call around tomorrow. We are looking for something one hour north of Peterborough. Even as I write this I realize we are probably screwed... Any ideas? Thanks!

Another Tough Outing This past weekend, I fished 2 days at the Bay of Quinte for the last stop of the Competitive Sport Fishing League’s eastern series. It is one of my favourite fisheries, but even the Bay could not beat the slump we are in this year. Saturday the winds were forecast to be 5 km/h from the south so we thought the lake would be calm and that was our game plan; chase Lake Ontario smallmouth. We boated for 30 minutes from Trenton to the gap to Lake Ontario and when we turned the corner to the big lake it certainly was not as calm as we had anticipated; we were rudely greeted with five foot rollers. Five footers are certainly not invincible, just big enough that boating slowed down to a crawl at times and made the journey more painful than we expected. Luckily we found our smallies in the same spot as in pre-fish, and we had 12 to 15 decent bass cruising around our boat. The problem was we could only coax three into biting, and of course they were the small ones. We worked hard all day trying to get the bigger smallies to commit, but all they wanted to do was chase our jerk bait to the boat. Knowing these three small fish would not help our classic chances; we did not weigh them in and moved our focus to Sunday. We did not pre-fish the Bay much as we were relying on my spots from previous years. I have been very consistent at catching 15 to 17 lbs of largemouth on the bay, so I thought we could muster a decent bag to salvage the weekend. Not so says the fishing gods. My number one spots produced entertaining, but not helpful one to two pound bass all day. I’m guessing we finished in the middle of the group of 80+ boats on Sunday. Conclusion Tough weekend and a poor finish to a difficult season for us. Last year we cashed a cheque every weekend and we were competitive, challenging for a top spot each tournament. I have qualified for the Classic every year since I started tournament fishing, but not this year. My tournament friends have all told me about bad years they have had; everyone gets into a slump. Our goal for the year was to win a tournament. That requires taking chances and making big gambles, this year none of our gambles paid off. A friend of mine told me, to win tournaments you also have to accept some terrible defeats; it’s just part of the package. I am now turning my focus to fishing a few Kawartha Lakes Fishing Club and Canadian Bass Anglers Federation club tournaments over the next month. I also plan to fish a few days just for fun; a novel concept in the middle of the bass season. Good luck to all those anglers that qualified for the Bassmania classic in Haliburton on Sept 3-5. I hope to visit at 3 pm each day to report on the weigh-in results. What worked? Lure – White pointer jerk bait for the smallies on Saturday, and white little dipper swim bait by Reaction Innovations for the largemouth on Sunday Rods – Shimano Compre Medium / Extra Fast Reels – Shimano Curado 201E7 Line – 40 lb Power Pro braided fishing line Weather Conditions: Sunny both days Winds – Moderate 5 km/h from the south on Saturday, 10km/h on Sunday from the east. Surface water temperatures 72-74 Fahrenheit on the big lake, 77-80 on the Bay Air temperatures reached a high of 27 Celsius this weekend @http://twitter.com/RedsFishin

Cant's go wrong with slammers and tubes. X-raps to find them, tubes or slammers to catch them. I too have caught one on a scum frog, but I was as surprised as the fish was. For smallies that are deep (20ft+) try a jigging spoon. I like BPS Tungsten jigging spoons in 1/2 oz.

Thanks JB I used to use 50lb, switched to 65 this year. I use it in really heavy cover, so the fish would not be "line shy". The thick bright yellow line is very easy to see on top of the water and helps me notice any slight strike indications not unlike fly line. I have also found 65 to be less susceptible to wind knots as lighter 50. No need for lots of line on the spool when flipping and pitching so the heavier the better! Obviously personal choice, but 20 would be way to light for the applications I'm flipping and pitching. Think pads, slop, docks, trees, and the thickest of weeds.

Always interesting on the Bay of Quinte I was busy pre-fishing the Bay of Quinte this past weekend, and I am still amazed at the variety of life that lurks beneath those waters. This past weekend was no different, as we caught lots of bass in the two to three pound range plus some unusual catches too… Two years ago at the CSFL BassMania Classic I was working a 10 ft weed flat with a spinnerbait, slow rolling it along bottom. It was the final day of three days. I had been catching lots of bass with this tactic and was struggling on the last day. I remember setting the hook on a fish and yelling to my scrutineer to grab the net, this one is big. I thought I had caught a world record largemouth bass until my drag (which was set very tight) started peeling out, and I could not stop this fish. “What the heck have I got?” I wondered as I battled this fish for several minutes. Finally we got it along side of the boat, netted it and hauled in a 10 plus pound channel cat fish! I should be used to strange catches on the Bay of Quinte, but each time I am surprised. This past weekend I cruised through a school of hundreds of gar pike, (catching one on a spinner bait), flipped a jig and almost caught a six lb bowfin and just about ran over a 20 lb snapping turtle with my trolling motor! For just plain fishing fun the Bay of Quinte never fails to excite. This weekend I will be fishing three days on the Bay of Quinte in the last weekend of the eastern series, should be fun! I need some stellar results if I’m going to qualify for the year-end classic, fingers crossed… What worked? Lure – 3/8 oz Black / Blue Strike King Pro Model flipping jig, and Zoom trailer Rods – Shimano Crucial Medium Heavy / Extra Fast Reels – Shimano Curado 201E7 Line – 65 lb High-Vis Power Pro braided fishing line Weather Conditions: Sunny Winds – Moderate from the south east at 15 km/h Surface water temperatures 77-80 Fahrenheit Air temperatures reached a high of 27 Celsius @http://twitter.com/RedsFishin

I fished a bass tourney in early August last year. We had a 5+ largie in a well isolated from the others. I check on the biggie a few minutes after putting it in there and to my surprise my live well is chuck full of feathers. We are talking August, so probably not a small duck!

Smallie time on Big Lake O What a difference a couple days makes! Last week I was fishing largemouth bass around docks and slop in less than a foot of water, this week I am fishing smallmouth bass in 15 to 20 feet of gin-clear weed free waters. I have three one-day tournaments on the Bay of Quinte on the August long weekend, so I snuck out for a couple days on the big lake to search for some smallmouth bass. When fishing bass tournaments all anglers pay close attention to weather forecasts the morning of the tournament, but on the Bay of Quinte it is even more important. If the winds are forecast to be light, many anglers will make the 50-60 mile run to Lake Ontario to chase giant smallies, if not it’s a slug fest on “the Bay” going after largemouth (“the Bay” refers to all the waters from Trenton to the gap before Lake Ontario). A run to Lake Ontario is a gamble that costs plenty in gas and valuable fishing time. The reason anglers make that gamble is because it is tough to compete against the quantity and quality of smallies that come out of Lake Ontario. Once I had the boat launched, I started toward my destination which was a series of islands on the eastern portion of the lake. With so much water to cover I was unsure if I’d figure them out in just a couple days. I decided a jerk bait would be a good choice, because I can cover a lot of water, and even if the smallie don’t hit it they will likely show themselves by following the bait to the boat. It took me a few hours before I got a fish, and when I did it took me by surprise. Once I figured them out I started getting into more, and more. At one point a school of smallies chased a bass to the boat that I was fighting. I remember reading an article about schooling bass, and how it’s important to get another lure back into the water quick. So before unhooking the jerk bait, I threw back a senko and got another one. I craned him into the boat and threw back a tube, and hooked up again. Pretty fun when that happens! Wednesday was pretty much the same, with me covering lots of water looking for interesting structure and big bass. I got a couple bass that were close to four pounds, but nothing bigger. Again I got into a school of smallies and had a blast plucking them from the water. When it works smallie fishing sure is fun. As well, when out on the big lake every hook-set has the possibility of being a six plus pounder. In the afternoon the winds kicked up, so I made the 1.5 hour back jarring, jaw breaking ride back. I’m sore this morning, but it was all well worth it and I can’t wait to go back! What worked? Lure – Lucky Craft Pointer in Ghost Depths – 8 to 20 ft Rods – 6’6” Shimano Clarus Medium Heavy / Extra Fast Reels – Shimano Cronarch Line – 20 lb Stren Super Braid fishing line Weather Conditions: Sunny both days Winds – Tuesday southwest 10 km/h & Wednesday west 15 km/h gusting to 25 km/h Surface water temperatures 71-73 Fahrenheit Air temperatures reached a high of 27 Celsius @http://twitter.com/RedsFishin