Rizzo

I've always found Balsam to be a hit or miss lake when I target musky. I'll go 3 trips and get 2 fish each time, then I'll go 3 trips getting skunked. I'll tell you one thing, there are some big pickerel in there and they like big musky baits. I get a 5+ pound pickerel almost every time I go there (at least it feels that way). Dang things won't leave me alone. Was there last week for an evening and morning bite. Evening produced a big pickerel on a hellhound glider bait(maybe I'll post the picture later if I get it off the camera) and a 20 inch largemouth, the next morning was 2 muskies (42, dink). Good luck let us know how you do, Some great drop-offs from sand/weed to deep water

Anyone know if its possible to launch a boat into Rush Lake near Norland? If not, is that river from Head Lake to Rush a possibility? Looks like a couple of culverts to deal with but I'm always up for a bit of an adventure.

Wow those are some great fish Lew. Congrats on a very successful trip!

stinkbait...one of my preferred names on the site. I also like General Sherman (can't go wrong with a Simpson's reference). Welcome

...nuts, somebody beat me too this typo. I guess someone should follow this advice, and then when you can finally get off the toilet, go file a lawsuit.

what great memories fishing can make. My dad wasn't a fisherman at all, in fact he only ever went out with me one time. Just so happened that one time took place the year before he died, its a great memory for me

Holy smokes what a night! That's a beauty bass too

still the same number fishing, they just aren't buying licenses! Depending on the lakes you fish, you could go a lifetime without being checked and maybe some people are beginning to figure that out

"mother-in-law fish"

...your neighbour sounds confused...

that is crazy. What a fish, and what a day!

great report. I started weightless fishing about 20 years ago and have never gone back. You're right about watching the line! I'm often setting hooks before even feeling anything. A few days ago I posted my cottage for rent in the classifieds section and the bass shown in that thread were also all caught with some kind of weightless presentation. These are some real beauties you got into! Congrats

wow those bass are huge! nice

...just don't eat the candy that comes out of it

all the best, hope you're the heck out of there soon!

now THAT'S a bass! congrats on the pb

fantastic! I wish my little guys had the patience to go musky fishing...extra lines in the water woohooo!

Altitude...I need altitude...Didn't think he'd get airborne on that last one

can't go wrong!

...either her fish was a white supremest or perhaps you mean aerial...nice fish either way

I've got 4 little guys under the age of 7...are you telling me my house is about to get very stinky? How long will the offensive odour last? I'm 42 now, will I ever smell a normal house again as a working man? retired man? ever?

eat a largemouth?? Might as well drink a cup of bilge water to wash it down...yuck (mind you I can barely choke down pickerel so possibly not your most reliable source for opinion)

in the immortal words of J.J...Dy-no-mite

great video, sure glad he added "we're allowed to use 2 rods"...for most of the bodies of water in southern ontario this whole leaving a bait over the side of the boat while you continue to cast could get you in a whole heap of trouble.

I've fished there a couple of times, but only because our cottage is around the corner and wanted some variety. Its got bass, pickerel, pike and musky. We did ok (not great)for pike, and caught a decent pickerel by accident. Kind of a so so lake, one of the few with musky out there but they are pretty hard to come by