Rizzo

nice looking fish! Good on you for putting the big 'eye back (although I would hope most people would, I'm kind of surprised that people would expect you to keep a fish like that). Either way, nice looking fish and good to hear the big one is still out there making babies.

short and long are relative terms. What do you consider a short versus a long walk? To me short is around 5 minutes, moderate 15 and long might be half an hour. If you don't have a lot of time, I guess go with short. Got 3 or 4 hours I'd say go to the quarry...then again, sounds like I'm too late to offer any advice. Oh well, at least you got to play with your chub

live leech, no weight. Just toss him out over the shoal or at targeted structure and hold on. sometimes I will add a bobber to the line simply to be able to cast further.

Funny how many are saying its overpopulated. I drive by there regularly and always think to myself how few cottages there appear to be on that lake with lots of natural shoreline...then again, put a prov park on any spot and you are suddenly overpopulated! we had friends stay there, did pretty well for smallmouth (like almost any lake up that way)

how incredibly insensitive to equate this poor man's life with that of farm animal. Any sane P3TA member (there's an oxymoron for you)) would hand in their withdrawal immediately.

dude, where's the RAMONES!

I didn't know my mother in law was on you tube

lots of interesting structure, I've only ever fished the south end and it has kept me pretty busy. Pretty good for smallies and pickerel, muskies are a bit scrawny but a few decent ones.

your lake sounds pretty good, I would like to come fish it! We are fortunate that very few "strangers" come on our lake as there is very limited public access (only down a dirt trail or a hike along some train tracks). Although I wouldn't like it if someone fished my dock (because I actually feed bass worms there) I wouldn't do anything about it.

tee hee I like that one.

I've always found JB's to be a bit pricey, but they have such a great selection and are always friendly I never minded paying a bit extra...however, I'm talking 2-3 bucks more on a lure, not $70!

Lake Simcoe isn't too far, I understand people catch fish there. Personally I don't fish it. I guess we need to know whether you have a boat, are willing to rent one, or plan on fishing from shore.

Holy smokes what a bass! Looks like it swallowed an anchor. No guess on the weight, never weighed one that big

very bizarre, I had never heard that before

ooooh that is the dreaded "mother-in-law fish". Will go straight for the ol gonads and won't let go

relocated it to the neighbours? Sure hope its like that Australian Simpson's episode where the neighbour is 10 km's away! Relocate it to our neighbours up north it would make it back in 8.5 seconds

I have fished there twice this year for musky...not even a sniff. Incidental smallmouth bass is all I saw and a big dead carp

Apparently a good population of small pike, but the odd big one too. Friend of mine caught a 38 inch pike there if you can believe it...long and skinny she was (the fish, not the friend)

I've caught muskies so big and flat I use them as a level when hanging shelves

nice looking fish but where are all them Head Lake muskies hiding at!

great report, good to see lots of variety being caught

my guess would be 2 adults yes, 4 adults no...but that's just a guess

find him in the wild, very nice, snap a photo. Find him at the cottage with my young children nearby and he's a goner. I'll pay the fine too

If you are just starting out, I would say forget GBay...too discouraging (ignore the post above where 5 were caught, you're more likely to get hit by lightning 10 times than get those results!). If possible, head for a kawartha lake like pigeon or scugog when you are just starting out. If you really must fish GBay I'd say Magnetewan river area

Wow, here I thought GBay was 47 inches and up only! What a great day