Rizzo

As many probably know, the fishing has been ridiculously good on Lake Ontario this year. Things seemed to have slowed down a bit lately - back to a normal level. I don't do many fishing reports anymore but here you go. We launched at Fisherman's Pier this morning and fished our way over to Bronte. In around 5 hours fishing we went 5 for 9, including this beast that weighed in just over 22 pounds and hit in 120 feet of water. Water temps on the surface were a balmy 74 degrees.

some do 6000 litres some do more

uggg. people are the worst. Wonder how much water these bombers pick up...sounds like a time for google...

pretty cool. Risky proposition though! Better make sure the line on the 2nd rod has no weak spots!

rats....of course nothing close to me

that spot looks amazing

not saying it will work for you, but I had a powerdrive that conked out last year. Found a webpage that gave me a weird sequence of events...involved rotating the prop manually etc etc and no word of a lie it started up again. Been fine ever since. Something about some magnets or something...no clue what I was doing but it works again

sounds like a blast

could hook a minnow on there.

Beauty spot to live. I grew up not too far away and as a youngster put a canoe in Grenadier once so I could fish your side. Caught a giant carp pretty much out front of your place. I am hoping this Karen was just trying to prevent people from trespassing on your property...hoping.

great job!

That fish is nearly 30 inches? I would agree to me it looks like a juvenile pike...but 30 inches aint no juvenile!

pike bait

I also don't believe fish feel pain (at least not in their mouth). If they did, they would only eat soft things not spiny fish or crustaceans. Imagine putting a spiny perch in your mouth and chomping down on a dorsal fin, or a catfish and getting one of those spines in the roof of your mouth...you would never eat a perch or a catfish again. And of course we know that doesn't happen. I believe fish fight because they are being pulled in a direction against their will, not because of pain. If you stop pulling the fish stops fighting. Seen lots of fish just sit quietly in one spot if you stop reeling.

oh wow that beats the rubbermaid container with aerator that I keep in my garage all winter! Every 10 days or so I dump all the water and get 8 buckets from the local river...that is my filtration system. If my pool cover hasn't frozen over then I don't have to drive to the creek, I just get a few buckets off the top of the cover! Not a fancy system but does the job

man I used to love fishing Balsam, was my go to lake for musky. Once we started to catch more pike than musky I moved on to other waters. The pike were a good size in there too. I caught some pike in South Bay 10 years ago that were pushing 40 inches.

any luck to those who got out?

I use a big rubbermaid and drill holes in the perimeter...too cheap to buy those fancy boxes.

He must have lost his mind bringing that in!

beauty. For me April is just a dead month. The one month of the year where I do next to no fishing. Glad to see others catching!

hahaha...whoops. Wondered how still having 2 feet of ice led to a short season. My bad.

you think you had a short season.... here we are using our boats already!

sounds like with enough speed and some ingenuity...maybe

Yes I used it in the garage. When the winch broke we didn't quite have the boat as snug to the front as we would have liked. Just hauled it forward the last couple inches no problem.

It did still turn, just had no power move anything