Victor

Thanks for the report, and good on ya for releasing the biggun.

Glad that there's minimal damaged done ... really could have been much worse. And more importantly the girls are alright.

It sure is scary though... hail in mid july.

You should tell the insurance guy that the tree just happened to fall on your fishing gear or boat, so you'll need to get new ones

Those are some of the best looking carp I have ever seen. Nice scales, very clean and healthy. It sure is a carper's heaven in there.

ha, the middle finger

Nice report Ryan, it'll be tough getting through these few days just waiting for next weekend to come.

I hope that you won't be catching much Pike, but if you do catch one, please keep it ... On the other hand though, good luck with the muskie and walleye.

haven't been fishing out that way so i don't know how it's been... but it's starting to get warm and the crappie will be harder to find.

I was just going to say it... then I realized fish-miester already mentioned that there's no Pike in Scugog.

Tactic for rain: wear a rainjacket lol.

Condolences to you and your family Wayne.

why do you ask why lol? the question should be, why not.

i have also caught a carp with only one eye... pretty nasty if you ask me but he seemed fine.

o btw, that's a double header shot, in case some of you are wondering why there's 2 fish lol..

somewhere around 15-20. A float rod, a fly combo, and some more carp rods are on my to-buy list though.

You actually don't really need any "carp specific" equipment for you to catch them, on most cases they dont' help you catch more fish, but I guess just makes the process more enjoyable (at least for me anyway).

PM me your school schedule and we'll see if we can work something out.

Congrats on the muskie! Now, you need another 10000 cast.

I enjoy fishing the otonabee as well as there's lots of fallen trees to cover, just wished the boat traffic isn't as bad.

Thanks for the report.

That's a great little intro, let me bump this up to the top for ya.

I'm living off-campus right now, but it's close enough (lester/columbia). I'd be up for some fishing, I do head out with a few other anglers here who lives around the area. We target carp alot but we fish for other stuff too. If you love a GOOD FIGHT and you usually release your catch anyway, you gotta try carp fishing.

Nice work man, maybe i should take my sis out sometime ... i've had my boat for alittle over a year and she has yet to go on it yet..

Great report!!!! Good find on the woman My gf would laugh in my face if I asked her to go there, lol

Ha, I can relate to that.

Thanks for the report.

Mark nailed it right on... an intro would definitely help.

What program/year are you in? I'm in my 4A term for Civ Eng. at U of Waterloo.

Days out on the lake/river is never a wasted day man.

You did managed to catch some crappie+bass so you didn't skunk, and they're not really the easiest things to catch at high park as well. There's always going to be some good days and some bad days.

Heck, in 3 years of carp fishing I still haven't caught one over 30lbs and you got one in 9 weeks

Just keep at it and you'll get'em.

When I first started fishing all I did was float fish a piece of worm ... I liked to use the longer type floats as opposed to the red/white round ones mainly because the round ones don't get above the water surface much and it's hard to see when your bait is way out there.

I used to fish Balsam quite alot from shore but only maybe 2-3 times on the boat. Haven't really done well so can't give you any advice, but I know alot of people say that the area right out of the provincial park area is good.

Clofchik gave some good advice on the fish finder and he's got a nice little setup there.

It's important to learn how to read the graphs though, I'm still learning .. it's not really useful when you can't read them haha....

You certainly lived up to the name of "MTBF" lol !!!

Great report and pics, i have been wanting to find a place/cottage where I can go out for bass/panfish during the day, and when bedtime rolls around, I can take out my carp gear and fish for them while i sleep lol. That seems like the ideal lake for me!

I was expecting a report with lots of carp porn ... you should have came with me , i went 4/7 ... the wind was really strong and white caps everywhere ... it was weird, the first 5 hours I only landed/hooked 1, and in the last 90minutes of the day i had 6 runs, which I landed 3, nothing over 20 though.

Glad that you're feeling all better now, we have to get out together soon.

It was a great read. Can't really beat father and son time at a beautiful place like that.

Thank you for sharing.

Sounds like they like the bigger baits? And since you said muskie size lures worked ok, why not keep at it with big size lures?

I have only fished theretwice with Marko, and only ventured about 200-300m of riverbank. It's mainly browns and i have caught one sucker.

All of them were caught bottom bouncing worms, just gotta find the slow pockets of water and drop your rig there.

Did an overnighter at Hamilton Harbour with Marko and FISHHERO last night. It was a rather slow night for me, only went 3/3. Marko found a honey hole and got better numbers but the size was still lacking. Here's my biggest fish of the outing which is a new PB mirror @ 12lbs. This fish totally made up for the lack of action/sleep.

We moved to another location in the morning and with the help of another experienced carper, FISHHERO and Marko both landed a decent size fish each. I think FISHHERO's was around 18-19lbs and Marko got his new PB common coming in at 22lbs. I'll let them tell the story and post their pics.

Now let me catch up on some sleep....