AKRISONER

after the cold snap we saw water into the high 40's on sunday. Marked a little bait here and there but nothing crazy. Caught a few, but she was still pretty slow going. We were fishing deeper bay trap type areas close to structure. Found a couple congregated but definitely weren't marking anything on the unit. This will be my first fall really trying to hunt them out with the unit, and so far I havent seen zilch!

im guessing improved stricter regulations on fishing is allowing these fish to grow in size... Keep the regulations tight! Its a shame that this fish was killed for verification purposes. oh well.

South end produced for me this year, while most fish the north...id say the north has more standard structure, but is pressured heavier...cant go wrong casting the gannon narrows though. Water is colder now than when ive fished it...patience is a virtue

I love fishing the kawarthas, its a huge change from fishing Georgian Bay...i can honestly say that the time ive spent on them has made me a better fisherman.

hope i can come up with some similar results this weekend? we found a few last weekend, but more numbers is the name of the game!

holy crap those are fat, what depth were you focusing on? unreal

thanks for the comments guys! Chris...that stache isnt even that real...thats what made the photo extra hilarious is that it looked way more intense than it actually was lol. Bill, we are still trying to solve the puzzle...we seem to never get skunked anymore, just working on getting our numbers up! Drop shotting has been on of the best things that I have learned in the last year.

they need cecil ugh

Hey Guys, Ive been on OFC for a couple of years now, and i feel like i owe this site a lot when it comes to growing my passion for the sport. The guidance and assistance from some of our board members, right down to making new friends has really shown just how great of a place OFC really is as long as you stay out of the hockey thread when the habs are doing well and the leafs are not. I figure rather than posting after every trip that I make, I would rather do an annual posting of some of the best catches my family, friends and I have made this year. So without further adieu, here is AKRISONERS (ae-kree-one-er) Year in review. The year started like any good year...on the ice, with learning how to use tip ups, and lucky for me the pike were willing all winter. Here was my first decent pike on a tip up. (CLICK THE PHOTOS FOR LARGER IMAGES ) where my brother who is not much of a fisherman, but engages time to time, showed me how ice fishing is really supposed to be done. This year i spent 4 weekends of the ice season on island lake...the fish werent big, but kept us occupied through the long cold february that we had this year. With news of invasive carp being caught in island lake, we thought tip up carp would be a hilarious catch unfortunately the carp didnt come to play, the perch nibbled the corn away but never took the hook. March arrived a break from the cold was due, hop on a plane, we are off to cancun! An 8 hour guided flats trip was booked, where i proceeded to hook into 2 tarpon, losing both...had a hit and miss with what my guide called a 25lb cuda in 2 feet of water...a bad day of fishing is still better than any day doing anything else. I ended up 1-20 on the day...such is life, i sitll caught myself a small saltwater pike so I was happy! Back home we headed and waited for the the May opener..spent a lot of time fishing ultra lights on GB trying to find crappie and only managed some bullheads, still good days on the water. Finally May arrived, with cold water and even colder fish bite. Still managed a couple of decent ones. The water was still so cold, this girl hadnt even spawned yet and was shooting roe everywhere. As June arrived, so did some warmth, and boy oh boy did the fishing pick up. I decided to take a week off of work bass opener, and lucky for me so did my brother. I spent many hours fishing, and many hours hauling in fish, with the arrival of some warmer water, the fish went into overdrive. with a view like this after leaving the dock bass opener, you just know its going to be a good day. its always nice when your opener plan, works out perfectly, 3 casts, 3 bass Then with the fresh smell of fish in my boat, i hear a crash...and bang, and i freeze...as i watch this big girl comes running out of the bush surely looking for a meal. needless to say, lunch was had in the boat that day...but sometimes theres nothing better than hanging out in tinner magic eating a sandwich solo adrift. best of all is sharing your passion with family though. My nephew with his first solo caught fish my brothers first topwater bass a pike caught, after the cottage owner told me to cast 1 foot to the left of his floating dock...i did as he told and came out with this girl the evening topwater bass bite was all of the rage though with spring storms, came stacked fish on new weed growth...during one windy late morning, we caught 25 of these guys in an hour, hence the grin on my brothers face with news of us catching lots of fish, the old man wanted in on the action...i told him to head to canadian tire and grab some spinner baits...he came home with a bag full of #2 mepps...to his disapointment these were not the spinner baits that I was referring to. But i asured him that mepps will catch anything...and so one day dad ventures down to teh dock to try use a mepps...Your old man will always show you some tricks...and not 20 minutes later he hauls this out of the lake on a medium crucial with 8 pound fluro. The House record is now my dads...for the time being...what a way to catch your first fish ever off of the dock. 41" wouldnt even give err the gill grab lol! a couple of weeks later, a trip to emsdale was in order to visit an old friend. 4 of us hitting a back lake in what we called the "wizard tinner" and oh boy were the bugs something else. 4 up in the wizard this slab sunny with a cleft palet made up for it though A trip to Buckhorn lake was called...with the years first big heat wave, 35 degree days were long and hot. Where i spent a quarter of the time catching largie after largie...but nothing big...and then the other 16 hours of the weekend tossing blades for skis...this is all we caught though I promised to return with a guide...but first more bass were to be caught on GB. doing my best impersanation of a 3rd world dictator the bass hunt was heavy and so was the heat. The largemouth bite was very tough to come by...i did manage my first 4lb largie solo...but since this is the only other bass ive caught lol As summer ended and september came, i began to get amped up for something I had been looking forward to since June. A spot in FisherPete's boat at the end of september. Pete promised me a ski, and after spending 16 hours on buckhorn in 35 degree heat tossing 10's lets just say the fish were long overdue... This day started much cooler, but with a bit of wind and cold weather, I thought our chances were good. Pete proceeded to take me to honey hole after honey hole, every spot looked dynamite, but the bloody ski's just werent coming out to play..i began to wonder if they even existed...until noon where i finally spotted my first girl take a swipe at my bait and miss...and not 5 minutes later pete had a big girl on but lost it just before the boat....at least something was happening! With news that fishing was slow with the annual muskis canada kawartha gathering, my hopes were getting shaky...if the pros werent hooking in...i might be in trouble. We worked pigeon bottom to top...and as the sun was coming down we began working top to bottom...5pm arrived...and my arms were hurting and so was my confidence, but i continued to plug away tossing the 10 and retrieving hard, when i felt what i thought was yet another massive clump of weeds, but this one began to pull drag!... My first ski! 38.5 With a new found energy and adrenaline...the rest of the day was a blur...and so 8pm arrived and our trip winded down with the boat launch in site, Pete decided to cast one final spot that we had hit on our way out in the morning. We cast the spot to no avail...when pete indicated that we were calling it a day. I decided to throw one last cast while he packed a couple of things up...when i got a massive hit, and this time she kicked...I knew i had a fish...but it didnt feel as big as the first...that was until she saw the boat...and i realized...wow this is a whole different class of fish....an epic battle ensued...and the old girl was tired...Pete being the true pro that he was, performed an epic surgery to remove a deeply burried hook...cutting each hook out individually, reviving and continuing to perform surgery...i dont htink a drop of blood was lost...the old girl came back to life much to my relief...not bad for my second musky of my life. 46.75 I still cant thank pete enough And so the fall came and the pickerel run hopefully began...we ventured out this past weekend in the new heavy frost and snow...and it turned out the eyes were around for our fun! Including off my dock at 2 in the afternoon! and another night biter...24! not too shabby at all for some afternoon fun we headed to one of my favourite spots for some casting...the weeds were still deep and alive, i knew a good pike would be in them...sure enough as a squall blew in hard and nearly whited us out...dave hit this big girl on the swammer the next day we decided fall piggy smalls was on order...the fishing was tough, windy, cold, and slow...not easy at all finding GB bass in open water...but our perserverance paid off like it seems to have all year long...when the fishing is bad, fish longer...the investment seems to always pay off and so my year of fishing is summarized...with a huge shout out to Pete for putting me on the fish of a life time...my families record is securely back in my hands, and shall remain that way for what i hope to be a long time Im not done fishing yet...but these things take a long time to make! Thanks for reading!

jose gets beaned? Mark Burlhe is retiring, and thats one dude I would not want to scrap

self confessed musky eater...here they come

you hit the second biggest homerun in franchise history, he could have ran off the field, did a full lap of the 500's high fiving everyone in the crowd like dickey did after the game...came back out touched all of the bases and it still would have been ok.

lmao Dyson's butthurt level just went off the charts http://www2.tsn.ca/bardown/Story.aspx?The%2bRangers%2bwere%2bpretty%2benraged%2bby%2bBautista%27s%2bbat%2bflip&id=563207 its ok for him to slap tulo on the butt after he pops out tho right? see you in the minors dyson!

my main fishing partner has an HT...never mind the seams and crappy tabs, the entire walls seem to just randomly degrade so that more and more pin holes and runs just randomly appear everywhere. Yes it will do the trick in a pinch...sort of? but expect your hut to be cold. Pops and I have fished in our clam many times and the thing is usually toasty without a heater...they are very nice and airtight and great at keeping your body heat in once it gets going..the HT in general isn't that pleasant to fish in once it gets below -15

Wouldnt it be nice if we all were just nice little civilized robots...use common sense, you have 50,000 people drinking and emotionally charged...I know for a fact that if that game ended 3-2 on that fixed call people were going to lose their cool. I play hockey in mens league twice a week. Every hockey team of 15 guys has a hot head that loses their cool and lets their emotions get the best of them. THIS IS IN MENS LEAGUE! USE SOME COMMON SENSE LADY! the baby wouldnt be able to tell the difference from a mid June weeknight game and a Game 5 elimination game. Regarding the fix....let me point out that the umpire clearly called for timeout and a dead ball as soon as the play happened. The Jays players did not react due to the umpire calling time...at this point no run was scored...the player then reached home plate while the umpires hands were in the air clearly indicating time out. The fact that they put him back on the bag, and then let him score, is quite literally no different than a player stealing second...being called safe...asking for timeout...the umpire calling timeout...The player stepping off the bag to undo their gaurd etc...and then the player subsequently being tagged, and the umpire calling the player out. its literally the exact same situation. If they would have called a double play on that pompey slide, all hell would have broken lose. I heard an interview with the Tim Langton, the jays PA announcer...if play continued to be interrupted, the next message they had prepped for the board was a forfeit warning that would have stated that if the play continued to be interrupted the jays would be forced to forfeit...unreal. Also the tulo butt slap...in a regular season game dyson was getting knocked out...no ifs and or buts about it.

you guys want to argue hockey go to the hockey thread... I am never going to agree with people throwing crap from the stands, but you have 50,000 people all fueled on emotion and alcohol there will always be a few bad apples that lose their cool, especially when you have no idea what is going on except for the fact that you just gave the lead to the opposition. (dont get me started on officiating influence in professional sports) Second of all, WHAT THE LITERAL HECK ARE YOU DOING BRING A NEW BORN TO THAT ENVIRONMENT????!!! if the jays would have lost last night because of that bogus call, things would have gotten much much uglier, i guarantee it. 3rd....LETS GO BLUE JAYS! ULTIMATE BAT FLIP!

gotta love watching boston pay a 15 goal scorer 7.25 mill till the year 40252

my personal PB came on October 26th last year on the deadsticked sucker with a black jig! Ohio youd remember the reef in the river, just off of that.

Eyes in the morning and at night...deadsticked suckers in a river...simple Once the morning is over, if the sun comes out...(if it doesnt we will probably just sit on the eyes all day) Plan of attack thus far is to start the day on a completely left field pattern that worked a few weeks back, just to try it out because it worked very very well then. (big big big smallies eating gobies shallow on sand and rocks) Then move to traditional patterns of schooling smallies on bait suspended...so finding bait will be the challenge. From there if neither of those work, we switch to deep weeds and tossing slow retrieved blades over deep green grass to see if we can stir up any big female gators. calling for low twenties to start out the day saturday...gonna have to forget the rain suit and go full on ice fishing gear!

its fun watching good teams fall from grace. Everyone has their time under the sun, the cap was designed to do exactly what it is doing to the bruins. Detroit on the other hand? I dont know how they do it.

please everyone, make sure you go out and vote...the only bigger idiot than any of these politicians, is the person who doesn't go out and vote. If you cant bring yourself to vote for anyone, then go in and write that on your ballet. Just make sure you utilize your one real rite, because the rest can be taken away from you by those that we vote in.

exactly! I ride trails out in loring all the time and they are 2 lanes wide and like a highway.

how can you not fish during the second best time of the year! aside from the beginning of June, late october early november is the second best time to be fishing!

forecast for this weekend is not looking so promising. That might be the big event. gusty winds, highs in the low 40's and overnight lows into the 20's im thinking deep weeds might be the saving grace! Should be

spent over 18 hours on upper buckhorn this year without a follow either. Went to pigeon and got skis. Nice tiger, i need to get one in my life time. Kind of a bucket list fish.