AKRISONER

Yup There’s a launch that’s free in fees landing. lots of skis in the south end, no need to travel all of the way up north. Find the deepest water down there. as a rule, do not start musky fishing until you have the basic musky tools shopping list. 1. a musky net, a cradle will do if you have multiple people, but a net is needed if solo 2. jaw spreaders 3. bolt cutters, when you hook a musky deep, it’s often easier to simply cut your hooks and perform surgery to remove the hooks that way. 4. A cut proof glove. Big musky, have big mouths that will sometime require you to shove a hand right in to get a hook out. 5. Big long nose pliers. and things to remember, musky die faster out of water than any other fresh water fish, so when handling them, use your net to your advantage. Keep the fish in the water and treat the net like an aquarium. It allows you to unhook the musky, get your camera etc ready etc etc all while the fish is able to breath. This also allows you to contain the fish to revive it at the time of release. A tired musky will often need to be tailed for minutes in order to swim down again. finally don’t fish musky on bass gear unless it’s an XH flipping rod. You don’t want to play these fish, playing them essentially guarantees that they end up dead. practice your gill plate grab. It’s the only way to properly handle the fish, while doing so support their belly. Don’t hang a big fish entirely by it’s gill plate. If you need help with this, YouTube is your friend

Your son is going to have a blast catching giant sunfish

not sure, lots of marinas to launch at...only free launch i know of is at the causeway on chemong. ive caught skis on the west side of the gannon narrows and east side east of kishgo south end near emily and up in the north end near nogies creek. The lake once again, I cannot stress enough is loaded with musky. Go poke around and you will find them, its the best place to hone your blade as far as I am concerned. Theres plenty of 40+ fish to wet your chops and learn the ropes.

pigeon, its friggin loaded with skis

thats actually who i was previously referred to as well.

im going to have to give that a try, seran wrap i guess could work. Now i need to find somewhere that sells them. Seems like theres a trailer shop in brampton that services a lot of the pro's trailers. Going to give that a stab. Might even be able to tow right there and have them pick one out for me.

Hey Guys, Tried to service the surge brakes on my trailer and realized I have a leaking banjo bolt on my right caliper. Tried looking online and could not find anything here in canada to able to source one, plus some new copper washers. Anyone here know a good place that would have a selection of them? Its really hard to take a banjo bolt in and say "i need a new one of these, in this size and thread pattern" because then brake fluid pours out all over my garage. What do you guys think I should do? Im all ears.

id target smallmouth and flip largemouth if it has them? (most lakes in the area do) Parry sound and most shield lakes are easy to solve if you are just out to catch some fish. Any mid lake shoal will hold smallmouth, and any pads you find will always hold largemouth. Honestly, you may surprise yourself at the size of largemouth you manage to poke.

Sent you a PM Dave

dont waste the money if you arent already using your electronics extensively to fish. If you are the type of fisherman that 1. casts to fish and 2. uses your electronics a lot already...its a game changer. I fished yesterday and as stupid as it was, I was annoyed by the lack of livescope in my buddies boat. Not for finding fish, but to understand where the deep weed edges lied fishing in 14fow. I could see the weeds on the 2d but was struggling to stay in the zone while keeping the boat off of the good stuff.

give my buddy Mike Yestel at a call at Big Insurance Orangeville. Tell him Scott sent you, he will dig into it for you for sure. He got things structured just how I liked it with my boat. https://www.thebig.ca/mike-yestal

i worked with my broker to make sure that my electronics set up was the primary part of the value of my boat. Because of its age the blue book value of a 16 year old is essentially nothing. But the screens, panoptix and trolling motor would all cost a very pretty penny to replace no matter what.

Peterborough pro tackle has an unbelievable online store. The problem is that you lose the experience of browsing all of their incredibly rare imported tackle from Japan. They had stuff I’d never even dream of looking up. I could spend hours In there.

Peterborough Pro Tackle. Their online store is really good too. RE: The hookup tackle...apparently they are number one in the world and are a bass boat central sponsor. I just never shop with them because its american. They truly have almost everything you can image. I fairly often get extremely annoyed at how hard it can sometimes be to get stuff here in canada. I recently was simply trying to find 8 strand braid in colours other than moss green and it was nearly impossible. Drives me insane.

Like to me its apparent, CT and BP, they cater to the guy that wants to go fishing a couple of times while hes at the cottage. However I truly believe that its a failing business structure and it wont be long before they go out of business. If you go to BP, its noticeable, the place is far too empty for such a gigantic floor space and the quality of set up/inventory has greatly suffered. There is only so many lead weights and bobbers and $80 fishing combos you can sell to people IMO. Literally every single person thats been to a lake has an old tackle box loaded with junk fishing gear. You might sell the crap one time to somebody but theres no need for them to ever replenish their supply. Meanwhile the guys that are actually getting at it every week need high quality tackle and are constantly spending money on high ticket merchandise, the kind of stuff that would actually keep a store open. Heck whats the profit margin on the $140 swimbait I just bought from Peterborough Pro Tackle? Surely thats a more profitable venture than selling BPS branded junk crank baits to the guy going to the cottage for the long weekend? Either way, the only complaint that I have is that for whatever reason, Gagnon's, Peterborough Pro Tackle and Pro J are all bloody east of the GTA. Like am I crazy or is there a massive opportunity for someone to open something West/North of the city? Or do we simply not like bassin enough once you are too far from the kawarthas. Would rather shop from a local independently owned retailer than the walmart of fishing anyways. Finally, No hate to Jasper at PRO J or the boys at Gagnons, but after my most recent visit to PPT...man, they might be running one of the best tackle shops in north America at the moment. Ive had the pleasure of visiting a few of the big shops down in the states, and they arent even on PPT's level. Their selection and brands they are carrying now...geeez mind blown.

It’s nice you think BPS and Cabela’s still have quality tackle 😂

I prefer owner too, but he won’t be able to get them at crappy

nice shootin...flippin those docks yesterday at 2pm at the CBAF clubby, on the leeward side of the lake...ouch

Rounded out my week off well a 23+lb bag of smallies on Wednesday, a 20lb+ bag of green ones on the back pond thursday and some big by catch girls for a little seasoning

FYI PayPal will charge you for this. a guy down in the states ripped me off on a Garmin unit I bought. Had to escalate it and they charged me $90 for the escalation

Looks like you couldn’t have asked for better weather. great report, looked like a blast

I was in the lake trout sanctuary too, glad to see them in there after hearing some of this Bull about guys “fishing salmon” running spoons in killbear/rose island channel absolute garbage.

We also had a what I would consider to be solid opener. most certainly could have gone better, the morning cloud cover seemed to have the smallies pretty negative. We broke down and had to finesse fish to entice bites until the sun came out, then a flurry of fish hit the boat. Our bag was 18+lbs, couldn’t complain about that.

Like anything, I keep it very simple when it comes to colours. Senkos, brownish, green tones. Green pumpkin and whatever flake fits your fancy.

Except when the wind is up…