LostAnotherOne

You and I know that if you hook one it's going to be a beauty. I'm deciding on either Upper Niagara or St.Clair Saturday. Confidence is a little low now catching 1 in the last 4 trips.

The neighbourhood cat came to our place last week with her babies. They do a good job taking care of our leftovers.

No doubt. I went through there the first time and was more the half way across. I saw a big bulldog land maybe 5 feet from my boat lol. I guess the saying travel at your own risk applies.

Just wondering bud have you seen a lot of guys catching them off the shore? Must be if that many guys are lined up casting.

Totally agree with giving them space. They just have this small area where we have the river and lake. When I went through there I had the tin snips on standby just in case someone casted a bulldog and hit the boat. It would of been mine. I even thought of wearing a helmet through there, but wouldn’t protect much against the trebles lol.

Thank you for the report. Was there 2 weekends ago. Here is a pic of the entrance from the Thames River to Lake St.Clair. You have to zoom in to the left to see all the guys bombing there lures across the river lol. I wouldn't advise anyone to troll through that section.

Was there this past weekend. Didn't even get a follow, but nephew landed a nice 20".

There's a guy I work with who has a picture of him holding a 53" on his office wall. First and only time muskie fishing for him. He's a nice guy, but I think I hate him.

LMAO. Whatever works

When I see leaves turn this colour the one thing that pops in my mind first is Muskie Time. Nice pics

Ouch. That actually makes me feel not so bad. When your losing on some money that’s a different kind of blow. Like those guys on Wicked Tuna losing out on a $10000 fish. First time on HH so I really changed it up with trolling, jigging, and casting around spots that might produce. Lost that smallie just using the trolling motor around a small rock sticking out. Bombed a white spinner bait with pink tail to the edge and it was on. Been doing really good with pink this year.

That will be my game plan next time. I was going to bring up a beach ball next time so he could practice. I’m actually serious. I know your a HH guy and I tell you I have never seen such a crap show with the amount of boats going through the channel. My buddy says you should see it in mid summer lol. Like the 401 he says.

This past weekend I missed out on a possible new pb smallie. Was out on Honey Harbour with a buddy who doesn’t really fish and when it came time to net it my buddy made an attempt, but missed horribly and the smallie was gone. I was so caught up with the size of this football that I didn’t even notice that he didn’t even stand to net it. I take a bit of blame cause I should of gave him a few lessons first. Oh well. My point is guys if your out with someone that you know doesn’t fish best to give him a few pointers when using the net. You never know what type or size of fish might show up. I’m sure many of you have gone through something similar.

Bottom left side of Big Island. Saw a couple get caught there this year.

One of these days Dave I'm going to go through this thread right from the beginning lol. Longest and most interesting post of all time.

Wow and congrats. You put your time into getting that one in no doubt. Probably equilivant to landing a 60" musky. Hey if you caught that one a few years later we might of seen your name in the record books.

That wasn't caught in Ontario was it Dave?

Definitely back in the days it was different. Nice that you donated your fish to a lodge. Was thinking about donating my grama's bass somewhere, but would hate to donate somewhere and then they go out of business and the mount gets tossed. Was planning on starting a thread one day to get some ideas on where to take it.

If I could tell you who put together my grama's bass 40 years ago I would bud. No replica here and still in mint condition.

Will try that. Any change from how I fish the Kawartha's will be beneficial. I usually use big spinner baits and did well casting with them the last few years. Not so much with the bucktails anymore. Was looking for something I could troll deeper water with and hopefully that lure recommendation works. Tried several different large cranks over the years but no success.

That lure will now be in my tackle box soon. Thanks Lew

Every time I fish Pigeon I always watch the other person with me catch one. I know going in that I’m the net guy lol.

I’m sure Pigeons gonna be busy this weekend after this report lol.

That didn't take long. Thanks bud

Pigeon is my least productive lake in the Kawartha's. Super jealous. Well done