Dutch01

On 10/7/2019 at 2:25 PM, Rattletrap2 said:

Where the hell are you fishing??? That is something I don't need to ever see, let alone on the river while fishing! lol

Gotta be Oshawa.....I still fish there but only in groups. Lots of junkies down there that want to rob you for a fix.

Thanks for the report - I love seeing kayak fishing reports!

I enjoy kayak fishing so much that I realized I wasn't using my boat anymore so I sold it.

Was just out on Saturday and picked up this hawg (sorry night pics are hard)

Check out Kawartha Kayak Fishing Club on Facebook if you want to link up with an active community. 

Calling all Kayak Anglers!

The Kawartha Kayak Fishing Club (aka KKFC) is having a fishing get together tomorrow (Saturday, June 22) on Lower Buckhorn. If anyone would like to join us please see the link at the bottom of this post.

Lower Buckhorn is a gorgeous lake, with great fishing. Unfortunately there are no public launches so there is a $10 fee per vehicle (car/truck not kayak) to launch and park at the private resort we're meeting at.

Please consider this an open invite to join us. There is no club cost, we only ask that you join our FB group and complete a liability waiver (this can be done on site on Saturday). I hope to see some new faces there!

If you can't make it and/or you're fishing somewhere else, good luck and tight  lines!

Dutch 

https://www.facebook.com/events/2254357191470926/?ti=icl

On 5/27/2019 at 8:51 PM, chris.brock said:

You're season is off to a great start!

Did you get a surface temperature out there?

Chris I was on Balsam last night it was 59 degrees.

We fished from around 7pm until around 1am. We had three kayaks and a canoe out there and only three  fish caught. My buddy caught a 19" and I got a 15" and a 17.5" (all released). A few were caught from shore nearby.  Water was 50 degrees so still pretty cold. Overall I'd call it slow.

Not sure if they carry what you're looking for but I've heard they're good to deal with:

https://www.marineoutfitters.ca

2 hours ago, smitty55 said:

I have that on my '01 Sierra as well but I'm super hesitant to use it. The idea of the drive train kicking into 4wd while rear wheels are spinning just screams to me asking for something to break. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't trust it. To me the most dependable was the locking hubs I had in my old 78 Chev. Nothing electrical to worry about, no solenoids to screw up and no front axles turning until I locked the hubs and engaged the front diffy. The old days eh hehe.

Don't know about an '01 but on my '17 Silverado when you put it in auto it engages the front differential but doesn't send power to the front wheels unless it detects slippage at the rears. So it's not really kicking in and out of four wheel.

Just a thought for a few of you commenting about how the guy "only" leases the land. If any of you "only" lease your car or truck please let me know. I'll be by tonight to take it for a spin ???

A word of warning, don't trust dealers with tire pressure if you run LT tires.

LT tires require higher pressure to match the factory load rating.  BFG customer service will take your VIN and tell you what pressure to run. They told me 50 PSI cold.

In my experience most mechanics will set them to what is on the door, and that's not always correct.

That's a tank whitey congrats!

I'm more of a buyer than a maker LOL

Well, I did make my Smitty but the anchor adapter I got from Canadian Tire.

The issue was I only had the one drill and it's bolted to my clam plate. I thought about trying a brace (hand) drill but they are apparently gargabe (Amazon) or expensive (and/or antique).

I had a Milwaukee impact gun already but didn't know how to connect the adapter to the impact gun. I only recently discovered there is a drill chuck adapter for impact guns and had that AHA! moment. I haven't tested it on ice yet but it'll drive an anchor into a 2x4 ?

21 minutes ago, porkpie said:

my wife has driven them into just about every curb imaginable and the sidewalls are still holding up!

???

This matters! I hate "bruised" sidewalls!

I read a lot of reviews about noise so I was worried when I got my KO2's but they're not that loud to me. I realize everyone has a different tolerance for noise but at least for me no issues.

I swear I had those pegs and threw them out, they were way worse imo ?

I sometimes take too much stuff too but after last weekend I'm done with turning anchors by hand!

On 2/5/2019 at 7:09 AM, misfish said:

This is solid advice. Another would be if you have a cordless drill, get the anchor adapter. You will be thankful you did this.

I was losing my mind trying to start my anchors by hand last weekend, but my only drill is bolted to my clam plate. So I picked of a chuck for my impact gun and rigged this baby up!

I use BFG AT KO2's year round on my Silverado and I love them. I'd never have any other tire on my truck again.

That's just me, good luck whatever you choose 

6 hours ago, KawarthaAngler said:

Thanks for adding the info. 

But for those not overly familiar with the Trent Severn and particularly the OP's question, there ain't no Pike in Stoney/Clear. 

At least not that I've ever heard of ......

Agreed. I catch em in balsam though so its only a matter of time til they move through the system.

1 hour ago, KawarthaAngler said:

As mentioned above, in this Zone, only pan fish are in season.

I certainly don't want to encourage additional pressure on Kawartha lakes, but If we're being honest Pike is also open in zone 17.

24 minutes ago, smitty55 said:

There was a similar episode with Glen Villeneuve but he did everything by hand, no power tools.

 

Cheers

Glen is my favorite on that show ?

Lol thanks!

I know right? The north end has loads of snow.

The shove

My Whitefish ❤️

My setup and a perch

Been a while since I've posted a fish report, figured I was due. Always helps when you have a nice pic to post too. Reports of my recent skunkings would be boring I'm sure.

It was pretty windy on Simcoe yesterday and I again brought the wrong hut. I nearly died trying to pull my heavy flip last weekend on the north part of the lake in deep snow. So this time I brought a small and light popup only to find out its mostly glare ice and my flip would have been perfect. ?

Setup in 32' and we were marking a few but not catching anything. We had five guys in three huts. I had to wait for the winds to die a bit before I could move shallower but I eventually got set up in  22 feet.

I had one perch in the hut by 4 o'clock and I was packing up to leave. I had a minnow on a tungsten jig deadsticked while I was packing up. I reached for the power button to shut down my finder and right then had a good mark so I held off a second. I saw a tiny twitch in my line and set the hook. At first it felt like a large perch darting but I soon realized it was something bigger shaking its head so I backed off the drag and let it run a bit. Tougher than I thought to get its head into the 6" hole but I eventually got it. I was so stoked! 

Catching a whitefish was my season goal. I'd hoped I'd learn and apply skill over the season but I did it through perseverance (over 50 hours on the ice so far this season) and dumb luck. I'll take it ?

Can't wait to get back on the ice! I still want to catch one I can say was skill.

PS: The ice was moving a little and created a shove near shore. We found a place to cross but it was a bit ugly by EOD. This was south shore.