DaveRoach

Where are you located. I routinely fix bathroom ceilings in condos. It is my job, do you have matching paint? Dave Maintenance/Handyman for Concord

In one word WOW!!! great job Dave

Have fished Brailey, and all surrounding lakes, Lots of Pike and walleye. Stayed at mikwam and trailed through to Brailey sorry to say largest fish 36" all week. If your there for walleye your in luck, worm harness or jigging. I will not be returning as I'm now hooked on Musky, Any specific question please PM. Dave Ben's 36" on Brailey

Have fished Brailey, and all surrounding lakes, Lots of Pike and walleye. Stayed at mikwam and trailed through to Brailey sorry to say largest fish 36" all week. If your there for walleye your in luck, worm harness or jigging. I will not be returning as I'm now hooked on Musky, Any specific question please PM. Dave Ben's 36" on Brailey

Well here goes my first fishing report. Last Saturday I had the pleasure of fishing with FisherPete. We started early thanks to him for picking me up at a friends cottage around 6:00 am. From there we drove to the local Timmies for our daily dose of caffeine, and I beleive Pete grabbed some eats for brecky, not being an early eater I opted out. Upon arriving at the launch I could feel the excitement of my first real full day targeting the elusive Musky. After launch we grabbed our rods and Pete set me up with a double 9 inline. I was tempted to throw 10's but the day before I was using 10's but the retrieve was really tough with my setup (St.Croix medium heavy, Abu NaCl). After about half an hour or so I had my first snag, it was a beauty, undaunted Pete backed the boat up and as a team effort managed to pull what seemed to be a power line from the bottom. As there were no power line markings we unhooked the tail and continued on our journey. A little while later we headed to one of Petes go to spots, where we noticed some boat had beat us there and was pulling in a Ski. (no thanks to my snag).We had decided to move on from there to his next spot.We fished hard for the next two hours or so and then "wham" Pete had on a beauty, with my polarized glasses I could see this baby did not want to come to the boat. Shortly there after I netted his georgeous barred Ski. After the release I had decided to switch up to a Chartreuese double 10, which I was surprisingly able to retreive with out too much effort, it was discussed to the cupping on my previous inline might have been the issue. Within about 25 minutes of switching lures I had a hit, not 20 feet off the boat, the sight was amazing. Pete quickly netted the fish and It was picture time. After releasing the fish it was clear that the conditions were perfect, Overcast which is great for me and my all to easily sun burning skin.A few more hours of casting inlines and at a different spot, that all familiar "whamo", and this time the thing darn near jerked the rod out of my hand, after an exhilarating fight Pete netted my second beast of the day. This baby had slammed me from the side and bent the inline badly. Another pic and quick release. Pete then straightened out the lure for me to continue. After a quick snack (sliced pizza and pop) we headed to a different location. With only a couple of follows we headed out again. About an hour later we came across a shallow rock reef where wouldn't you know it, Pete slammed another Musky. Again a good fight, quick netting and a Pic for the records. After the release we decided to head to the North end of the lake, unfortunately the weather turned and the clouds left. The blue sky had turned the fish off, but we stuck it out until 7 PM. I would like to thank Pete for his knowledge, dedication,perserverance and all out great time he showed me that day. Also a special thanks to "Kelly Kustom Musky Lures" who Custom designed the spinner Pete had obtained and that I used all that day. Can't beat a day with four big Muskies out of four landed, and with ten or so follows to the boat. As for sizes I believe they were in order 36.5, 37, 39, 39 That's all for now. Dave

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We have canines and bicuspids, therefore we are meant to eat salad and meat. Period Just my thoughts.

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If your in Winnipeg for a stop over, go to Lockport. It is famous for Channel Catfish. I have caught many 30+ pounders there. Great fight and quite easy to catch. Use a big weight (3 oz or heavier) about 18" ahead of a big strong hook. For best results use cut bait, or stop at the local Safeway and grab some frozen shrimp. Cast out and get the weight caught on bottom, from shore tighten line and watch rod tip. Allow the fish to spool some line prior to hookset. The river flows fairly fast so be ready for a real battle. There are many species of fish there (walleyes, sauger, sheephead) and have caught trophy Walleye there in the fall (11 3/4 lb.) PM me if you have any specific questions. Cheers, Dave

Great Intro, Welcome aboard.

50 inch Muskie

Great shots

Agreed, Funny Harper telling us we need to arm ourselves and then leave a soldier without ammunition.

Too true Gerritt....Although that may be a different topic than this post

Thanks starfield, I tried there originally and found the selection poor, but the store is amazing. I have found my rod through a friend on kijiji and managed to land an excellent rod for 225.00.

Song was written about Buddy Holly's plane crash if I remember right.

Thanks Kev, but I could hardly call it work.

No worries Kev, James and I fish together. Was just looking for other alternatives as I've caught some sort of Muskie bug and can't stop watching others catch 50 plus inchers on youtube. Is there a doctor in the house

Thanks all for your suggestions. I ended up buying a Muskie Legend Tournament 8-0 MH from kijiji. Thank you James for pointing out the ad..

There are some ski's on buckhorn , but they dont get that big. I caught around a 42 or three last summer, and now I'm looking to improve on that size. 50+ is my goal.

I called them earlier today, customer service was top notch!!! Unfortunately they did not have the rod in question i would recommend this store to all my neighbors..

I fished lower buckhorn for years but only recently caught the Muskie bug.

I'm new at this but I think Restoule and surrounding, lakes not to big but known to have its share of 45 - 50's

just throwing out my best bait Cheers, Dave

If you were to pick one lake within three hours of Toronto for Muskie opener which lake would you choose, and why? Thanks, Dave