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most muskies caught in that area are caught while bass fishing. I'd do what the bass fisherpeople do because that way you should end up with one or the other or both. Nothing wrong with trolling a bucktail too.

Some fine looking specimens you caught there Fish Farmer. That 30" is a total hog, how'd she fight?

It appears to me that this guy fishing "solo" didn't get hung up either, but rather hooked up.

some beauties there!

Nice display of fish you two guys got there... makes me want rush out there for my own nickel. For that I'll have to wait til they fatten up a bit in Sept/Oct

now, now! MNR bio guy confirmed it a Coho.... what do they know anyhow? All I really care about is that I find a pile of its parents!

Was out fishing from the kayak on Saturday at Bronte. Only hooked one fish and never even knew I had it on the leadcore set-up until I decided to change lures. Although it looks a lot like a steelhead, I've ruled that out first because of the black mouth, triangular lower jaw and lack of spots below lateral line and on tail. I settled on a coho. Anyone with some insight or is it too small to know, being roughly 7-8" long?

you may have missed them by then. Salmon are already on the move at night in a lot of southern tribs and with the high water we've had all year, don't expect them to be sitting around the river mouths waiting. there's a lot better glow spoons than Cleos... Moonshine spoons glow forever. good luck!

That area has got very little rain at all this year and the maitland is suffering huge these days. It looks like a small creek going under the Hwy 21 bridge. If you go fish closer to the mouth you may find some better fishing, provided the bucket brigade hasn't totally cleaned her out. The decimation of smallies there over the past two years makes me sick! sorry to dash your hopes, but at least you are aware.

well said Singingdog. If you are looking for a very versatile fishing boat, then consider a sit-on-top kayak in the 13-16' range. They are pretty much limitless for the waterbodies we have here in Ontario. Lots of different models out there in all sorts of price ranges and weights. My best suggestion is to narrow your search based on all possibilites of fishing you would do, then go out and try free demos of the models in that category. There's a lot of good advice on Yakfisher.net regarding kayaks. Since buying my first kayak, I really only use canoes for backcountry tripping now, but there's really no substitute for that.

I just finished hosting a first time, 2-day charity fishing tourney that ended up raising around $700 for the final tally. It took 13months of planning and organization with the last six months being fairly intensive. If you want to have good prizes, you need to start soliciting at the end of this year before the reps spend their 2010 budget. I'm fairly certain most '09 budgets are spent by now. Seeing as you have prizes, then really what you need to do is nail down; date/location/headquarters format rules fish species *advertising* ammenities accommodation food/drink facilities Unless you have a large ambitious committee, anything less than 6 months to furnish a well run, first time event could be quite a chore. Then comes the execution on the day(s) of the event... no small task either. My best suggestion to you is to find someone who has already run a similar event and get them onboard with yours. Good Luck!

That can happen anytime on the Lower Niagara, but yeah Huron would be more rare. What did you mean by "above the bridge"?

definitely a bigun!

Can different coloured tubes be stored in the same pkg without the colours running? or is it dependant on what colours? Thanks.

holy red riding hood what big everything that canine is!

nice bass!

It's actually C-P-R, but you'd know that if you read any of the post. Read and react folks not the reverse. Just remember that a big reason 90% of us went to kayak from motorboat is conservation. Here's what it's all about, Catch-Photo-Release:

It's two weeks away now folks and there are 2 - 16' high end fishing kayaks to be won, each valued over $1600, plus a pile of other gear. We now have a website for the tourney Ontario Kayak Fishing Classic There's going to be a bunch of boats there to demo for free if anyone is interested in just trying it out or seeing what it's all about.

If you didn't book back in April, then good luck finding anything now.... it fills fast. Weekdays might be OK.

great report and I'd definitely keep that spot under my hat!

very nice looking trip! I'm certain you will all want to do that one over again.

I would guess it was 14-16" from feet to head and yes had a very long tail. I was about 10yds away using all the zoom I had from inside my house. It caught my attention when I saw a squirrel freaking out and trying to scare it away of all things... that's why its head is cocked, because the squirrel kept charging dwon the branch at it. The squirrel won!

Anyone know what this is? Hawk? Coopers?

Great stuff there Sinker! Team 8!! Sound like a killer May for you fishing.

They look like tasty little torpedos. Nice job!