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Blue Walleye Kipawa

Dejardins Insurance Good rates , easy to deal with, they will also insure sleds, atv’s on their own. All insurance companies will add a hike every year, the longer you are a customer the worse your rates will be. I get quotes very 2 years from 2 or 3 companies and then ask my current insurer to “match” the best rate , they almost always do, but I have been forced to switch a few times for the better rate.

Yes you are right - regs say no chumming . So when you are fishing with live or dead minnows or worms - where that is allowed - you would have to be very careful when you added a minnow to your jigging spoon, or a piece of dew worm. If you were jigging it too aggressively, the minnow or part of the minnow or worm might fall off down at the bottom of the hole. Then you are just fishing with live bait, and NOT chumming, , perhaps not t(e most efficient angler in terms of how many worms or minnows you might need for an outing. Also if you are fishing with live minnows or dead ones, take a good look at them , like very closely, to see what they are. As a guide over the years in Muskoka and Halliburton m and Kawarthas , I would very often have some minnows on board purchased from various bait shops. I very carefully LOOK at every minnow before using it. The bait shops DO NOT I have purchased minnows from many different bait shops and have found all sorts of Non baitfish mixed in with them. A 5” Brown Trout, a 4” Walleye, many perch minnows, many catfish minnows, burbot , all sorts of “minnows” that are not legal baitfish - so have a good look at them before use - they kinda all look the same in a minnow bucket of a couple dozen. Re dumping “fish guts” back in the lake , make sure of 2 things. 1 - Only ever the legal game fish you catch from that lake , river. 2 - not on or along the shoreline, but out in the deepest water you can find.around the area - no one wants stinky fish guts on their shorelines, beaches . If a fish from that lake dies of old age, it doesn’t get scooped up and put in a PLASTIC garbage bag to go to a Landfill. It sinks to the bottom and decomposes and feeds the bugs, and leeches and turtles,- NATURE - sometimes it floats for a bit and the birds get at it until it sinks. So “fish guts” minus the filets, do the same when dumped back. One less plastic garbage bag goes to a landfill.

A couple things can make a huge difference to success or not. If you are on a lake that allows live or dead minnows, - grind up with pliers, knife, whatever - a minnow or 2 for each hole, bring some worms, do the same - fish "smell" better than you would imagine - brings them to your bait. Also noise - a vibrating "blade" bait - I use Showdowns - or a rattle bait on a jigging rod, very aggressively jigged up and down to create a commotion below where you are can also bring fish to your baits - sometimes the lure gets hit, sometimes a nearby tip up. If you start fishing and you don't get bit fairly quickly, there usually are not any fish below you, so you either have to move, or get the fish to come to you -they move around pretty slow in winter so it sometimes takes a while - but I have had many days on the ice where a noisy bait and a bit of smell has "called in" a bunch of fish. GL

Your right an ice angler does not need all that much gear - but it sure can be fun running and gunning, on the Reelpro Ice fishing Sled at 80 mph

Lake Kipawa - Quebec - 1 Hour from North Bay - 2000 kms of wilderness shorelines. Lots of Outfitter options - boat in camps, off grid, the operators pick you up. Some Drive to Camps Reelpro Fishing Charters - from Miwapanee Lodge, and Kipawa docks fishing from a fully equipped 21 foot Lund Tyee - suitable for groups of 4 or 5 Excellent fishing for Walleye, Northern Pike, Smallmouth Bass, Lake Trout

Fishing shows today are all about anglers playing with their new underwater high tech equipment. you can learn all about a $10,000 sonar setup for your boat on almost all the fishing shows right now. Gone are the fishing shows that teach anglers how to read the weather, the water, the structure of an area and why fish will be in a specific spot. On top of a structure, tucked beside it , suspended nearby etc. etc Now you just fire up a massive array of sonar, up, down , sideways, left right, live action …….. of course you need to spend $5-10k and spend most of the day playing with it instead of fishing. Or you could just pull into an area and kinda know where to cast.🫢

Try the Ontario Sportsfishing Guides Association. Lots of charter operators in the area you are looking at. For a more wilderness experience, 4/5 North of the GTA check out Reelpro listed on the site under inland lakes. www.ontariofishcharters.ca GL Mike

Used to fish 12 mike lake a lot, it had some huge Smallmouth Bass in it, but that was a long time ago. I mostly fished the west shoreline from the North end down about a mile or so. lots of sandy beach shorelines along the western shore that always had some Smallies cruising on. My first official 6 pound Smallmouth Bass - 1969 😳😳🤣🤣

Fishhog Lake You may run into a motor boat, but the lake is pretty quite. Portage in from Head Lake near Norland , or access through a farm road. Head River is also a good spot that you won’t see motor boats in much - downstream from Head Lake a few small portages as it goes towards Orillia, or upstream to Fishhog. Monster bass, I have weighed a Largemouth over 8lbs and a Smallmouth over 6Lbs - Head Lake and the river.

Lake Kipawa Quebec - 4 hrs from the GTA walleye, bass, lake trout , northern pike, whitefish,