chris.brock

I'd take Freshtrax's advice, a rocky point, or somewhere there is current (river flowing), just beside the current, try to be in water 8 to 20 feet deep (you don't want to see your bait 3 feet below your boat), put a dew worm on, hold it just off bottom and see what happens, you never know what species you're going to hook into on the French, but the rockbass and small mouth bass should give you some action

A solo trip could get very pricey, but try this- If you've got some fly-in outfitters in mind, give them a call/ Email, and tell them your situation. Often, they've got an Otter flying in with 6 guys, you can grab a flight with them and get dropped off at a nearby outpost, or they have a week open in between 2 groups, they're flying in anyways, it would be a couple $$$ inn their pocket Safety wise, it might be a good idea to have the ability to communicate with the outside world (sat. phone, sat. messenger) if you've got a boat, crown land camping/ tenting can reduce the cost to basically nothing I've done solo canoe trips before, the best part about it is 1) you're the boss, no need to consult anyone, you do what you want, 24/7 2) the therapeutic solitude

great report, that brookie was very interesting, I wonder if there is a population in Ribes, or she spends the most of her time in one of the creeks? the lake's plenty deep enough for them to stay cool below the thermocline in the summer you see people flying in with cases and cases of water (instead of beer), good call on the MSR

I don't mind at all, my wife will get a kick out of it (we got married shortly after the trip, she survived the test with flying colours (Haha)) yep, he wrote that under the bunk, some Cam Lk history I'm also the genius that cut the last leg of the portage in the wrong direction (Haha)

what a tank, good, healthy looking pike that looks like "Pickerel Point" in high water?

wow, you guys really put some quality fish in the boat! I've been to Cam/ Little Miss., although I've fished further north and paid a lot more money for a trip, Cam Lk was one of my favorite trips, thanks for the trip down memory lane the first trip to Cam, my cousin caught a walleye just under 10 lbs on Cam (released it of course), the biggest walleye from any of our trips

wow, that's some big eyes, looks like you ran all the way down to the Woman River inflow, nice pics

I like how you have 8 of them in the package, upon request, tackle junkie, Haha, very cool

cool, pretty unique shape, almost like a dodger, I bet they thump pretty good at the right speed

nice fish/ report, let's see a pic of a wolverine spoon (I'm always interested in small tackle companies)

Hi Cap't I read your post before it was edited, stuff like this really ticks me off, sometimes I wish us Canadians weren't so passive and would hold people accountable

nice muskies, you take great pictures, I miss my boston terrier,

I'd say cast bucktail spinners to obvious cover (weeds, docks, logs) if you just want to catch a muskie, I think one of the easiest places is the Burnt River, launch in Kinmount and head up river, fishing the weedy bays, plenty of small muskies and the chance at a decent one too

I've seen muskies caught from the public dock near the launch in Head Lk, bass too and you would have a chance at a walleye

I'm not familiar with the bog, but things sure aren't like that where I'm bass fishing

I agree, bass are pretty prolific I don't agree with 1% keeping them, in Haliburton, the rednecks and the not so serious cottage fishing crowd keep plenty, the serious bass guys let them go my cottage neighbor kept 2- 5lbs LM and some decent smaller fish out of a small back lake last summer, it was a pretty ugly stringer picture that he was proud to show me

last week I had a pike gorf my 6" stick bait and break me off, while walleye fishing it came to the surface and swam with it's head above the water, it wasn't thrashing, just swimming my cousin was able to snag it near the mouth, my bait was deep in it's gullet, 3 trebles hooked, we removed all 4 hooks, very little bleeding, and let it go the pike obviously wanted whatever was in it's mouth out of there this is evidence that this behaviour is because an esocid has eaten something too large or a spiny fish isn't sitting well in it's mouth

there's plenty of fishing opportunities in the spring/ early summer, err on the side of caution, southern and central Ontario bass don't need anymore pressure, we're going the wrong way

seems like the MNR has the King Midas touch, but everything they touch turns to pooh, "yeah, lets bump up the bass opener, at least for the sake of actually doing something and justifying our jobs" bass recruitment will be poor for 2013, at least we got to go out a week earlier, whoa!

how tiny? mayflies are a fair size midges are almost cloudlike that float on the breeze

the fish bite around the inflow and outflow should have been great, but the water was like chocolate milk, we still found a few fish in there though did you paddle down the Little Current too?

nice report, beauty fish you're gonna trip on your shoelace and fall into the drink though, (HaHa) post a report if you get up to Haliburton

that would be a poor investment

I put up a few more pictures

check out La Vérendrye, I've been there paddling and there's plenty semi- remote, drive to sites too, I don't think there's too many smallies though, more walleye and pike