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If the spot you are fishing is near your house then it should be no problem for you to bait the area. You can use canned or frozen corn but feed or cattle corn is a lot cheaper. You can get it at a feed store or a place that sells wild bird seed. You have to boil it for an hr or at least soak it for a couple of days. Also wild bird seed is a good bait too. Buy a bag and put some in a pail pour hot water in to cover and let it soak over night. Do not fill the pail more than 1/2 full to start as the stuff will expand when it sucks up water. Throw a bunch out every evening for a while then fish the spot.

I don't watch many fishing shows but like most anglers I keep an eye on the weather channel. Dave Mercers clips on that channel are all, tips and good information for anglers. His cheerful attitude is a big plus too. It supposed to be fun right?

Great post! Thanks for sharing. Those are great looking fish.

If you live in Burlington then you should check out the carp fishing in the bay. They are big, powerful and there are plenty of them.

I live in Hamilton and work in Burlington so I drive around a bay full of big fish. Tonight after work I stopped at Lasalle park I caught one around 20. Met some friends and had an enjoyable evening. I fish three or four times a week.

So they not only make better cars they catch bigger bass. What's next a gay French guy winning NASCAR.

Ya I agree. Never heard of anyone fishing for alewives before.

Nice drum. It was good to meet you today and shoot the breeze for a while. Sheepies fighting harder than carp! Ha, I don't know about that. I got one about 10, a carp of course, and had a little crowd watch the battle. I don't think I have ever seen sheephead do that.

Great report. My family has had a cottage on Lake Seymour since 1967. You remind me of the great fishing I had over the years. Some of the best LM bass fishing in Ontario.

Hey Mikey! Good to see you're out and catchung fish.

Check this out. http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=...5641&li=lmd

Why not look up some of the local conservation areas. They have bass, pike and panfish.

Yup. I caught carp in Cootes this year and not just me but other guys that I know have as well.

I catch carp in Cootes. They will always be there. As a matter of fact if you are going to target a species in Cootes you are more likely to have success with them than other species except bullheads. If you are going to fish Cootes do it soon before all fishing is banned from there. The bay or Hamilton Harbour has a wide variety of fish to catch.

Why didn't you join us? We had fantastic prizes. You would not have been able to fish pier 4 as I did not peg the point itself. We will be having fish-ins in the future. You are welcome to join us if you would like.

Why leave Hamilton? There is a fishing platform at the Canadian Centre for Inland Waters. Pier 8 is producing big sheephead. You could simply troll along the pier. I heard a decent pike was caught doing that there the other day. Then there's carp our carp club will start fishing pier 8 soon why not drop by.

Great report and congradulations on your successes. Thanls for the tip.

I did not recognise you today. You had your civilized clothes on and I was busy taking care of the prizes . Nice dogs, the one is more than a little black and tan? I prefer to target carp but seriousy IT'S ALL GOOD. From 6" brookies to 4ft skis.

That is a shame.

Michael Jackson dead, Perez Hilton assaulted. Pretty much the end of the civilized world I guess.

My neighbor Crandall stops by. “How are you doing?” I ask. “Everything is nearly copacetic,” is his reply. “I was out fishing on Lake Inferior yesterday. I had my rifle with me.” “You had your rifle with you in the boat?” I question. “Why?” “I had to take the rifle. I was out of dynamite. Besides, I didn’t have a fishing license, but I had a hunting license. That lake is full of sushi. I got my old rowboat into the water. The boat is sort of a gangrene color just like the lake. It felt good to have both oars in the water. I shouldn’t tell you this, but many folks tell me that they don’t think you have both your oars in the water. I put some numbers and a couple of advertising stickers on the old boat so that it looks like a NASCAR winner. When I make up my mind to drown a few worms, you couldn’t change my mind with a sledgehammer. I planned to spend a day fishing because the time spent fishing doesn’t count against my allotted time here on Earth. I’ve forgotten more than I’ve ever known about fishing.” “You should be a good fisherman. You’re a great liar,” I say. “So, I’m in the middle of Lake Inferior, enjoying myself. I was having a cup of coffee, while smoking a cheap cigar, and listening to the Twins game on the radio. Then things went horribly wrong.” “You caught a fish?” I ask. “Worse than that. A carp jumped into the boat and began to flop around and batter me like a fish. The carp in Lake Inferior have teeth like an alligator and the disposition of a gator with a toothache. I was afraid that carp was going to take me to Davy Jones’s Locker, so I grabbed the gun.” “Oh, no!” I say. “I shot at the carp.” “Did you miss?” I ask. “No, I hit the bottom of the boat. Shot a hole clean through it. There’s a reason they don’t sell boats with holes in the bottoms. Water comes in through them. Fortunately, I’m blessed with a rugged resourcefulness of the kind that made Lewis and Clark, Martin and Lewis, John Wayne, and Wayne Newton the fearless explorers that they were. I stuck a finger in the hole of that rowboat. If I would’ve had some chewing gum, I could have plugged that hole with some ABC (Already Been Chewed) gum. Note to self—never leave home without some gum duct taped to my ankle.” “That has created a disturbing cartoon bubble over my head,” I add. “I had a finger stuck in the hole in the bottom of the boat and I grabbed one of the oars with my free hand and began rowing. That’s what you do in a rowboat--you row. The problem was that with just the one oar in the water, I began to row in a circle. I felt like I was on a merry-go-round without the merry part. In order to keep from rowing in circles, I would switch arms on the oar. I’d pull my finger out of that hole and replace it with a finger of my other hand. Each time I did that, I would let a bit more water into the boat. I didn’t have a bucket to bail water with, but that was OK. I didn’t have a hand available for bucket duty.” “Quite a predicament,” I assess shrewdly. “I rowed with one hand and spun one direction, and then I switched fingers in the hole, letting more water into the boat. Then I’d row with the other hand, spinning the boat in the opposite direction. Good times. The boat was spinning as if it were about to go down a drain. I finally had let enough water in that the boat began to sink. I know the captain goes down with the ship, but this was a rowboat, for crying out loud.” “What happened?” I wonder aloud. “I had felt like a duck out of the water with my finger in that hole and rowing with one oar. Suddenly, I felt like a duck in the water. The boat sank and took me with it. My vocabulary began to deteriorate at that point. I emerged from the water and crawled soggily onto the beach like something from the movies.” “’The Creature From the Black Lagoon’?” I suggest. “Some guys are a lot smarter than they look. It’s too bad that isn’t your case. My boat, my rifle, and my radio are on the bottom of Lake Inferior.” “What happened to the carp?” I ask. “It swam away. I never heard a fish laugh before.”

WTG! Good catch. Great looking pictures and that spot looks nice. The hair is effective and when combined with the right bait, you can catch carp until your arms are sore.

What's corn ass. Sounds bad to me. There is lots of good advice here. I think the cheaper the canned corn the better for the reasons already stated. Bread compacted into a ball and put on the hook works as well. So a 50 cent can of corn and a $1.99 loaf of store brand bread and you are in business. Use strong sharp hooks. If gobies or small bullheads are a problem you can use boiled maize which is feed or cattle corn. Good Luck hope you hook a drag burner.

Great pictures and write up. Thanks. Ya it would be hard not to think of how to off the monsters.