jediangler

Now that looks like a fine day on the water. Thanks for posting.

Now that looks like a fine day on the water. Thanks for posting.

Way to go Tundra'n. Congrats on your first laker dude.

Wow, you're really becoming a celeb. Sorry to hear you have to work on this last long weekend of the summer, but thanks for keeping our highways safe.

Just take length and girth measurements and a few good pics and you can have a replica mount made and let the fish go. They last longer and look like they just came out of the water. Plus you can brag about the fact that it's still swimming, spawning and growing larger for the next time you catch it. Who knows, 10yrs from now you may catch a big bass that is alive because you let it's mother go.

Great family, fishing and fun report. That is a beauty smallie there, love those colours. Well done.

Very nice ski jr, congrats.

Back to fishing...The Berkley spider.

Congrats on your first ski. Now all other fish will seem wimpy in comparison.

There is a resort called "Triple T Cedars" right next to Emily PP. They rent boats & motors. That is a great stretch to fish. All around the bridge as well as along the lily pads after the bridge. Just outside the swimming area of "Triple T Cedars" and up by the floating sign for "Fee's Landing". We spent a week throwing spinnerbaits and caught 70 bass, 9 musky & 4 walleye.

Does that doggy lifejacket come with split rings to attach trebles to? Just wondering .

Cool. Kinda like a National Geographic fishing report. Great pics.

The only time I fished BOQ we drifted with #3 bluefox spinners tipped with a full dew worm. Just fished it off bottom and lifted and slow dropped like fishing with a jig. Fished bail open with a finger holding the line. When we felt a take we'd release the line and count up to 6 or 8 seconds before closing the bail and sweep setting the hook. We ate walleye with every meal for five days. Biggest was 7.5lbs.

Nice largie pd4. What's the weed situation at the berg right now? I imagine the water levels are better than usual for this time of year.

Best thing about a small pond is people with big boats can't fish it. Less pressure means bigger fish.

It certainly was a fun fish to catch in the kayak. I find it easier to hand land them out of the yak as opposed to using a cradle in an aluminum boat. Everyone seems to forget that the Innuit have been hunting whale, seal, walrus and narwal out of kayaks for centuries. Picture a guy with a harpooned Beluga whale holding the rope in his kayak in sub zero temps being towed around an ice flow. Now that's EXTREME kayaking. Kinda makes my musky insignificant. Next challenge, bring on the Chinooks

Returned to Camp Ashtabula on Pigeon lake for a second time this summer, this time with a plan to test drive a new kayak. Spoke to the crew at Wild Rock outfitters in Peterborough and they suggested a Necky Manitou Sport. The idea was that it would handle my 200lbs but be managable for my 8yr old daughter. It measures out at 10'11" long and weighs 44lbs. It has a sealed rear bulkhead and plenty of deck rigging in both bungee and nylon ropes. I attached a portable version of my hockey stick camera mount with tape to take pics if I caught anything photo worthy. I always use my own paddle on a test ride or rental, this way I can judge the performance of the boat alone. My daughter gave the Manitou Sport 2 thumbs up for a comfortable seat and ease of paddling. I found it to be very fast for a rec yak, but because of my weight, I did get wet. Any waves hitting me broadside greater than a foot would break in my lap. I had the wife drive me up the lake 3km so I could paddle back and fish for perch and crappie with my ultra-lite. This scrappy 24" ski hit a 1/16oz jig & grub combo in 4ft of water. A nice little battle on a 5'5" ugly-stik. Good thing I had 10lb Fireline on my reel as I had no leader. Did some fishing in a rental 14' w/9.9hp with the wife and daughter as well. This perch was one of 21 fish she landed in a 1.5hr drift. She caught bluegill, sunfish, rockbass and perch with her pink & white tube on a 1/16oz jig. I had it on a stringer for her until she decided that she couldn't eat it because it was so cute. My wife fished a 1/8oz jig and grub combo in white and caught several largies this size as well as loads of panfish. This puppy was 43" and hit a Mepps musky killer bucktail (gold blade w/black buck) in 12ft of water along a weedline. It went deep first, burying itself in the weeds, and wouldn't budge. I used the old guitar plunking the line on it and bolted out of the weeds and into deeper water. I was pulled maybe 25ft and then spun around once before it came to the surface so I could see it. Then it soaked me with it's tail a few times and spun me around again before I got a hand on it. It did manage to stick 2 teeth into my thumb while I was unhooking it, but it was very co-operative for the size and the pain was worth it. I took a measurement and a couple of photos before releasing it. It was my second longest ever and a new kayak PB. My adrenaline was pumping and I would have won an Olympic gold medal on my paddle back to the cottage to tell the story and show off my pics. This was the first pic I took with the sun behind me, kinda cool with the rays all around me.

I'm not a big fan of Wallymart, but I did buy a rod & reel combo for my wife there before our trip to the cottage a month ago. It was an Abu Garcia Controller combo for $38. I put 40lb power pro line on it and she caught this musky right off the dock. She used it this past week again when we returned for another week and has had no problems with the combo. It has a nice cork handle and is a medium sized spinning outfit just right for your needs. You can always move up to a more expensive set up and keep this as an alternate.

I'm with Urban, that's a largie alright. Congrats on the multiple musky day. I bet now your boat smells just right .

I caught my first musky in the Scugog river, right in Lindsay. I was fishing with jigs and live minnows for walleye. Are you shore fishing?

Snidley is right about the trains at Mountsberg. It can be irritating after 4 or 5 trains. If you go to Google maps and check the satelite photo of Mountsberg, you can see a train crossing the lake at the time of the photo. At least it's quieter than fishing Kelso conservation area next to the 401. That is an i-pod fishing lake for sure.

Nice pike monty, good on you for releasing it

Mountsberg conservation area is a good bass and pike lake, just don't try to fish it without paying first, the fines are steep.

All the leaf fans are excited, wait till the news comes out that in order to take McCabe the Panthers want their first round pick next year as well. With the leafs finishing in the bottom 5 teams for sure, there goes their chances for Tavaras. Win, Laugh, Win

I had the same rod holder and installed it in my kayak. After two trips I took it off. It is now sitting in a drawer with all the other crap that I thought I needed. In all fairness it did do it's job, but I found it to be in the way more than a help. Maybe I'll re-install it behind the cockpit for holding an extra rod & reel combo.