My parents spent last weekend at Jack Lake, and my step dad got to do a little fishing. I gave him several spinner baits to use, but he didnt have any heavy gear, and stuck to worms at leeches catching several nice bass off the dock infront of the cottage.
It has been a couple years since I have been to Jack lake. It was the Second Kawartha Lake I ever fished (behind Scugog) and we have been makign trips up to our friends cottage since the mid 90s. I caught my first musky on Jack lake, and several more follow each time. Our family friend Tom (the cottage owner) taught me alot about fishing when I was young, but we havent fished together in several years.
Gillian and I are moving out east to Nova Scotia in at the end of teh week, and had one last chance to get away and enjoy the beauty of Ontario. We both decided there was no where else we would rather be then Jack Lake, so we called up Tom to set up one last fishign trip. No better place to end our stay here in Ontario, by fishing the lake I have fished more then any other, and spend time fishign with the only person I knw who uses a Mepps Black Fury as much as I do.
We got in late Thursday (my birthday!) after a LONG drive. We fished a little off the dock before the mosquitos chased us into the cottage. Fishing was pretty tough after heavy rain stroms passed through later that night (and ealier that day) I managed a few decent bass, and after several hours of tossign spinnerbaits, finally found a Jack Lake musky.
Fished out of a peddle boat most of the trip!
Caught the biggest bass of teh trip right under the dock in about 1 foot of water...
Sorry team 5 - I had my ofncommunity.com paper with me, but it blew into the water as I set up for this photo!
My first and last musky of 2007
Tom wasnt able to join us until Sunday, but we spent most of the day fishing with minnows and leeches (well he did, I used spinner baits) but fish were scare, awe each caught a few bass and perch.
All in all, a great way to spend the weekend.