LimbLifter

Agree with Garnet, stay on the break of the channel and keep your bait slow and near bottom. Not sure how far you are from the mouth, but I have done extremely well there drifting Lindy rigs with a floating jig head and minnow/worm. Good numbers of walters will be staging off the mouth around this time of year.

Its a Pike...definitely a large mouth Pike.

That fish hasn't run the river, but the next good rain will probably push it up. The only way they come back down river is floating upside down. It all depends when the fish will push up river. In early August, if you get a good cold rain, you can see good numbers of silver fish push up river with very few anglers around. In most cases, the fish will start turning colour as early as mid to late July out in the lake. Its not uncommon to catch a darkening fish in July downrigging in 100 to 150 ft of water. Most fish are aready a nice bronze color once they make it to the piers - although, as I mentioned in a prior post, there's always exceptions to the rule with fish that mature later. Nice fish for sure.

I think Bill M was talking generally. It's fairly rare to see such a silver fish such as the one in the picture, even at the pier. Maybe one in 10 fish have a silvery appearance and probably 99.9 percent of these silver fish will be females. These fish, for whatever reason, don't seem to get as dark. I've caught fairly silver fish in the river (when I used to fish the rivers), that were very ripe and spitting eggs. In the northern tribs (Bighead, Owen Sound etc.), they used to have the odd spring run chinook come through in April/May. These were pure chrome fish and would be fully ripe. If anybody has info on this strain, I would be very interested in hearing about it. I have only seen three caught in 25 years of fishing the rivers. Another interesting note - the eggs of these fish were very fragile, would break extremely easy, and couldn't be water cured like a typical chinny egg.

Great report and some nice fish. I'm heading up to the upper french for 4 days on Wednesday looking for the elusive walleye and Musky. If nothing else, it will be relaxing!

Too busy and too many drunk drivers.....

Surprisingly silver for this time of year. Nice going.

Justin Bieber . Daughter is with me.

Does anybody remember the small tablets called Worm-Up. You put them in the bottom of a bucket, put the hose in the bucket, and let the water overflow. You would have worms come up everywhere...big and small. it was an amazing product...just cant find it anymore.

That fish is a little channel cat...isnt it? It has a forked tail.

This is very interesting. By no means am I an expert, however, I do know there is a breed of Blue Walleye which excrete a blue mucous, but never have I seen anything to this degree. Typically fish will excrete excessive mucous if water quality is poor, overcrowding, or if the fish is stressed. I'm not sure when this fish was caught, but typically you will see more mucous on walleye during the latter summer months. The University of Wisconsin completed a study on blue walleye. See link below - I'm sure you will see similarities in pigment color. http://wayneschaefer.blogspot.com/

Well Done! I noticed the tail on that fish is very worn down...seems there is some spawing going on already.

She has my vote!

Good job! Nice to see your time in finally paid off!

Wow...this takes me way back...back to the days of bouncy little Erica Em on Much Music.....Anybody know what she's doing these days?

I went through a good number of you past posts looking for one where you posted a body of water. Couldn't find one....your are true to your word, I will refrane from posting locations in the future. Your moon was a little distrubing though....

Your welcome! I hope it catches something for you!

And maybe your too gullable?

The crowds were in Port Albert long before fishing boards on the net! If people want to wander down to the Maitland to give it a try, go for it. It's not like its a big secret there are fish in there. I've seen several posts mention, given that its October, that all tribs will have fish in them, you just need to put in the leg work. What....look out, the rivers are going to be loaded with fisherman now!!! There is a ton of information on very specific fishing locations on the internet with much of this information posted by the MNR. It is very easy to surf and find new spots to fish....the question is, can you actually catch fish in these spots??? Out of approx. 20 fisherman at the Maitland harbour, only 2 people had fish on all morning.....some fisherman I talked to mentioned they will not be returning. Do you write all the fishing shows that give out the location of the rivers/lakes? Maybe we should ask these fishing shows to refrain from mentioning locations and to block out the background in the video...that might work!

Great job Aaron! Gotta love Barry, every fish is like his first!

Yes, the Maitland is the main river in Goderich. I haven't fished Port Albert in many years....mainly due to the crowds. In the harbour, depending on how deep the water is, I will use either a slip float or a standard fixed float. This way you can fish in any depth of water anywhere in the water column. Depending on the water flow I will either bulk shot my line approx 2 - 3 feet above my hook, or, if there is good flow, I will use the basic river setup - largest BB shot at the top closest to the float moving smaller and further spaced near the hook. The latter setup will allow your bait to drift in front of your float instead of dragging behind.

Fished the Maitland harbour, floating roe, this morning for a couple hours. Two salmon, both very dark but full of energy, and one small bow about 3 lbs. Bows aren't in the harbour yet like I expected. Water was fairly clear and tidal water provided a half decent drift. Also fished the bayfield for an hour - one salmon drifting roe near the bridge - seen one small bow caught by a bottom fisherman. Suspect the rains today will bring in some fresh fish tonight, however, we still need a good sustained downpour to get some decent flow happening. Off to Scugog musky fishing tomorrow....will report back. LimbLifter

A camera flash is definitely the way to go if you want a bright glow. That said, I have always had better luck with a very dull glow, so dull it is difficult to see the spoon in the water. This is especially true if you are fishing clear waters. For this reason, I just use a simple flash light and I don't bother even bringing the camera flash with me. In many cases, your lure doesn't have to glow at all. Rattle traps or lures that offer strong vibrations will often produce when nothing else will, especially on nights with a lot of moon light. It's surprising what these fish can key in on, whether they are using their lateral line, or can actually see the lure, I'm not exactly sure....probably a combination of both.

Agree with irishfield. The same thing has been happening for 30 years and yes, with just as many people. That said, there was a lot more water in the rivers back then and fish could move even in low water conditions. On Bronte, the fish could move through to Lowville very quickly. It wasn't uncommon to see hords of salmon in mid august up in Lowville. Those days are long gone....

I would try http://www.greybruceoutdoors.com. You may have more success from this board.