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What a great opportunity! Good on you for offering this up. If it was 1989 I'd take you up on your offer. Lol

From the older reports under the handle of Solopaddler to all the recent ones, your reports never disappoint!!! Awesome report Mike...I'm actually speechless!!

A true multi species angler!! Great results for the first half and may the second half be even better! (esp as the big fish put on the feed for fall!) Looking forward to seeing more of your successes.

It's ALLLIVVVEEE!!!!!LOL Awesome work!

Maureen, if all you want are small panfish, then try Heber Down Conservation area in Whitby. There is a little pond there stocked with sunfish, bullhead and some years small rainbow trout. If you are interested I will pm you more info.

It's a monster!!! Congrats on the PB!!!!

The ones I frequent are: www.sailflow.com www.windguru.com For the Great Lakes I use www.glerl.noaa.gov/glcfs

This is all I was able to find... SHADOW LAKE Depth: 22 metres at its deepest and averages 7.8 metres Species: Pickerel, Lake Trout, Muskie, Smallmouth and Largemouth Bass, Sunfish, Carp and Bullhead Found this on another site... "Sorry I missed this earlier. I had family on the lake and used to do quite well there when I was living in Lindsay. I found dusk and dawn topwater fishing to be great around any of the rocky islands that run the centre of the lake out from Island View Park. I would fish the deeper water surrounding the islands throughout the day and drag craws and pumpkinseed tubes in 10-15 fow. Any of the docks along the north side were also productive but summer weekends saw lots of swimming kids and jetskis. I fished largemouth in the grass north of the park in the bay on the east side. Dragging dark worms for largies always produced a few decent fish. I found them to be big but spooky because local kids fish there often with paddle boats and fish got skitish. I found that size was a little smaller in the southern part of the lake near the rapids into Silver Lake and in the Gull River inflow to the north but there were good numjbers of fish. I would pick up the odd musky while fishing bass although we did pick up a few musky trolling the deeper water in the northern part of the lake but I havn't spend a great deal of time trolling musky. There are other lakes within 20 minutes of there that are much more productive for musky. Also, be careful if you are heading down towards silver lake. There are lots of shallow rocks heading down that way. They all hold fish who seek cover among the lower units sitting on the lake bottom. Take it slow. Good luck!"

Yep...I wondered about his sanity when he went into a pool filled with piranha just to see if they'd eat him alive....LOL.

Billy...I haven't either...was too much work...LOL.

If you want to catch a huge fish, don't bring your camera!

Back to the original post..... Great day fishing for sure! Conditions were tough and you managed to catch some nice fish. Congrats!

Great report and pics!! I kept waiting for "epic" injury lol. A flat tire which you were prepared for and the rest of the report was all great! No walleye but lots of trout is a nice thing too.

Hey Billy! Still doing fish wrangler on Facebook? Lol.

Hey there! Good to see you on here again. I don't fish nearly as often as I used to, but hoping to fix that this year as well.

Yikes!!! That's just brutal! Glad you found a place to launch though. Looking forward to your report...always love the pictures you take!!

Great video and nice fish!

That is still to come in part two of this report!!

Thanks Joey! Our original plan was Simcoe for Whities and Lake Trout, but had to change to plan B after seeing the forecast!

With my little one finally on the mend from having her tonsils out a few weeks ago, it was time that I got out fishing again! It had been so warm recently, images of summer weather fishing danced in my head as I looked forward to getting out there again. Will and I planned for Sunday to be the day. Figures that a cold front of epic proportions had to come through!!! From humidex values in the 30s mid week to morning lows of around 5C and highs of just 15C was just cruel!! As the date approached we also saw the winds were going to be horrible...so we had to pick the lake carefully. After seeing pretty much every forecast saying 25km/h winds out of the north to northwest we had it narrowed down to a few areas. I arrived at Will's place around 545 this morning, the wind already gusting. I asked him where we were fishing and he said "You tell me". So off we went...along the 401 and up the 115. I was looking at the winds and lake maps and decided that maybe we should target walleye on Rice Lake. There are lots of islands to hide behind...and as long as it isn't a west wind, then we should find some calmer waters to fish. We arrived around 715ish...and launched....lines in the water just before 8am. The fishfinder was making a TON of fish suspended all through the column...so when I saw Will put a jig and worm on, I decided to try throwing crankbaits for a bit. Neither of us had any action, so I put a jig on as well...pink plastic grub tipped with a worm. I did my best to keep the jig as close to bottom as possible...and because of the early weeds, it was easy to rip through them when caught up. One time, I felt tension...wasn't sure, so I set the hook anyways. The result was this guy! The first walleye of the day! We kept on hugging fairly close to shore and I picked up another one a little while later Will was getting a little anxious about maybe not getting one, so he switched up and decided to drop shot for them! He picked up a few sunfish, but then finally in the afternoon he got on them! The day ended up with Will with 3 walleye...and me with 2. A few panfish and one nice out of season smallie. The winds really began to howl around 3pm...so we decided to call it a day and we headed in. We were quite happy with our results considering the cold front and winds we had to battle to stay out of! Had another great day out there Will! Now...next month, lets go get some muskie or Lake O salmonids!!

Another classic Bernie weekend it seems! Don't worry Joe, I will be gracing your presence for the September trip, so you can just relax in the cottage and not waste your time trying to catch fish Will, that really is a great sunset picture!! I may steal it for my wallpaper on my computer! Glad to hear you guys got into some numbers on this trip...it always is more fun when you catch lots of fish (or at least so I hear!!) LOL.

The pike you caught is more than I have caught this year so far!! Great report...and the one that got away will be bigger the next time....

Apparently a second one followed 10 minutes later. Automatic detection of seismic event: magnitude 4.2 - 17 May 9:53 EDT - BRAESIDE, ON region Automatic detection of seismic event: magnitude 4.8 - 17 May 9:43 EDT - BRAESIDE, ON region Source: http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-eng.php

I'm at home with my daughter and we both looked at each other as the house shook! Lasted about 20 seconds....rhythmic motion.

Here's a few links.... http://ge.ssec.wisc.edu/modis-today/index.php?satellite=a1&product=true_color&date=2013_05_02_122&overlay_sector=false&overlay_state=true&overlay_coastline=true http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/