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Nice report and pics! Great work for the first time on the lake this year. Too bad the batteries died on you...would have like to have seen more fish pics!

Great job! Real nice summary of a year's fishing!

Well, I dont have a lot to go by for either species, but I'd have to say the salmon take longer runs, but the muskie have a more "ferocious" attack on the lure and seem to have more aggressive fight overall. For excitement, I'd have to give the edge to muskie.

Wow...what a fantastic boat! Carefully designed from years of experience out there. I'm just trying to get my hands on a 14 foot tinny with a 20hp motor on it...maybe one day I can aspire to have a boat like this...wow...that's all I can say!

Sweet Pike!!! Good idea tricking people into believing those GPS coordinates too....haha.

Those are some HOGS!!!! Great job!

Oh well, guess I'll try to get one thru the ice this winter...and try to get it out of the way first!! Thanks everyone for your input....I never get up to Georgian Bay.... Although, I did get a tip of place close by.....

So what you're telling me is that Lake Simcoe is the only place to get them?? LOL. Oh well...maybe next year! Does this mean I have to go icefishing??? ACK!!!

So, this wasn't an original goal for me this year, but with the surprise Muskie I got on the weekend, I was looking at the OFAH awards accepted species and I figured I have a shot at getting a qualifying fish in all the categories. The 10 are.... Smallmouth Bass Largemouth Bass Northern Pike Muskie Walleye Trout Salmon Panfish Carp Whitefish The only ones I do not have are Walleye (which I'm hoping to get this fall) and Whitefish. My question is....where do you get Whitefish? I've heard of them from Lake Simcoe, but is there anywhere else? How hard is it to get a 22" one? Thanks!

Wow...great work Jen! Looks very tasty!!!

Beauty muskie!!! Wow...cant even begin to imagine what it would be like to land a fish like that. Congrats!

Unbelievable report and pics! Those fog shots and scenery were breathtaking. The fish pics just made my jaw drop onto my keyboard. Fantastic all around bunk!!! Heading off to read part 2 now.....

LOL...excuses excuses...I landed a nice one in your old canoe...mind you....in huge 4 inch waves and we had a net....haha. Talk to you later Jason! Cliff

Thanks....in talking with the owner of the marina...water levels are down 2 feet from normal....which in that lake is HUGE!!

Nice job there guys! What..no pics of Jason's catch?? haha. Gotta love it when the fishing is on....see you out there I'm sure!

Thanks everyone! Had a great day out on this lake for the first time ever! I can see how addicting these fish can be...they sure are thrilling to see in action. Crazyhook....I knew it was 15 pounds because as I brought it out of the water, I weighed it while it was still in the net....taking into account the weight of the net of course.

Wow...those are great smallies! Sounded like they had some good fight in them too. The video was a nice touch. I've enjoyed all your bass reports this year....so much so that I actually went out to target them a few times with fellow OFNers.

Great report and pics! At least you got into some nice fish there. Sounded like you had a great time...great fishing, great friends....that's what it's all about.

Wow...that's a great video!!! I always think I should do that, but then when there's a fish on I always forget...LOL. Most of my fishing is at night, so video would kinda suck, but on those odd days I fish during the day, it's the furthest thing from my mind. Great job and great muskie!

Wow...50 people? That's just insane. I'd just turn around and leave. If anyone got into one, I'm sure it would be a tangled mess as it swam through other's lines.

Fishing is like that....can be maddening, can be great! Count this as an in-between day...hehe. Great pics and report as usual Tbay!

You are right! Going for walleye and getting a great pike! Good job!

Orange and black worked for me on the weekend as well! Congrats to your dad on his first!

Lew...some real beauties there!!! Your instincts are amazing when it comes to these fish. Those scenery shots were pretty cool too. Thanks for the report!!

Saturday morning, our oldest came up to us and asked if she could go to the mall with one of her friends. We said sure...no problem. She then asked for more money than we were going to give her...and she ended the request by saying "I'll babysit Sunday for you so you can go fishing!!". Well, she knows how to get what she wants doesn't she?? LOL. Anyhow, with our new found fishing time, Bly and I decided to head somewhere, rent a boat and see what we could bring in. We were still looking for a decent sized muskie, so we decided on a Kawartha Lake. We had rented boats two times before on this lake, but never caught anything....not even panfish....LOL. We always joked that the weedline in that lake was the shore...haha. With that in mind, we decided to rent from Island Marina, instead of the one right in Port Perry. They were very friendly and helpful there, and they have brand new 14 foot aluminums with 9.8hp motors on them. I had brought my trolling motor along, but ended up having not much need for it as they idled right down to a great trolling speed...and surprisingly quiet too. As we headed off across the lake, Bly suddenly says "Hey...STOP!! There's a weed line!!" We couldn't believe it...an actual weed line in this lake...LOL. We started out by trolling along this edge, but wouldn't you know it....all we caught were...well....weeds. I then put us about 20 ft off the weedline and drifted along it. We were throwing some spinnerbaits when suddenly I feel a pretty good weed. I go to pull it thru the weeds and it pulls back...LOL. I set the hook properly and suddenly the fish starts pulling drag off my reel. It takes a few nice runs, but I didn't want to horse the fish in, so steady as she went...me gaining some ground...it pulling some drag, until finally it was close enough to net. What a thrill it was to see this fish come in...my first decent sized muskie. It measured in at 39" and weighed 15 pounds...not a trophy, but my biggest muskie ever. (also only my second one...LOL). Here's the pic. And the obligitory release shot.... Wow...we decided to try a few deeper part of the lake (also not easy if you know this lake...LOL), without any luck, so we decide to head back to the area we had action earlier on. We figured we'd drift a bit around the same area. About 10 minutes later, as I'm reeling my spinnerbait, I'm lazily looking into the water. My lure is about 3 feet from the boat when suddenly this huge shadow snakes out of the weeds below. It startled me (or I shrieked like a school girl), so when I saw it's huge mouth take the bait, I set the hook, but the hook came right out. DAMN!!! I left the spinnerbait in the water and it turns and and hammers it again!! This time I set the hook and the fun started all over again....at least until it jumped and cleared the water and spit my hook. Wow...it was soooo close.... It was getting later in the day, so we decided to troll back to the marina for one last run. About half way back, Bly yells FISH ON!!! Her bait was about 150 feet off the back of the boat, so it took a long time to get this fish close to the boat. It stayed deep and went under the boat and around the other side. As she begins to bring it to the surface, there were a few head shakes and it spits the hook!!! ARGHHHH!!! Oh well...at least there was some great muskie action today. Now that we've found a place on this lake to hook into them, we'll be back a few times for sure during this fall to wrestle with them again.... Oh yeah...the other night, I went fishing...pulled this Chinook in....38" and 19.5 pounds....(not in Scugog...LOL)