willow

Welcome to the board Nick

 

If you're wading in the water or floating a canoe and anchoring up in the water anywhere around cooks bay, you are fishing on crown land (despite what landowners tell you). Cooks bay is a navigable waterway and the water and bottom of the lake is owned by the crown.

 

This web-page may be helpful in understanding navigable waterways.

http://www.greybruce...blewaters.shtml

 

Obviously try to be polite when mentioning to irate landowners that they can be charged for interfering with your fishing under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act 1997. Should higher authorities such as the police or conservation officers get involved, they would be violating your right to fish under the Heritage Hunting and Fishing Act 2002 by asking you to leave.

 

If you see carp in the shallows, fish away…But don't step onto dry land till you reach a public area.

Hi Mike we must get a trip going sometime soon, & Hi and thanks to all who have replied so far

I thought I was right & politely told him so, shame he was not quite so polite but I did tell him where to go in the end basically, I am suprised I have not seen more shore anglers wading around the bay as it is very shallow though the water needs to warm a little more yet to be really comfortable. The reason I am wading is I know they come in close but I think at the minute they may be a looking for water a little deeper 3 foot is about the tops right now down the bottom end as I said I was amazed last summer how far out I got across the bay in waders though I had to come back in as the kite surfers were a little to close to me for my liking & one boat was flying & not looking where he was going I was a little worried to say the least mind you I was along way out testing how far I could go.

The bottom was pure sand everywhere I got to. Is that the same lower down towards Holland river I wonder i would think it is a little more silty and muddy there.

Hi I am new on here but know a few people from the CAG board.

I am a brit living near Lake simcoe I target big carp & have had some success around Georgina & Bradford on the rivers.

I want to chase the big carp on Lake Simcoe but of course access to shore space is very limited.

I want to target them down in cooks bay this spring, now if I wade at say knee depth or anchor my canoe off shore ( havent got it yet depends on the answers I get here) where can I stand and fish.

I have to stand as my method of fishing involves placing the rods on stable fixed banksticks & european bite alarms

I was told by an angry person sunday I was not allowed to fish in front of his property though I was wading 20yards offshore ( only knee deep but then at 100 yards it is only 3 feet deep) as far as I was aware you can only own the land up to the lake not the lake itself or am I wrong. I was not near a dock or any property it was basically open water with no markers etc.

Any thoughts welcome & hello to you all including the guys I already know on here