Toad Hunter

This year, would be hard to tell with the weather we've had... but I prefer Late Sept.- October is very productive too, but I find the weather is less predictable and cold fronts can move in and cold rain with it can kill a trip pretty fast for those afraid to brave the elements. (or for people like myself in a little tin rocket, fighting swalls is no picnic either)

a cottage is on ANY water (big or small) is always good times, congrats on the new adventures and enjoy all projects that always seem to come with them...

That was also week days - wouldn't dream of attempting it on a weekend

I fished it a few times a week last summer, for a few hrs in the am. Happy to say I released everything I caught (all bass, a few crappie and a pike no longer than my forearm and not much thicker than, errr a couple fingers

Glad to hear its not just me but not glad to hear it hasn't got any better

thanx for the post, will be looking to pick one up tomorrow now

Its too bad there wasn't a way to light the bbq from a distance with fire crackers in side lol

now that last one is a helluva TOAD

Crappy tire berkleys for me, always scratching or closing tackle box lid on them, fallin over the wet side of the boat etc. So 18 bucks is perfectfor my clumsy ass lol

Great advice, I think only way anyone learns is the hard way lol. Another thing I keep in the "tool box" , that my buddies razz me about regularly, is chap stick (tastes better than sun screen and well the mrs likes it lol

if its the same switch i think everyones talking about i use it to let a little bit of line out from time to time when trolling cranks, but i could be using it wrong

BB don't lie, I've seen some of your perch threads, some of those looks darn close lol

Nm, just realized this is an old thread lol, guess there were still some left as of last weekend

Those are some real pig toads u got yourself there man, I can't wait to get back there, the bite is non stop and don't think I landed any under 10"s out of the at least 75 landed in the 3.5 hrs I was there - hope u left us some

here's a pic of the loot we ran off with (wasn't able to add the last pic for some reason to the initial thread ?) -notice the footballs in the bottom right corner (as if you can miss them)

So late last sat. I was invited last minute to fill a spot in my buddies boat for another one of his trips to Port Burwell. Having seen his pics from the previous week I was excited to say the least. When we get to "the bait guy" (those who are regulars there I'm sure know what the place is actually called-I how ever am not) - I was told "sorry we got no more bait, only frozen" - we then headed to the launch, a little disappointed , but I thought this was a chance for me to prove to my buddies "gulp alive will do the trick". This was no dice for my buddy who's been going there a few times this summer, "we gotta get minnows, we'll go to long point instead if we have to, or maybe the launch will sell em" at the top of the hill a sign reads "we have NO minnows" (so he decided to try frozen ones)- head BACK to the bait shop and lucked out some how got the last 3 scoops (maybe he thought my Buddy Ian was cuter? ) After hitting the water around 730-8ish, we started marking them "all over" in 39-41 FOW, got our selves rigged up with a simple "wally rig and weight" system, and we were on to fish in no time... Kevin scored first.. Then I picked up two and then it seemed we couldn't just land one at a time.. we must have thrown back thrice as many as we kept due to limited livewell space but all in all it was a great day in the sun, and a day I will be sure to try and duplicate on any given invite. here are a few of the nicer ones...

great pix !!! curious as to how you go about finding the rocky bottoms, and drop offs with out a finder ? maybe its a trick I can learn rather than spending money on a battery charger when mine inevitably dies ?? just messing with you, welcome to the forums, and looking forward to more of such fish porn

Do they make a 35 mph model for the QEW at 730 am crowd ?

Looks like u had great weather, question, u called it a "trailer- is there an extended version? Perhaps with some fish porn ? Where abouts in hali are u located ?

damn, it seems to be the 19.5's that win it, and I always seem to (well not "always") catch them in the 19-21 range in MY spot That settles it, I HAVE to enter next year, tired of excuses, well this year was the only one that I didn't have one, but I have to enter next year, final. lol glad to hear all the kids walked away with a fair prize too, my nephew will be old enough next year to bring with me so another reason TO enter

Also curuous if anyone here entered and how their weekend panned out for them, I passed on it this year expecting to be north again, but wasn't then ended up in Burwell for sunday perch fest (report to follow once I'm finished work and have access to the photos) - much better than my kashagawigamog failure

Anyone know the results of the grand river bass derby this year ? I heard as of sunday am, there were a couple in the 20" range on the board..

I would think who ever examined the cat would know to check between the toes for claws but their are some real winners out there so who knows :s

I know I promised "epic" and no one is more let down then myself so please keep the criticism to a mimimum. I know I have all summer so don't chastize me just yet

Well I debated if I even wanted to add to this thread after the horrible week I had, but figured I owed it to all who were curious, to at least post *something*. So Sat. am of the opener, I had the boat rigged up and ready to go by 7 am, I knew I was missing prime time by loading so late in the am, but was working late friday nite and had to wait for my buddy to help hand bomb the boat and jimmy rig the boat to the trailer. The first day, winds kept us off the water, and the Mrs told me it was time for "visiting" anyways. Later in the evening, I took the boat out for her "maiden voyage", set up the new finder and got familiar with it. This really got me lookin forward to a week on the waters. Sunday morning didn't sound too promising either, (calling for T storms) , in spite of the warning, my buddies still made the long drive from Kitchener for a "day trip" of fishing from 7 am - around 2, respectfully. Sadly though the weather man was half right , got the rain, but no storm around us. So we toughed it out and the bite "picked up". I was first on the board...but wouldn't brag about it. After my little rocket ran low on fuel, I had my buddy whip me down to bryson's to fill up the tank and decided to hit the mats in the narrows before Soyers, then my first catch got whiped away with my buddy Justin's catch (again nothing to brag about). and my buddy kevin got the skunk out of his pants with this nice catch (at least his excitement seems to reflect a trophy) Disappointed, my buddies made the long, wet drive home. I still wasn't thrown off, having fished this lake for the first 20 yrs of my life, and knew I had a whole week to make up for it. Monday again saw high winds that kept us tending to the garden and the beer fridge. and "around" 430 (don't ask how I knew the time )- we had a visitor of our own, this little guy we named him "Todd". I managed to get out for a few hrs in the evening tryin for some of the "eyes" in my old hot spot. I was marking them all over like the screen was paint balled, but couldn't get anything to take the assortment of goodies I offered them By Tues. I was determined I had to pull something - anything - into the boat, and thought I would try to whip down to the mats again and hell, even try for Justin's bass again just to have slime on my hands. But as I went to get around the point and put it in "high gear" I noticed engine problems (as I posted in another thread). Not being MY motor, I was really not interested in doing any (more) damage, or ruin my week by having the motor in parts on shore. So I was limited the rest of the week to my travels, and the week played out pretty much the same as the first few days.. with speding 6-8 hrs a day, I even threw all I had out there too, but couldn't get a single bite over a pound The water temps ranged from 68-74 depending on time of day and varying cloud cover and as for the bass, I was finding them in waters ranging from 8 ft - 15 ft with previous mentioned conditions. With same temps. I was finding, what I assume were 'eyes, given my known hot spot holds them, suspending around 17-20 in water that jumped from 27-15 ft of water. Didn't even attempt the long haul to the musky waters given the said motor troubles. Oh well , it's really late and its up in 4 and half hrs to try my luck at Burwell with the boys so heres hoping I can get something a little more exciting for everyone here lol.