Dontcryformejanhrdina

You should sit in the back seat of that car and get somebody to drive you around for the day, rolling down the window and grinning out the window with a carp in your arms at everybody at each red light, then slowly rolling it back up (tinted windows required).

That's Canada's justice system for ya.

Wouldn't it just be easier for you to tell us when they're NOT biting for ya? Looks like you're well on your way to another great season.

Congrats Djeep and thanks for having this contest Mike P. Your generosity was a great way to get some more fishing reports posted here, really nice to read the stories and see the pictures!

You'll end up having a few favourites that you keep going back to anyway, and most won't see the water much.

Great report, must feel so great catching fish on the fly! Someday I'd like to start fly fishing but I already have a hard enough time catching fish on a regular rod.

I've heard of that happening, never witnessed it myself. Some people think it might be because they just ate a big meal and are trying to swallow it, who knows? Definetly strange....

My 2nd tiger this year. Small but fast little bugger.

That should really aggravate the P3TA folks!

Hahaha. That's rich!

I'm jealous. That's going to be awful comfy when the bad weather hits.

I wish I would have used them more last year. It's such an easy lure to use too compared to reeling in double 10's all day.

I love my frabill frame (net too, it's flat bottomed) but sometimes when I'm fishing alone it's almost too sturdy, the big handle/frame makes it difficult to quickly move it through the water with 1 arm while fighting a fish with the other arm. Looks much better Lew.

That's great, you never know how they're going to react to it. Does this mean you can start trolling an extra rod now?

Wow, that is really incredible! I knew it was a trophy water but that is insane!

Great trip! Those are some beauty fish!

I ended up switching to a high numbers/low size lake on Sunday, and went from casting mainly bucktails to mostly sledges. Caught my first 2 of the season (small at 31 and 32", the smaller of the 2 trolling rod in hand) then gave the hot lure to my brother who caught his first when it was hot, sunny and no wind, a 34"er. Went back for 4 hours Monday night and caught 4 more (with 2 hits that got off), still small at 31, 32, 32.5 and 34". Just got back from a lake I normally fish, was out about 4 hours and caught 1 small pike, a fat 29" pike and a 26" tiger musky. Also raised at least 3 muskies (I think I raised the same one twice), one was about a 45"er that launched itself entirely out of the water a second after my sledge hit the water, moments before the thunder started. I now have a new favourite lure! I'm relieved to finally get into some fish and get confidence in using a new lure, even if I'm not seeing the size I want yet.

Awesome weekend! Congrats!

I had what looked like a pretty good one blow up on my bucktail yesterday and the back end of her came out of the water. Hard to judge the length but she was really thick. Tried going back later to see if I could get her to hit a couple of times but never saw it again. Then it was just more pike (8 or so) nipping at bucktails, no solid hits. No other lure is even getting follows right now. Back at her today, then headed to Haliburton tomorrow.

Is everyone else finding the musky fishing to be slow so far this year? I spent Sat until noon on Sunday in the Trent with only a pike to show for it, I changed waters on Monday and saw a lot of action catching 7 pike, had a ton more hits/near misses (including what would have been easily my PB best pike that had to have been pushing 40") and I raised 2 musky that were having no part of the figure 8. Then Wednesday it was tough with just 1 small pike nipping at my bucktail, and today in a new water that I've heard great things about it was more pike, 3 light hits/bumps and 2 follows, but no musky spotted. Is it normal for musky to be a little slow in June? Are they still recovering from the spawn? The pike seem on and much more aggresive, even under tough conditions (no wind, no clouds, hot) like it has been the last 2 days.

I've fished that stretch of river before so I'm happy they won.

I just did the same thing and it works now, thanks!

Same thing happens to me.

Yeah I was thinking about trying to wait out the storm on shore. Bad conditions today though before the lightning started: hot, sunny with no wind at all.

Had to leave the lake early due to lightning. Sucks that I've taken the week off work to fish and it looks like there's going to be 3 straight days of thunderstorms. Hopefully tomorrow it will hold off long enough for me to catch a musky.