northernpike56

Nice

No size limit currently on bass. However it might be a good idea eventually

^ not if there were 2+ people fishing and putting in the bucket with sport licenses. It all depends on the circumastances

Hi guys, Could anyone on here give me some advice on where I should go in Hamilton Harbor to fish for perch. I have tried la salle off the concrete pier with worms and only caught gobbies. I might go to buy some minnows soon too so I will stop catching gobbies and start catching some real fish. On a side note, here is a huge walleye I caught somewhere very late at night. It weighed 5.06 pounds on my electronic scale and had a measurement of 25.5 or .6 inches Thanks, Matt.

Quick question. Not to hijack the thread. Is it a bad idea for me to purchase a 2wd ford ranger to tow a 16 ft hydrostream boat with? Probably 1000 or 1500 lbs i guess. Issue is i probably cant afford an awd f150, and i have not too much driving experience (17 years old).

I lol'd

Nice fish and sweet shades man. Me and chris caught a nice smallmouth the other day too, but it was in a lake

I'll second what Rich said- the Grand River in the lower stretches (below Caledonia or so) has a lot of sheephead in it, basically any roughfish in general. Channel cats, bullhead, bowfin, white bass, sheephead.

^ this.

I caught a lot more pike in this huge lily pad bed, but never brought my phone with me because I didn't want to wreck it encase I dropped it in the lake or tipped etc., but nothing hugely special. Also caught a few smallmouth, but nothing huge, and no pictures.

Hi guys, I just got back from Lake Vernon, fishing was pretty good for a lot of smaller sized fish. Didn't catch any pike over 30 inches like I wanted to, but I caught a ton of 24-28" fish from the dock as well as from the boat. The best setup for me this week was probably a big sucker minnow rigged up with a bell sinker, a 10" stainless steel leader, and a big treble hook suspended roughly 4-5 feet under a big float. I also caught a lot of fish on this cheap daredevil spoon I had, until one pike broke the hook off (I guess thats why you go with the 'real' version, eh?). Spinners like mepps and blue fox also did really well. This little hot rod pike I caught had a huge rip in his side. You can't see it in the pic because it was on his left side, but he didn't look so well. Behind the tear all of his skin was discolored, like he way dying. I threw him back but then he slowly came back up up-side down and splashing to the surface a few minutes later, so I jumped in the lake and grabbed him. This was the only fish I kept during the week, just because he looked like he was having a bad day (dying). It looked like a huge pike probably grabbed him. Some others: Also caught this walleye that had a really nice dark coloration on it. I caught him on a bass crankbait, casting it from my dock. It was the last thing I was expecting to hit, because walleye aren't even supposed to be in Vernon. Released, of course, so hopefully a population will eventually establish. Algonquin: I also spent two days in Algonquin, given it's close proximity to Lake Vernon. While I was there, I just drove around all the roads leading off of highway 60, hoping I would find a dock or somewhere where I could shore fish. I caught a lot of smallmouth bass, but no splake or brook trout. Here is a really nicely colored one from the Tea Lake dam, right after the west gate of the park.

I'll also probably be there. Can't wait for our Bruce Peninsula trip in a few days too man.

Heaviest, longest rod you own, largest capacity reel spooled with 10-20 pound line, and a few little cleo 2/5 or 3/4 oz spoons. the glowing paint ones work the best. You can charge them with your iPhone camera but it's not necessary.

Very carefully.

Thats crazy, but well worth the expense lol. Bet it was awesome. Even riding in a convertible at mid 120's km/h is sweet. Feels so awesome to have the wind in your face

122 km/h is so fast, fastest I've been on a boat is around 80 km /h and that felt crazy. How many hp is the motor?

+1 for size not mattering. Its a nice fish though for sure, first fish are always so cool to catch too. For me, I just have lake trout and musky left to catch, and I get excited even just fishing a lake that has them in it.

Only real spots are off the rocks before the pier, and then right on the pier. When you are on the pier, fish the grand river side rather than the lake. Ive not caught anything on the lake side

also somehow snagged this monster by the belly right after i let the walleye go... Thought it was another walleye by the way it dragged through the water.

For those who don't know, apparently walleye were fished out of the lake in the 90's and have never been stocked in Vernon since. However they have been stocked in Buck and Fox lakes which empty into vernon through a river. So I think that this fish was most likely one that drifted down into vernon past the rapids and eventually made it to where I am staying. I caught this monster on a bass crankbait that I was using for pike. Its name escapes me but its a KVD crankbait, running at about 6-8 feet

Caught a walleye off the dock!!!!!!!!!!!!

Poor boat. That pic looks nasty. Does your insurance go up when you claim something like that? And do you write the smaller things off such as your ice hut and deer stand too, or just take the blow out of your pocket?

Thanks a lot guys- my first full day here today. I might try some fishing this evening as the boat traffic dies down a bit. I bought some minnows in Huntsville to try for those big pike too. Theres a nice weedy looking area near my cottage that I can canoe to. Looks like there could be some pike and largemouth swimming around in there.

If you try Caledonia some time, I think it would be best to fish at the river below the dam there. If you use jigs tipped with worms, or a simple worm, splitshot and hook, you can catch your usual white bass, bullhead, channel cat, smallmouth, and walleye, but there are also a ton of bowfin (also called dogfish as a slang name), they are amazing fighters and look really cool close up. They are one of the few fish classified as a living fossil. Dogfish also love a big worm on a hook, and they hang out right around all those bullrushes below the dam, but I know people also catch them right in the rapids where the water pours down off of the dam.