toronto islands report

[napjohn8]

So decided to head down to the toronto islands fo some early pike action. I arrived at hanlins ppint at 11:30a and started casting a rapala husky jerk from the docks and all along the west side of the channel. In the 8ft-10ft depth i had 2 bites but the pike were just messing around and were very lazy and not aggressive at all. So i decided to change tactics and move to the chartenese booyah spinnerbait with a large colorado blade. However aound 12:30 fishing the stretch of the centre island channel i had some swans join my party. The day went fairly bad with hardly any pike being caught. The water levels were still a foot higher than there regular levels. i only took four photos with my iphone.

[napjohn8]

2nd pic

[steverowbotham]

when they're lazy like that, slow the retrieve, going to a "faster" bait like a spinnerbait may draw a reaction bite, but you're best bet is to just slow the retrieve on the jerkbait.

[napjohn8]

ya i was at doing a solid 4-5 second pauuse with the crankbait but still nothing, i find the pike didn't want to move from the 8+ft water to get the crankbait that was 4 ft deep.

[steverowbotham]

with cold water temps, i will often pause a jerkbait for up to 30 seconds, a 10 second pause is not that big of a stretch