GBAY ANNUAL BASSIN AND HUNTIN

[snagmaster]

A few of my buddies and I go up to Gbay every thankgiving to hunt and fish. The scenery is gorgeous, the fishing is hit or miss and the hunting is toughbut still my favorite place to visit. Got up to Gbay on friday afternoon and setted up for the duck hunt. Not to many dcuks buzzing around probly do to the heat but got a few and my budy nich shot two woodcock. We were planning on grouse hunting on saterday but Woodro and I wanted to check out the fishing first. Checked out an old smallie spot first thing in the morning and hooked into this 36 and a half inch pike....very wide back on her.

 

release shot

Continued working the spot and Crazy nick my fishing partner for the weekend picked up a couple 2lb smallies....Woodro and stelooch picked up a couple of smallies too but it was a tough bite tho. On the way back to the lodge for lunch we stopped at woodros Largie spot . I picked up one nice one and woodro got 2 or 3.

 

Got back to the Cabin and had a fiest.We ate Woodros Buck all weekend and boy was it tasty....By the way congrats woodro on your first deer. We were supose to go out for the duck hunt again but I knew nothing would be flying so we went fisihng again...went back to our smallie area...Missed a few nice fish as they werent very active but Crazy Nick picked up a 5.2lber and a 2lber....Thats his new personal best smallie.

 

went back to the cabin and drank our faces off and had a blast. The next day was the tourny between the two boats. we Both went out for smallies first thing in the morn but all we could hook was small pike and i lost one hog....Around !pm I siad to nick we should check out the largie spot but he wanted to stay on the smallie pattern ...big mistake...we headed back to the cabin at 2pm fpr lunch and woodro had 5 nice largies in the well and we had nothing....But it wasnt over yet...weigh in was at dark...we ate like champs again and headed out.....woodro and stelooch took an hour nap because they thought they had it in the bag....we got to the spot and within an hour and a half we hooked 11bass....and they were hogs...I got two 5lbers and one just under in 15 minutes.heres a few of the fish.

my 2 fivers

neekos with some fish

another hog

we caught our limit and figured we had them beat so we headed over to the smallie spot for the evening.....Met back up with woodro after dark at the spot to weigh in and release the fish. We weighed in 22lbs 13ounces and woodro and stelooch weighed in 21lbs 4ounces....that was our best five fish.....they were shocked....got out for a few hours on monday morning and the largies were on again as soon as the heat picked up....Nick and I caught 7 more and i lost one that made my fives look tiny...Must have been 6 or 7 lbs...no joke.

a 4lber with some serious teath marks..must have been a big ski

 

was an awesome trip. cant wait to go next year and get that 7lber...lol.....thanks for reading guys and goodluck on the water

Edited October 15, 2008 by snagmasteral

[tbayboy]

Nice stuff Snag. A weekend with buddies that can't be beat for sure.

[azanier]

Whoa that last fish had some serious damage

[johnnyb]

Gotta love the big fat fall bass -- you really took it to 'em! And yeah...I'd like to see the fish that left the teethmarks

[tibbs]

Great Report!

 

Looks like you guys had a fantastic weekend.

[salmon]

Nice mix of fish WTG

Some nice buckets

 

Jose

Edited October 16, 2008 by jchau53

[solopaddler]

That was flippin' unreal man. Wow!

[fishindevil]

Awesome big,fat,fall smallies & buckets guys !!!!! looks like you guys had a great time,and georgian bay produced big time !!! nice pics of all those fish,and to think of what size muskie or pike that tried to eat that bass !!! congrats on winning the tourney,proof again that hard work pays off !!! cheers

[Cast Adventures]

Those are HOGS!

 

Well done guys!

[irishfield]

Looked like a great weekend SM !

[tdotfisherman]

Great report snagmasteral, It was perfect up on GBay this Thanksgiving weekend, I know cuz I was there.. not fishing though, but doing work to help close up the cottage.. I'm jelous now that I didn't make more of an effort to get out on the water.. looks like you guys caught some big ones! Thanks for posting.

[PatrickGG]

Nice Hogs Alex, Gbay is Awesome i will never turn down the opportunity to fish there.

Edited October 16, 2008 by PatrickG

[Rizzo]

man those are some serious bass. Looks like a great time

[steverowbotham]

thats awesome!

[tinbanger]

great report guys , those are some serious fish.

 

Interesting shot of the teeth marks ,,however there are NO muskies in GBAY

 

TB

[MCTFisher9120]

wow you guys caught lot's of BIG fish. Congrads

[b2kptbo]

Some beauty Bass, WTG...

[corvette1]

great trip nice haul on the bass

[mattyk]

great report, some real nice hawgs!

[Leecher]

Great report and pics Snag

 

That's a real nice looking pike on the first pic Looks very healthy, beautiful colors.... and those bass hawg size

 

Thanks for sharing

Leechman

Edited October 16, 2008 by Leechman

[snag]

Wow!

[Cudz]

Nice fish!!

That is a big bag of fish.

My buddy won the snowflake bass tournament both days out of Midland on the bay.

He gor 22+lbs on day one and 24+lbs on day 2. His total was 46 and change for 2 days. The bay is on fire. Both smallies and largies. He told me he could have caught 7 limits on the Sunday if he wanted and he said if he one more hour to fish he would have had a 25 pound bag.

I work on Georgian Bay so I know it is a tremendous fishery at times.

[bucktail]

Thats sum SERIOUS fish man!!!

Congrats..........and take me next time@@!!!!!~

[Ramble]

Great Report man. Seeing dinged up Essox prey never fails to impress.

 

-R-

[Pachone]

HOGS!!!!!

 

Wow sick A$$ report!

 

Good job guys!