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Centre Island Walleye(!) 2 for 2!


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Hey guys... I just joined up here now that I've re-discovered my childhood fishing fanaticism. I just started going to the Toronto Islands last year, when I caught a couple of pike. I've been out both of the past weekends, but can't seem to find the pike yet this year.

 

However last Sunday (the 10th), the first cast of the day brought in this walleye in the same spot where I caught a nearly identical one the week before:

 

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The one from the week before (no pic, sorry) was on a firetiger Rapala HJ-14, this one was caught with a clown x-rap (XR-10 size, 4" for scale). Not that I'm complaining, but I'm still jealous of some of you guys with your 5 and 6 pike days out there... Maybe the long weekend will be better to me.

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That's pretty good for your first report! Have rarely heard of walleye being caught out of the islands, but it's a good thing to see them there i guess!

 

Welcome aboard!

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There've been two pickeral (they're not walleye until they cross the US border!) caught in Hamilton Harbour in the last week, nice to see them making a better comeback then the Atlantics :D

 

Pike are officially late this year with the water temps......or it will be just a crappy year for them. Every harbour west of TO I caught pike in this time last year I haven't gotten a sniff. Live Target's Smelt sure looks purdy in the water though :D

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There goes the neighbourhood... Was it released?

 

Nice fish!!

 

Cheers

HD

 

Thanks! To answer your question, it never left the water. I just popped the hook out, turned the fish around, and after maybe 2 seconds of "reviving" off he went. Quick and easy, plus the slime stays on the fish where it belongs rather than getting all over me, my camera, etc.

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Thanks! To answer your question, it never left the water. I just popped the hook out, turned the fish around, and after maybe 2 seconds of "reviving" off he went. Quick and easy, plus the slime stays on the fish where it belongs rather than getting all over me, my camera, etc.

 

Well done!

 

Would be nice to hook into more of those than them pesky, toothy snoot rockets. Pike suck!! :P

 

Imagine a sustainable walleye fishery, in the downtown core... Wicked.

 

props brotha.

 

HD

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Never heard of walleye until I started reading fishing magazines and the American writers called them walleye...

 

My grandfather and my father called them pickerel and so did anyone I fished with...

 

I s'pose Canadians (guides)adopted the name so as to not offend our southern neighbors...(God forbid !!!) (Who won the war of 1812 anyways?)

 

Pickerel forever !!!

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There've been two pickeral (they're not walleye until they cross the US border!) caught in Hamilton Harbour in the last week, nice to see them making a better comeback then the Atlantics :D

 

Pike are officially late this year with the water temps......or it will be just a crappy year for them. Every harbour west of TO I caught pike in this time last year I haven't gotten a sniff. Live Target's Smelt sure looks purdy in the water though :D

 

FYI a number of Atlantics have been caught and positively ID this spring in Lake O

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Never heard of walleye until I started reading fishing magazines and the American writers called them walleye...

 

My grandfather and my father called them pickerel and so did anyone I fished with...

 

I s'pose Canadians (guides)adopted the name so as to not offend our southern neighbors...(God forbid !!!) (Who won the war of 1812 anyways?)

 

Pickerel forever !!!

 

The War of 1812 was acrually won by the British! Canada didn't even exist as a nation at the time - and we didn't make a move w/o British approval until about the WWII! Then we had to listen to another master... Unky Sam... it ain't so bad being a colony of two great empires!

 

Walleye, pickerel.. what's the diff?! :)

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