Ice Out Pike - Any luck yet?

[MSBruno]

Anyone had any luck yet? I'm planning on heading out this weekend, but unsure if the ice has broken.

[anders]

ice out!!

 

thats not for another 4-5 weeks hahaha

[Terry]

you must be south of me

[MSBruno]

you must be south of me

 

Toronto/Lake O

[cram]

Toronto/Lake O

 

maybe a dumb question but i have never fished lake O for pike....when does season close/open?

[MSBruno]

maybe a dumb question but i have never fished lake O for pike....when does season close/open?

 

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/LetsF...L02_163615.html

[pike slayer]

ya still a few weeks off here but by the winter we've been having it'll come early this year. and i wonder if its going to throw things off this year. there isnt gonna be much for flooding due to low snow conditions and the rivers wont be has high. if this weather keeps up the way it is then it'll be a really dry year with fire bans and what not. probably lots of weed growth in shallower lakes. i wonder how fishing will be never seen a year like this one.

[tdotfisherman]

I have a boat.. and I fish around Toronto for Pike during the year..

 

Since the weather has gone above 0, I've had people that I took out last year asking me to take them out again.

 

Still way too much ice... End of the month some of the bays and harbours might be partially clear of ice, but who knows?

Edited March 3, 2010 by tdotfisherman

[spinnerdoc]

can't wait to get them pikies at center island

[Rizzo]

sheesh I haven't started my ice fish season yet...this is when it starts to get good! Nice warm days, easy drilling, hibachi with a t-bone, some brown pops and flags popping up all over the place.

[Sudzy]

sheesh I haven't started my ice fish season yet...this is when it starts to get good! Nice warm days, easy drilling, hibachi with a t-bone, some brown pops and flags popping up all over the place.

 

This exactly! lol

[Terry]

but I can say in the odd year the cooks bay opened up before pike season closed, I have never done better for big pike, once you find them they are hungry and will hit anything

[Sinker]

Ice out????? Dude, I was driving on 23" of ice today. Break out your auger!!

 

S.

[Ben_Daniels]

Looks like there's open water in the Harbor. Harbour Cam .Probably no open water in the canals in the islands though. Harbor front or Ontario place might be good. A couple years ago around this time there was some crazy guys fishing around ice drifts in a float tube Float Tube scroll down halfway.

 

-Ben

Edited March 4, 2010 by Ben_Daniels

[yakpiker]

I was on the water last March and scratched the heck out of my kayak when the wind shifted some ice floes that blocked my exit from one of the channels. I remember catching a few pike and losing feeling in my feet due to the cold. Both my gear and my judgement are better this year so we'll see how the weather looks on the weekend. Still lots of ice in and around the islands.

[CLofchik]

In Hamilton Harbour there's a yacht club that runs a bubbler all winter long to keep a few boats in the water ice free. There's a patch of open water that's maybe 30'x20' you can cast to.

 

 

Nothing yet.

[NAC]

Here's Kincardine's harbourcam - http://www.pilor.com/ ice should move out any day and the lake is wide open.

Not sure how it relates to TO/Lake O harbours but with these warm temps, I'm thinking next week you should be able to start getting out in some spots.

Good luck and let us know if you get out.

[MSBruno]

with temps in the 5-10 degree mark in the next week, I'm heading our for some TO pike.

[vinnimon]

In Hamilton Harbour there's a yacht club that runs a bubbler all winter long to keep a few boats in the water ice free. There's a patch of open water that's maybe 30'x20' you can cast to.

 

 

Nothing yet.

I seen that the other day, at the police marine unit building.Beside the yacht club.Years back icaught some monsters out of there.

[majorlifts]

I have not seen the ice there off Leslie spit, although I suspect there is some, and by the time ice is out there Pike will be out. It only runs from January 1st to March 31st, then isnt opened till May 1st. Sad really, I had my best Pike ever down there, and always in Late March Mid April. The new Regs SUCK.

[MSBruno]

I have not seen the ice there off Leslie spit, although I suspect there is some, and by the time ice is out there Pike will be out. It only runs from January 1st to March 31st, then isnt opened till May 1st. Sad really, I had my best Pike ever down there, and always in Late March Mid April. The new Regs SUCK.

 

Yeah, gotta take advantge of the fishing pre-March 31st.

[anders]

sheesh I haven't started my ice fish season yet...this is when it starts to get good! Nice warm days, easy drilling, hibachi with a t-bone, some brown pops and flags popping up all over the place.

 

I hear ya....this is when ice fishing shines....walleye, pike, lakers, and specks all come to play hard right now, till ice out in a month and a half, throw in some steel there and you got a great time of year.

[mike rousseau]

im on the st.lawrence river and shes almost all the way open...im heading out tomorow for perch and maybe pike for a bit...

 

any tips on early season pike fishing...im kinda new at it

[diggyj]

0 for 1 on the ice out Pike this year. Hopefully things change over the next few days as I will be heading out.

 

Dirk

[yakpiker]

What a beautiful morning here in TO...had to hit the water in my yak. Took some fishing gear along too.

 

Not much access within the islands right now...one channel was blocked by a dock and the other by ice.

 

Tossed a husky jerk and spoon in a few spots, but no bites and no sightings.

 

The forecast is for temps to stay above freezing this week so maybe next weekend will be better.