Goby's in Lake Simcoe

[issamhay]

Hi all I would just like to ask if anyone here has caught round gobies in Simcoe, almost every time i go fishing in Kempenfelt Bay I catch round gobies, today I caught 4 gobies fishing for perch, does MNR know about this?

[kickingfrog]

Unfortunately they have taken hold and I'm afraid are hear to stay.

[musky_hunter]

bass love goby...caught few on rice last saturday

 

Edited August 15, 2012 by musky_hunter

[BillM]

You now know why there are 8lb+ smallmouth swimming out in Lake Simcoe, lol.

[BradMc76]

These things are going nuts around here. I'm at Lake Ontario, and pulled this beast out today. May not be much, overall, but the biggest I've seen.

 

[Cudz]

I caught a bass the other day on simcoe that puked up a 5 inch goby and the fish was only about 1 pound. Caught 2 gobies the other day fishing for perch about 100 yards off shore near Hooters family restaurant.

[Sinker]

I've even caught them thru the ice!! Its loaded with them!

 

S.

[d_paluch]

Just got a cottage out on fox island. Thought I would throw a minnow trap off the dock to catch some minnows for a perch dinner. Not only did we not get 1 minnow, but we got 5 gobies. Too bad we can't use them as bait

 

Guess that's what the goby imitations are for

[issamhay]

mmm to me those look like sculpin in the pics not round goby hard to tell without a shot of the pelvic fins.

[Luke V.]

Erie and Lake O are very much the same. It isnt unusual to catch 10-15 during a morning or perch fishing.

 

But they are making the bass massive

[kickingfrog]

mmm to me those look like sculpin in the pics not round goby hard to tell without a shot of the pelvic fins.

 

 

First one is definitely a goby, can't say for the second one.

[NAW]

http://www.google.ca/imgres?q=sculpin+vs.+round+goby&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1676&bih=815&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=gwQIIdbmUk0OjM:&imgrefurl=http://www.iisgcp.org/exoticsp/roundgoby.htm&docid=RLB2Ih1RPkgQiM&imgurl=http://www.iisgcp.org/exoticsp/images/fs065sculpin.gif&w=368&h=280&ei=u8orUKK6AcWN7AGJ3oCADg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=193&vpy=154&dur=35&hovh=196&hovw=257&tx=169&ty=114&sig=110183571295258361719&page=1&tbnh=150&tbnw=197&start=0&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:73

 

I had to google it to tell the different. It's hard to tell for sure.

 

I deffinitally catch a lot of goby in Kemp when perch fishing. Getting worse and worse.

[captpierre]

I know smallies eat gobies. And they are growing bigger than ever.

 

Is it not also true, that they also clean out bass nests and have impacted numbers of young bass?

 

I thought I heard on Erie there are few smaller bass caught. Or is that Bull?

 

peter

[misfish]

Lots of them being caught off the break wall at Heritage park. More of them then, perch or bass.

[Cudz]

Lots of them being caught off the break wall at Heritage park. More of them then, perch or bass.

I was about 200 yards off breakwall and got about 12 perch, 2 gobies and one smallie (10" smallie)

[misfish]

Chris,you can see them from the wall. it,s crazy. Any size to the perch? Or were they dinks?

[davey buoy]

We have to learn to live with it,on the upside as said on a earlier reply the bass are getting bigger!!!!

Edited August 15, 2012 by davey buoy