ehg Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Went to Toronto islands for some more pike today. Had betwween 10 -2 pm so thought i'd give it a go. Ended up catching 3 of them. The first two were between 26- 28 inches so i didn't see a need for photos. I was hoping for something 30+ inches. Well after a bit i finally caught what i was looking for. This fish was 35.5 inches and stocky. The lure (HJ-10) fell out of its mouth right at shore but got wrapped around its body once for a securely held photo. Luckily there was some tourist families watching the show, so one fella offered to take some pictures, with my camera and took a bunch of his own. So i quickly laid the fish for the tourney pic, then line was cut and fish put back in water (kicking water in my face). Team 9 sign is washed out by the sun, i was concerned with securing the fish not whether the guys photo was good. In the 2-3 hours i was there again i saw no one fishing. I think the pike are thriving and relativley unpressured there despite metropolis nearby. Cheers, ehg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Nice fish ehg !! Now I've got the picture printed out and I'm off to look for them train tracks.. LOL... NOT ! Great stuff...thanks for sharin. Sunday and nobody else fishing....who would have thought with all the hoopla around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymikey Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Oh wow,,, that is awesome fish! What is more amazing is.... there is so much more green than just few days ago when I fished there. Spring is too short in Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mason05 Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Nice job ehg! Glad to see you found what you were looking for. Corn Nug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PERCHER Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Those are some pretty nice looking Pike.Good going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glirw Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Way 2 Go man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehg Posted May 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Thanks folks. That fish was completely unmarked and never caught before i think. Pretty pristine for an 'urban' fish. cheers, ehg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jediangler Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 (edited) Nice girth on that doggy. That fish looks like it could weigh 11 or 12lbs. Pretty fish, congrats. Edited May 14, 2007 by jediangler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snag Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Nice one. That's a good spot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorlifts Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Ya good stuff dude. You took off too early I was just making espresso when you disappeared. The nice thing is about the island is there is pike everywhere, and there is so much room to move around. There could be a hundred folks lined up on shore and you could still find a spot untouched and full of fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Shark Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Now that is a sweet looking pike. Really cool that you can catch a nice fish like that right in the midst of the Big Smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mepps Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Glad to hear no one elase is there! I have fished thre and seen 10+ other fishermen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007 Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Nice fish ehg. Could that be the largest pike caught at the Islands this season so far. Will have to get out there again soon. 007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattyk Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 nice looking pike! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinS Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 nice fish wtg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickGG Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Awesome fish, it must have put up a nice scrap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehg Posted May 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Glad to hear no one elase is there! I have fished thre and seen 10+ other fishermen. I've fished there for past 15 yrs. at least and have seen more people fishing at times. At times i have approached them only to realize they really had no clue what they were doing, except for the odd OFC'ers i've run into. Usually there is too many shoreline weeds for productive shorefishing anyways. ehg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Nice Pike... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbayboy Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 (edited) Nice fish egh. We were at that spot Saturday and pulled in a couple but nothing nearly as nice as that. Wasn't many people out Saturday either. I doubt we saw more than 5 or 6 other guys fishing not including a group of 4 kids with a trout net and a bunch of mr twisters screwing around though they landed one after switching to a little cleo based on advice from one of us (much to the chagrin of a certain board member who's name I'll protect as he's still trying to break his t.o. island pike cherry ) Edited May 14, 2007 by TbayBoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitsmith2k Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 nice report ehg! TbayBoy, keep rubbing it in.. im still in shock that that bloody kid nailed one on a Cleo.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccmtcanada Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Wow...great looking Pike! I think I gotta find me some nice pike spots...all these reports are driving me crazy!!! LOL Nice job out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbayboy Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 (edited) After seeing your carp and walleye reports cliff I can just imagine what you and Bly would pull off for Pike And BitSmith - I thought you were gonna toss that kid in when he pulled in that pike on his first cast with the cleo (the fact that this kids entire vocabulary consisted of 'YO DOG!' made it even worse/funnier) Edited May 14, 2007 by TbayBoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccmtcanada Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 After seeing your carp and walleye reports cliff I can just imagine what you and Bly would pull off for Pike And BitSmith - I thought you were gonna toss that kid in when he pulled in that pike on his first cast with the cleo (the fact that this kids entire vocabulary consisted of 'YO DOG!' made it even worse/funnier) Thanks...but what most dont know here, is that we are skunked about ummm...95% of the times we go out...LOL. I've caught 2 incidental Pikes (a 32" and a 34") while Walleye fishing at our regular spots...but that was in late December and early January...not much of a fight. Must be pretty exciting now that the waters are starting to heat up a little! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Johnny Bass Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Nice pike!! Lake O has some really nice Pike! Too bad you need a harbour license to target them from a boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leighfns Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Oh man that is one nice fish!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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