Muskoka report

[misfish]

All I can say is that lady is one tough lake to fish. With such a huge body of water,it,s hard to figure out where to start.

 

Saturday morning (day 1) the winds had died down and optimizm was in the air, as I had disgust with James what/where, we should start off and try to get a few fish in the boat early to kick the morning off.

I was seeing the same excitment in James as I did in my son the weekend before.Big eyes and WOW look at this. Sitting at the staging area James was snapping pic,s and was taking it all in.

 

 

 

We were to plast off 40th.last boat of the first heat and I knew what to expect for the ride.It was going to be hairy concidering 90% of the boats would be heading to the narrows to go to the big lake.Were off and were doing ok til,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,we hit this turbulance area,boat goes left,right holy crap,cut back the throttle a split sec,then back into it and were good. :o. That was a ride and a half.Get to the narows and I say,we get to do it all again so hang on. Well it wasnt as bad,as we were making a quick right away from the group and the ride was smooth from there to our distanation.

 

We arrive,flip the troller and I start of with a top water,James a tube (what else)LOL First cast,couple of twitches and boil,crap fish missed the bait.James quickly follows with the tube and tick tick tick,wham,fish on. Sweet first fish. It,s hooked deep but managed to keep it healty and alive the whole day.Fresh water running the well all day.We continue on for an hour longer with no other results from this spot,so now it,s time to hit the flats. Arrive and as I expected,acouple of dozen bots are there. We started at the south end of the flats. Again me with the top water James with the tube. Not long into it,James has another on,minutes later another.Sweet 3 fish in the boat.Knew I picked him for a reason.LOL

 

With the top water not producing I switch up to a drop shot with tube. Seemed to be the right choice as I get our forth in the boat. We spent the rest of the day on the flats covering alot of water. I managed to get another to get our five limit and we were happy to have that as from what we were wittnessing,the flats really didnt produce like last year.By 12 noon the flats were basiclaly deserted.

 

2:30 it,s time to head in for the wiegh in. Not really confident about our wieght,but it meant points for the show at the end of the year.

We wieghed in,8.54 for 5 fish. Not the greatest bag,but turns out we werent the only ones having a hard time.

 

 

 

 

 

On our way back in for the wiegh in we stopped at one spot to try for that kicker.We could se smoke and water flying in the air. We investigated and turned out to be the practice area for the firefighters.

 

 

Day one results

 

COMPETITIVE SPORT FISHING LEAGUE

BASSMANIA TOURNAMENT TRAIL

WESTERN TOUR - LAKE MUSKOKA, MUSKOKA WHARF, GRAVENHURST - JULY 21, 2007

 

Position Angler Co-Angler Weight Big Fish Points

 

1 TOM NEVILLE CAM NEVILLE 14.96 200

2 CRAIG BUTLER TONY DEAN 14.94 4.18 SM & OA 199

3 SHAWN ROBITAILLE JASON DORION 14.7 198

4 GARRETT GREEN WES FOSTER 14.08 197

5 WIL WEGMAN KYLE HEELS 13.4 196

6 JIM MCLAREN JEFF GIGNAC 13.02 195

7 KEVIN KNOX IAN DUNCAN 12.98 194

8 GREG HAMMOND CHRIS GILES 12.8 193

9 DAVID ROCHETTE MARK KULIK 12.8 193

10 PAUL BEAUCHAMP GRAHAM CHARLEBOIS 12.36 191

11 MIKE REID TIM ELLIS 12.28 190

12 CARL KASOQUSKAS ROGER BRENNAN 12.18 189

13 STEVE NIEDZWIECKI JAY COOPER 12.02 188

14 SCOTT MURISON JOEY MUSZYNSKI 11.7 187

15 DAVID CHONG NICK BARNYCH 11.44 186

16 KARL KALONKA DAVE KENNEDY 10.7 2.68 LM TIE 185

17 WAYNE BARLOW BRYAN CARVALHO 10.62 184

18 CEASAR RUSCIO MIKE QUESNELLE 10.44 183

19 BRIAN BERRIAULT TERRY CRAWFORD 10.44 183

20 BARRY GRAVES JASON GOUGH 9.92 181

21 DALLAS CHARTERS DAN RISORTO 9.82 180

22 PHIL MOREAU JOSH DOJOY 9.76 179

23 BRIAN GARDY BRENT COTTON 9.7 178

24 CAM MOORE JEFF SLUTE 9.64 177

25 WAYNE MATSON MICHAEL TUCK 9.56 176

26 DAN MARSON KEVIN MARSON 9.44 175

27 PHIL CURTIS DAN MARSHALL 9.12 174

28 MIKE DEVEAUX RICK BAIN 8.64 173

29 JASON GODIN ANTHONY BURGESS 8.62 172

30 TRACY RICH ALLEN CARR 8.6 171

31 BRIAN BLOWES JAMES MEEGER 8.54 170

32 DON SHELDRAKE KEVIN LOWES 8.54 170

33 DAVE JOHNSON JEFF EVANS 8.4 168

34 BOB ADLER JOEY CRUMPTON 8.36 167

35 JEFF MIFSUD DAVE CIANTAR 8.02 166

36 ROBERT BROADBRIDGE DAVE BOYER 8 165

37 FRANK ADAMO DREW SCHILLER 7.94 164

38 SHANE RATCLIFFE KEVIN LOWSHAW 7.76 163

39 RON GAAL BRAD TAYLOR 7.46 162

40 DAVID SHIELDS BRAD REMMINGTON 7.26 161

41 CODY KUPFERSCHMIDT PAUL KUPFERSCHMIDT 7.16 160

42 ROB SACCOCCIA ROBERT PERUT 7.14 159

43 GARY FRANKLIN UMBERTO ARANCIBIA 6.88 2.68 LM TIE 158

44 KELLY DEAN MIKE STREET 6.76 157

45 RICHARD ASSINEWAI JACK SAVILLE 6.76 157

46 JOHNNY LISCIO MAURO DECARLOIS 6.24 155

47 PETER BRUNKHART BRIAN REVER 5.78 154

48 HUW SPICER MEGHAN SPICER 5.56 153

49 MORGAN CIGNINI ALEX D'ANGELO 5.46 152

50 ROD FREIBURGER PETE BARTONEK 5.4 151

51 JARROD DEAN GERARD COCKS 4.98 150

52 SCOTT THOMSON JIM MACKIE 4.64 149

53 GLEN BOYD JIM SOUTH 4.58 148

54 JAMIE KENNEDY PAUL O'CONNOR 4.38 147

55 GARRY MANSHOLT PAT WONG 4.38 147

56 WAYNE CURRAH NEIL HARMER 4.36 145

57 VERN LICKERS CLIFF LICKERS 4.02 144

58 JASON COTTELL NORA COTTELL 4 143

59 THOMAS CLAYTON SUSAN CLAYTON 3.7 142

60 KEN MACLEOD ROLF KRONE 3.24 141

61 BRIAN VAN MIERLO TED MCDONALD 2.62 140

62 BLAKE GILMORE WARREN ADAMSON 2.36 139

63 BRIAN AKERMAN JOHN LOTT 0 0

64 TONY MASCI GIANCARLO LISI 0 0

65 DEAN DONOR KEN DONOR 0 0

66 JIM BECHER GREG CROCKER 0 0

67 ROB GRECO SONYA MCIIRAVEY 0 0

68 DUFF LEVERINGTON RYAN LEVERINGTON 0 0

69 MIKE RICCIARDI BRANDON SMITH 0 0

70 CURTIS ARNDT JIM BLACKWELL 0 0

71 ROCKY CRAWFORD JOHN YANCOULIS 0 0

72 NEIL MACINNIS DAVID MACINNIS 0 0

73 ARLINGTON WOODFORD STEVE MACDONALD 0 0

74 BILL LASSALIN ANDREW STEWART 0 0

75 GEORGE SALIBA CRAIG DENHAM 0 0

76 JAMES MACINTOSH JOSH MACINTOSH 0 0

77 RYAN JOHNSON CALLUM JOHNSON 0 0

 

 

Day 2

 

Morning has that fog/mist over it. Gives you that great feeling that this is a great day to catch some fish.

Plan this morning was to hit the flats right away,figuring after yesturday it would not be to populated and maybe a few fish could be had.

Blast of time,this time were 45,5th off in heat 2. Cool,wakes shouldnt be to bad/but I knew with having one of the smaller motors,it wouldnt take long to be passed so I just stayed wide all the way to the narrows. Wow only passed by 3 boats so we did ok.

 

Again James with the cam.LOL Narrows heading out to the big water.

 

 

Arrive on the flats to find like I thought only a hand full of boats. Great lots of area to move and cover.

Well it didnt take long again for James to hit a fish,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,well a pike fish.Stupid fish they are.LOL

 

We cover alot of the area with no success,until I see this top water action happening. Man that is crazy,I point it out to James. I grab my top water and throw it right in the middle of the boils. Boil,wieght,wham,its a 13 inch dink,but makes the live well.Ok we now have 2 fish on a very slow morning.

 

Ok Im not happy with this and talk to James about run and gun hit a few spots,and maybe get a fish at each. He agrees and off we head to an area that has a 20 ft round patch of deep weeds surounded with some nice pads and boulders. Upon arriving we notice a real nice cedar strip on on the rocks.Seems it happen at 11 pm the night before.

 

 

I grab my worm rod and James continues with the tube. We work the weeds fully with no results. Head over a bit to the rock edge,throw my top water again,HUGE boil.Wait,crap he missed it.James follows again with the tube,but without result. We worked the area for 15 minutes hoping for that bigg,n to hit since it wasnt stung.Nope,wouldnt have nothing do do with us anymore.

We managed a few dinks but nothing well worthy.

 

This is getting depressing as we only have one 13 inch dink in the well. After hitting acouple of other spots and no worthy fish,we head to the bar,sand bar.

Turned out to be the right call as James puts number 2 in the boat,soon after I finally contribute aswell. Ok now we have2 dinks anda 2 pounder.Things are looking up. Continue working the edge of the bar and acouple of hits and miss,s. I turn the boat around to fish the other side of the bar drop and it would be the turning point to getting a decent fish in the boat. Throw the tube,line dosent take long to zing out. Set and I knew this wasnt a dink. After a quick jump after the set,I see the one we been looking for. Yes,3 pounder.Ok our spirits are up again and continue to look for the follower that was with it.Not thinking of throwing another tube right away to try and catch the follower,just thinking of getting this fish in the net.

 

We continued for an hour but that ws the last fish off the bar. Decded to circle the island and again,right call. I was showing James my megabass jerk bait,when zing ,he got another 3 on.Oh man this is going good for us now. Land it and we now have our five.YeS we both say.thats awesome. Withan hour left,we head back towards the weigh in. We hit our morning spot from the day before.Well didnt we hit them.No big ones but did get to call 1 dink,by quarter inch.LOL We hit 6 fish in 10 minutes from this spot,all would of made the min.

 

Well thats the day and time for the wiegh in.Again James with the cam.LOL

 

 

 

Time for James to fill the bag.Luck him,this time we have the ball attached to them.

 

 

Time to bring the fish up and see how we did. We were very surprised at the wieght.We were thinking around 11-12 pounds,which would of been a payout, the day before. Turned out we had,9.12 :

 

 

COMPETITIVE SPORT FISHING LEAGUE

BASSMANIA TOURNAMENT TRAIL

WESTERN/eX TOUR - LAKE MUSKOKA, MUSKOKA WHARF, GRAVENHURST - JULY 22, 2007

 

Position Angler Co-Angler Weight Big Fish Points

 

1 CESARE RUSCIO MIKE QUESNELLE 18.66 4.28 SM 200

2 BARRY GRAVES JASON GOUGH 15.94 199

3 REECE WOLANSKI ANDURS KUNG 14.96 198

4 JARROD DEAN GERARD COCKS 14.48 4.9 LM & OA 197

5 KARL KALONKA DAVE KENNEDY 13.38 196

6 BILL TODD SCOTT SHAW 12.78 195

7 JIM BECHER GREG CROCKER 12.56 194

8 FERNAND PELTIER BRENT VALERE 12.52 193

9 DAVID ROCHETTE MARK KULIK 12 192

10 GARRETT GREEN WES FOSTER 11.7 191

11 JIM MCLAREN JEFF GIGNAC 11.58 190

12 CAM MOORE JEFF SLUTE 11.54 189

13 FRANK ADAMO DREW SCHILLER 11.44 188

14 SHAWN ROBITAILLE JASON DORION 11.42 187

15 JOHNNY LISCIO MAURO DECARLOIS 11.38 186

16 SCOTT BIRD MARK HAMILTON 11.08 185

17 WAYNE CURRAH NEIL HARMER 11 184

18 MIKE REID TIM ELLIS 10.62 183

19 GARY FRANKLIN UMBERTO ARANCIBIA 10.48 182

20 PHIL MOREAU JOSH DOJOY 9.88 181

21 DAVID CHONG NICK BARNYCH 9.82 180

22 WAYNE BARLOW BRYAN CARVALHO 9.72 179

23 BRIAN GARDY BRENT COTTON 9.7 178

24 BRIAN VAN MIERLO TED MCDONALD 9.48 177

25 DALLAS CHARTERS DAN RISORTO 9.36 176

26 SCOTT THOMSON JIM MACKIE 9.26 175

27 BRIAN BLOWES JAMES MEEGER 9.12 174

28 KEVIN KNOX IAN DUNCAN 9.1 173

29 TONY DEAN KELLY DEAN 9.04 172

30 PAT KENNEDY CHRIS LITTLE 8.88 171

31 DON SHELDRAKE KEVIN LOWES 8.76 170

32 PETER BRUNKHART BRIAN REVER 8.74 169

33 JAMIE KENNEDY PAUL O'CONNOR 8.64 168

34 SHANE RATCLIFFE KEVIN LOSHAW 8.4 167

35 GREG HAMMOND CHRIS GILES 8.22 166

36 JASON PROTHERO PETE BUTTING 8.1 165

37 TOM NEVILLE CAM NEVILLE 7.54 164

38 LEONA CREBER YASMIN KOLODZIECHUK 7.48 163

39 DAVID SHIELDS BRAD REMMINGTON 7.44 162

40 RON GAAL BRAD TAYLOR 7.06 161

41 DAN MCMULLEN ROBIN MCMULLEN 6.84 160

42 WAYNE MATSON MICHAEL TUCK 6.58 159

43 PAUL BEAUCHAMP GRAHAM CHARLEBOIS 6.5 158

44 SCOTT MURISON JOEY MUSZYNSKI 6.44 157

45 ROBERT BROADBRIDGE DAVE BOYER 6.22 156

46 VERN LICKERS CLIFF LICKERS 6.22 156

47 DEAN DONOR KEN DONOR 6.12 154

48 BRIAN MCLEISH KYLE DEWAR 6.06 153

49 MARK MORAN DAVE SCARR 6.04 152

50 ROB SACCOCCIA ROBERT PERUT 6 151

51 CARL KASOQUSKAS ROGER BRENNAN 5.96 150

52 DAN MARSON KEVIN MARSON 5.76 149

53 STEVE NIEDZWIECKI JAY COOPER 5.62 148

54 RICHARD ASSINEWAI JACK SAVILLE 5.5 147

55 KEN MCLEOD ROLF KRONE 5.02 146

56 PHIL CURTIS DAN MARSHALL 4.92 145

57 MIKE DEVEAUX RICK BAIN 4.64 144

58 CRAIG BUTLER BILL WRIGHT 4.52 143

59 ROD FREIBURGER PETE BARTONEK 3.08 142

60 MORGAN CIGNINI ALEX D'ANGELO 2.98 141

61 GARY MILLER DAVID MILLER 2.88 140

62 CHRIS CAPPUCCITTI RICARDO TEIXEIRA 2.78 139

63 HUW SPICER LIAM SPICER 2.58 138

64 CODY KUPFERSCHMIDT PAUL KUPFERSCHMIDT 2.16 137

65 THOMAS CLAYTON SUSAN CLAYTON 2.04 136

66 BRIAN BERRIAULT TERRY CRAWFORD 1.48 135

67 WIL WEGMAN GERRY HEELS 1.32 134

68 GENE FINNEMORE STEVE ALLSUP 0 0

69 MIKE MILLER ERIN WEESE 0 0

70 TONY MASCI GIANCARLO LISI 0 0

71 JEFF MIFSUD DAVE CIANTAR 0 0

72 BOB ADLER JOEY CRUMPTON 0 0

73 DAVE JOHNSON JEFF EVANS 0 0

74 BLAKE GILMORE WARREN ADAMSON 0 0

75 MIKE RICCIARDI BRANDON SMITH 0 0

76 BILL LASSALIN ANDREW STEWART 0 0

77 GARRY MANSHOLT JOEY MANSHOLT 0 0

78 LARRY BOURGEOIS CORY MOREAU 0 0

79 GLEN BOYD JIM SOUTH 0 0

80 RYAN JOHNSON CALLUM JOHNSON 0 0

81 JEFF NOBLE MATT MONKMAN 0 0

 

 

 

The used arsonl from the weekend.

 

 

No mater the results of the last 2 days,it was again,great to be out to compete and enjoy 2 great days on the water with James.

 

Our next event is next month on the Pool and Couch. Looking forward to those two events.

Great job this weekend James enjoyed the partnership greatly.

 

Before signing off,heres a few bloopers.

 

Saturday we have the well full and I keep the fresh water always on. Im at the front of the boat and can hear water rushing. Turn around and I see the well over filiing.WTH. Turn off the pump and check it out .I left the ball chains in the well with the fish and one of them blocked the exit port.lol

Lesson learned.

 

Yesturday I had a gaurdian angle watching me. Ready to launch the boat, and I have no boat keys. Seach everywhere and lo and be hold,they are on the bumper at the lieciens plate.Just where I put them when I locked the boat toung in BARRIE.All the way up they didnt fall off. Im sure my Grandfather was sitting back there enjoying the ride up.

 

 

Sorry for the long winded report and bad spelling and grammer.LOL Like I really care.HAHAHAHAHA

 

Off this week.Going to fish Simcoe for smallies, finally.

Edited July 23, 2007 by misfish

[mattyk]

great report, thanks for sharing with us.

[bowshep]

Cool report Brian and awsome work on the water. You make it sound like a fun time even with all the stess. . Peace Ken

[Joey]

Well 31st and 27th is pretty good Brian

 

Great report bud.

 

Joey

[mart]

Great report Brian!! Very respectful showing on both days. Lots of big names and top notch anglers you fished against. Your time will come just keep plugging away... I like the used arsenal picture. My boat looks the same after every tourney too.Good luck at the next tourney!!!

[tbayboy]

Great report, seeing that cedar boat on the rocks nearly made me cry though.

[dustink]

Great story told there!!!

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

dk

[derekadam]

Great report, looks like some stiff competition!!

[b2kptbo]

Great blow by blow report, thanks...

[Fishnfiend]

Nice report Brian. That must have taken a while..

 

Enjoy the smallies on Simcoe and we expect pictures!

[Rob]

Good showing Brian! Good luck in the next two tournies. Might try to get to see you at the cooch tourney with the kids!

 

Rob

[Hookset]

Well done Brian,

 

I live and work on that Lake and it is definitely a tough one.

Every spot looks good but only a few hold fish consistently.

Sounds like you found the spots though.

Keep pounding it. You'll be in the top 5 no problem.

Congrats on the finish, and great report.

 

 

Hookset.

Edited July 23, 2007 by Hookset

[Rizzo]

Great report and photos, thanks for sharing. That boat owner probably ain't too happy with the joyride his son went on! And the keys on the bumper!!! Go buy a lotto ticket cause you've got some serious horseshoes up there

[misfish]

Well done Brian,

 

I live and work on that Lake and it is definitely a tough one.

Every spot looks good but only a few hold fish consistently.

Sounds like you found the spots though.

Keep pounding it. You'll be in the top 5 no problem.

Congrats on the finish, and great report.

Hookset.

 

Hookset,

When I fish this lake I REALLY have to get Simcoe out of my mind.Like you say,they look good, but they produce min.

Smallies out of 2-6 fow on Muskoka.UNREAL,but I see a pattern some what.

 

Thanks all.

[steve_paul]

Great job Brian, thanks for the report.

 

Top half of the field again too, keep on moving up!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Glad to hear the keys survived their hairy ride up there too lol - always good to have someone looking out for ya.

[Terry]

very nice, you did good

looks like two good days of trying to figure out how to get the big ones.......

 

I did it for years and most people don't understand how hard it can be to get a limit of good sized fish in a tourney

[lookinforwalleye]

Very respectable showing,you should have a couple of bags of Senko`s stashed on board!LOL

[Guest Johnny Bass]

Excellant Report!I only fished Muskoka once and it is a tough lake! Though we did catch some nice smallies if I recall! We also were priviledged to hear a native playing her flute on the water. Very peaceful....

 

We were supposed to go last weeke but the rain prevented us.

 

Anyways,Congrats! You did well!

[Rich Clemens]

Great Read Misfish. Good luck on the tourney trail this year.

[misfish]

Very respectable showing,you should have a couple of bags of Senko`s stashed on board!LOL

LOL Whats a SENKO ?

 

very nice, you did good

looks like two good days of trying to figure out how to get the big ones.......

 

I did it for years and most people don't understand how hard it can be to get a limit of good sized fish in a tourney

 

Well Terry I got to tell ya,it aint like going out to fish for fun,although I do have fun when Im out there,but the pressure of getting a 5 fish limit that will put you up there,let alone just to get 5 fish in the well, really puts a drain on ya when your one fish short, hell, like the last day 4 fish short til it came together after lunch. It took a big wieght off of me and my partner.

[Terry]

you don't have to tell me.....lol

 

every tourney I learnt something new....

sometimes I learnt what not to do...but I always took something new home and built on.....

I can tell that you are doing the same and it will all come together one of these tourneys soon

[JFR]

Great report Brian, thanks for sharing.

 

Your finishing positions of both days are great considering the tough fishing.

 

John

[lookinforwalleye]

LOL Whats a SENKO ?

Well Terry I got to tell ya,it aint like going out to fish for fun,although I do have fun when Im out there,but the pressure of getting a 5 fish limit that will put you up there,let alone just to get 5 fish in the well, really puts a drain on ya when your one fish short, hell, like the last day 4 fish short til it came together after lunch. It took a big wieght off of me and my partner.

 

 

"What`s a Senko" sorta like a wizzle worm!!!!