Rainy Morning = Good Fishing

Got up this morning and saw it was raining, perfect! Called a good friend of mine that I hadn't seen in awhile and told him to come down with his kayak so we can go fishing as soon as the rain would stop. Got on the water at around noon, and started casting the shore line while my buddy was trolling the weed line. Within 45 minutes, BANG! A 25 inches Walleye weighing 5 lbs hit my friends Cotton Cordell (Big-O). The wind was making things really hard so decided to go into the channel for abit. Still trolling around the weed lines, and look who catches another one! This time it was a 35 inch Northern, weighing in at 8.5 lbs. I on the other hand got skunked!!!

25 inches & 5 lbs

35 inches & 8.5 lbs

Day At Work On The Water

Got the call Sunday night that I had Monday off, so I decided to spend it on the water. Did A morning run from 7am till noon. Got 6 or 7 bites but nothing was hooking on, till I entered this little channel were I caught a 19 inches walleye. Came to take the picture and camera said 'Recharge Battery Pack'. Thank god I didn't land something big, I would have had no proof! Went back home to make lunch for 'The Wife' and do abit of house work. That keeps her happy! Recharged the camera and off I go again. Stayed on the water from 5pm to 8pm. This is were the action began.....Caught 9 pike! Three of them were between 25 and 30 inches, one was 24 inches and five SnotRockets around the 15-20 inch mark. Also landed another nice 24 inch Walleye. Casted so much that I think I have 'Fishpal tunnel'

24 inches

Approx. 20 inches

28 inches


27 inches


26 inches

Keep your fishing spot CLEAN

Was doing alot of shore fishing at Petrie Island at this one spot. One day I realized how dirty and filthy it was. I had a rice cake bag so decided to start picking up stuff. Filed my bad pretty quick but found two minnow bag so used them to put trash in them. Picked up close to a dozen plastic bottles, Tim Horton's cups, worm container's, tons of fishing line, even hook and broken lures. Take a look at first picture. Told my self from now on I always bring a plastic bag when I go fishing to pick up trash and keep my spot Clean. It came in handy next time I returned about two weeks after I picked up more trash from the same spot.

Two weeks after

Will The Musky Bite?

Hit the water early this morning around 6:45 am. I Casted and retrieved along the bank where I raised a massive Musky last night. Hit the beaver dam for a good 30 minutes, casted about 30-45 times but nothing. Was fishing with a Reed Runner with a trailer hook topped off with a white 4 inch twister. Continued along the same bank till I got to two weed bed points forming a channel into a small bay off the river. That was the HOT spot! Started off by catching this nice Bass, then caught two Blue Walleye 10 minutes apart. The second one was a beast measuring 28 inches and weighing 6.8 lbs. I also missed another Walleye and a Bass. Wow! What a morning.....

17 inches

21 inches

28 inches & 6.8 lbs

Raised a 'PIG' of a Musky

Went out this afternoon for a couples of hours to try my luck. It was a nice cool day compared to the 30 degrees and plus we have been getting. Caught 2 pike around the 25 inch mark. Got off the water around 2:30 pm, went home and took a power nap. At around 5:30 pm, since to Yak was still on the car, I decided to go for another run. Hooked another pike, this one measured in at 28 inches. I also missed a bass, witch spit my lure while it was showing off his acrobats. But, as the title says....I raised a big fat pig of a musky right beside a beaver dam. It bumped my lure right at the Yak and boiled right under me. All I heard was 'thump' right on the kayak and saw this massive green silhouette beside me. After seeing my buddy catch a 45 inch Tiger Musky, I'm sure this beast was pushing 50 inches. Let the spot calm down for abit and hit it again but nothing. Guess what I'm doing tomorrow morning? The Hunt Continues..........

28 inches

First Run With New Yak

A good friend mine just got a new Elie Fishing Kayak. This thing is awesome. Has everything you need for fishing, it's GREAT! The good news in all of this is that I inherited his old Pelican Kayak. Yeah! Decided to go for my first run with my new Pelican. Caught these two Largies casting & retrieving along the shore. They were between 2 and 3 lbs.

15 inches

14.5 inches

Petit Pike

Went with my buddy Dan to hunt some Muskies down. We hit up this new spot of his where you don't have to do so much paddling. I was just casting along to weed bed when this token pike hit. She measured 27 inches. Thought it was maybe a Musky. Would have been my first one! Oh, well! I'll have to wait another day!

Good Old 5 to 7

Wook up today at 5 this morning, as my wife gets up at that time to go to work. I had the day off.(Lucky me)So decided to go out till around 7am. Got there at 5:30 and started casting. The water was so calm you could see all the minnows jumping all over the river. Right at around 7 is when I caught this nice 15 inch Large Mouth. At around 4pm that same day was sitting at home doing nothing and decided to eat a little something and head out again, for the evening 5 to 7. She hit at 6 o'clock sharp. Gave me a pretty good fight too! This one was 16 inches long. They both weighed around 2.6 lbs.

16 inches (caught in the evening)

15 inches (caught in the morning)

Mini Walleye

Went to my favorite spot yesterday! Again! Was jigging my spinner bait in the 2nd culvert right in the corner where it drops off to a deeper pool when she hit. She's was just a little 17 incher about 1.5 lbs I guess. What I found funny is that the Asian guy was almost begging me the give it to him. I told him that I only practice catch and release! He was a good sport about it, as he still took the picture for me.

52 Inch Musky

We got on the water at 3pm sunday and hit our spots from last weekend. Things were slow but we did raise a large fish on the same spot as where we raised a pig last weekend. We spent the night in Wendover so we could be on the water bright and early monday. After waking up to rain, we took our time and launced in a mist at 9:30am. Buck joined us and the three of us strapped down our Wetskins and started pounding the weedbeds. After a damp morning, the sun came out at 12:30pm and she hit....... She hit a burnt Buchertail off a weed-knob right on a main-river point. She fought hard, like a tank... she boiled, she jumped and landed on the tip of my yak god-bless her. She made our hearts beat faster than they have beaten in a while.....

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LargeMouth Bass

Decided to go down the hill from my place to Petrie Island again. Went to the spot I always go to (1st culvert) and started casting a spinner bait. Cast for about 30 minutes and was about to give up on the spot and then she hit hard right at the shore line. It measured 20 inches long and weighed in at 3.9 lbs. Not much of a fight, but a hog!

Bass fishing at Bate Island

Just came back from Bate Island, off the Champlain Bridge. I've known this spot for a few years now. Doesn't produce big bass but your almost guaranteed at least a few small ones. Went with a friend of mine and caught at least a dozen and missed probably another half dozen. Everything was between 5 to 12 inches long. Nothing BIG, but beautiful spot to relax and enjoy fishing!

Shore fishing at Petrie Island

About a month back, after work I decided to go fishing at Petrie Island for an hour or so. I went right to the 1st culvert and on my first cast, something hit my SpinnerBait as soon at it landed in the water. I set the hook to fast and missed it! The very next cast it hit again and this time I brought it in. Nice 4 lbs Walleye! Not even 20 minutes after was reeling in and did a figure 8 in front of this rock hole and BANG! Thous a Bass! A nice 2.6 lbs Largemouth. Not bad for an hour of fishing.

Buck Loves Musky

Thunderstorm warning in the forecast, PERFECT! We wanted to be there before it hit or until sunset, witch ever came first. Thunderstorm did not hit but the Musky did... We were happy to see our buddy 'Buck' catch his first Yak-Musky, a nice one too! She hit a buckertail(black/orange/black) right over a rock pile. Right on Buck!

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