Crankbaiting For Fall Walleye

Haven't been out fishing much lately, so headed down to Petrie for half an hour or so. Decided to try a lip- less crankbait in the culverts, retrieving it real slow so it bonces off the bottom. Sure enough 10 minutes in Boom! Another nice Walleye from my little honey hole. This one was 21.5 inches long!

21.5 Inches

Common Garter Snake

This little bugger sneaked up behind me while I was fishing the shore line at Petrie Island. Tried not to scare him too much, while graping my camera. Took a few good close-ups before scaring it away.

For more information on the Common Garter Snake visit :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_garter_snake

Great Blue Heron

Fished all summer long at Petrie Island and saw a bunch of these every time out. There is a big population of the Great Blue Heron at Petrie Island. There are channels that u can easily access by Kayak or Canoe that hold alot of these birds.  

For more information on the Great Blue Heron visit :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_blue_heron

Small River Musky

Went for a little road trip with a few boys, to this little river that holds alot of musky at this time of the year. I remember a few years back going for the first time and it was a money spot. We caught 5 muskies and 1 pike. Every thing was between 25-35 inches. Biggest fish that year was a musky of 6.2 lbs. Couldn't wait to hit that river with my kayak. Got there early morning around 8:30, walked through a field for abit and...Oh, that's no good! The bridge we used to fish from was complete under water and was creating a water fall effect.

I launched my kayak and worked my way up stream for about an hour. Fan casted both side of the river all the way down, turned around and started trolling in the middle all the way up. Got back to shore and graped something to eat. While I was eating, one of my friends got two straight hits right in front of him with 5 feet of line in the water, both times the fish spitting the lure out. He took a break from the spot, and two of the other guys moved in for the kill. They pounded the spot with cast after cast for about 30 minutes and nothing. By that time, I had launch upstream and just crossed over to fish the other side of the bridge. While on the other side, my friend moved back in where he missed his hits earlier, let 5 feet of line out right between a rock and a little weed bed, Wham! She was hooked this time. Measured 34 inches and weight in at 8.8 lbs.

After that I got back in the Yak and trolled upstream for a little while, I turned around and fan casted the shore line all the way back. We decided to call it quits at that spot and try another spot close by for an hour or so. Nothing at that spot came out of the water not even a bite. I'm wondering if the water level hurt us this year! Oh well, at least someone caught something. Nice fish Serge!

Fall Musky

Decided to go back to a little river my brother and I had pounded about a month ago...This time with my buddy Nick...He definitely had front row seats to a pretty good musky show...Although this snaky river that opens and narrows and opens and narrows--km after km--was heavy in current(sets of light rapids every few hundred meters), fishing it wasn't too hard...We would paddle up current and drift down, paddle up, then drift down, over and over...Structure easy to figure out. With very little weed beds and no major points, we mainly fished the sunken trees that made up the shoreline...And almost exactly at moonrise this afternoon, under a massive log, I found this 47 1/2" fall fatty...With her average sized-head (for that length), I was particularly impressed with her protruding stomach; a real porker.She hit a fire-tiger #8 Buchertail in line spinner, fought hard and was released after not too much more than a minute of being out of the water.Here are some pics...

Story sent in by : Dan

Northern Pike (Personal Best)

Went for a quick run with my fishing partner, Dan. Launch at Cumberland Ferry. Since the wind was blowing in are faces, we trolled the shore line towards Rockland. Stopped after reaches a little weed bed and started drifting back slowly and casting the weed lines. Nothing, all the way back to the ferry. Crossed over to the other side and worked a massive weed point for awhile, Nothing. After that we started into this little channel and worked are way out. We were right over a nice bed of Coontails. Just as we past the mouth of the channel she hit at 5 feet from the Yak, took a run right underneath the kayak forcing me to put my rod in the water so the line would not rub against the side of the kayak. Once landed she measured 33 inches and weighted in at 8.5 lbs. What a fall beauty!

33 Inches & 8.5 Lbs

What a day......

Started the afternoon at Petrie Island. Caught this nice 16 inch Largemouth right off the bat. Continued down the river and caught this little snot rocket. After those two fish hit, nothing for 2 hours.

My buddy Dan called me and wanted to go at a spot we tried earlier this year. He picked me up at Petrie and we headed down to Beckett's Creek. Saw the sign saying ''Beckett's Creek'' and then saw a dirt road leading to the water, Perfect! Launched and started casting away. Not even 30 minutes in our run, I see a car pull in where we were parked and this guy is screaming for something. Dan reels in and paddles full blast to shore to see what's going on. Well, apparently we were on this guys property and he wasn't to happy. He was on the phone with the tow truck company when Dan got to shore. Apparently had already called the cops. What a guy! We were trying to explain to him that we saw the sign for Beckett's Creek and there was a turn off right after, so we decided to go look down the road to see if it would lead us to the creek. There was no sign that said it was private properly and no gate keeping people out, so we figure it was a boat launch. The guy wouldn't even listen, cutting us off every time. When all was said and done, he cancelled the tow trunk and told police not too come down! Ended up extorting 40$ from Dan, to let us go. Wanting to fish so bad, we stop at Cumberland Ferry to fish from shore. Within 5 minutes Dan hooks this mid 20's Northern Pike.

I took a few pictures and went back to fishing, while Dan was releasing his fish. ''Oh my god! Musky HUGE! Ya....Ahhhhhh Did u see that! I was just doing figure 8 in 2 feet of water when I saw it come up. Caught me by surprise, I froze for a moment. Let the spot calm down for about 15 minutes and then it was Dan's turn. Woooo Big Musky just followed my lure. Saw it twice but no luck hooking it.

Fishing Petrie Island

Decided to launch the boat at Petrie today. It was nice taking a little break from always kayaking. Fished for about 5 hours and caught nothing, well I caught nothing that is. My buddy Nick on the other hand caught a Pike and a Largemouth. Congrats on your biggest bass this year, Nick!

Low 20's

15 Inches

Petrie Island Trifecta

With rain all day in the forecast, I decided to hit the shore line at Petrie till it started coming down. Went to my HONEY HOLE and used my magic lure. Within a dozen casts I caught a 23 inch Walleye. Then switch spots and caught a second fish. It was your typical Petrie Island bass, it measured 15 inches.

As the day went along, a window opened up around 12:30, it stopped raining. Left a message to one of my fishing buddy, to meet me at Petrie if he could. Got there at the same time as him. We hit my HONEY HOLE again, well I hit it again and Don hit it for the first time. Within 10-15 minutes I completed the TRIFECTA by catching a Northern Pike right at shore side. He hit in a foot of water, almost swam right on shore to grap the lure.

Then not even other 15 minutes goes by and Don catching a nice walleye. She was in the low 20's range. We decided to switch over to the other side. It looked like Don had a other fish on. ''It's a pike, it's a pike'' Good job Don, I said. Then it spat the lure out.....We stayed there for an hour till it started raining

Petrie Island Walleye

No wasting time on this guy! Got at Petrie, launched and started casting right away near shore. Got to the first culvert and casted a few times in it with no luck, continued along the shore between both culverts, no luck again. Got to the second culvert casted right in it........Wham! Hit like a bat out of hell! While reeling this guy in I got sucked in by the current near the culvert and had to go threw it. Once on the other side I finally landed her. She measured 26.5 inches, didn't get the weight, had been awhile she was out of the water so I wanted her back in there as quick as possible. She had a BIG belly, to bad it was empty!

26.5 Inches

Also caught this little guy later on.

15 Inches