Great shore fishing this time of year!

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Great shore fishing this time of year!

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This fishing has been great on the Ottawa recently, I've been wading around the city scouting some new spots and found a bunch of pike! On a good day i would easily catch 10 pike averaging 25 inches, biggest I've seen this fall was a chunky 32 incher. The big eyes have been moving into the shallows the past few weeks, i'm not getting many numbers but if you hook into one there's a good chance it'll be a biggun.

I catch and release almost all the time but here's a few pics of the ones that made it to the dinner table :lol:

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Nice Pike and Walleye! Where have you been catching them? I'm always looking for new spots to try :D
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Great fish!

I've been getting skunked regularly on the Rideau in town lately! No bites on Texas or wacky rigged senkos, nothing hitting 5" swimbaits, poppers. Trying super slow retrieve, fast retrieve, nothing...

Dead. Maybe I have to get out in the canoe and get deeper.
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Sweet! Looks like your persistence has been paying off... My luck has not been so good the past couple of weeks.
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Awesome fish Lipless! I must agree with the shore fishing picking up, I also did well, not many numbers, but a couple big boys!
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Nice fish! Just got myself a pair of waders not too long ago. I might give em a go this weekend.
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Hope LIFE IS FUN never sees this post you could be arrested,shot,hung,and burried..... and forced to hug trees. shock: :shock: :shock: :D :D

nice fishies by the way........ good job maybe i should shore fish???? You do better than i do in the boat :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Awesome fish fellas!
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Thanks guys!
daveh_cdn wrote:Great fish!

I've been getting skunked regularly on the Rideau in town lately! No bites on Texas or wacky rigged senkos, nothing hitting 5" swimbaits, poppers. Trying super slow retrieve, fast retrieve, nothing...

Dead. Maybe I have to get out in the canoe and get deeper.
I never have much luck fishing the Rideau in the fall, the Ottawa River would be your best bet. Spinner baits were working good near the end of September but recently the bigger pike have been hitting musky lures more than anything.
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Were you guys wading out to get a bit deeper, or just right off shore?

And I wonder if the Rideau has changed since they emptied the canal?...
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Yesterday went out in the canoe actually. Fishing partner landed a 4.75lbs smallmouth! Big huge football. I got a tiny 16" healthy pike (first pike in the Rideau) and a pretty big smallmouth too but didn't measure it.

Those were the only bites we got in 2+ hrs. Windy.
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Oneeleven, I was actually right on shore, I am not sure of the drop off, but it does get deep where I was.
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Nice job lipless......any of those caught on a lipless crank? hahahha just kidding around.

Great report, thanks for sharing.
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