It started a few years ago with the intent to learn how to bass fish...not much bass fishing in southern ontario - unless you count the roaches (smallies). Sure they are fun, but easy to catch, and get like footballs....
My love is centered around the greenbacks.
What I learned from Ed (paddletales), Steve (Gambler Steve), RJ, Kim (birdee), Ian, Bradford, Phil, Tony and others cannot be achieved by spending 100 hours on the water down here.
In the last two years my large mouth success has gone up dramatically. I credit much of the success from what I learn on my "eastern ontario" bass trips....combined with a great southern ontario friend...salmon.
We fished our typical set of lakes - I had my butt handed to me on muskrat by Paya and Bradford! Paya is a machine!!!!
However, on our 3rd day we went down and fished one of the kingston local lakes....i love these lakes. Dog has a special place in my heart...unfortunately it also is riddled with blue green algae, tournaments, and heavy pressure....so it was time to explore.
We hit another small lake in the chain of lakes. The water temps were four degrees WARMER than the other lakes we fished in the area. And as such, we found the largies were in a happy mood to take baits.
We started catching on different stuff, until the ole stand-by started to produce the most, and biggest - the senko. I wish i could say it was the beavers, the jigs, or the frogs that did the damage....but nope, it was the senko's.
Many 3lbs fish came across my gunnels from morning to afternoon. Mid afternoon I was lucky to come across my biggest of the couple days - a 4lbs 9 ounce pig.
However, like so many times this year, it was my father who came in with the biggest of the day. His 3rd this year, and fifth in two years, a solid Eastern Ontario Nickel. (before last year, neither of us had seen a nickel, now we are at 7 in two years - like RJ said, we had to do some refining, then it was game on!)
It was a blast watching RJ and Phil using their "TV Hooksets"....I was able to snap this shot of them doing what they do best...flip, pitch, catch.
and their results...typical of the day's bass.
Here's a shot of the typical bass for our day...and for the other boats as well!
However, we did manage two very good fish (at least for us).
The first was caught just beside a floating mat....on a "rainbow trout" senko...no, not pink, i swear.
I can't get enough of these big bass...Big smiles always!
Our biggest largie of the day occured just as a major thunderstorm loomed in the distance...as you can see by the dark clouds over dad's shoulder. The tanks you guys have out east are incredible.....Dad's third nickel of 2010. (well, 2nd, i cant count his six'er a nickel....so two nick's and a six...freaking fathers I tellz ya!)
Now, we are not big on double header shots, as we release our fish after photo's...but as I was weighing dad's biggie, he casted out, and i crap you not, caught a solid 3.5'er....so we did a double header shot....man a nickel looks big beside a 3'er....
Dad and I have one big largie trip left for thanksgiving weekend...the haliburtons....and we are pumped....but then its time for smallies, smallies, and more smallies.....maybe this year we will get our 7lbs smallie...but i'd trade it for a 6lbs largie...
Thanks for viewing....and thanks RJ and Birdee....as dad says, its our favourite trip of the year!
Hope to see you later this Fall when I head down to PD for Browns