Slow Sunday on the Ottawa

Post by **Gillstalker** » Mon May 31, 2010 8:07 am

Went fishing Sunday morning with two buds, but didn't have a very productive outing. Everything seemed pretty slow, maybe from the weather front that was coming in? There was a cool breeze. We got a pike, a walleye and two small bass (all released). Lot's of follows and slashes, but nothing else landed....

G.

Post by **petawawarace** » Mon May 31, 2010 8:17 am

Where were you fishing?...and what were you targeting. Last weekend we were up on the Petawawa/Baron river and it was very very slow (Saturday night and sunday only gave us 10 walleye total between 8 boats!!) I thought it was because of the water temps too, but then last night we had another great night on the Ottawa (section near Petawawa) brought home 8 and threw 3 back that were over the slot size including a nice one that was 3.5 lbs +

Post by **Gillstalker** » Mon May 31, 2010 12:20 pm

Were were fishing at the Ottawa end, near Dick Bell park up to Shirley's Bay-ish?, around the rifle range. We were going for Pike and Walleye. We fished in anywhere from 5-17 feet of water, along rocks, weeds, and any structure we could find. There were some shelves and holes along the way that looked promising as well, but nothing was interested. We marked a lot of fish on the finder in anywhere from 3 to 7 feet, but no takers...just suspended over weed beds or other structure, waiting for something...couldn't find a winning pattern I'm afraid....

Anyone out there who knows some good spots at that end, I'm listening!!

G.

Post by **TMH** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:12 am

I think I saw you out there, we were fishing a little further west from shirleys bay and managed a few walleye.. Big-O's were the bait on sunday.. But it wasnt "great" fishing. 7-10 FOW

Post by **Gillstalker** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:07 pm

Cool, we were in the 16' white cruiser (three of us). I used a white big-O for a while but nothing. A few follows, but no hits. One of my buddies got follows on a white spinnerbait as well...white seemed to attract them but not enough. I like that stretch of the river, it's weird though, goes from flat stretches to weedy with lots of cover and back to flat again. We just drifted along and fan casted every-which-way trying to find them. We'll try that area again for sure...

G.

Post by **TMH** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 6:56 am

It's an even better stretch when theres WATER!!

PM me and I'll give you a really good spot not far from there.