April

[tweedwolfscream]

I feel like April is just a tough month to be an angler in Ontario. Up north a lot of waters are in that awkward stage between ice-fishable and castable/navigable. In and around the GTA, pretty much every species that has a closed season is closed in April, until the trout opener this past Saturday. Sure, there are year-round trout seasons in the lower reaches of many tribs, but even there, much of April is about waiting for the run, waiting for the blown-out rivers to recede and become fishable, etc. Panfishing, if that's a word, probably becomes better later in the season in a lot of places.

Anyway, hang in there. Brookies and upstream bows/browns are open now and the spring steelhead runs should last a long time this year. Pike (and walleye, for that matter) open this Saturday on Lake Ontario, and the following Saturday on inland waters. Good luck!