Heading To Jacksons Point

[Aquaneko]

(08-02-2014 12:42 AM)ifish Wrote:  Having grown up on my parents cottage just a hop skip and a jump away from Jacksons Point, I know this water system pretty well. You will find that spinners work extremely well here. Depending where you are, the water can be pretty deep at the shore so you can even use deep cranks and jerks work well too. If the water is lower, I would recommend a jitterbug or torpedo...........I have caught many of fish with these two lures! Live bait always works. Minnows, leaches and the common dew worm all are great choices. One thing I use to do growing up is put out 4 to 6 lines with a single barbed hook on each line loaded with raw corn kernels off the cob. The next day I would go check the foot of the dock and low and behold, I commonly caught cat fish this way!

Not sure if your parents cottage backs directly onto a pond/lake/water way but IIRC if you leave a line with a hook overnight isn't that considered poaching if you do it on property you do not own? BTW thanks for the tips. What locations from the shore have deep water? I have lost a number of spinners already getting stuck at the bottom of ponds and still considering myself new to fishing the costs add up when you lose expensive lures. Well what is expensive to me (~$3-5/lure) may be nothing to someone else who spends like $20+ on lures.

BTW I did not get a chance to head to JAcksons Point that day. I ended up scouting and taking photos of another area not sure if anyone has ifshed or reported on this forum. It is the Nodotka trails I think is hte name of the park/trail I was at. Therei s a portage route there with signs and all. Will upload when I have time. Not sure if there is fish in the area.