Hey there! Any good shore fishing in a 3 hour radius around Toronto?

[MuskieBait]

(07-23-2015 01:59 PM)OldTimer Wrote:  Not even a commercial stocked pond is sure fire. Even professional “guides” get skunked.

I used to fish a place called Daniel's Ark...a spring fed quarry that was stocked with Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout and Yellow Perch. There are a handful of times I've been skunked fishing at that stocked pond. There have been also been many times when people around me were skunked while I clued in on the "preference of the day" to catch my limit without effort.

I've spent $600 on a Goliath Grouper charter and was skunked (for Goliath Grouper) fishing with arguably one of the best Goliath Grouper guide in the world (Ben Chancey). I was skunked in April after spending $450 on a charter while trying to troll for big game pelagic fish in Mexico with a captain that had won deep sea fishing tournaments.

Again, the old adage...

"That is why it is called fishing and not catching."

The only guarantee where you can come home with fish spending the least time and money is to visit a fish market. Even then, if you are looking for cod and the shop didn't receive a shipment that week, you can still come home without cod...but maybe you can come home with some other fish.