Ontario Shore Fishing Forum

My name says it all but I also enjoy smallmouth fishing. That being said don't fish Musky from shore as a target species. The closest I would get to that would be a canoe in a small river that when we catch them we quickly paddle to shore to land and release them example below

I've been fishing since I was knee high to a duck.

With that said, I started off as a "catch anything" type angler. As I grew up I began fishing the bayfront/pier 4 in hamilton along with a few trips in the boat with my old man and his pal chasing bass. Admittedly, I was never too successful with that.

Then one day, I was fishing at the desjardines Canal with a heavy sinker and a worm and caught a drum. That day, really opened my eyes to coarse fishing. Those drum are hard fighters and a pleasure to tangle with, however...

That same day, I was fishing alongside another guy who was using corn and this guy hooked into a Carp. The pandemonium that ensued was sublime - screaming drag, bent rod and a fight that just never seemed to end.

Well, I was hooked before I even landed one.

Long story short, that was 6 years ago. Now I fish exclusively for Carp. Got rid of most of my bass gear, minus a couple rods and a reel, and chase carp everywhere and anywhere. I'm borderline on my tactics, far from true euro style but I do follow a lot of those ideals - rod pod, hair rigs, boilies, alarms etc.

Anyway, carp and drum are favorites. However, in reality it's a 95% carp and 5% drum. If the carp aren't biting around the pier 4 area, I'll toss a white crankbait for some drum.

To me, a fish's merit is based on it's fight and quite frankly, I've yet to tangle with a fish that fights as hard as a carp and I've caught all the basic species (channel cat, bass, pike, walleye etc.)

So yea. Carp baby!

Mine's the arctic grayling. They're incredibly beautiful, so too is their habitat, and so is the way they are fished for.
They're the wood duck of Canada's freshwater species.

Cool, that's what you said when you started this thread too

HAHA
Yeah, I forgot didn't I. That's what happens when an ancient thread gets bumped up and the link takes you to the bottom of the page.

But yeah, grayling!