New Angular: Fishing Hamilton: 2015

[philantropie]

Quite new to this here forum, seems like a great community of people and a wealth of resources.

I just recently started to fish, Canadian Tire had a fishing sale on, so I bought just over $300 worth of gear including an Shakespeare 6'6" UglyStik rod and a Shimano FX 4400 reel. A large smokey planko tackle box with two layers, a net, and a bunch of spoons, lures, sinkers, and plastics. From the resulting sale, I had only saved less than $10 with all the gear I bought. Laughingly so, I shook my head because I was determined the sales was larger than anticipated.

So since then, I've packed up my gear into my 55L backpack which everything fits very nicely. I usually just ride my bike to a spot to the water and seek out a spot, or multiple spots around the waterfront trail/ Pier 4/8 park.

I've yet to have no luck with getting any fish hooked, I'm uncertain what I'm doing wrong or if it's the weather conditions but I'm just stumped to why I'm not getting any bites.

Seven times I've been out with my gear within the last 2-3 weeks, I've gone to Desjardins Canal, waterfront trail just before the fish gate under the bridge, Pier 4 just east of the marina. I've rode down to the police dock by the coffee shop and to the commercial pier around where the tugboats are. This is usually my routine when I go out. I've yet to get any hits, but it seems like it's getting a little nicer out now, the warmer is getting warmer. Hopefully the fish become more active and start hammering the line.

Could anyone suggest the type of lures/ spinners, or spoons I should be using around these areas? Or possibly a better area? I know it would better if I suggested what type of fish I wanted to catch, but I'm just not that stage yet. Anything would be great.

Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks!