London Shore Fishing Noobie

[MuskieBait]

I can't speak to my best spot since it was shared with me by my friend who lives in London. There was an agreement that I do not share his spot with others.

I also do generally care about giving away my spots, but what I'm sharing here you can generally find out if you talk to the staff at Angling Sports...so it's not really a big secret. The real secret spot was the one my friend shared with me (which I will keep to myself).

But I have explored other areas in London while I lived there for 4 months over 10 years ago. As I mentioned, you can fish immediately below the dam at Fanshawe. I've caught Smallmouth Bass, Rock Bass, Yellow Perch and Sunfish there, as well as seen BIG Common Carp, heard from credible sources the presence of Walleye and Steelhead and the possibility of Northern Pike. When I fished the area, it was spring and I was looking for Common Carp and fishing for Panfish. The season for Bass, Walleye and Pike was closed so I did not try for those species. The Smallmouth Bass I caught were incidental while fishing worms for Perch and Panfish.

There are several ponds in the Wesminister Ponds and Pond Mills complex that has fish in it. When I was living in London, it was mostly winter so I only had limited experience fishing it through the ice a couple of times. I didn't catch anything, but I was told (by the employees at Angling Sports) that there are Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Sunfish, Black Crappie and Yellow Perch in those ponds. How many and how big I'm not sure...but I've heard stories. I wasn't able to explore those ponds too much because ice was generally thin in that area and I was fishing alone, so I didn't risk fishing too far from shore on thinner ice.

I've checked out part of the Thames south of UWO and closer to downtown. I have caught Common Carp, Smallmouth Bass, Rock Bass, White Bass and Sunfish, and I've seen Redhorse species, Quillback, White Sucker, and even Longnose Gar. My friend also caught Channel Catfish, Freshwater Drum and Walleye.