Toogood Pond

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(07-26-2014 08:24 AM)novice Wrote:  Thank you for your advice MRqturbo, yes going with friends is great and i have done than on a couple of occassions - however, the older folks are more excited at hooking fish and the kids get ignored, hence wanted just family time....i have tried bluffers from the rocks, plenty of gobies and sunburn LOL, centre island got a couple of perches - would see carps swimming aimlessly by and kids would get excited, with "can we catch it-its so big" hence was hoping to try some places close by where i could sit on a chair bait the hook and enjoy watching my kid fish.

Also not to far away is Mt. Joy https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.8921545,-79.2623286,16z and Swan Lake to dovetail that for two places to fish. I have fished both areas. With Swan Lake you have a wooden deck access but mostly all I caught was catfish like crazy there so if the kids are impatient IIRC sometimes about every 7-10mins you get a bite or a catfish. Being a large lake I would think there is more then catfish there but I guess those cats like to stay close to the shore. Mew mew mew. This area I would think is safe as the wooden deck is close to a gated in and out manned security community if you want to try fishing in the evenings.

Mt. Joy is also not bad. I was surprised when a girl fishing there told me there was perch there. I was wondering how the heck did the perch get there? She told me there is carp, bass (confirmed as I caught one), sunfish (confirmed and they are all over the place), and I think she said some catchfish as well. You can also see minnows schooling the shoreline so if you want, you could take a 2L bottle cut the lid off and invert it with a tiny bait and catch some minnows for bait.


Also at Too Good Pond from the clubhouse keep walking to the right of the clubhouse down the path to a wooden winding bridge. You will reach a water way there where I have seen some large carp swim by. Heck...something large bit my line there and took off to the wooden beaver dam. If you thought the fire ants were bad at the wooden deck and grass shoreline wait till you try and land a fish in the wooden bridge area. Never did land that fish as I think it got tangled in the wooden dam forcing me to cut my line but while walking into the woods to save as much line as possible OMG..... the fire ants. Long telescoping net is all I have to say there.