favorite species

[MichaelAngelo]

(03-19-2014 01:56 PM)tweedwolfscream Wrote:  My fishing career and species life list are far too short as of yet to set a meaningful ranking, but it's a bit jarring that there's no mention of lake trout yet. To me there's nothing more quintessentially Central Canadian than portaging to some pine-shrouded, rocky-shored Shield lake in the early spring and coaxing these fabled and delicious beasts of the deep to a spoon. Given my experience this past May they'll always be front and centre in my heart.

Now I know, this is a forum about shore fishing (and secondarily ice fishing), and lakers are not normally a shore-targetted species... but on that May trip I caught 2 lakers from shore, so I guess I'm allowed to give them a place on this thread.

That most definitely fits the bill. I don't think we're focusing on shore species in this thread, anything goes.

What an awesome thread. Like tweedwolfescreem, I haven't experienced enough of it yet to choose a favourite.

It seems my "favourite" varies with whatever I'm fixated on at the moment. So you guys must all know what my current favourite is without me saying anything .

Overall in my experience so far in Ontario, I've had the most fun casting spoons for freshwater drum from my kayak. From shore, it's pier fishing for salmon. Both these experience share with them consistency, reliability, jarring hits, and catching multiple hard-fighting fish in one outing.

For sheer consistent rod-bending action, it's tough to beat the above two mentioned experiences.

edit: my heart is beating quicker just thinking about those drum. For the first time this winter I'm hoping for softwater soon!