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Thread: Where on the Grand
Post: RE: Where on the Grand
| and careful of the crocs................. smile. |
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OldTimer |
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11-04-2016, 10:08 PM |
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Thread: Where on the Grand
Post: RE: Where on the Grand
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MuskieBait |
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Thread: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other species?
Post: RE: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other specie...
| If you end up getting the "Cat fever" ........this may help going forward:
http://ontarioshorefishing.com/forum/Thr...ait-outing
Cheers,
OldTimer
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Edit: a last bit of advice: check your bait eve... |
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OldTimer |
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06-09-2016, 08:38 AM |
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Thread: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other species?
Post: RE: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other specie...
| If you are after numbers, use smaller pieces of bait. 1" chunk is plenty if you are using smelt. If you are getting picked up but kept missing fish, go even smaller.
Worms are great for smaller Chann... |
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MuskieBait |
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Thread: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other species?
Post: RE: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other specie...
| I may open my bail if having a snack or coffee............ other than that they'll hook themselves.............. gotta be quick getting to the rod (smile)
Still fishing with bait requires no added "g... |
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OldTimer |
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06-09-2016, 08:38 AM |
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Thread: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other species?
Post: RE: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other specie...
| I finally found my copy of the MNR Channel Cat Atlas:
[attachment=1213]
And..... on the best time of day to fish = Low light.
And in my experience (and I have tried all times of day) - pitch black ... |
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OldTimer |
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06-07-2016, 10:38 PM |
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Thread: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other species?
Post: RE: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other specie...
| OT has got it covered. Nothing else for me to add except a x2. I fish them the same way if I want Channel Catfish.
Have heard other animal baits...like chicken kidney and beef heart as bait. Both of ... |
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MuskieBait |
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06-07-2016, 10:38 PM |
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Thread: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other species?
Post: RE: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other specie...
| OT pretty much summed it up. I can add that from my last experience, Yamamoto panfish baits worked remarkably well (see the "Third times a charm" thread.) I can also say that I caught plenty last year... |
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Fossil Fish |
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06-07-2016, 10:38 PM |
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Thread: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other species?
Post: RE: Big Otter Creek: Catfish 101, and other specie...
| (06-07-2016 08:25 AM)tweedwolfscream Wrote: So my friend acquired a trailer in a campground on Big Otter Creek between Port Burwell and Vienna. He's not really an angler but has a license and w... |
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OldTimer |
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Thread: Gameplan
Post: RE: Gameplan
| (02-17-2015 06:32 PM)tweedwolfscream Wrote: (02-16-2015 04:24 PM)OldTimer Wrote: 7) Use only one large no-name lure, endlessly.
Maybe I'm going off-topic here but I've actually been won... |
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Eli |
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02-18-2015, 08:47 AM |
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Thread: Dialing in on whitefishes
Post: RE: Dialing in on whitefishes
| Lake Simcoe aside, and from my limited experience, their presence on particular spots has been sporadic at best. Perhaps the unending zebra mussel and goby supply Simcoe provides allows them linger a... |
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MichaelAngelo |
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02-18-2015, 08:47 AM |
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Thread: Dialing in on whitefishes
Post: RE: Dialing in on whitefishes
| Lake Whitefish are ghosts. Very hard to pattern and even when you find them, getting them to bite can be an exercise in frustration. This is why you're reading contradictory information online -- ever... |
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Eli |
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02-18-2015, 08:46 AM |
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Thread: Dialing in on whitefishes
Post: RE: Dialing in on whitefishes
| Hey Eli, Michael and I are discussing Round Whitefish. ;)
Lake Whitefish are source of frustration. It is difficult to pattern them. The best that people can do, a lot of times, are leave negative or... |
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MuskieBait |
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02-18-2015, 08:46 AM |
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Thread: Dialing in on whitefishes
Post: RE: Dialing in on whitefishes
| I've tried stream fishing here and there during winter, mostly for steelhead...
I find that fish are usually relating to deeper pools in the winter, unless it's a steelhead on the move. Winter is alr... |
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MuskieBait |
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02-18-2015, 08:46 AM |
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Thread: Niagara suggestions?
Post: RE: Niagara suggestions?
| (11-06-2014 05:32 PM)tweedwolfscream Wrote: Basically I'm looking for warm water predators in the broad sense
Not sure what species those are, but at the whirlpool they have everything. Bass,... |
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Toasty |
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11-07-2014, 09:37 AM |
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Thread: Upwind vs downwind shores
Post: RE: Upwind vs downwind shores
| How about casting from the upwind side of shore, toward the downwind clump of weed, so that you fish the edge of the weed clump? ;)
Seriously, if there are bigger predators patrolling, they are more ... |
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MuskieBait |
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08-13-2014, 04:55 PM |
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Thread: Pike bait?
Post: RE: Pike bait?
| A nice large swimbait worked slowly should get you explosive strikes from pike..even with the water being on the cool side. |
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Eli |
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04-30-2013, 02:54 PM |
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Thread: Pike bait?
Post: RE: Pike bait?
| (04-30-2013 10:47 AM)tweedwolfscream Wrote: (04-30-2013 10:42 AM)MikeH Wrote: I'll let you know if I hear anything back from Wil Wegman, but most stuff south of Lake Simcoe seems to be p... |
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MikeH |
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04-30-2013, 02:54 PM |
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Thread: Pike bait?
Post: RE: Pike bait?
| Not really necessary to tip the lures with bait. Sometimes tipping a lure with bait will throw the action off on the lure, especially lures like crankbaits and jerkbaits.
Spoons and spinners are a bi... |
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MuskieBait |
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04-30-2013, 02:53 PM |
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Thread: Pike bait?
Post: RE: Pike bait?
| I'm sure one of the local TO anglers will avise on the TRCA rules........... and perhaps laso suggest tried and true succeessful lures used there.
But in the mean time your lure selection looks appro... |
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OldTimer |
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04-30-2013, 02:53 PM |
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Thread: I am not a proud man but....
Post: RE: I am not a proud man but....
| (04-30-2013 10:51 AM)tweedwolfscream Wrote: (04-30-2013 12:26 AM)zippyFX Wrote: I cringe when some of the people that have fished along side me the past couple of weeks for Crappie have ... |
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MuskieBait |
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04-30-2013, 02:52 PM |
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Thread: Nottawasaga?
Post: RE: Nottawasaga?
| I cant' say for certain, but I'd say that they're there. It wouldn't hurt to try, and if you're the first one to find them you'll have all the fish to yourself :D. With the nice weather we've had an... |
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MichaelAngelo |
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