Toronto Islands Pike, Opening Weekend
My good friend Martin Szomolanyi and I started our morning launching out of Humber Bay and taking a very cold but also very fast boat ride out to the islands. We started fishing from the East end to the West end covering the inner channels and the outer city facing shorelines. We spotted a ton of pike in only our first few hours there, most pike would follow right up to the boat and then turn away. We even spotted pike swimming right past our boat without a care in the world.
It wasn’t long until we starting hooking into them, first I hooked into a small pike that completely missed my lure and ended up getting his mouth wrapped up in a fluorocarbon leader and just refused to let go. Once I got him close enough to the boat and notice my xrap was swimming care free about an inch away from the fish I quickly grabbed him behind the head and pulled him out of the water.
Unfortunately that would be the first and last fish I boated for the evening, though the follows continued all day long frustrating Martin until he finally landed his first Toronto Islands Pike, and then his second, and finally the largest one caught the trip!
It was a pretty awesome opener, and the fishing is only going to get better as the season progresses! To see all the photos from this trip please visit our gallery for the Toronto Islands 2009 Fishing Fury photo album.
If you plan to fish Toronto Harbour by boat, be sure to get a Harbour Permit first or you may find yourself paying some serious fines! Find out more at www.torontoport.com
What about you? How was your pike opener? Send us your photos and stories or comment below, we’d love to hear them!
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