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Categories: Adventures, Aquariums, Fishing, Incredible, Photography, Site Updates

Tuesday July 1st, 2008 @ 1:22 AM | Jonathon Marshall | 11 Comments

Um, I Think It’s Time To Head In…

And here you are worried about a little lightning.

via Reddit

Categories: Adventures, Incredible, Non-Fishing, Photography

Thursday June 26th, 2008 @ 10:07 PM | Jonathon Marshall | 3 Comments

Scugog Mid June Musky Report

Last week Martin, who you may remember from a previous trip to Scugog or his Picton fishing log, and I planned a trip to fish for musky on Lake Scugog. We arrived at the boat launch around 11:30pm on Friday and chatted with a few of the locals that were hanging around and fishing off the dock for walleye.

Apparently though, the fishing has been off due to the extremely bizarre weather conditions we’ve been having in this region. Twice now in the past week there have been hail storms, lightning that can blow you away, even reports photos of funnel clouds forming in Toronto’s east end (more).

Since I was so caught up with work in May, I missed all opportunities to go fishing on Toronto Islands for some of the hottest pike fishing in the GTA: this would be my first fishing trip of the year.

We started the morning bright and early, got the boat launched and headed out. It wasn’t long before Martin had a hit and nice 25″ or so Scugog musky. I thought for sure the day was going to be awesome, and not soon after I had a massive strike from a musky of my own, definitely larger than the first. A huge jump, splash, and suddenly my lure was catapulted back to the boat and my musky was gone.

For the rest of the day, we fished with little success, even with my Lakemaid Miss Musky t-shirt for good luck, it couldn’t stop the weather from turning on us. Another storm front was on its way and we decided to head back up the lake closer to the boat launch in case the storm crossed paths with us. Not soon after we had a failure of our trolling motor and decided to head in to try and fix it. We spent a few hours going around Port Perry trying to find some spare parts or figure out what the problem was, but once 7pm started to roll around we knew the day was pretty much shot. We packed it all in and headed home.

Martin will be fishing in the B.A.S.S. opener tournament on Scugog Sturgeon, so wish him luck! If I had known sooner I would have loved to get “Fishing Fury” on his shirt or something as a sponsor but maybe we can pull that together for the next one.

Categories: Adventures, Canada, Features, Fishing, Fishing Logs, Freshwater, Lake Scugog, Muskellunge, Reports

Tuesday June 24th, 2008 @ 6:11 PM | Jonathon Marshall | 4 Comments

My First Father/Son Fishing Trip!

I’ve been planning on taking my son Ash fishing for some, but the weather here hasn’t been very good until recently. He thinks my fishing reels are his toys, and messes with them constantly. I even have a couple of old reels that I don’t use anymore sitting in his toy box. Today was a beautiful warm day, so I decided it would be a perfect day for our first fishing trip together. We headed down to Albro Lake, which has been producing lots of small bass recently.

We got to the lake at two in the afternoon and I put Ash into a sling so I had my hands free to cast. He was able to sit comfortably in front of me and keep an eye out for jumping fish. We fished for about 25 minutes and I was able to catch 2 little bass, and lost one. Ash was very curious and was happy to handle the fish. He got upset every time I let the fish go because he wanted to play with them. I tried to explain to him that they needed to go back in the water to live, but explaining anything to a 9 month old is pretty difficult.

Categories: Adventures, Albro Lake, Canada, Fishing, Freshwater Species, Kids, Reports, Smallmouth Bass

Saturday June 21st, 2008 @ 6:18 PM | Clive Mathias | 7 Comments

Little Vermilion Lake - May 2008

Last year we met Phil at Little Vermilion Lake after talking with him online about pike fishing for sometime. He loves pike fishing as much as we do, and I made sure to send him some Rockstar Lures before his trip. He had a great trip in 2007 and made the long trip back to Little Vermilion this spring in hopes of catching a few more monsters. He fished with the best pike fisherman around, Connie Inman, and they both caught a few 40 inchers despite the cold weather. Here are a few photos from the adventure, including a couple caught on Rockstar lures. If you have ever wanted to make the pike fishing trip of a lifetime, Little Vermilion is the place to do it.

More Little Vermilion pike at OFNC.

Stay tuned, we should have a couple more reports from Little Vermilion in the next few weeks!

Categories: Adventures, Canada, Fishing, Freshwater, Little Vermilion, Northern Pike, Walleye

Saturday June 7th, 2008 @ 2:26 PM | Clive Mathias | Comments

More From Georgia Aquarium!

We took 723 photos and 29 minutes of video in just over three hours at Georgia Aquarium last weekend. I’ve edited about 50 of the best images and I’ll be updating our gallery as I edit more pictures. I’m not sure when I’ll get the video done, but I’ll try and make some time! If you ever find yourself anywhere near Atlanta Georgia, you MUST go see this place for yourself.

Categories: Adventures, Aquariums, Entertainment, Georgia Aquarium, Incredible, Interesting, Non-Fishing, Photography, Saltwater Species, United States

Sunday May 25th, 2008 @ 10:17 PM | Clive Mathias | 2 Comments

Fishing At Strom Thumond Lake

On we weekend we made a trip out to a huge man made lake - the second biggest man made lake east of the Mississippi with 71,000 acres of water! One of the reasons I wanted to visit the lake, other then fishing of course, was to see the massive dam that was built back in the 1950’s. The Strom Thurmond Dam towers 200 feet above the Savanah River below and was a great place to visit and photograph. Local legends say there are catfish as big as Volkswagens below the damn, but I decided to fish above the dam in search of largemouth bass.

I went back to the lake at 5:00am on Tuesday morning and once again fished with the sunrise. There was lots of action in the water, and I could hear splashes nearby in the darkness. Once the sun was up I got a good look at what was causing the disturbance - gar pike and alligator gar! There were dozens of them right near shore, ranging in size from 3-4 feet. I had a couple hits at my lure, but was unable to get my hooks into anything. I wasn’t able to catch one, but I found a small dead alligator gar near the shore so I snapped a few photos. Later I had a good size bass smash a shallow diving crankbait, but once again I missed a hookset. I packed it in after a couple of hours, and rushed back to the hotel to change for work, avoiding being late by a few seconds.

Categories: Adventures, Alligator Gar, Fishing, Freshwater, Freshwater Species, Photography, Reports

Wednesday May 21st, 2008 @ 8:24 AM | Clive Mathias | 4 Comments