Catch Magazine Issue 22

Another awesome issue of Catch Magazine is here for your viewing pleasure!

Welcome to Issue 22. This is a big one, with two videos and a ton of great photos. A portion of this issue is still free, as are 21 back issues. However, most of this issue will only be available to subscribers. The subscription info and the simple process are inside. Being a subscriber to Catch Magazine only costs $12 a year, for 6 issues, or 3.3 cents a day. Keeping up with technology, labor and equipment is expensive, and is part of everyone’s workplace. We promise to give you your money’s worth and then some.

Two Holes… One Trout!

The fishing game is one that is occasionally disrupted by strange and fantastical moments. In ice fishing these moments are truly amplified by the fact that all you are looking at is a dark hole into the deep abyss with little or no knowledge of the happenings below.

In a recent trip to Lake Rosseau, my friends and I had the pleasure of having one of these tall tales unfold before us on one sunny day in February. After a decent morning of catching smaller lake trout, suddenly my eye was caught by my friend’s fishing rod doubled over with his drag blasting off line. I sprang over with my video camera and frantically filmed as he fought the beast over several deep runs. Eventually the trout tired but when it arrived at the hole it was both sideways and tangled in the line. There we stood staring down the hole seeing only the fat spotty belly, pondering how to pull the fish through the ice. It was a pause one moment too long! With one weighty thrash the trout pulled the line to the edge of the hole and snapped off. We helplessly watched as it slowly dove back into the depths with my friend’s lure. We were excited by the fight but disappointed by the loss.

We reserved to resume our fishing and we each returned to our respective holes mumbling about how awesome that would have been to land that fish. Minutes passed when suddenly I felt my rod tip drop. “Fish On!”, I screeched. I could tell the fish was heavy but the fight was short. As it rose to the hole I was stunned by the sight of my buddy’s lure dangling from its lips. Its head turned into the hole and its face poked from the icy water just as my line snapped on his teeth. Panicking as it began to sink back into the hole, I grabbed the fish on the tip of the jaw with its sharp teeth digging into my fingers. “Go ahead and bite me!” I thought, “We can’t lose this fish twice!” I hauled the fish onto the ice and began to scream like I had won the lottery. We removed my friend’s lure, took a few pictures and sent the fish home to the depths. I have had a fish bite the same lure twice but this was something else. Our holes were nearly 50 feet away from each other and several minutes passed between hookings. The fish was maybe about 10 pounds. It wasn’t a monster as far as Lakers are concerned, but it was a legend that day.

Fishing in Cobourg – March 25th 2012

Hooked up with Dave and Kokemachine in Cobourg. We went in search of chrome (steelhead) but all we found was brass (brass). The river was full of suckers! The pools we fished would have one maybe two steelhead and like 30-40 suckers. I must have caught 10 suckers that day! I was using Trigger-X artificial salmon eggs so I didn’t mind catching the suckers so much since they weren’t destroying a roe bag, not to mention I caught them all on the same artificial bait! Kokemachine did manage to catch a steelhead and even Dave landed a very sick looking one before we left. The only saving grace for me was that I managed to catch my first fish ever on a fly rod, it was a sucker but I didn’t care!

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Koppers Live Target Lures

We’ve covered Koppers Live Target Lures in that past, so you probably already know just how amazing they look. Well sit down and prepare to be blown away again as we take a look at the NEW Live Target lures available from Koppers. These photos were all shot at the Toronto Sportmen’s Show.

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Southern Culture On The Fly Issue 2

Winter is just about over, but its not too late to check out the winter edition of Southern Culture On The Fly magazine! There are many great fly-fishing zines out there, but this is one of the best! Check it out!

Shit Fishermen Say

Some of you may be familiar with the wildly popular Shit Girls Say and the plethora of Shit “InsertSomethingHere” Say videos that spawned soon after. Well here’s my favourite. You guessed it, Shit Fishermen Say!