Ok ok, this may not be spectacular, but it is the start of some serious updates to our image galleries. Paul Williams was kind enough to send in a plethora of images, which puts him right near the top of the leader board for image submissions. Fear not, there is still 25 days to send us your photos for the chance to win some free Rockstar Lures!
In other news, we have reached 900 posts on Fishing Fury, 400+ images on Catch the Fury, and passed 1500 comments (not including 62,512 spam comments) all this week!
Check out Paul’s submissions below!
Thanks Paul!
Is it just me, or are the Scugog musky getting bigger this year? Curt sent us in some photos from a recent trip to Lake Scugog and it looks like they had an incredible day. Any day with multiple musky is OK in my books!
Thought you might enjoy these pics. All mine (red shirt) were caught on the same spinner bait. Mike’s musky was 50′ and about 25 lbs. - Curt
Awesome job Curt, keep sending those photos our way!
Even our buddy Bill is out catching largemouth now that bass season is open. The Fishing Fury shirt has proven itself to be the lucky charm once again!
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.
Bill has been one our biggest contributers for a couple of years now. His knowlegde and wisdom fishing Lake Scugog for muskie as tough to beat. This year he has expanded his knowledge to some other Kawartha lakes and had great success. Recently he landed a beauty smallmouth bass on a lake near Apsley Ontario. I don’t think anyone has caught more fish wearing a FishingFury shirt than our friend Bill!
This morning I found this awesome email, complete with photos from a local fan who has just started getting in to musky fishing on Lake Scugog.
Mike Sturna writes:
I want to thank the guys at fishingfury.com for putting up such a great web site. It’s the best site around for the everyday angler. You posted pictures of muskie caught on Lake Scugog, and found it helpful since you can see what area of Scugog the muskie were caught. I never caught a muskie before last year and have been fishing all of my life, but this would probably be due to being intimidated by all the jargon that’s around on the web as well as magazines. It always seemed to me that the allusive muskie was a fish extremely hard to catch, but after these past few summers, have come to the conclusion that it seems to be all in the anglers head. It wasn’t until this summer, that I really put in a lot of work to find the holding locations for the fish as well as the proper techniques to land them. I have had the privileged of taking many people out this summer, and seen the many smiles on their faces when they hook into their first ever muskie, but like we know, it won’t be their last.
For some reason, it’s very addictive, and have not pursued any other species of game fish since landing my first decent sized one. On average, I have been lucky to land approximately 3-4 muskie a day when out fishing, with some larger bass taking the bait as well. I wish that the popular magazines out there dealing with the angling world, would take the time to let the readers know that this game species is not as hard to find and catch as is led to believe. It’s more about the angler getting over the intimidation, than it is finding ways to bring them into the boat. I hope that someday I will see fishing fury on TV and wish your team the best of luck getting there. Keep up the good work. I have also sent some pictures along with this email, because I know, your team having a love of fishing, can appreciate the excitement and beauty of landing muskie.
As you can see, Mike definitely knows where to find the musky on Lake Scugog, but I think he’s still working on his holding technique..
Thank you very much for the email and photos Mike, I will get in touch with you soon and maybe we can head out for a day on Scugog in search of muskie. I have yet to catch a musky on Scugog in fact, so you’d be doing me a great favor, hah!
A few weeks ago I wrote about an email I received from a Musky fisherman in the Lindsay area fishing the Scugog River. In the same entry I also posted a picture of MuskyBill, probably one of the most knowledgeable Musky fisherman on Lake Scugog. Well, it looks like MuskyBill read that post and responded.
Ok, he actually responded very quickly, I’ve just been so busy with work and such that I haven’t had much time to update here. Never mind actually getting out to go fishing. Still, it’s always nice to see some beautiful Musky.
Oh, and in regards to the Fishing Fury Gallery…. Unfortunately, with the untimely death of my laptop, all of my work was lost.
