That’s right we’ve uploaded some of our awesome videos to YouFish2.com! This also marks the change in music as the previously used songs are copyrighted and we’re trying to move away from that as we get more popular. I’ve managed to replace a few of the videos on Vimeo, however YouTube fails to allow users to re-upload videos. According to YouTube my only option is to delete the video and start again, loosing all my views, comments, ratings, etc.. YA RIGHT!
Well at least moving forward we can do the right thing. The music in these videos was provided by The Total Camble Experience.
I know you’ve probably seen these videos before, but it spent some extra hours up late getting the audio to match perfectly (or as perfectly as possible) with the video. So please, for the sake of all the sleep I lost, watch them!
I posted this image in the forums but I don’t think anyone took a close look at it. This photo was taken by a fellow named Ed that I met while fishing on Sunday.
This 25″ or so pike hit really hard and some how was able to mangle the snap swivel on the end of my leader. I did my best to tire this guy out and keep my line tight so that he wouldn’t get away. Right up until I got him almost on shore and grabbed him he flipped back into the water and swam away with a fresh piece of Mepps bling still in his mouth.
It was a horrible start to a beautiful day. Later we saw a couple smaller pike following our baits all the way up to the shoreline, but no other pike were caught. I’ve also updated the Toronto Islands 2009 photo gallery to include some new photos!
I’m just getting settled back in after a great two weeks in Ontario. I wish I could say this was a fishing trip, but it was a trip to see the family and some old friends. We flew in to Toronto and spent a couple nights at may parents place before heading two hours west to London, Ontario to visit my sister who had just given birth to a beautiful baby girl. I was hoping to take my son, niece and nephew out for some carp fishing on the Thames River but some pretty serious flood water put a stop to that. We decided a trip to the Toronto Zoo would have to make up for the lack of fishing!
Just about every animal was out and about (no doubt they wanted to see my new Fishing Fury hat), so we took well over a hundred photos at the zoo.
About a month ago I replaced my old point and shoot digital camera with the new Canon Elph SD780 IS (oh hell ya I got mine in matte black). It’s super awesome! Not only is it pretty much the same size as my old Canon Elph SD10, its got 3 times the megapixels and it shoots HD video! Check out this thread in the forum when I first got the camera, it’s got a few test shots and stuff.
This video was shot while fishing Toronto Islands last saturday where Clive and I met up with Paul. He caught this pike about 10 minutes before a huge storm formation came together and we got soaked in the rain and pelted with hail before making it to cover.
Clive and I met up on Saturday to fish the Toronto Islands together. We haven’t actually fished together since last year, so it was great to catch up and enjoy the hunt in one of our favorite Toronto fishing spots. In fact the Toronto Islands were really where the idea for this site was born. I registered the domain on June 8th 2004 which means we’ll be celebrating our first five years in a months time. Ever since 2004 we’ve been fishing our guts out and bringing our style and attitude to the world of fishing.
I got to the islands quite late, catching the 11AM ferry rather than the 8AM ferry I planned to catch. I’ve been working very long hours recently and I have a number of friends in town visiting as well as friends who will be leaving in the next few days. Everything caught up with me and I slept through my alarm for about 3 hours.
When I arrived at the islands I saw a few fisherman and said hello before finding Clive. He had teamed up with another guy named Paul (I hope that was his name, if it’s not I apologize!) who is originally from France and living here as a student. They showed me photos of the decent pike they had caught so far and about some of the more exciting follows. We’ll have to wait until Clive get’s home before we see the photo of his pike.
The weather wasn’t on our side today, with sporadic showers and thunderstorms the sun was nowhere to be found, unlike Friday which made me wish I’d called in sick for work. We covered most of the shorelines around Centre Island with a few follows here and there when the sun would make it through the clouds for a few minutes.
Clive and I didn’t land any other pike, but Paul pulled out this really nice thick 30 incher!
Though Paul has only been here for a short time it’s clear he’s putting in the dedication to finding patterns for these pike. I hope that some of the information on this site about Toronto Islands helped give him that head start to put so many fish in his logs. This one, like so many others, was released to fight another day.
After Paul’s fish the wind picked up and a storm moved in very quickly and we got stuck in the rain and got soaked. About half way to the shelter we stopped so I could put on a second layer and I noticed that it was hailing! The pieces of ice weren’t that big, about the size of a wisdom tooth, but man did they hurt when you were getting pelted with them.
Like all flatfish, the flounder are cut into four fillets, rather than two as for normal fish. Then the fish pieces are skinned, and the 'wings' separated from the meat. The best part of the flounder are the fatty wings which are delicious as sashimi, and the fact that they comprise so little of the total meat of the fish makes them a rare treat. The skin is also tasty deep-fried or parboiled. But the fillets themselves are also quite delicious in their own right, here I have salted and pressed them between konbu kelp leaves, and then cut and served them just like sashimi. The flesh of the flounder is quite sweet and firm, and is complemented perfectly by the perfumed flavour of the kelp.
