I made sure to reduce my hours at my second job this month so I could enjoy the last bit of good weather with the family before the winter hits. I spent way too much time working in the last month and missed out on some great fishing as a result.
We drove across the province last weekend to go to Nova Scotia’s largest zoo. I had planned to get some striped bass fishing in, but forgot my fshing rod at home. Oaklawn Farm Zoo is home and birthplace of the largest lion in captivity, Rutledge, who weighs over 800 pounds! While this zoo is quite small, compared to my favorite zoo, Toronto Zoo, it’s prefect for young children and has plenty to see in a small area. It only costs $6.50 per adult, and children under 3 are free to enter!
The biggest new at IGFA last month (as far as I’m concerned) was a record striped bass caught within a few hours of where I live. I had heard about this huge fish on the local news a couple months ago, but I wasn’t able to find a picture until today.
Armed with a Rapala Magnum lure while fishing Canada’s East Bay, Christian LeVatte, of Sydney Forks, Nova Scotia, landed a striped bass (Morone saxatilis) on May 25, weighing 26.25 kg (57 lb 14 oz). It took the young man 30 minutes to land the fish for a possible boy’s junior class record. The current boy’s junior record is 57 lb 0 oz caught off Isabella Beach, NY 10 years ago.
Today marks the end of the season for fishing in my area. This is my first full season fishing in Nova Scotia and it’s been fairly good I think. I always enjoy the challenge of fishing new areas and learning what technique works best for producing fish. I fished in at least five or six different lakes within an hour of Halifax and they were all very similar and had a good population of smallmouth bass. In Nova Scotia you are required to send in a report card with information on all the fish you have caught and I managed to catch well over 100 bass this year. It sounds pretty good, but in Ontario I’ve caught over 100 bass in a matter of days, and they were bigger!
Lately I’ve been fishing for brook trout and caught a few nice ones. Conveniently, I didn’t have my camera with me for any of these catches. I realize yesterday I haven’t got any photos of the trout I’ve caught here, so I decided that today was the day to do it, we would photograph a trout. My buddy Adrian and I headed down to a nearby creek a few minutes from where we work. We stumbled across this creek a few months back while trying to fish nearby lake. The area we fish looks like a ditch at the side of the highway, and thats exactly what it is. There is one small area where the water pools which provides a nice quite place to hangout for brook trout. This photo was one of the smaller trout we’ve pulled out of the ditch, but at least we accomplished the goal of photographing a Nova Scotia brookie!
There are a lot of weird things to see here in Halifax. Usually we see these stange things while driving, and never get the camera out in time. Luckily, on this occasion, Gillian had her camera and quickly snapped this photo as we drove by.
I dug up a few old fishing photos recently, so I figured it would be a good idea to take a look back at the history of Fishing Fury. I’ve been very lucky my entire life to be surrounded by fishermen, both friends and family. When I was 10 or eleven we spent some time in British Columbia visiting my favorite uncle, my uncle Stephen. We spent several hours out at sea and he introduced me to salmon fishing.
I can still remember the excitement of being out on the ocean and hooking into my first salmon. We were trolling cut herring behind the boat and one of the reels started screaming, my uncle grabbed the rod without hesitation and set the hook and handed me the rod. I grabbed the reel just in time to experience the truly awesome power of a Pacific salmon. It felt like the a hundred yards of line had been torn off the reel in the blink of an eye, and despite holding on for dear life, my little hand couldn’t keep up with the mighty fish and before I knew it, the spool had back lashed. My uncle came to the rescue and sorted out the line and we went home with a beauty salmon in the cooler.
We made several other trips, and me up with my uncle Terry for another adventure in which I caught my first shark and first sea bass. Once again tried my best to land a salmon on my own, but lost a big fish as it went under the boat. Sadly I never landed a salmon that trip either, but I took the opportunity to pose with this salmon my uncle Terry caught. I tried my best to smile for the photo, but I was heartbroken that I didn’t catch my own salmon. Oddly enough, I don’t think I have hooked into a salmon since that day.
Hello again, i have never been able to wear a hat before because i didn't know how it should go, but thanks to the 3 illustrations on the art of wearing a hat i feel confident now and if i should be lucky enough to win i could wear it knowing it is on correctly!!!...Cheers mate!
A guy at work was telling me about the evening secret and how great it was. so i thought i would check it out. what a scam i got a crappie light that does the same thing. That guy is an asshole anyway i'm gonna tell him its great and see if he actually buys it. haha
I have a friend whose cottage is on Lake Chemong, never fished in it although I've heard all the stories. I was walking in it this weekend past, paddled it too, with Alexander directing.....check out the Curve Lake Powwow sometime!!!!
I worked so hard this weekend, the shirt fell right offen me, so I need that shirt more than ANYONE else!
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Hi all,
I am Dick van Hattem. The men who caught this wonderfull pike in the Netherlands.
The pike was actualy 120 cm long, weight exactly 16.5 kilo's and was caught on a death perch on 10 meter deep water on 27 december 2000.
But now.... the photo was shopped for fun. I had a reading for a fishingclub and this was the last picture of the reading I had for 100 quest. Name of the picture.... I have a dream..... Everybode was laughing. Really funny, never claimed the world record. Because it is not by far.
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