Come Celebrate 5,000 Comments and Your Chance to Win a Hat!

Last week we quietly passed another great milestone here at Fishing Fury- 5,000 comments! To celebrate I thought we’d give away some stuff to our awesome users who helped us reach the 5,000 mark. Tell us in the comments below why you love our blog for your chance to win and we’ll choose two winners at random this weekend. Comment as many times as you like!

New posts will appear below this one until we choose the winners this weekend.

Leave your comments below for your chance to win either a Quantum hat or Frogg Toggs visor! Both prizes have been treated with Kiwi Camp Dry Heavy Duty Water Repellent, so they’re ready to hit the water the moment you open them!

Our randomly chosen winners are…. Woody and Mike! Sammy was a winner but he said he didn’t need a hat and even after emailing him to say that he won he said we should select another winner, so we did! Congrats to all and thank you for joining in our celebration!

Okuma Aventa VT1002 Reel

I picked up a nice float fishing combo at the Spring Fishing & Boat Show last weekend for a cool 229 bucks- and tax free! This Okuma Aventa VT1002 center pin reel is paired with a beautiful 13′ Quantum Cold Water Steelhead rod. I would have taken some pictures of the fishing rod, but since it’s only a two piece there aren’t many places where I can put a 7′ section of rod under my lights. I’ll try to take some in the field this spring.

The reel is backed with 12# Suffix Siege monofilament (not show in photos), running 6# Siglon Hi-Vis Float line, and will eventually be tipped with some Seguar fluorocarbon. This type of fishing is extremely new to me, I’ve never caught a steelhead in my life, however a few of my friends have convinced me to join them and I can’t wait for the streams to start flowing.

Quantum Tour Edition PT Baitcaster

This is a Quantum Tour Edition PT Baitcaster, with the 11 bearings and “Burner” 7.0:1 gear ratio (thats 28.8 inches of retrieve per crank!), paired with a 6′ 10″ Quantum Tour heavy action rod.

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No Line!

I’ve caught some pretty big fish in my life, but never one that made my reel scream like this!

Toronto Sportsmen’s Show: Swimbait Spoils

Today at the Toronto Sportsmen’s Show I did some shopping and registered for a new fishing license. I found some pretty great deals all around, for example right now you can pick up a Quantum Cabo PT baitcaster for only 150 bucks! Unfortunately for me they’re all right handed. I highly recommend that you check out the show this weekend before all the best tax-free deals are gone. I did however spend some time culling the shops for the best swimbait deals. In the photo below you’ll find about 160 dollars or so worth of hot new swimbaits!

Pictured above (left to right): Storm Kickin’ Stick 5″ and 6″ fire tiger pattern, Storm Kickin’ Stick 6″ chrome perch pattern, Koppers Blueback Herring 5.5″ silver blue and silver green, Koppers Blueback Herring 4.5″ silver blue and silver green, Sebile Magic Swimmer 5″ smallmouth pattern. Bottom: Reaction Strike Revolution Shad 5″

Toronto Sportsmen’s Show: Day 1

Today was the first day of the Toronto Sportsmen’s Show, and it’s also the first time in years that it was not at the Canadian National Exhibition. Unfortunately, I ended up walking all the way there with photographer friend in tow, only to be greeted for some kind of flower show. We hopped on the streetcar back up the Queens Quay to nearly where we’d started and headed to Toronto’s Metro Hall.

Once there we obtained our admission stamps since the passes were unavailable at the time. It was almost 7PM at this point and the convention closes at 8PM, but we managed to get in and explore the first section pretty well. Unlike the previous years CNE, Metro Hall has broken up the convention into multiple rooms/buildings. If you’re going to the convention get a map immediately! Without it you might get lost or frustrated, and this convention is all about fun, so get a map!

While we were there we covered may of the booths and products we’ve discussed recently such as Koppers Lures, Quantum, Storm, Abu Garcia, and if I had more time I could have completed my boater exam! It was probably a very fine example of the phrase, “a kid in a candy store.” I’ll post more stories and photos tomorrow, as well as tweeting the event tomorrow after work.

Sorry for the low resolution photos, these were taken with my iPhone. I’ll have some real photos tomorrow!