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

Jonathon Marshall — Mon, 30 May 2011 16:34:15 +0000

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

Jonathon Marshall — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:47:15 +0000

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

Jonathon Marshall — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:07:30 +0000

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.

No Line!

Clive Mathias — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:11:42 +0000

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

Jonathon Marshall — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:44:02 +0000

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

Jonathon Marshall — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:22:09 +0000

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!

New 2010 Quantum PT Tour KVD!

Jonathon Marshall — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:26:26 +0000

Kevin VanDam and Quantum have teamed up to produce a new exclusive line of Performance Tuned reels to compliment the custom KVD signature rods. The new Tour KVD PT reels feature a larger spool for increased line capacity (145yds / 12lbs) and are available in 3 gear ratios “tailor-made” to fit Kevin’s aggressive style. Your typical yawn inducing 5.4:1, to an eye opening 6.6:1, and a blistering 7.3:1; officially putting your PT Burner 7.0:1 to shame. The Quantum Tour KVD PT reel about is 299.99 (MSRP).

via Quantum Fishing

2009 Quantum Tour Edition PT Baitcast Reels

Clive Mathias — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:52:56 +0000

We had a look at the new Quantum Tour Edition reel a while back and we weren’t too impressed with the choice of colour. Well the reel has been released (with a $279 USD price tag), and they’ve prettied it up and chromed it out! It looks sharp if you ask me, but I still love the old blue one (which Jon and I both own), and from the reviews I’ve read, the new one doesn’t match the old ones quality either!

Which do you like best?

It’s Funny How the World Works

Clive Mathias — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:02:37 +0000

Years ago, maybe when I was sixteen or seventeen, living in Mississauga, Ontario, I purchased my first fishing rod. I had had a few rods and reels beforehand, all given to me by family and friends. This was my first big purchase that I can remember (I never really had much money to spend growing up). A quantum spinning reel, on sale for $34.99 and a six foot, two piece Shakespeare Uglystick for $39.99. It was a lot of money to me back then, but I had saved up birthday money and I knew what I wanted. My friend Colin Kennedy and I both got equipment that day at Sports Authority, he purchased a Spider brand reel (this was right when they first came out) and I was pretty envious. Together we fished quite a bit. We never really caught anything big, but we caught a lot of fish, and we released them all. One of my fondest memories of him was when we were about eighteen years old and we went with my mother to Bancroft, Ontario and rented a small cottage in the middle of nowhere with no electricity, and we spent our days fishing a secluded lake out of a small canoe with several holes in it. We would fish for twenty minutes then bail water for five, and then fish again. We fished like our lives depended on it, even when it started raining heavily. This was the fishing trip that taught me the magic of the Mepps Black Fury. It caught fish on almost every cast, including some of the biggest rockbass I have seen in my entire life.

Later we started going to fishing shows, and buying more and more equipment; bilding small collections to help us catch more fish. Shortly after, Colin left Ontario and moved west to British Columbia and I haven’t seen him since. I have often wandered how he was if he was still fishing. A few weeks ago I used Google to search his name, I figured it was worth a try, but all I got was an NCAA football player.

Today I got an email from a name I recognized immediately, Colin Kennedy, and with great joy I opened it and read it. It turns out that Colin was looking for some information for a fishing trip and stumbled across a fishing picture that he thought looked like me. He Googled my name and found FishingFury and my personal site. He is still living in British Columbia, but we have made loose plans to get together and fish sometime in the spring.

This is one of the reasons Jon and I do what we do with FishingFury, for our friends and for our family. Fishing has given us some of the happiest moments our lives, and now we are sharing them with the world. It amazes me how common interests help bring people together.