The Detroit River Walleye Run is an Urban Fishing Dreamland

Don’t think the Detroit River is one of the premiere urban fishing destinations in North America? Think again, you’re about to get schooled. You won’t find any signs of the great outdoors on this trip, trees and mountains will be juxtaposed with factories and smoke stacks. But the fishing, oh boy. You won’t believe me until you watch this video anyway, so press play.

via Vimeo

We’ve Officially Finished Moving!

By now I hope everyone is seeing our website in it’s new home in downtown Toronto. So far the site has been super fast for me, after I fixed a few migration bugs of course, and I hope that nobody will experience the annoying page not found errors. I really hope that this has not hurt our page ranking with google, but we won’t know for a few weeks I’d guess.

In more exciting and fishing related news I went fishing at Lake Scugog with Ed on Sunday. This time we geared ourselves up for Bass hoping to land some big ones in the thick Scugog weeds. We were amazed that there was nobody on the lake considering it’s a holiday weekend, we had high hopes. Unfortunately the weather decided to throw all kinds of things at us, everything from wind to seriously heavy rain to brutal sun. Luckily not lightning though. It definitely wasn’t easy but we managed to catch a few decent fish, but most importantly of all have a good time.

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When Zanders Attack!

A Zander is a European variant of our Walleye, and apparently some can be extremely territorial, to the point of attacking swimmers. With six attacks in a single weekend, two of the swimmers were sent to the hospital with gashes over four inches long, the local Swiss police department was forced to take action. The police first tried to catch the fish with a net, which failed, so a hitman scuba diver was sent in to ice pick harpoon the fish. I’m not sure how he know which fish was the attacker, but while under he harpooned a 27″ Zander weighing over 17 pounds! What a whopper! The police cooked the fish and served it to local tourists for their troubles.

“It is quite unusual for zanders to bite humans”, Croci said, adding he suspected the fish was suffering from a hormonal imbalance which could be responsible for its aggression.

via Yahoo Canada and Telegraph UK

Sometimes The Small Ones Are The Best Ones

Especially when your smile is bigger than your fish!

I found this photo, and others, on the Cherry family website. These guys definitely know how to have a good time, any crowd that brings a spare barbie rod, and catches a fish on it is cool in my book. I can’t really speak for their other fishing habits..

The smallest walleye you’ve ever seen? What do you think?

Also, check out the smallest pike you’ve ever seen.

Pike Attacks Walleye

Its actually quite common to have a smaller fish attacked by a pike, especially early in the season. These attacks happen so fast you rarely have the time to catch it on tape unless you already have the camera rolling. These guys where quick enough to film the savage attack on a small walleye.

Pike Attack from Sean on Vimeo.

Toronto Islands – May 17th 2006

On Wednesday Ric, the angler known as HighDrifter on OFN (I’m really bad with names), met up at the ferry docks to spend the day fishing Toronto Islands. Last Sunday on the Toronto Islands the pike and weed beds seemed to be in the process of really turning on.

This time we headed straight for Centre Island, skipping that long fish-less walk from Wards. It wasn’t long before Ric found a nice 33″ pike while wadding out on the weed line, and watched as another similar sized pike followed right behind his. HighDrifter had a few hits in the same area, but couldn’t seem to get a solid hook set.

After covering the shoreline for a few more hours we ran in to more OFN’ers, Johnny Bass and Lucid, and sat down for a chat. Soon after a severe thunderstorm started rolling in, we kept fishing for as long as possible, but were eventually sent for cover due to some crazy lightning. Luckily we found this cool stage area in the nearby park.

Once the rain and thunder subsided, we were right back fishing the canals. It wasn’t long before I hooked in to a fish, but it wasn’t until I got a good look at it that I realized it was a walleye, and once I had it in my hands I could see it would actually be my personal best. There have been a few rare walleyes caught from shore on Toronto Islands, and now I’m one of the very lucky people to have caught them there.

The Toronto Islands are starting to get to the point they were when we fished them in 2004, and since Clive is back in Canada it won’t belong before both of us are out on those islands for a more ‘full-fledged’ Fishing Fury report.

Enjoy the pictures.