Georgian Bay

Another giant wallie! This time from my favourite lake! My goal for a giant pike was not successful, with only a giant mark chasing lures up to the boat twice with no commitment. I did get a big sucker, a big crappie and then this beast. As soon as the sun started going down, I started seeing big marks show up, now I know the rumors about this lake not having much walleye is not true!

Very late start after catching up on some sleep. Had the misfortune to meet an ignorant, racist cottage owner on my favourite lake, and had rocks thrown at me. Guess who's dock will be VERY thoroughly fished through from now on. Might "lose" some cheap jigs. I dedicated some time to tossing my glide bait today, and hoo boy I got what I was looking for! A really nice pike nearly lept out of the water to inhale it as I was swimming it near the surface. Bent a hook too! Later on before dusk I was throwing it around again and had a little hammer handle grab it. As I cruised around an island, I pulled the bait alongside the kayak while moving, and this monster of a shadow rose up behind and sucked down the perch. What an insane eat!

Another attempt at walleye went kinda sideways lol I found a log in a weed field around 15 deep, and caught a couple of smallies from it. Changed over to a jig and real crawler and hooked a very nice wally. While trying to determine the slot size, I idiotically decided to pick it up by the tail to measure it, and ofc it slipped out and missed the net, free to swim another day 😑 Spent the rest of the day searching around and losing all my crawlers to perch and all my jigheads to pike lol Found a small pack of tiny wallys down 35ft. In my excitement to bring them up, I gave them barotrauma, so back home with me they came.

Chasing some chromes🪙

Broken PB pike?! Nope, 0.5lb smaller. Despite being my favourite lake and knowing generally where fish are, it can still humble me as I found out today. I somehow ended up at the lake by 6am today, compensated with lack of sleep, and didn't catch anything of note for approx 6 hours. All the bass and pike where I'd expect them were not there, or were not interested in eating. There was a noticeable decrease in bait balls, and many returns on screen I believe were actually a healthy population of cat fish... Confirmed with a couple of reluctant bites Moving to a bank I've never visited, I potted my first ever structure holding a ball of crappie. It looked like a tree sticking out of the silt, with foliage of fish! I picked off a few before both they and I moved on. Nearly giving up the day's pike mission as a failure, I grudgingly pushed myself to go a bit further, into a bay past the narrows. As soon as I rounded the corner, the biggest bait ball I've ever seen on this lake appeared on screen. It was a surreal sight, as images of giant schools of fish in the oceans flashed through my mind. Where the food gathered, predators followed suit. Everywhere I scanned, pike lurked in a dead zone below the school. Around 8 hours in to the day, I finally found the fish I'd been looking for. Aside from a couple of marauding bass popping in once, the rest of the predators were all decent pike. Quickly, I picked up a couple on conventional lures, then a few more on the fly. One simple decision in a fishing day can really change the entire outcome. Had I simply left without forging on past the narrows, my quest for pike would have been a failure.

Yak group outing! Took the gang to my favourite lake. Not the easiest place to fish but lots of quality fish around if you can trick them. Beika's 10lb channel cat was quite a crazy score. Seeing it on screen chasing a spoon like a bass or pike was sick! Photo is a near black smallie a smidge over 4lb. Came in a 3-pack but I lmissed the other 2. Also can't believe we got 2 walleye. They were supposed to be very rare here

Danny took us to one of his favorite spots. We are having a fun day! Enjoy the full video!