Early Morning Trout Fishing at Wilmot Creek (Bowmanville, Ontario)

Early-morning trout fishing at Wilmot Creek

The tranquility of early morning fall fishing can only be captured in a photo or experienced firsthand. This photo was taken at about 7a.m. on a Saturday morning. I was told to be there before sunrise to get a spot, but it was still surprising to see how many anglers were scattered along the shoreline for a chance to hook into a Lake Ontario, trout at that early hour. 

Have you fished at the mouth of Wilmot Creek? Do you have any advice for your fellow anglers? Leave a comment. 

Weekly Fishing Photo - Smiling Pike, Lake Dalrymple Ontario

Denver gets his Northern Pike to smile for the camera  (Lake Dalrymple, Ontatrio)

Instead of allowing them to collect digital cobwebs on my hard drive, I will post one fishing photo every week. 

Fishing Tip: Lake Dalrymple is a very weedy body of water. When pike fishing, you will want to use a flashy lure that is virtually weedless. It can get more than a bit frustrating if you have to remove big clumps of weeds after every cast. I tend to trade in the crank baits for safety-pin style spinner baits (1/2 or 3/4 ounce variety). There are many weed beds at the southern end of the lake and a really big weed bed right before the narrowing where the north and south lake meet. Let your lure fall just above the weeds and retrieve at a steady pace, ensuring that it is going fast enough to part the softer weeds. Pike just go crazy when a bright flashy spinner bait comes ripping through the weeds. You won't have to guess if you got a hit or not, pike are all business. 

If you don't have spinnerbaits in your tackle box, I highly recommend you buy a few (roughly $5 each). I have a variety of colours and blade types since subtle differences can determine whether you will have a good or great day on the water. 

Want to share a fishing photo with fishtalker readers?  Just leave a comment or a message and I will get your photo uploaded. If you would like to know more about fishing on Lake Dalrymple, just leave a comment and I will share what I know. 

Temiskaming - The Place of Deep Water

The results are in! Lake Temiskaming (New Liskeard, Ontario) is a must-fish lake if you want to catch trophy Small mouth Bass, monster Pike or over sized Walleye (Pickerel). The lake is about six hours drive north of Toronto but what’s in store is worth every minute you spend behind the wheel. If you think that Muskoka is northern Ontario, think again. Drive past Muskoka and the ‘deer crossing’ signs are replaced by moose crossing signs. Once you past North Bay all that’s left is you, Highway 11 and a few small towns that you probably have never heard of.

The stretch of highway from North Bay to New Liskeard would be exactly what every fisherman would hope heaven to be like (nothing but trees, open skies and countless lakes). Before you can jot down the name of the lake you are passing another one appears in the horizon to distract you from the last. It is almost impossible to resist pulling over at least once to try your luck in on of the picture-perfect pools that practically run onto the roadside.  Unless you have the patience and restraint of Buddha your six-hour drive can easily turn into a 12-hour fishing expedition into the north. Don’t worry, the lakes aren’t going anywhere. Even if you had as many lives as a cat, you still wouldn’t have enough time to cover all of the lakes in this region.

More on fishing Temiskaming  to follow…..

Classic Lake Temiskaming Small Mouth

Tube jiggin - A 13 ft hump in the middle of Temiskaming

Oxymoron - A really big smallie

Double Header - Caught on spinner baits (late afternoon)

 

Bass Angler Justin with another smallie - Average size on Temiskaming

Evening Walleye (Pickerel)

On the troll - patiently waiting for the rod to whip forward