Its been a long time since I've posted a report but I have a few minutes today and I just got back from a musky trip (and actually caught something) soooo...
We just had our second child and my parents drove up from Nova Scotia to help out, which means my mom babysits the oldest and my dad and I get to go fishing. He has always wanted to catch a musky as they don't have any in NS, so we headed to the Kawartha Lakes area. He is a die hard bass fisherman so it was going to be a challenge to get him to commit to throwing those big musky baits all day long. About 1.5 hours into the day without moving a fish, Dad picked up his senko rod and gave up on musky. Almost immediately after that I hooked into this scrappy 42" fish that hit boat side.
This guy smashed a Phantom Soft tail. I've fished this bait a lot over the years but this is the first fish I've caught on it. After that, the senko rod went away and my Phantom Soft tail was quickly taken from me. I was hoping that a feeding window had opened up so I let him fish the prime spots from the front of the boat as I threw a green and black slopmaster into the deeper water off the back. It only took 20 minutes before this pretty 37.5" smashed it and ended up in the net.
After letting this guy go my slop master was quickly taken from me :-). Unfortunately, the bite stopped after that so we decided to try for some smallmouth in a deeper section of the river. I've seen a few walleye over the years in this river but have never caught one until now. This scrappy guy engulfed a Max scent shaky head worm just off a deep crib.
With only a few small smallmouth to show for our efforts I convinced dad to go back to musky fishing. Another few hours went by without moving a fish so we decided to head for the launch. I had on a small single bladed super bou bucktail (a bait that I've taken a bunch of musky on over the years) and in almost the exact same spot as the first fish, this 34.5"er smashed it.
At this point dad had completely given up on musky and just wanted to warm up in the car. He was a great net and camera man but I don't think he will be wanted to fish for musky any time soon.
Looking forward to getting back out there!
Randaller
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