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[dockmuskie]

Since me and my buddies have all graduated university we now have some free time on our hands to do a little fall fishing! Only problem is I have never fished this late into the year before unless it was ice fishing.

The first weekend of November, 6 of us are getting together for a weekend of fishing at my cottage and I am curious if anyone has any tips on where the fish may or may not be at that time? Have the fish moved deeper at that time or would I find them in the shallows trying to use the sun to warm up? Is early morning and evening the best time to fish or is it too cold at that time? Thanks in advance for any tips I am hoping to show them a good time and get a few picture worthy fish to post on here! The guys I am going with are not avid fisherman so they would be fine with anything bass, walleye, perch etc its all good!

[manitoubass2]

Since me and my buddies have all graduated university we now have some free time on our hands to do a little fall fishing! Only problem is I have never fished this late into the year before unless it was ice fishing.

The first weekend of November, 6 of us are getting together for a weekend of fishing at my cottage and I am curious if anyone has any tips on where the fish may or may not be at that time? Have the fish moved deeper at that time or would I find them in the shallows trying to use the sun to warm up? Is early morning and evening the best time to fish or is it too cold at that time? Thanks in advance for any tips I am hoping to show them a good time and get a few picture worthy fish to post on here! The guys I am going with are not avid fisherman so they would be fine with anything bass, walleye, perch etc its all good!

First off, congrats on graduating!!!

This really depends alot on the lake you'll be fishing. How deep does it get? What the water visibility like? Water temperature? What type of structure does it offer? Does it have in/outflowing streams? What type of forage is available? How big is the lake? etc

Try to get more detailed if possible, and I'm sure a few of us will do our best to help put you and your buddies on fish!

[dockmuskie]

First off, congrats on graduating!!!

This really depends alot on the lake you'll be fishing. How deep does it get? What the water visibility like? Water temperature? What type of structure does it offer? Does it have in/outflowing streams? What type of forage is available? How big is the lake? etc

Try to get more detailed if possible, and I'm sure a few of us will do our best to help put you and your buddies on fish!

Thank you, feels good to be done school haha didn't think it would ever end.

As for the lake I will get a little more descriptive: It is a larger lake and the best way to describe it is two large lakes connected by a small channel to make one big lake. There are lots of islands and small bays with woody and weedy cover. The big bays are very, very deep but the smaller bays range from very shallow around 1ft, some are about 5ft other places can be 15ft. (water levels are very low this time of year because it is one of the feeder lakes for the Trent Severn Waterway so they keep taking logs out of the dam to feed the waterway). It is a busy lake in the summer but should be relatively dead up there now, still should be a fair number of docks and man made structure left in the water.
In terms of depth it really varies quite a bit. There are some sandy bottom bays but mostly the bottoms have a somewhat leafy/weedy cover. Alot of the islands have rocky points and drop offs near them. Water temperature, I am not sure at the moment but I am going up this weekend so I can get an exact water temperature tomorrow.
I am not aware of any inflowing streams and the only outflowing area of water is the dam that I mentioned above.
Water visibility is clear.

Hopefully that helps, if you need any other information let me know and I'll do my best! I kind of have a lot of options to pick from in terms of what we can fish so I am hoping my scouting trip this weekend can help pin down some likely habits and areas for the fish to be! Thanks again!

[manitoubass2]

Thank you, feels good to be done school haha didn't think it would ever end.

As for the lake I will get a little more descriptive: It is a larger lake and the best way to describe it is two large lakes connected by a small channel to make one big lake. There are lots of islands and small bays with woody and weedy cover. The big bays are very, very deep but the smaller bays range from very shallow around 1ft, some are about 5ft other places can be 15ft. (water levels are very low this time of year because it is one of the feeder lakes for the Trent Severn Waterway so they keep taking logs out of the dam to feed the waterway). It is a busy lake in the summer but should be relatively dead up there now, still should be a fair number of docks and man made structure left in the water.
In terms of depth it really varies quite a bit. There are some sandy bottom bays but mostly the bottoms have a somewhat leafy/weedy cover. Alot of the islands have rocky points and drop offs near them. Water temperature, I am not sure at the moment but I am going up this weekend so I can get an exact water temperature tomorrow.
I am not aware of any inflowing streams and the only outflowing area of water is the dam that I mentioned above.
Water visibility is clear.

Hopefully that helps, if you need any other information let me know and I'll do my best! I kind of have a lot of options to pick from in terms of what we can fish so I am hoping my scouting trip this weekend can help pin down some likely habits and areas for the fish to be! Thanks again!

Holy geez!

I'll get to this later tonight when I have more time. Sounds like a wicked lake dood.

Have you fished there in the spring at all for walleye? Or is it closed near the spawn?

[dockmuskie]

It is actually considered a fishing sanctuary from Apr 1st to 3rd saturday in May on the one side of the lake and Mar 1st to 3rd saturday in May on the other side so I do not get to do any spring fishing for any! I do ice fish all winter and we get a lot of nice walleye then.

[NiagaraSteel]

I've found that the fish are more sluggish this time of year. Maybe reel in your lure a bit slower...

[grubman]

Dock
From my other thread about the invasive pike sounds like you already know how and where to find fish. It sounds like a great lake you're on. But the Nov weekend is still some time off. There's no telling how the weather is going to be, and that is the main thing. For you and your buds I hope it will be good, and for me too. I plan to hit the waters somewhere at that time too. I just hope turnover will not begin at that time and all the weeds die off. It will be tough for me b/c I mostly shore fish. Wait and see how the weather and weeds go.

Congrats on graduating.

[dockmuskie]

Dock
From my other thread about the invasive pike sounds like you already know how and where to find fish. It sounds like a great lake you're on. But the Nov weekend is still some time off. There's no telling how the weather is going to be, and that is the main thing. For you and your buds I hope it will be good, and for me too. I plan to hit the waters somewhere at that time too. I just hope turnover will not begin at that time and all the weeds die off. It will be tough for me b/c I mostly shore fish. Wait and see how the weather and weeds go.

Congrats on graduating.

Thanks grubman good luck to you as well!

[dockmuskie]

Was doing some research on turnover and effects on fish and found this article http://fishing.about...a/aa100703a.htm

Might help if anyone has been reading this topic and trying to determine a good fishing strategy like I have been!

[grubman]

A few members in another forum just told me some of the Kawarthas have just started turning over. So it will be some tough fishing for a little while anyway. I found this PDF about aquati weeds. I'm still reading it myself seems lots of cool info.

https://docs.google....bVRN4G1h2TppPJg

Here is one for waldos
http://www.ontariowa...sinthefall.html

Fall bass article.
http://www.ontarioou...s/?ID=44&a=read

Lots of reading to do.
Hope it helps, it should.

[dockmuskie]

Thanks grubman!.. another turnover website http://www.onthelake...ng/turnover.htm

seems like the first weekend of november will be difficult, might turn into more of a drinking weekend rather than a fishing weekend

[grubman]

Not neccessarily, it may be over by then. Keep your hopes up. If anything bring worms and minnows, put them on the end of a slip bobber and wait it out. You know it's going to be slow fishing anyways so cast out, fire up the barbie, open a cold one and relax. Sounds like a very laid back weekend to me........

[FishingNoob]

Not neccessarily, it may be over by then. Keep your hopes up. If anything bring worms and minnows, put them on the end of a slip bobber and wait it out. You know it's going to be slow fishing anyways so cast out, fire up the barbie, open a cold one and relax. Sounds like a very laid back weekend to me........

Nothing wrong with that!

[dockmuskie]

Not neccessarily, it may be over by then. Keep your hopes up. If anything bring worms and minnows, put them on the end of a slip bobber and wait it out. You know it's going to be slow fishing anyways so cast out, fire up the barbie, open a cold one and relax. Sounds like a very laid back weekend to me........

sounds like a perfect plan

[dockmuskie]

My fishing plans this weekend just got cancelled unfortunately but something came up that I could not pass on. Grubman you will have to go catch something and post pics so that I can live through you haha. Thanks to everyone who posted tips and comments in this topic, I plan on trying to get out in the next few weeks atleast once so all of the helpful information will not go to waste. Thanks again everybody.

[grubman]

Tough break dood, it's looking like a ok weekend. I sure hope to get out for some pike, just waiting to see if the other guys wanna go. But I plan to clean up Wilmot on Sunday then dip a line. Sorry your plan didn't work out maybe next one.