Hey all,
I am considering myself a born-again angler girl, living in TO. Born-again meaning I used to fish a lot as a little kid with my Dad, who is a pretty avid angler, but due to an unfortunate "incident", I haven't really touched a fishing rod in close to 20 years. Well I'm not sure if it was nostalgia, but this spring I got the itch, grabbed a rod and headed to High Park not knowing what to expect. After several casts with nothing, I shuffled spots and WHAM! Caught a decent sized smallie which put up an adorable fight. Needless to say, I was hooked again(pardon the rather bromidic pun), and it has become a bit of an obsession over the summer. Some of the places we fished this summer: Long Point, Hastings, Couchiching, Port Severn, Orangeville, Dalrymple, Oastler Lake, west trib, north trib, and various spots in Toronto.
When camping at Oastler Lake in September I caught my first pike! Sadly, when taking it out of the water, the pike freaked, I freaked (a little), line went snap, fish went kerTHUNK and off it shot before we could get a pic. I am determined to catch another pike this fall...that was exhilarating! I'm stoked to have found this forum and look forward to learning a lot more!
Cheers!
I was hoping to catch the same one but I bet it was hiding after that conundrum. Oastler was really nice. Don't mind the train cuz I grew up around RR trax. Campsite on the water, barely anyone there....sweet.
