Bronte Crowd

[NADO]

Well I got to bronte yesterday at 4:45 and was the only one at the end of the pier. Over the next hour a couple of nice young guys showed up and fished beside me which I was fine with as I wasnt going to stay there long and we all had enough space to cast. As the day started to turn to night the crowds started showing up in numbers, between 7:30 and 8:30 the number of people fishing went from 8 or 10 to at least 60+. Close to the end of my stay some guy ended up parking a spot right behind me and asked that I let him know when I was about to cast so he didnt get hooked....LOL seriously who does that? As I left the same guy ended up fishing in a spot that one of the young kids was fishing in as the kid got up to say goodbye to me. Fishing may be better at night but I think from now on ill be fishing from mid-afternoon to evening for salmon, I could care less that fishing is better at other times its just not worth it fishing under conditions like that. Cant wait for the steel to come so I can hit up some bushwacking spots that dont get overcrowded....

 

[Thangza]

Sounds like a good time. I may be headed to the ganny on sunday if I can get up early enough from a night of heavy drinking games LoL ill report on how the crowds are like. Definately will have some footage if I do go.

 

[Dilligaf0220]

There used to be almost a sense of community between the anglers that would fish the pierheads at night. You'd see the same guys every weekend, every season, and there were firm unwritten rules everybody followed and were quick to instruct any new people to.

That ain't the case anymore. After having a drunk teenager puke on my foot and almost chucking an entire Portuguese family into the drink on the same night I avoid Bronte like the plague once the loogans show up. Just buy a cheap canoe or kayak and fish 100m off the piers. Anybody else remember the guy that died of a heart attack at Bronte a few years ago? While his son is giving him CPR some chucklehead walks off with his rod.

 

[NADO]

I thought about doing that with my canoe, I just wasnt sure how I would anchor myself in the deep water and was also worried about the boat traffic.

 

[Dilligaf0220]

I thought about doing that with my canoe, I just wasnt sure how I would anchor myself in the deep water...

Um, with an anchor? (rimshot)

Half the time you can just drift around, or use a sea anchor drogue. Or a mesh bag filled with rocks, at Bronte you have to go a long way out before it gets deeper than 50FOW.
200m off the lighthouse it's barely 20', heck the Darkside is so shallow you can paddle around during the day and pick up all the snagged lures off the bottom.

 

[ret0dd]

yeah im just going to wait until they hit the rivers(humber)

 

[MikeyMikey]

Like I have said.. Give humber river a try at those peak hours... Not much people fish there.

 

[mikeh]

Like I have said.. Give humber river a try at those peak hours... Not much people fish there.

What? hey, no...nothing to see there. not even water, I hear Bronte has a MASSIVE salmon run on though.....

 

[Mykester]

bronte and port credit on fire

 

[float^drifter]

i did night fishing almost 5 nights in a row and i'd always see the same guys there. Never more then us 5 guys there sometimes 10 or more but everyone knew what they were doing, no assholes castin sideways and tryin to steal your spot once u hook into a fish. Its how fishin' shoud be nice and relaxing. u can tell the sport has changed so much noone has any more respect for anything.

 

[Dilligaf0220]

Ah hell I'm old enough to remember the Darkside@Bronte being shoulder-shoulder from one end to the other, over 200 people fishing and not nearly the problems I have today.
Used to look forward to Fridays, get off work and not get off the pier until Sunday morning, marathon salmon fishing baby! Now you've got a whole family of loogans that take up the space 20 guys used to fish in.

 

[MikeyMikey]

What? hey, no...nothing to see there. not even water, I hear Bronte has a MASSIVE salmon run on though.....

so you wanna have this place to all yourself, eh ? haha

 

[mikeh]

so you wanna have this place to all yourself, eh ? haha

LOL... was it the home made "no fishing" sign that gave me away....?
I dont usually fish on the shoreline outside the pedestrian bridge, so I'm hoping I dont get my spots ruined by the snaggers.

You would think that MNR and a cop would do the rounds at Credit, Bronte and Humber on the weekends,
I'm guessing that September would bag them enough unlicensed fishers to pay their salary for the rest of the year, not including auctioning off all the confiscated fishing gear.

 

[Dilligaf0220]

"Get off my pier...."

 

[mikeh]

"Get off my pier...."

Thats an OFF t-shirt right there..... LOL

 

[ret0dd]

Last year they booked and confiscated and towed(vehicles)20 people at the Humber. Hint hint