I have been hearing and reading about good fishing in Dunnville so on Friday April 17, 2009 I went to Dunnville with Basshunter, for some catfish action. We came there at around 6:30 or 7 PM and went straight to Fishmaster bait and tackle, 776 Main street east. Dunnville, Ont. - see photo bellow:
Get driving directions here:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/776+Main+S ... le+ON+N1A/
Weather forecast was calling for temperatures of about 19 C, with windy conditions, This proved to be true as wind was soooo strong and made it for cold fishing conditions. There was only one guy fishing from shore when we arrived, in short conversation I found out he had no luck. Our bait of choice was cutbait which we got from Fish master store. Our set up was as following:
1. Rod: Heavy duty 270 cm long (brought from overseas last year), 100 – 200 gr lure weight, line: Robinson 0,405 mm (15.25 Kg test) , circle hook (do not know the size but it was rather large), 2 Oz sinker
2. Telescopic rod 270 cm long, 120 – 170 g lure weight, Line: Spiderline Fusion 0.22 mm Braided line (13.6 Kg test) , circle hook (do not know the size but it was smaller then first one), 2 Oz sinker
As you can see, we were ready in case some monster catfish decides to bite (and praying it would).
That evening and night we caught total of 4 fish, 1 carp of about 4.5 Kg and 3 channel catfish. It was strange to me, as I never heard of it before, that first fish caught was carp – but caught on cutbait??? Never thought that carp would go for cutbait. With this, I finally broke my skunk record and got my first fish of the year.
Here are some photos of this evening:
Basshunter's personal best - 4.5 kg carp :
At about 11:30 PM we decided to call it quits and we went to sleep in the car. We had taken out the seats in our van and we placed an air mattress and two sleeping bags in there and it was really nice sleeping there.
Next day, Saturday, it was again extremely windy and chili so it was hard to fish as it was cold. There were several other fisherman fishing around today, but few of them had luck., probably due to very windy conditions & big waves?
This is how our set up look like:
Due to strong wind and cold weather, we could not stay outside for very long, so we decided to withdraw to out "strategic position" - here:
We stayed till afternoon and caught 6 more fish, 2 small brown bullhead, sucker and 3 channel catfish. Channel catfish we caught were sizes: 2.5 , 3, 4.5 , 6 and 7.5 Kg. (or from 5 – 15 Lb). So we did not have as great success as efka recently but it was fun nevertheless and will be going back there soon.
Here are some more pictures :
Catch of the day & personal best: 15 lb channel catfish
Get driving directions here:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/776+Main+S ... le+ON+N1A/
Weather forecast was calling for temperatures of about 19 C, with windy conditions, This proved to be true as wind was soooo strong and made it for cold fishing conditions. There was only one guy fishing from shore when we arrived, in short conversation I found out he had no luck. Our bait of choice was cutbait which we got from Fish master store. Our set up was as following:
1. Rod: Heavy duty 270 cm long (brought from overseas last year), 100 – 200 gr lure weight, line: Robinson 0,405 mm (15.25 Kg test) , circle hook (do not know the size but it was rather large), 2 Oz sinker
2. Telescopic rod 270 cm long, 120 – 170 g lure weight, Line: Spiderline Fusion 0.22 mm Braided line (13.6 Kg test) , circle hook (do not know the size but it was smaller then first one), 2 Oz sinker
As you can see, we were ready in case some monster catfish decides to bite (and praying it would).
That evening and night we caught total of 4 fish, 1 carp of about 4.5 Kg and 3 channel catfish. It was strange to me, as I never heard of it before, that first fish caught was carp – but caught on cutbait??? Never thought that carp would go for cutbait. With this, I finally broke my skunk record and got my first fish of the year.
Here are some photos of this evening:
Basshunter's personal best - 4.5 kg carp :
At about 11:30 PM we decided to call it quits and we went to sleep in the car. We had taken out the seats in our van and we placed an air mattress and two sleeping bags in there and it was really nice sleeping there.
Next day, Saturday, it was again extremely windy and chili so it was hard to fish as it was cold. There were several other fisherman fishing around today, but few of them had luck., probably due to very windy conditions & big waves?
This is how our set up look like:
Due to strong wind and cold weather, we could not stay outside for very long, so we decided to withdraw to out "strategic position" - here:
We stayed till afternoon and caught 6 more fish, 2 small brown bullhead, sucker and 3 channel catfish. Channel catfish we caught were sizes: 2.5 , 3, 4.5 , 6 and 7.5 Kg. (or from 5 – 15 Lb). So we did not have as great success as efka recently but it was fun nevertheless and will be going back there soon.
Here are some more pictures :
Catch of the day & personal best: 15 lb channel catfish
