chibi
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Fishing:
On Tuesday, May 6th, frozenfire, his friend, and I ventured to the Toronto Islands for pike. We skipped the opening weekend due to bad weather. We headed down at about 9:30 to 10:00am and arrived on the island at about 11am. We got off at Hanlan’s point and went along the route to Center Island. We all thought that the weather would’ve been more kind to us, but we were wrong. We were confronted with chilly overcast skies and on/off showers.
As we were casting along one of the breakwalls of one of the canals, I had a hit and grew excited. Unfortunately, it came off after about 1 second. With disappointment, I reeled in the lure to see that the leader was all mangled up. I turned to frozenfire and he said that the pike had overshot the lure, and grabbed the leader instead of the lure. He told me to quickly cast it back in the same direction. At first I thought there was no way it was going to hit again, but I listened to him anyway. What do you know, frozenfire was right. I wasn’t even paying attention as I was reeling it back in and focusing on the passing boat, but frozenfire saw the pike come back up and inhale the lure! It was a short fight with the fish being quickly landed. It measured in at 33 inches and 7 lbs 5 oz.
We kept casting as we headed towards Center Island. frozenfire had a big fish on which gave quite a fight! It turned out to be a huge Toronto island carp! It was foul hooked on its dorsal fin. He brought the fish in to remove the lure and we decided to take a quick picture too, just for you guys!
As we reached the Center Island bridge, frozenfire decided to change things up and use a jointed rapala instead of an xrap. Instantly he gets one on and it measured to be 23 inches. Small fry if you ask me j/k.
We then fished the Center Island area for a little longer and called it a day, leaving by 6pm. The fish did not cooperate today. Only 2 pike landed and 1 follow (it chased down frozenfire’s white ghost xrap, but turned away last second).
We bumped into some other fishermen towards the end who had similar results as us. They mentioned that there were a whole bunch of police boats cruising around the islands checking for fishing licenses. It's good to know action is being taken against those who are breaking the law.
Equipment:
6’6†M Shimano compre spinning rod with 2500 Stradic spooled with 30lbs PowerPro, stainless steel leader, with assorted xraps and a lucky craft lure (mine)
openfire - the lucky craft lure didn't produce today! Hopefully next trip =).
6’6†M Shimano compre casting rod with Curado 200 DPV equipped with 12lbs mono, stainless steel leader, with assorted jerk baits (frozenfire and his friend, who have the same rod and set up)
Pictures:
overcast, grey, day
my pike
where the pike was caught
to the right
frozenfire's carp!
frozenfire's pike
where frozenfire caught his pike
to the right
behind us
Directions:
Find your way to downtown Toronto and take the ferry to Toronto Islands. Regardless of which stop you get off, there will be place after place to try! Start casting till your arm falls off d=. Wear comfortable shoes!
Map of where the pike were landed:
On Tuesday, May 6th, frozenfire, his friend, and I ventured to the Toronto Islands for pike. We skipped the opening weekend due to bad weather. We headed down at about 9:30 to 10:00am and arrived on the island at about 11am. We got off at Hanlan’s point and went along the route to Center Island. We all thought that the weather would’ve been more kind to us, but we were wrong. We were confronted with chilly overcast skies and on/off showers.
As we were casting along one of the breakwalls of one of the canals, I had a hit and grew excited. Unfortunately, it came off after about 1 second. With disappointment, I reeled in the lure to see that the leader was all mangled up. I turned to frozenfire and he said that the pike had overshot the lure, and grabbed the leader instead of the lure. He told me to quickly cast it back in the same direction. At first I thought there was no way it was going to hit again, but I listened to him anyway. What do you know, frozenfire was right. I wasn’t even paying attention as I was reeling it back in and focusing on the passing boat, but frozenfire saw the pike come back up and inhale the lure! It was a short fight with the fish being quickly landed. It measured in at 33 inches and 7 lbs 5 oz.
We kept casting as we headed towards Center Island. frozenfire had a big fish on which gave quite a fight! It turned out to be a huge Toronto island carp! It was foul hooked on its dorsal fin. He brought the fish in to remove the lure and we decided to take a quick picture too, just for you guys!
As we reached the Center Island bridge, frozenfire decided to change things up and use a jointed rapala instead of an xrap. Instantly he gets one on and it measured to be 23 inches. Small fry if you ask me j/k.
We then fished the Center Island area for a little longer and called it a day, leaving by 6pm. The fish did not cooperate today. Only 2 pike landed and 1 follow (it chased down frozenfire’s white ghost xrap, but turned away last second).
We bumped into some other fishermen towards the end who had similar results as us. They mentioned that there were a whole bunch of police boats cruising around the islands checking for fishing licenses. It's good to know action is being taken against those who are breaking the law.
Equipment:
6’6†M Shimano compre spinning rod with 2500 Stradic spooled with 30lbs PowerPro, stainless steel leader, with assorted xraps and a lucky craft lure (mine)
openfire - the lucky craft lure didn't produce today! Hopefully next trip =).
6’6†M Shimano compre casting rod with Curado 200 DPV equipped with 12lbs mono, stainless steel leader, with assorted jerk baits (frozenfire and his friend, who have the same rod and set up)
Pictures:
overcast, grey, day
my pike
where the pike was caught
to the right
frozenfire's carp!
frozenfire's pike
where frozenfire caught his pike
to the right
behind us
Directions:
Find your way to downtown Toronto and take the ferry to Toronto Islands. Regardless of which stop you get off, there will be place after place to try! Start casting till your arm falls off d=. Wear comfortable shoes!
Map of where the pike were landed:
