Cdn Angler

I have never used Venom Lures soft plastics, but their jigs are great. They currently have 100 grubs for $4.00 and 50 lizards for $10.00 on closeout. If decent that's a good deal to my eyes.

They also have fast boats, unlimited gas $$$ and lots of other places to fish.

I've probably bought $1,000 of tackle/rods/reels since September. A lot of items are on sale and I'm trying to expand my fishing arsenal to have a proper musky combo and to get tackle that will let me expand my techniques - ned rig, a rig, jerkbaits etc. I'm also trying to be more organized so getting bins, peg boards, tackle boxes etc. At a certain point I expect to have enough to just replace stuff and add the odd thing here or there. In Canada it is tough as our regular tackle shops have mostly non premium stuff. You don't find river2sea, jackall, keitech in normal stores, only specialty small places and crazy expensive. So you either buy something sub-optimal or pay a fortune. Makes it imperative to buy stuff on sale when you can. For example a shad rap I saw today that was $15.99. A whopper plopper might be $22 and I'd have to drive 40 miles to find it.

In Canada so biggest are 5 lbs. 1. White tube LMB 5 lbs 2. River2Sea Spinnerbait all white LMB 5 lbs 3. Cordell Wally Diver in perch- no scale but lose to 5 4. 4.5 SMB Rapala J11 (jointed crankbait)

From where I am (Ontario, Canada) to the fishing in the South, the difference is massive. Keep in mind I've only fished in NC, but I've spent hundreds of hours watching people fish in the southern USA. Some differences: - fewer lakes, more people = more pressure in the USA. - fewer natural lakes, more large reservoirs in USA - seasons up North are exaggerated as the shifts are drastic - smaller window for eating (late March to December) means both smaller fish and fewer total fish - more cold water fish: small mouth, walleye, musky, pike, lake trout etc. This impacts bass behaviour, but also other anglers that prefer to target these species (common) - different forage: no shad, more perch etc. - more lakes with little to no fishing pressure. If you find them it can be bananas. - far less management of lakes in Canada: stocking, controling weeds etc. The main thing IMO is that our natural lakes look much different than man made reservoirs. There are very few instances where I encounter water with poor visibility that isn't weed choked. This is mainly rivers. Things like deep cranking, working rip rap, tons of creek arms...are not common here. A water body here is more likely to be more or less round, with fewer small arms. I always wish when reading/watching people give fishing advice that they would more often specify their geographic location. If I watch MLF the lakes and techniques often are totally different than what I could do here. Although our bass are smaller and less numerous, I'd say they are easier to catch as there's less fishing pressure and as they have to eat more as they only have a 8-ish month window and only 4 months with avg temps above 18 celsius. Also bass fishing is prohibited until 3rd week of June, which is post spawning. So there is zero legal pre-spawn or bed fishing. Supposedly this allows more fry to hatch/live and there are therefore more dinks.

For whatever reason I've had a lot of whopper plopper fish come off, especially smallmouth and in the 110 size. Less so when using 75. I speculate that the 110 is too big for their mouth and I only get 1 hook in and they then can shake the heavy bait. I've tried horsing them and playing them with the same results. Mono seemed to be better than braid. Anyone have a suggestion? 110 specifically. I bought a D&M inline buzzsaw buzzbait this summer that had a massive 6/0 hook. Hook ups were not the issue, but the hook was so big nearly every fish was hooked through their eye or close. I stopped throwing it.

I'm in Canada and many lakes around me that aren't crazy deep/rocky are weed choked. I enjoy fishing them more in the Spring before the weeds get insane. The lakes that are filled with milfoil - I'm talking everywhere - are just a pain to fish. Especially if the weeds are regularly reaching the surface. Locating fish is harder since everywhere looks similar. If they aren't near the surface I basically have to drop baits vertically and it is hard to cover water doing this. I avoid these lakes in mid-summer. Spinner baits are an option sometimes if kept shallow. Topwaters can often work. The WP 110 is an alright option as it doesn't get as fouled up and easier to "steer" than a spook. Stop/start around the weeds. I'm no expert though, my catch rate goes down on the most weed infested lakes.

Two rivers run through my city of a million people and both offer better than average fishing. I've caught multiple 4lb smallmouth, a 40 inch musky, some 30 inch pike, walleye on every cast a few times. In the middle of the city, sometimes between the office and my house. There are shore anglers confined to certain spots, but even then not crazy pressure, maybe 1 person or two. It's weird how few people fish this city. Most hardcore fishermen prefer places they can rip a big boat and have better launches. Casual fishermen in Canada view fishing as a way to get food and think that city fish are "toxic" so often don't bother. So mostly the people that are fishing are using worms or tiny walleye jigs, so fish aren't even particularly skittish as they haven't seen a ton of different baits.

Bumping this. I bought the DRT Tiny Klash 6 6 at a pawn shop today and neither myself nor the seller could read the writing to tell what it was. I had no idea what I was buying, just thought it looked cool. Got it for $25, perch pattern. I'm assuming this is NOT the model that's $250 ? It seems like there are various tails/lips you can use? I seem to have the V tail. How do people fish these? Wake? Crank? I'd test out it but it is frozen up here.

For the amount of fishing I did this year i.e. a metric ton, I didn't lose a ton of lures, but I had a number of rod disasters. Lures: $11 musky swimbait I forgot on rivers edge Rattling roumba x 2 (1 to a pike, 1 to a crack in the lure) Duo Spybait: hooked a big smb that got stuck on a deep log 1 Big O Crankbait to a snag in heavy river current 1 huge jenko hook/8 inch keitech to a snag 1 R2S Spinnerbait to a SMB when I didn't know how to rig a spinnerbait properly 1 R2S Spinnerbait from a lazy knot 1 small swim jig shortly after hook set. Not sure what happened. Possibly a pike. Probably 3-8 small jigheads to pike or musky. Hopefully won't lose quite as many next year, though only a few of these were preventable. One mistake I made was to be lazy and not carry a net when I was fishing for bass and thought pike/musky were unlikely. I had a couple accidental hookups and they ended up breaking off at the side of my kayak when I couldn't grab them easily. Net would have solved this. Resolved to always carry a net from now on.

I live in Canada, so 5 lb bass aren't super common. I caught two this year, though one was in the USA (North Carolina). The USA LMB bass was caught on a white tube. The Canada LMB was caught on a River2Sea White Spinnerbait, on a narrow stretch of river.

Thanks, I'll check that out.

Hi all, My family is renting a place on the outer banks for the last week of April - we are from Canada. I'm going down a week early and renting a yak to do some bass fishing. I've literally never fished South of Canada, so this is very new. I've done a lot of research and starting from the Outer Banks I plan to hit Phelps Lake, maybe the Alligator River, Scuppernog River. If it is worth it I wouldn't mind driving further West to hit some bass lakes - Waccawamaw, Harris etc are the ones I've found. I'm wondering if it is worth it? It is hard to get an idea from afar. My main considerations are: - time (not too far from OBX ideally, though I have 5 days to work with) - being able to figure out where to fish on a lake in a short time (within reason) - having a shot at a 6lb + larggie as they simply don't grow that big where I'm from - places that have some shelter for kayak fishing and don't require covering a huge amount of water - some nice scenery is a plus. - skunk avoidance Also I can't find any affordable motor boat rentals on any of the main bass lakes. If anyone has a lead that'd be awesome. I'm not looking for any honey holes, just some general advice from those that know the land. Cheers.