This is my summary of our trip to McGregor Bay ON, from 10-16 August 2024.  
 

My Pops, my Boy and Myself made the trip up from Ohio.  My Pops has been coming with his Fire Department buddies for almost 25 years.  This was The Boy and my first time there and if you’ve never been the area is a labyrinth of bays, coves, inlets, channels, islands and rocks.  It’s dotted with cabins and small cottages, some folks use them as summer or vacation homes, some rent them out to people like us, and some folks are fortunate enough to call this home year round.

After arriving at camp that afternoon we settled into our cabin. It was raining off and on but everyone was pretty excited to get out on the water so we decided to use what day light was left to do some fishing since after all  that’s why we were there.

 

The first place was a sheltered cove accessed by a narrow inlet.  I hadn’t yet set up any of my tackle besides one of spinning outfits with a Keitech tied on.  Within a few casts I hooked a dink LMB, my first Canadian Bass.

After a few more minutes I got another bite, then another and another.  All large mouths. Although I was happy to be catching fish right off the bat I couldn’t help but wonder where all the Smallies were.

 

I didn’t have to wait long.  
 

My first Small Mouth Bass.  

And another one on the next cast.

And on the cast after that.

 

Pops got his first shortly after that.  

Not to be out done The Boy got caught one and got the skunk off the boat.

Not long after that I got one fought like no fish I had ever had on before. When I finally got it boated I was stoked, it was a pretty decent fish too.

I got one more LMB to end the day.

Day two we had some more rain.  But we explored a few different places.  The fishing stayed good and we caught seemingly endless numbers of dinks with some decent ones mixed in. 

And of course the random LMB 

The Boy caught a more than a handful with is trusty tube.

Including this beauty.

Meanwhile in the back of the boat…

Speaking of pike all of managed to hook a few but fortunately not too many and the I only lost two baits to them thankfully.

Okay no more snot rocket pictures, I promise.
 

Now we return to our regularly scheduled programming.

Day 3 was a lot like day 2 except even rainier.  Which is fine when you’re catching fish but it was dink city for the first half of the day.  Fortunately it cleared up and some bigger fish started to bite.

And we added a few more LMBs to the tally as well.

Alas, I have hit the limit on how many pictures I can upload for this post, so I’ll have to post a part 2.  
 

Edit:  instead of making another topic I posted the of the pic in the latest cast thread.

1 hour ago, bp_fowler said:

Not long after that I got one fought like no fish I had ever had on before.

 

Some bass are that way, huh? My hardest fighting bass of 2024 was only 17.5" long and on the thin side. Meanwhile, my seven-plus pounder felt like a gob of weeds.

 

I am so happy you went there with your pops and son and even happier that you caught so many thick fish. 

 

 

An eastern Canada fishing trip was on my bucket list.  Thanks to you I don't have to go now.  Way to go.

3 minutes ago, Alex from GA said:

An eastern Canada fishing trip was on my bucket list.  Thanks to you I don't have to go now.  Way to go.

You should go anyways.  You won’t regret it.

Awesome!

Heckuva trip!  What a great use of a week!