Fishing in the Kawarthas

I was out again last night in my trusty old plastic orange canoe. From a distance the canoe looks great but up close and personal, you can see all the patchwork I’ve had to do to make it fairly water tight. Still it does float and keeps me high and dry for the duration of my many outings leisure or fishing on the Scugog.

I ventured out later this evening as earlier we had had a torrential thunderstorm, enough to force anyone to head for cover of the tremendous downpour. Man have we been having a lot of rain in the kawarthas lately!

I’m always excited when I venture out later evening. As the darkness takes over, the whole country side and riverbanks present a different view. My imagination runs wild as I conjure up images from the silhouetted trees and shrubs as well as trying to identify the many sounds from the riverbank.

Of course the sounds that I enjoy the most are the splashes from feeding fish but then there are also the scary thundering splashes from the beavers swimming by who feel that I have encroached on their space and interrupted their work-about.

This late evening was also interrupted often by splashes of my catch after catch of black crappie, who put up many a good fight. But where have all the bass gone? It seems like the crappie are taking over from the bass which so far are pretty scarce in the all of the regular places they used to be. Or is it my lures and fishing tackle thats not up to par?

Still, I don’t worry too much about it as long as I’m enjoying the outdoors and all that it has to offer in the kawarthas.

Happy fishing in the kawarthas!

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In my post ‘Going Boating? Are you prepared?‘ I mentioned about speed demons. My boating experience revolves around my trusty old canoe, so I have to be very careful and keep a diligent watch for many of these demons who don’t seem to give a damn about us canoeists.

A couple of evenings ago I decided to go out for a paddle and fish while the sun was still up.  Paddling was good but fishing was lousy. Anyway, towards the end of my outing on my way back home, a couple of guys in their motorized boat quite a bit larger than my canoe, seemed like they decided to also get back home but at a much quicker speed than me.  Before that they were slowly chugging along until they were getting closer to me.  Then they decided to rev up and push off. They must have noticed me in my orange canoe and orange life jacket, as I was in full view. The wash they created was considerable and I had to manoeuver quickly to point the canoe into the wash, lest I would be another statistic - man overboard canoeist.

Whats with these guys? The area along the Scugog river in which I canoe and fish is supposed to be a regulated speed, but I often find that this is never the case.  One motorboat after another zooms by creating a wash that messes up the riverbanks and makes it very unsafe for us canoeists.

I sign off all of my posts with happy fishing in the kawarthas. Please don’t let me be one that is fished out of the kawarthas - I won’t be very happy about that!

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Free to you because it comes at the expense of others!

I came across some really funny video stuff lately and posted it in the Fishing Tackle Store of Fishing in the Kawarthas.

Who needs a fishfinder to locate this kind of hilarity when YouTube and Google will do a better job.

Yes, how amusing and odd we all can look and behave, and all in the name our a favourite past-time fishing.

So do follow the link and enjoy, at the expense of others this time!

Do you have any similar funny fishing experiences, perhaps even fishing in the kawarthas?  Please let us know or send in your video.

Happy fishing in the kawarthas.

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