lake simcoe Muskie?

Hey guys, I know it is only beginning of February but I am already looking forward to getting my boat in the water and hook up on muskie. I usually fish muskie in the peterborough area, mostly pigeon lake and have caught a few 45+ inchers. My sisters boyfriend works for the MNR and has told me a lot about the muskie reintroduction project they started. Has anyone hooked up on a big simcoe muskie? Ive heard of guides having hits but no hookups. Just curious if it is worth fishing simcoe muskie. Eventually they will take hold and grow big and fat. Just curious if anyone has had any luck at all in the last couple years.

So far, very few sightings of Muskie of any size that I have heard of. Personally, I have seen exactly one. It was of modest size, in shallow water at location XYZ. If you want to hookup, there are many, many better places.

Your boyfriend in law didnt tell you muskie has no open season on simcoe?

Close season for muskie on simcoe but if you are a muskies canada member you can sign up for muskie fishing in simcoe for reaserch purposes. I think they allow you to fish them in May

I believe one of our younger board members muskyaaron did this research thing if i remember correctly. I would PM him if i were you as he would know quite a bit about it. Goodluck

You might be able to find the thread aswell if you search it

Interesting.. Didn't know there were musky on Simcoe.

Not on silly, in!

Yea, I am a member of muskies Canada and the regulation is that you can fish them may till December as long as you record how long you fished for, location, successes, etc. Even if you get a follow you have to record it. I haven't fished it for Muskie yet but since the ice will be out well before then, may as well give it the old college try right? My buddy hired a guide for lake st Clair for the day and this guy hooked up on a 40+ incher last May. Lake simcoe is more accessible for me, I mainly fish kawarthas and have got a few. I only started serious Muskie fishing last year after I was bass fishing and had about a 3 pounder on in pigeon lake and a Muskie smashed it right next to my boat. Now I'm on the hunt for that trophy. Me and my dad got one about 15 years ago when I was 8 on the French river while pike fishing. He was on the phone with my mom while I was reeling in a small pike and a 55 incher came up and smashed it. My dad turns back around and just screams "WHAT THE F*** are you doing" as I'm 8 and bent over the side of the boat. We landed it and it was about 32 pounds. Wanna get some that I actually worked for to make it all that sweeter.

I also don't wanna wait till June haha

We went out with Blue Ice Huts last Friday and caught lots of dinks and a few jumbos in 18 ft of water. The guy in the hut beside us started his day off by pulling up a 30 inch muskie - first fish of the day he said. It went back down the hole.

Oh there are a few around, got into Tiger muskies at the north end awhile ago, as in Couchiching, thought they were big pike, when they did MNR netting seen a few also by Strawberry Island and Smiths Bay

if you want big musky fish Georgian bay late fall

St. Lawrence river around the Gananoque/ Rockport area has the big boys.

Id love to be within an hour or so drive of most places but living in Oakville and wanting big Muskie is like living in the middle of no where. But I get in what I can.

I was at a bait shop just south of Orillia on the hiway last year listening to a couple older fisherman talking about the muskie they had been catching while ice fishing on the top end of simcoe. said the didn't like having them back in the lake competing with the other fish, and where killing them before putting them back through the ice. even the bait shop owner was encouraging them to do it. I have never gone back to the same bait shop and never will.

I've heard and seen videos of it on lake St Claire