Lake Trout/Whitefish Opener, Who's in? Saturday is 5 days away!

Good luck everyone getting out for Lake Trout / Whitefish opener on Simcoe..

Great pics!

Enjoy...

I still have to worry about the winds after a point. It's only a 23-footer, so let's be honest for a second, even 3-footers aren't fun fishing. I can be out in 4 footers and still not worry, but after about 4 feet they start coming over the bow if I hit it incorrectly. I also need to be holding on with one hand at all times during 4-footers. Most of the time, unless the fishing is amazing or the entire week looks terrible, I won't try to battle 4-footers too long and just call it a day - it certainly isn't safe because they throw me all over the boat.

Also, the trolling motor will start coming out of the water around 4-foot waves.

I typically look at the weather and if it's over 25km wind I might just stay home.

When I tow it down to Lake Ontario, I feel like a canoe compared to all the other boats Salmon fishing. And Lake Ontario waves start at 3 feet typically lol.. but they are more rollers with larger periods between waves rather than short period breaking waves as we get in Simcoe.

And I've fished on my 10-foot kayak (yes on kayak) off BBP a few times when wind was well over 30KM/h:-) But granted, I was fishing in bay, not in main lake.

I have no idea how your kayak keeps you afloat with those massive balls of steel, James.

I still have to worry about the winds after a point. It's only a 23-footer, so let's be honest for a second, even 3-footers aren't fun fishing. I can be out in 4 footers and still not worry, but after about 4 feet they start coming over the bow if I hit it incorrectly. I also need to be holding on with one hand at all times during 4-footers. Most of the time, unless the fishing is amazing or the entire week looks terrible, I won't try to battle 4-footers too long and just call it a day - it certainly isn't safe because they throw me all over the boat.

Also, the trolling motor will start coming out of the water around 4-foot waves.

I typically look at the weather and if it's over 25km wind I might just stay home.

When I tow it down to Lake Ontario, I feel like a canoe compared to all the other boats Salmon fishing. And Lake Ontario waves start at 3 feet typically lol.. but they are more rollers with larger periods between waves rather than short period breaking waves as we get in Simcoe.

I agree with you reelinginthebigone, it's no fun trying to fish in rolling whitecaps on Lake Simcoe. I got only
17.5 ft long, it is a deep V hull, I can handle white caps 3-4 feet .........but bigger than that and I go home. And even trying to jig for whitefish is very difficult as the boat is bouncing up and down so much! I get the best luck catching whitefish if I can keep my lure within 10" from the bottom.

Got out around 8:15 am and fished until 11 am. They were lively when we first got out there. Worked the 90-110ft area about 300-500 feet away from the cluster of boats. Had lots of runners, lots of hookups, and landed quite a few

Had a few 11s, one 15.5 lbs, and one monster 17.5 lbs (hers!)

Here are some pics. She outfished me, as always! Swimbaits were the ticket today. I only got one on my shad, and a little smallmouth bass haha.

Mine was a tagged fish. See the orange tag? I'll call it in and give them all the info.

Every single fish was successfully returned to the depths using the wonderful fish descender. Everyone needs one of these!

good job guys great day by anyones standards. makes me want to go back and fish simcoe again ,thank you barrie, oro , inisfill for making it cost prohibitive for most people these days.

how nice.

I fished 90 to 1150 fow over 5 hours from 7:00AM to over 12:00 but literally marked no fish at all.

Very nice Lakers! What a beauty day to be out , I got a late start cause I worked last night but went 2 for about 10 on the whitefish in the afternoon kept missin em on the hits.

James,

I found them out pretty far. They were about 1/2 to 1km further than the cluster of boats.



The blue circle is where the cluster of 40 boats was. The red circle is where I found a lot of action.


Probably too far and dangerous to get out there with a kayak. They'll come in to their normal locations soon.

Wow, what a nice whitefish! Great to hear you had a lot of great action! Did you keep it? Those things taste amazing.

Nice fish guys. I think I drove right by you at one point (16ft old red Lund tinner) outside of the crowd.
. Came out to the regular haunts and saw the floatilla and said to hell with this. Eventually found some whitefish and went 1/3 with few missed bites.

Oh yea hard to beat beer battered up had em for dinner

Nice fish VBB! All y'all getting whitefish like mad. I'm assuming you guys are using blade baits for the whities.

Yeah, getting outside of that pack was key.

I think I remember seeing your red lund. I'll keep an eye out for you next time.

James,

I found them out pretty far. They were about 1/2 to 1km further than the cluster of boats.



The blue circle is where the cluster of 40 boats was. The red circle is where I found a lot of action.


Probably too far and dangerous to get out there with a kayak. They'll come in to their normal locations soon.

Thanks. Yes that red-circle area would be a bit toooo far for me to reach on my kayak, pedal (or human flesh) driven :-)