Out with Joel and Steven - Bronte

Went out last night 6-9. Trolled between 80 and 180 for the first 1.5 hours. Hooked into a good one at 120 FOW, 35' down on a black/purple dreamweaver spoon. Just as I gave the rod to Joel - line broke. Frustrating as that would be our only chance to get Joel and Steven into a Salmon.

Spend the last part of the evening trolling J's and lyman's out in front of the mouth - only thing I hooked was diver and Lyman off the bottom (made up for the tackle I lost earlier when the line broke).

I was the only boat on the water.

I'm done Salmon fishing for this year. Hope to do a couple of Lake Erie perch trips and a BOQ walleye trip yet this year.

Bronte. Sept 18 PM. Just David and I

My son asked me this afternoon if we could give the Salmon a try tonight...No Problem....I was hoping you'd ask :). So we fished Bronte from 5:30 till about 7:15. Tons of sailboats, a little choppy but easily manageable. We were 1 for 2.

Here's the result of the lost one. It was only on for about 2 seconds.

And here's the one we landed.

Here he is hugging it (he couldn't hold it long enough for a 2nd picture because his arm was falling off).

Only had the 20lb scale with me tonight, which it max'd out - I think it was just over 20.

For a fish that's likely gonna go up the river and die in 2 weeks it had lots of energy - fought like a beast and put on a great airborne show.

Hoping to get out one more time before the Salmon season is over.

Received this Picture in the Mail Today

Back on July 28 my friend Rob Dewitte and I went Salmon fishing out of Bronte. My digital camera batteries were dead so we weren't able to take pictures out on the Lake. Back at Rob's house, Michelle (his wife) took a couple of pictures using her film camera. Today I received copies in the mail. I took a picture of one of the pictures and here it is.


Didn't turn out too bad (the orignal was pretty dark to start off with).

BTW, Rob if you're reading this, thanks for mailing these but you guys really should get out of the stone ages and get yourselves a digital camera.

Camping at Charleston Lake

We went to our favourite provincial park this weekend. Just our family. We battled rain saturday afternoon/evening but nonetheless it was a great long weekend. Really enjoyed spending lots of quality time with the wife and kids. We fished, boated, campfired, hiked, swam, biked, and all went to bed and got up at the same time in the same tent. A great time was had by all with many memories made.

Saturday and Sunday afternoon we anchored the boat and fished for panfish with worms. Charleston has plenty of little fish to keep the kids excited. We caught numerous smallmouth bass, sunfish and perch.

Here's Sarah after catching her first perch (it's very tiny). BTW, I think she's trying to start a new style - lifejacket with no shirt.


Sunday evening we went real fishing - downrigging for Lake Trout. We trolled from 5:45 to 7:30 and ended up with 3 nice ones. All fish came pretty much 100' down on my blue and white salmon spoons. Here's David and Sarah with the first one.


Leigh reeled this one in all by herself. She actually seemed excited about the whole experience.


Here's David with the evening's catch. I ended up cleaning them in the dark, under the light of a mini flashlight. Not fun.


We ate them tonight once we got home. Everyone cleaned their plates off (even Leigh).