1. Bass Fishing Tackle-What's In Your Box?
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...ing into it even spend a lot of money just to buy the necessary equipments for fishing? It includes the baits, fishing rod and even the boats that they prefer to use when they go fishing. Some would e...

2. Learn more about Ontario Bass Fishing Lures and Equipment
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... The type of bass that will bite almost anything is the largemouth bass. Minnows, worms, or other live bait, plus poppers or streamers presented with a fly rod, or plugs thrown from a casting or spin...

3. Locating the Best Bass Fishing Areas
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...uld be the number one question among bass anglers today. The next most asked question would be is which baits they should use to catch a "big" bass. Now when you think about it, there...

4. What’s Hot with Bass Fishing?
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...d that plastic worms was the most patronized and ranking on the second and third place were the spinner bait and then the crank bait. However, picking one of these 3 is not enough. Some factors ...

5. Smallmouth Bass
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...worms and grubs are extremely effective and even inline spinners will produce active smallies. Spinnerbaits of various sizes and colours are another favorite among Ontario anglers. Techn...

6. Largemouth Bass
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...s and rigs are softplastic worms, grubs and leeches as well as jigs coupled with chunk trailers. Spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jerkbaits, inline spinners, topwater lures, poppers and minnowbaits should be...

7. Walleye
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...ensuring that future anglers will have the same amazing experience that you did. Primarily a baitfish feeder, there are endless possibilities and lure combinations that prove effective for ...

8. Northern Pike
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... Spoons - Huge varieties of colours and sizes have landed many a pike.   Spinnerbaits - Invented for the bass fisherman, pike have an appetite from many different sizes and col...

9. Carp
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...sing affection has grown into many Carp fishing clubs and destinations. Carp are known to bite numerous baits but the most popular are corn balls with a hook driven right into the centre. Because of t...

10. Swimming Into Swim Baits
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... Fishing in Ontario has never given anglers a better chance to benefit from a variety of lures and baits to choose from. Our diverse fish species allow many lures to excel at catching multiple sp...

11. Feeling the Pinch with Gas Prices? Don't Let It Stop You
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...d cove to the right of the boat launch for some pretty good northern pike. Mepps #5’s and Spinner baits have produced some pretty good sized northerns in the past with my personal best at 35 inc...

12. Live Bait Walleye Tactics
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... switched over to crawlers from minnows. We found out that the water temperatures affect their taste in bait; as the water warms, walleye will strike at different bait. Since the water temps had risen...

13. Ontario Musky Tips for Beginners
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...any lakes. A healthy, vibrant fishery with multiple species of other fish like Walleye, Bass, Perch and baitfish are key indications of good muskie hunting grounds.     ...

14. Northwest Ontario’s Sunset Country – A world class fishing experience
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...es of fish in early spring. The combination of A Lip-stick Jig and minnow is good when fish snap at the bait. Try a Fire-ball jig and minnow combination when fish seem to bite slower. A jig and Power ...

15. Bass fishing in Northwestern Ontario
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... the waters around Sioux Lookout there are plenty of these energetic fighters just waiting to grab your bait and then provide you with lots of action. The amazing number of Smallmouth Bass in Sunset C...

16. Bass Fishing Techniques-Splitshotting
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...older autumn weather rolls in and the bass are into fall feeding patterns, you can forget about spinner baits, rip baits and also crank baits. It is time to put your finesse gear to use. During this s...

17. Ontario Sport Fishing Adventures
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...ndings are disturbed only once a week when the plane lands to check on you and deliver more supplies or bait. Northern Sunrise Outfitters of Lake Minnitaki, Ontario, is another exciting opti...

18. Ontario Fly Fishing – Outfitting for a Beginner
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...at provide exciting angling memories. If you are like many then making the switch from spinning and bait casting reels and rods to your first fly rod can be extremely intimidating and many would l...

19. Smallmouth Bass fishing in Northern Ontario
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...ream let the current and wind do some of the work for you.  Using artificial lures such as spinner baits, inline spinners, tubes, weedless football jigs, soft plastics, wacky rigging and drop-sho...

20. Lake of the Woods - Unique to Ontario
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... for large female northern pike hungry post spawn waiting for an easy and substantial meal. Large crank baits, buck tails, spinner baits and spoons prove deadly and will net a trophy girl in little or...

21. Fly In Fishing
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...   Popular fishing techniques in many of these lakes are jigging for walleye with live bait (regulations permitting) or soft plastic grubs. Casting large spoons and bucktail spinners ...

22. What To Bring
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... titanium or fluorocarbon leader with 80lb swivels and snaps •    6:1 Spinning or bait casting reel •    Variety of large casting and trolling spoons (weed ...

23. West Can Be Best – On Lake Nipissing
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...wait to ambush an unsuspecting prey. Meanwhile, fish such as Walleye with head to deeper waters chasing baitfish and travelling in schools. Large Musky are also home to these waters and can be found p...

24. Featured Fish - Ontario Walleye
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...time ensuring that future anglers will have the same amazing experience that you did. Primarily a baitfish feeder, there are endless possibilities and lure combinations that prove effective for ...

25. Ontario's Black Crappie
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...fish. Adults mainly eat small fish, particularly open-water forage fish like thread in shad. Artificial baits including jigs, crank baits, spinners and flies are common and popular fish producers. On...

26. Northwest Ontario – Spring Fever
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...ear can be found transitioning from deeper 20-30 feet depths to warmer 5-8 foot depths and a variety of baits consistently produce monsters in excess of 40 inches. Bucktail spinners, Marabous, Bulldaw...

27. Southern Ontario Steel
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...ool to pool generally display more aggressive behaviour and will strike on a wider variety of flies and bait. Once settling into a pool for a longer period of time the steelhead will then display a mo...

28. Squeers Lake Winter Fishery 2008
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...anadian Tire Stores in Thunder Bay Walmart (Thunder Bay) Gear up for Outdoors (Thunder Bay) Sunshine Baits (Westfort) D and R Sporting Goods (Thunder Bay) Sleeping Giant Taxidermy (Thunder Bay) ...

29. Ontario Bass Tips and Techniques
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...water traits such as silt, mud, scattered sand patches, rocks or gravel. Ontario lakes are teeming with baitfish such as perch, sunfish, shiners and coarse fish ready to be food for hungry bass. L...

30. Northerns in Northern Ontario
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...t through the ice during the winter months. Pike will take just about every kind of live and artificial bait, such as spoons; bucktail spinners; crank baits; top water lures; spinner baits; and buzz b...