1. Ontario Musky Tips for Beginners
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...quo;t be effective on Little Vermillion or Wabigoon Lake. Fish are as fickle as humans and tossing large baits all day with measured success isn’t a sign that there are no fish. It’s a sig...

2. Northwest Ontario’s Sunset Country – A world class fishing experience
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... fish are aggressive. Some lures, which are effective in early spring are flipping/casting jigs, spinner baits and jerk baits. Walleye in Sunset country!      ...

3. Bass Fishing Techniques-Splitshotting
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...colder 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 ...

4. Smallmouth Bass fishing in Northern Ontario
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...tream 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-sh...

5. Lake of the Woods - Unique to Ontario
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...s 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 o...

6. What To Bring
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...ng and trolling spoons (weed less, 5 of diamonds, Williams) •    Oversized spinner baits 1-2 oz. •    Inline buck tail spinners. A variety of colours and bl...

7. Featured Fish - Ontario Walleye
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...wn Walleye return to the depths many anglers will ‘Match The Hatch’ using a variety of crank baits and minnow lures that resemble the Walleye’s primary baitfish of Perch and Shiners....

8. 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. O...

9. Northwest Ontario – Spring Fever
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...year 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, Bullda...

10. Squeers Lake Winter Fishery 2008
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...Canadian 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) ...

11. Ontario Bass Tips and Techniques
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...e a favorite among Ontario anglers. Another technique that is very effective is burning classic spinner baits through a variety of depths. This is enhanced by adjusting the weight and blade style of ...

12. Northerns in Northern Ontario
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...ke 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 baits. Locations Pike are common in the many la...

13. Getting Down To It For Northern Pike
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...ng the possibilities that can be reached in deeper waters. The traditional buck tails and top water jerk baits can be left in the tackle box to hunt for the water wolf when shallow water action grinds...

14. Southern Ontario Brown Trout Fishing
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... to catch them.  They are finicky eaters that you have to choose the best bait for them.   Baits for Brown Trout   There is not one definite technique for you to catch a brown t...

15. Ontario Walleye Tips
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...eir spawning activities, and they typically stay near and around that area for some time.  The best baits to use during this time are crank baits, minnows, and jig baits.  For best results, ...

16. Ontario Lake Trout Tips
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...h in the water column, thereby allowing you to flat line your bait.  For better success, use minnow baits and spoons, but make sure you use a considerable amount of line when you troll them behin...

17. Ontario Perch Fishing
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...perch is easy that even kids can do it.  Use smaller bait for them and a thin line.  The ideal baits that you can use are minnows, earthworms, and small shrimps. Kids always have an excellen...

18. Ontario Northern Pike Tips
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...ns.  Fresh off the spawn, expect them to nurture a big appetite.  Sparkling spoons, noisy buzz baits, and spinner baits are the best way to go in terms of lure choices for spring pikes.&nbsp...

19. White Ice and Whitefish
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...hitefish can be exciting and rewarding if you use the correct bait. Worm jigs are the most commonly used baits throughout the province and are quite productive. Due to the overall size of the Whitefis...

20. Fishing and Weather Factors
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...eally fact or just some sort of myth? Maybe all of these anglers were in the wrong spots using the wrong baits? Well one thing is for sure from just about any seasoned angler is that when a cold front...

21. Topwater Northerns
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...ers heart racing. Largemouth Bass in Ontario are probably the most famous fish when discussing top water baits and fishing but the mighty Northern Pike is also known to have an appetite for top water ...

22. We All Fall For Walleye
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...s baited through the lower and upper lip should keep the walleye biting as their appetite for these live baits progress with the onset of the cold weather and reduced feeding oportunities. Another fa...

23. Geared up for Short Trips
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...a weekend trip fishing for pike and bass I will load the bottom of my box with a small variety of spinnerbaits and buzzbaits for bass. The middle pop open tray then consists of a mix of pike and bass ...

24. Cabbage Patch Pike
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...des produce many a personal best in these conditions. For extremely weedy areas many choose large spinnerbaits and even large softplastics rigged with widegap weedless hooks. For open water applicatio...

25. Lure Selection for Weedy Bass
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...ures can be used in Ontario weedy water for bass. For aggresive largemouths many anglers choose topwater baits such as buzzbaits, swimming frogs and walk the dog types. Most effective in lower light s...

26. Be a Jerk for Northern Pike
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...ge pike. In the late summer and fall months it is a common technique to use these large magnum sized jerkbaits to coax a monster pike from its deep water drop offs and ledges. Back in the 80's and...

27. Ontario Largemouth Bass Covering Up
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...ons and cover. Cast an inline spinner into a group of lilypads and you'll know what we mean. Spinnerbaits, soft plastics, inline spinners and even flies are some of the most proven lures when fis...

28. Tackle and Lures
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...e available on the market it can frustrating finding the right lure for the condition. From spinnerbaits, inline spinners, soft plastics, spoons, jigs, buzzbaits, crankbaits, topwater and more y...

29. Rainbow Trout
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...rainbow extremely strong pound for pound. Landing a rainbow consists of wet and dry flies, inline spinnerbaits and mini plugs. An average rainbow trout will range from 2 to 5 pounds. The record rainbo...

30. Brown Trout
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... as well. Bait selection is smiliar to other species of trout in the province using flies, inline spinnerbaits, coloured spoons and plugs. On larger lakes trolling is the most popular met...