1. Northwest Ontario’s Sunset Country – A world class fishing experience
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...e points. Steep banks like rocky bluffs are a good place to fish for bass. Use suspending jerk baits and crank baits. Use the technique of jerk, jerk, and pause for best results. Large wooded flats ar...

2. Bass Fishing Techniques-Splitshotting
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...s 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 season, splitshotting is a...

3. Lake of the Woods - Unique to Ontario
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...cations 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 li...

4. What To Bring
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...us depths. •    Marabou inline spinners •    Large top water crank baits, suspending crank baits and diving crank baits •    Variety o...

5. Featured Fish - Ontario Walleye
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...t- spawn 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 Sh...

6. Ontario's Black Crappie
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...at 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. Ontario Black crappies ...

7. Northerns in Northern Ontario
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...hs. 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 baits. Locations Pike are common in the m...

8. Ontario Walleye Tips
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...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, do your fishing during low light p...

9. Ontario Northern Pike Tips
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...ish.  Do make sure you use this tidbit of info to your advantage.  Increase your odds by using crank baits and spoons that match their prey color, size, and action.   Final Note &...

10. We All Fall For Walleye
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...#39; on in your shore lunch pan or on the dinner table. Don't forget about some of the old standard crankbaits when hunting fall walleyes. Just about anything resembling a minnow will do such as ...

11. Geared up for Short Trips
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...of spinnerbaits and buzzbaits for bass. The middle pop open tray then consists of a mix of pike and bass crankbaits, jerkbaits and topwater baits for both. Once that tray is full thats it. I no longer...

12. Lure Selection for Weedy Bass
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...s these lures are typically cast behind or just infront of weedlines working them slowly to the depths. Crankbaits and monnowbaits are just as effective when presented in these conditions and lipless...

13. Easy and Cheap Lure Modifications
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...back into a patch of lillypads letting it sink to the bottom. The experiment had started. With some slow cranks and a few twitches on the rod I commenced an erratic retrieve when I had the first '...

14. Tackle and Lures
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...ure for the condition. From spinnerbaits, inline spinners, soft plastics, spoons, jigs, buzzbaits, crankbaits, topwater and more you're fishing experience starts with your lure selection. With t...

15. Smallmouth Bass
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...t ways including spin casting, bait casting, live bait, soft plastics, inline spinners, spinnerbaits and crankbaits. You will typically encounter the smallmouth in rocky areas with gravel runout as we...

16. Largemouth Bass
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... enables a variety of presentation options and gives you confidence to get out of snags in heavy cover. Crankbaits and inline spinners are also a proven technique with Ontario anglers. Casting a Mepp...

17. Jerry's Flies
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...t Spinner Flies, Trolling and Dry Flies, in-line Spinners, Casting Spoons, Jigs, Bass Poppers, Crayfish, Crank Baits, super minnow and much more ...