1. Smallmouth Bass
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...frequently. What Works - Popular lures and techniques are also sonewhat similar to the largemouth. Soft plastic lures such as tubes, powerworms and grubs are extremely effective and even inline s...

2. Largemouth Bass
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...at the thousands of lures and combinations that are available. Popular and effective lures and rigs are softplastic worms, grubs and leeches as well as jigs coupled with chunk trailers. Spinnerbaits, ...

3. Walleye
(Featured Fish/Featured Fish)

...for catching Walleye. The most popular and time tested presentation has to be the standard jig sporting soft plastic grubs and shads in various colours and sizes.  After the spawn many Walleye wi...

4. Northern Pike
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...e spinners with bucktails they remain the king of lures in all types of water types.   Soft Plastics - Huge success in the past few years has been made with the creation of thousands ...

5. What Make A Lure Great?
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...           While we’ve touched on a few softwater favorites it’s only fair to discuss one that has proven itself year after year w...

6. Swimming Into Swim Baits
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...ntent with pickerel rigs baited with minnows, grubs and leeches as well as the time tested jig head and soft plastic grubs. Lake trout anglers find that large spoons in a variety of colours produce t...

7. Bass Fishing Techniques-Splitshotting
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...hard, making you aware instantly that the fish is eating the bait. At other times, there will only be a soft and nearly imperceptible tick and thereafter nothing. Finally there is the much dreade...

8. Smallmouth Bass fishing in Northern Ontario
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...ou.  Using artificial lures such as spinner baits, inline spinners, tubes, weedless football jigs, soft plastics, wacky rigging and drop-shotting prove effective in many situations but many angle...

9. Lake of the Woods - Unique to Ontario
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... the Woods a prime walleye fishing spot by anyone’s standards. Common techniques are jigging with soft plastic baits or live bait. Different sizes of jig heads and colours also play an important...

10. Fly In Fishing
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...ng 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 for huge Northern Pike, trolling ...

11. What To Bring
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... various depths. •    Marabou inline spinners •    Bulldawg soft baits in various colours and sizes *Many musky baits can also apply to large Nothern Pike...

12. Featured Fish - Ontario Walleye
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...for catching Walleye. The most popular and time tested presentation has to be the standard jig sporting soft plastic grubs and shads in various colours and sizes.  After the spawn many Walleye wi...

13. Ontario's Black Crappie
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...ie are nest builders and they nest in colonies.  Circular nests are fanned by males over gravel or soft muddy bottoms and frequently around submerged vegetation in water from three to eight feet ...

14. Ontario Ice Fishing Survival Tips and Recommendations
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...ecommendations and avoid driving any vehicle on the ice when possible. Quite different from the soft water season Ontario ice fishing provides its own unique conditions and challenges. Using t...

15. Ontario Bass Tips and Techniques
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...shing techniques for the largemouth bass and the smallmouth bass are also somewhat similar. One can use soft plastic lures such as tubes, power worms or grubs. These are extremely effective and are a ...

16. Rod and Reel Tips for Winter Storage
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...rods and reels. It could be attributed to the inner sorrow and slow depression setting in after a great soft water season that continually neglects your most important and expensive equipment. A littl...

17. Ontario Ice Fishing - On The Move
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... the most popular habits by summer anglers is to fish the same lake during the winter months. Using the soft water season to learn the lakes structure, depths, points, drop offs and weed beds is the b...

18. Ice Fishing Preparation
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...most accessible spots. 3. Do any repairs or modifications to your ice hut now. Check the floor for any soft spots and repair or replace the wood. Inspect your benches for sags and tighten up all of t...

19. Featured Fish - Smallmouth Bass
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...frequently. What Works - Popular lures and techniques are also sonewhat similar to the largemouth. Soft plastic lures such as tubes, powerworms and grubs are extremely effective and even inline s...

20. Featured Fish - Largemouth Bass
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...at the thousands of lures and combinations that are available. Popular and effective lures and rigs are softplastic worms, grubs and leeches as well as jigs coupled with chunk trailers. Spinnerbaits, ...

21. Topwater Northerns
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...er lures. Most pike anglers in Ontario will attest that large bucktails, inline spinners, buzzbaits, soft plastics, spoons and even large spinnerbaits will land you a pretty nice northern using a v...

22. Geared up for Short Trips
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..., bucktails and inline spinners for pike as well as a mix of wide gap football jigs, small spinners and softplastics are in the easiest spot for me to reach. Having my favorites in the top tray make t...

23. Cabbage Patch Pike
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...sonal best in these conditions. For extremely weedy areas many choose large spinnerbaits and even large softplastics rigged with widegap weedless hooks. For open water applications nothing can beat a ...

24. Lure Selection for Weedy Bass
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...copter falls, yo yo and twitch retrieves as well as slow burns just above the weeds. A wide variety of softplastics and rigging hooks give you even more advantages when targetting bucketmouths. Grubs...

25. Hooked on Hook Selection
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Many Ontario bass anglers will tell you the secret to success with soft plastic lure fishing is all in the hook selection process. Seasoned fishermen will emphasize the fact that a properly sized hoo

26. Ontario Largemouth Bass Covering Up
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...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 fishing for...

27. Trophy Autumn Ontario Fishing
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Softly a brilliant orange maple leaf drifted past me as I cast my bucktail adjacent to a still lush weedbed. Fall had set in and the bite was on, only only for the fish but for those who had pat

28. Ontario Largemouth Bass Go Soft
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Plastic that is. Soft plastic. With the latest advancement in lure technology come some of the greatest largemouth bass lures to date. While the debate still rages on over live bait versus dead ba

29. Tackle and Lures
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... it can frustrating finding the right lure for the condition. From spinnerbaits, inline spinners, soft plastics, spoons, jigs, buzzbaits, crankbaits, topwater and more you're fishing experience ...

30. Walleye
(Ontario Gamefish Species/Ontario Gamefish Species)

...ng 22.5lbs. Riggin and jigging, livebait and popping plugs are favorites among walleye anglers although soft plastics have made some major headway in the last few years offering up an even wider lure ...