Lake Joseph

Ol' lake Joe recovered from it's heat stroke on Canada Day and showed me it's true potential this Sunday. There were smallies everywhere, numerous small ones near shore, but many chonkers roaming the open lake. I started the day going a different route and very quickly found fish eager to eat. A few dinks to dispel the skunk later, I moved on to deeper waters to search for lake trout, the main reason I drove over 2hrs. The first big mark I saw turned out to be a decent smallie that showed zero hesitation and slammed the Gshadz. As I scanned the waters traveling between notable features, I found some large marks cruising above a bowl. After trying what I had tied on without connecting, I tried tossing a wacky rig senko. It felt ridiculous to do this over 50ft of open water but the different presentation drew a lot of action! I immediately had the larger bruisers fighting over it and a bite happened so quickly I didn't get a good hook set. These fish are so smart that they almost always immediately go for the surface to jump. I managed to land a couple of decent ones, but lost what looked to be a 4-5lb smallie... Action for the rest of the day tapered off with some more dinks as my FF showed more than 27C/81F

Main event on Ol' lake Joe! New species unlocked finally! After paying through the nose for parking at Simcoe and getting skunked, and whiffing my shot on Canada Day, I have finally caught a dream species, albeit small specimens. With these guys being so small, it was no wonder the big swimbaits I had only had their tails nibbled last time. Ned rig came in clutch again! Next stop, Simcoe laker large enough to weigh.

I failed to catch a laker on the toasty Canada Day Holiday. Video uploaded, search Eggplantparrot on youtube

Well the boys all caught the nice lakers and burbot this years tournament and I got left with the mudpuppy still a fantastic time with the boys😂😂‼️

Ended up with this baby laker for our event! What a weekend, full of great memories with great people! Stay tuned for the YouTube video! 🎣🎣🎣

Caught my first lake trout this weeknd caught about two or three but this was the best one and first one I got!!!

Caught a little mudpuppy just dead sticking it on bottom to!!

Lake trout double up!