This fishing trip was set up in the fall of 2009. We found a cottage on Ahmic Lake in the Muskoka Region, and went up with high expectations of trophy pike and bass. With me on this journey was Sir, Spam, Knot'Yo, Emmanuel, and two others who I will call Windsor and Blindside.
What was going to be the weekend of fish became the weekend of poker. It is a good thing that we brought food because we would not have been able to feed ourselves!
I don't know if any pictures were taken and i don't care as this was a weekend I want to forget, although I fear I may not be able to. And to be sure of that, Windsor reminded me as often as he could. "We used to go up North where we would catch 100 fish in 2 hours...", "Back in Windsor, we would never get skunked..."
Read on and see how I showed him...
This post is detrimental to buisness owners and lodge owners in the area.
ReplyDeleteJust cause you clearly fished in the wrong spot or with the wrong baits doesnt mean the lake has no fish, it just means you couldnt get them!
Also Ahmic Lake is located in the regional municipality of magnetawan, in the Almaguin Highlands, not muskoka.
As a cottage owner on ahmic lake for over 35 years, I can tell you the fishing in Ahmic and neighboring lakes is good, and completely amazing at times! You need to work hard for fish but when the reward comes its well worth the struggle.
Stick to fishing stocked ponds if you want to experiance no stop fish with no skill.
Hello Anonymous poster #1. I haven't blogged in a few months as I have been busy with my newborn baby.
DeleteWith respect to your response; I apologize if my 3 paragraph summary of a weekend fishing trip that was written simply to document that we had no luck on a lake on which none of us had any experience, on a weekend that happened to see a cold front roll in, offended you deeply.
Would it offend you too if I went on to say that when we asked the cottage rental operator about any fishing tips, he said that he does not fish? Would it be too detrimental to say that we didn't catch fish? If I am not mistaken, Anonymous #2 did point out that I never said the lake had no fish. In fact, I had researched the lake prior to going on that trip, and found reports of lots of fish. That does not change the fact that I could not catch any. You are taking this statement of fact very personally. I blame my lack of fish more on my lack of experience at the lake as well as on the weather conditions.
How about you read the rest of the blog where I go on to talk about how I am very much an amateur fisherman, and document my attempt to teach myself various techniques. Also, I am the first to point out how limited my experience is in the non-Kawartha Lakes. I also state how I have had no luck on Simcoe, Canal or Scugog Lakes. Should I not post those either since I might hurt someone's business on those lakes?
Let me also apologize for my lack of geographical knowledge. It is easier to direct ignorant people towards the Muskoka region than to the Magnetawan Highlands. Perhaps I should have not capitalized region to avoid the confusion.
With respect to your comment about stocked ponds. I have never fished stocked ponds, not that it matters; however, are you suggesting that your 35 years of experience equates to skill? Or are you suggesting that the first time you fished Ahmic Lake under a cold front, and without knowing the lake at all, you produced gigantic stringers of fish? Can you do this on a lake in an unfamiliar area, with unfamiliar structure? If so, then maybe you should write a blog. If not, then please educate yourself about the difference between expreience and skill before coming off as a blowhard on someone else's light-hearted blog. Skill is the ability to figure it out rather quickly, say in 2 days of casual fishing; experience is 35 years fishing the same lake.
I initially wanted to take the high road with my response, but your jumping to conclusions is offensive, and could be detrimental to my mood. Douche.
LOL at the guy above. Nowhere in the post does it say that there is no fish in Ahmic lake, nor does he say it was b/c of Ahmic Lake that he didn't catch anything. As one of the guys on the trip, I can tell you that we did not know how to fish the lake, being Kawartha fishermen, and having come on a bad cold front, the conditions were less then optimal. I'm glad that the fishing is good there, and amazing at times, but I find it quite interesting that you would go on someone's AMATEUR fishing blog and get defensive when he says he did not catch anything at the lake that you cottage at. Saying that it is detrimental to business is funny since he wasn't bashing the lake, but merely saying we didn't catch anything. Maybe after going there for 35 years, we may have better luck.
ReplyDeleteBTW, the poster never has fished stocked ponds and if you were able to absorb anything in your defensive rant, you would see that he said that someone in our group kept reminding him that when HE fished in ponds, that HE would catch tons of fish. Not the poster who allegedly was busy harming the business of local lodge and business owners.
LOL. just... LOL
the locals hammer it in the winter ice fishing, so the walleye are near extinct their now, I fished for 6 yrs and only caught 1 walleye 31.5" long and we hv up to 10 yes 10 guys go up every year, and no one caught nothing but a hangover LOL
ReplyDeleteahmic is a relaxing lake, not a fishing trip lake!!!
go to stocked ponds or shallow lake like rice lake if u want to catch numbers of tiny muddy tasting fish.
mind u the old owner ken turner said the amaericans use to come up and keep every bass the caught so also the bass are none existant too now, ive been fishing my whole life all over the world and Ontario, and even in temagami I would catch 20-50 walleye a day and my biggest is the new record ice fishing as u can google it and see now, im all over the internet, but this lake is a dead lake , then MNRF have stopped stocking walleye cause they never took, the rainbow smelt have eaten all the young walleye, cause they can get up to 12" long, they r not native to our lakes rainbow smelts, they hv teeth on their tougne, natives ones don't! and only get to maybe 6" long.
ReplyDeletesame as lake simcoe rainbow smelt were introduced in their by idiots fisherman and the record smelt in Ontario if not Canada came from simcoe!!!
so..... pls stop wasting ppl times and move to another lake up nrth or east or west. thx
I just found a you tube video of natives netting with gill nets on temagami, so their goes another lake to the natives, I hv to find another lake now to fish, and I was wondering why the fishing has dropped off so much!!!
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