Archive for August, 2011

Our good friend Moshe Berger, who lives in Israel, and who I shot the Dafna, Israel rainbow trout TV show with recently had a chance to do some fishing and asked me where he could catch bass and walleye.  My answer was the Bay of Quinte, of course.

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This is what he has to report from a recent trip there;

“Hope all is well. We arrived back to The Holy land last Thursday.

I just wanted to tell you that I tried fishing the Bay of Quinte for the first time this summer.  We started by fishing out to Picton , ON and managed to catch around 7 walleye and a few bass and of course some monster Freshwter Drum. I thought I had on a record bass or walleye several times but in the end – it was a Drum.

Next we went out of Baycrest Marina on Big Island, on the Upper Bay of Quinte, as you suggested as well.  Dave – the owner, treated us well and was very accommodating.

We caught many beautiful walleye including one just under 5 lbs. and many bass in the 2-3 lbs. range on 2-separate day trips. All our fish were caught on bottom from 6 – 18 ft. of water.

I find that I don’t catch many fish in the evening period. Perhaps I should give up jigging and try other methods. Jigging has always been my expertise and I catch many fish up until the early evening period using this technique.

Thank you so much for pointing me in the direction of “The Bay”. As you know, I don’t get a lot of chances to fish in Ontario. It was amazing to fish the last day with my brother and enjoy the beautiful weather, scenery, and incredible fishing.”

Well done Moshe!! I have a feeling you will be fishing Quinte again.

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Take a look at the sonar screen-capture Aldo shot with his iPhone and you will see that he is marking lot’s of salmon, but making them hit is another story.  Our guess is that they are already in “staging-mode” and are preparing to head into the harbors and up the tributaries to spawn.  Aldo has been catching his fish in 150-300’ of water trolling 50-70’down and using larger spoons.

Aldo does regular radio fishing updates on www.htzfm.com , St. Catharine’s and you can still have a chance to win the Rapala Biggest catch contest they are hosting and have you could win a $500.00 RAPALA Prize package or one of two full day Niagara Fishing Adventures charter on Lake Ontario.

If you would like to book a charter with Aldo, just email him through his website at, www.niagarafishingadventures.com .

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THE TRAVEL CIRCUIT TALKS EXOTIC INDIA

Munir Talib, marketing director North America, The Travel Circuit, sits down with TRAVELHotNews.com to discuss the tour operator’s niche products in India
 

Munir Talib, marketing director North America, The Travel Circuit

For the past 25 years The Travel Circuit has offered niche tourism products throughout India, such as catch-and-release fishing tours in the Indian Himalayas, wildlife tours across the country and Jewish Heritage tours.

“We want to expand the horizon,” said Munir Talib, marketing director North America, The Travel Circuit. In doing so, The Travel Circuit aims to look beyond the Golden Triangle, the traditional tourist circuit for Westerners in India of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur.

“Sanjay Verman, the director of operations, has been doing this for the past 25 years and he has a team of about 10-12 people in India… He’s been selling his tours only in California, with one travel agent and he sells (tours) in Europe. He didn’t have a base in Canada, so that is how we joined up,” explains Talib.

“The good thing about The Travel Circuit is that they are very specialized. They do very exotic types of tours. They do what we call the tribal areas of India, the Gujarat textiles and those kinds of tours.”

Through the years The Travel Circuit has taken travellers from across the world in the Himalayas, taken the first ever groups of international travellers for the Kalachakra ceremony performed by the Dalai Lama at the Tabo monastery, brought travellers to the textiles and crafts of Gujarat and moved to put North East India – including Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland.

Most recently, The Travel Circuit teamed up with Canadian Sportfishing, for a three-week trip into the Indian Himalayas sponsored by Incredible India Toronto to showcase the region and its fishing tours on professional angler Italo Labignan’s television show.

The Travel Circuit is now offering two 15-day fishing packages with a professional angler in the Indian Himalayas in March and April 2012 now available for sale by Canadian travel agents.

“Coming in November, Italo will be going to Orissa, which is on the eastern side of India… the tribal areas of Orissa. Now what is happening is that there are a lot of minerals out there and there are a lot of tribes as well. (If mining comes into this area) the whole way of life of all these tribes will be destroyed forever,” Talib told TRAVELHotNews.com.

“So what we want to do is preserve this and do eco-tourism. These are dying tribes, unless we preserve them they will be lost.”

According to Talib, the province of Orissa has approximately 20-30 tribes that have been in the area for hundreds to thousands of years. These tribes possess cultures and histories Westerners – and even many Indians – know very little to nothing about.

“I’m from India and even I don’t know these regions very well,” he said. “There are many different pockets of different cultures.”

In brining eco-tourism to the Orissa region, The Travel Circuit hopes to make the outside world more conscious of these people and their natural regions, thereby increasing the efforts made to preserve the region before they are lost to the mining industry.

Niche and exotic tours of India offered by The Travel Circuit include the Indian Himalayas; Essential India; Arunachal, Nagaland and Assam; Temples & Tribes of Orissa; Royal Rajasthan; Textiles, Tribes of Gujarat; Glorious South India; Temples, Tigerland, Taj; Jewish Heritage Tour and The Nilgiri Biosphere. The tour operator also does FIT and GIT packages.

Travel agents interested in selling The Travel Circuit’s tours can contact Munir Talib at 1-647-889-6864 or munir@thetravelcircuit.com. The Indian Tourism Board offers travel agents a marketing subsidy program as part of its “Year of India” campaign.

I went out and tried fishing the Welland River for the first time, launching my boat across from the Welland / Niagara Airport.  The launch is very good, great slope, gravel pad and a small dock to assist in launching and loading the boat.

I was using a silver / blue deep diver casting along a rock ledge break under the Niagara Street Bridge in Welland, ON.  I landed a 5lbs. sheapshead and a 2lbs. pike on this lure.  Further back toward the Prince Charles Drive Bridge, I landed a small largemouth bass, on a Rapala Shad Rap Jointed in the hot crawdad colour, while casting alongside a large deadfall tree in the middle of the river.

The weather was great, sunny with some cloud and breeze and water temp was ranging from 24 – 25*C.

Ben

Wayne Sheridan reports: Major storms all last weekend and on
Wednesday afternoon/evening has replenished the rivers and lakes in southern Ontario. This is the
rain we have needed for the past 2 months, especially on the Saugeen River.
We only had about ½ hour to do some fishing in the river between storms this
past weekend, but action was slow. Many people don’t realize this, but the food
intake of brown trout drops during the summer months because of the warm water
temperatures. It then increases dramatically around August 15th, when the river
temperatures drop (cooler night temperatures are the key). This is in
preparation for their migration to their natal rivers and streams in
September/October. They have to build up an energy reserve in order to swim up
the rivers against the current and to prepare for spawning (egg and milt development).

River Flow Rates: rising quickly and unstable. Visibility
clearing at 3 ft. muddy colored

River Levels: Saugeen River (Durham) rising at 1.2M, Saugeen
River (Walkerton) quickly rising at 9.6M, Saugeen at Port Elgin rising at
7.90M, Sauble River (Sauble Falls) dropping at 0.789M, Sydenham River (Owen
Sound) rising at 4.932M, Maitland River (above Wingham) down at 9.95M, French
River at Woseley Bay at 186.27M, Bronte Creek near Zimmerman down at 5.82M,
Credit River at Streetsville dropping at 4.634M, Credit River at Orangeville
down at 11.192M, Grand River (Doon), down at 4.109M (below Shand dam) rising at
1.605M, Rideau River at Ottawa rising at 2.642M, Ottawa River at Britannia at
57.787M

Prime Fishing Times: Saturday August 27th, 2011: 10:23am to
1:21pam (moon overhead) and 10:50pm to 1:46am (moon underneath)

Flyfishing: Hex, iso, various caddis, trico, white dun,
crayfish, bloodworms, worms and minnows for larger trout.

Great Lakes Fishing: Best
lures are purple/black Lyman’s with silver specks and Lucky Strike spoons.

Always Fish Safely

Wayne Sheridan

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Rob Gillissie caught this beauty casting off his dock in the Delisle River, ON using the Rapala Tail Dancer #9 in the "hot chub" color.

Rob Gillissie send in this nice image of a 10 lb. musky he caught casting the Rapala Tail Dancer #9 in the “hot-chub” color from shore on the Delisle River, ON.  I had a chance to fish with Rob, his brother Mike, my wife Barbara & our pup Mulligan a few weeks ago on the Bay of Quinte where we caught walleye and bass casting the Rapala Tail Dancer.  Looks like musky like the Tail Dancer too!!

Our good friends the Irelands from Windsor, ON recently went on a trip to Mazatlan on Mexico’s west-coast and enjoyed a couple of days fishing with one of the Bibi Fleet boats.  The Bibi Fleet has been operating since 1946 and specializes in off-shore saltwater fishing for big game fish and especially billfish.

Here as there results from their two days fishing:

Date: August 10th, 2011

Boat: Paty C.

Catch: 5 Skipajck Tuna/Barrilete (3 of them Caught and Released)

Date: August 12th, 2011

Boat: Paty C.

Catch: 1 Blue Marlin/Marlin Azul (211 lb – 9′ 6”) and 1 Skipjack Tuna (Barrilete)

Well done Rick, that’s one big Marlin! If you plan on travelling to Mazatlan, Mexico, you may want to contact Tadeo Hernandez Kelly, the Manager at Bibi Fleet to book a charter.  You can contact them through, www.fishmazatlan.com .

Glenn Cooke, dropped us a quick note Aug. 23rd, 2011 to say

Hey Guy’s: Tubes and lipless cranks seem to be what they want today. This one was just over 19″ and came off a sand flat that dropped off into 14′ of water.