Tag Archives: Largemouth Bass

Meteors and lights

August 17, 2015

There I was floating alone on my kayak, in the dark, and in the middle of nowhere as meteors pierced the sky overhead. Things were perfect. Rewinding to earlier that day, I had left work on a Friday afternoon and pondered the six hour drive and two hour paddle in the dark I had ahead of me. Read more

The search for round whitefish continues

August 10, 2015

Few fish captivate me as much as whitefish do and I think I owe that to the amount of time I spent trying to catch my first lake whitefish. Two years ago, I set out to pursue the round whitefish through the ice on a small lake in the vicinity of a friend’s cottage. Read more

Some more alone time on Georgian Bay

October 6, 2014

With the salmon just beginning to make their appearance at Lake Ontario’s tributary mouths, I made one more camping trip to Georgian Bay before I would be swept away by salmon fever. Things began exactly as they did on my previous trip and I had camp set up by nightfall. Read more

Some alone time on Georgian Bay

August 12, 2014

Georgian Bay is quite the destination here in Ontario. It’s a massive bay of Lake Huron with swiss-cheese-like shorelines studded with countless islands, shoals and channels. It could take well over a lifetime to explore the limitless bays and back bays of this geographical marvel. Read more

Algonquin Provincial Park Trip and some Ontario bass fishing

July 6, 2014

Last weekend, some friends and I portaged into one of Algonquin Provincial Park’s many back lakes. Trolling a crankbait to howling wolves, jumping lake trout, diving loons, and a rising sun. That was the highlight of my weekend and undoubtedly one of my favourite fishing experiences to date. Read more

A morning at the oasis

February 12, 2013

In the right places, the Rapala W2 jigging rap tipped with a pinhead shiner can do serious damage. The past two mornings have been spent fishing my safety spot. I learned the benefits of moving around while ice fishing. It took a lot of moving around to locate fish, but once they were found I was able to keep them in the area by chumming chunks of minnows. Read more

Florida Road Trip 2012/2013

January 20, 2013

It was many months ago when Ken cordially invited me to join him on a road trip to Florida for some hard-core fishing. Our focus on this trip would be to add as many new fish species as possible to our ever-expanding lifelists. Read more

Long weekend cottage adventure

September 4, 2012

‘Twas the long weekend and I was invited to join my friend at his cottage. My original fishing goals for this trip were to go after lake trout and walleye, but these goals would soon be revised. For deep jigging in the lake, I bought some 1 oz. Read more

Catching Them All

Michael Verdirame's journey of fishing.