Tag Archives: Shore Fishing

10 months and 6 days ago…

May 12, 2013

10 months and 6 days ago I set out for my first ever attempt at microfishing. It was the the day I first began tracking my fishing species lifelist. The target on that day was sticklebacks and I had returned empty-handed. Read more

Spring 2013 steelheading

May 10, 2013

Ice-out lured me to the river for my first steelies of 2013 Then a lull… awaiting opener… I spent opener day getting out-fished by Ken =). My landing ratio needed some work, as I was losing 4x the number of fish I was hooking. Read more

Redemption on the Rouge

November 22, 2012

I recently experienced some Heartbreak on the Rouge. Well, today was the redemption! I had planned to fish the morning, but sleep got in the way. I arrived on-river at about 2pm. I waved hello to the salmon I had caught on my last trip. Read more

Heartbreak on the Rouge

November 19, 2012

I took advantage of the nice weather yesterday to do some local fishing on the Rouge. The water was gin-clear and I was able to spot the odd fish. I ended up hooking into a male chinook salmon. The fight on the centerpin was like nothing I’ve experienced before. Read more

Northern Hogsucker success

September 5, 2012

I made quite a few trips to this Lake Ontario tributary last month in search of running salmon. Empty-handed on the salmon, I turned my sights on the northern hogsuckers that filled this creek. There were so many of them, and just as many of them to ignore my bait entirely! 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

Salmonid insanity!

August 28, 2012

I had originally set out to catch a particular minnow which I have not yet identified. I had caught a minnow with bright red fins earlier in the year at this spot, and I wanted to revisit it to add it to my lifelist with a picture. Read more

All-You-Can-Catch new species buffet

August 27, 2012

Early Saturday morning Ken, his friend Andrea, and I headed out to get some fishing done! Ken had mentioned to me the possibility of Freshwater Drum and Mooneye at this spot, neither of which I had caught before. I was prepared to add to my lifelist! Read more

Lifer hunting in Oakville

August 4, 2012

I had some fun catching new species in a creek about an hour away from where I live. River chub: Spotfin shiner: Another spotfin shiner: The other fish are either rosyface or silver shiners. My pictures aren’t sufficient to differentiate the two and a future trip in the spring may be necessary to sort out the rosyface shiners based on the spawning colouration. Read more

My first microfishing adventure

July 5, 2012

It was about a month or two ago when Ken introduced me to Roughfish, the concept of lifelists, and microfishing. Well I finally gave microfishing a try! I tied on some 4lb fluoro and my smallest hook. My target was any sort of stickleback. Read more

Local suburban adventures

June 14, 2012

My hunt for suburban Markham fish is under way. Here are three of my more peculiar outings thus far. March 18: Rouge river I started my trek on a stretch of the Rouge by McCowan Rd. I was hoping it would feed directly into the pond at McCowan and Bullock, but it was blocked by a dam. Read more

Fishing for carp at Milne Dam

May 25, 2012

This spring I’ve spent a fair chunk of my free time at the Milne Dam Conservation Area in pursuit of carp. May 11: Well I headed out this afternoon in search of small carp in Milne Dam Park in Markham. The main gates were closed so I took the “back route” through the local schoolyard. Read more

Catching Them All

Michael Verdirame's journey of fishing.