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7/13 South Side Report


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Fishing has been very solid these past few weeks on the South Shore. Things are slowing down a bit, but there are still plenty of fish to be caught. Pulling cranks in the 6-9 foot range has been steady, but decent action is still to be found with spinners in 11-17 feet.<P>It was a beautiful evening out on the pond tonight despite the weather we had earlier.. The more active fish were definitely out in the deeper water. It took me a bit to find out that much, but it was fast fishing once I got into 'em. Raps were the ticket under 10 feet. How did everyone else do? <P>FF <p>[This message has been edited by fishingfrenzy (edited 07-13-2004).]

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July 8 and 9 were good to me up by the angle and at garden. We never found anything shallower than 16ft and never found a big fish but no dinks either. Nice quality fish. We released a few 20" and up and kept a few 16-19". Saturday we fished the tourny and got skunked in the same spots. What a different day that was. All in all a great time.

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I agree--the shore bite has really lasted this year. I ended up fishing alone on Saturday plus I got a late start so I stayed south. I caught a few off Pine running a #8 shadrap in 13 feet but as I have my RBCP and Ontario license I headed over to Sable. Lots of fish in the Ontario sand. Just before the storm I pulled a #9 in 20 feet in front of the washout and the bite was pretty good there too. Never got real shallow but will probably try that this weekend. There were still several charters fishing shallow in the gap and the radio chatter indicated good activity baitfishing but lots of little ones.

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A little late info but we fished the south shore over the weekend of the 4th and it was spotty at best- mostly small fish. We fished Knights and Bridges area on the 1st and did real well, then pounded them on the sandbar on Friday and Saturday. Alot of nice fish in the 18-23" range. Figured we caught well over 150 fish on Saturday, in three boats, from 8:30 till 2:30. We just had enough for the day as they were still going at 2:30. Best fishing in the 5 years we have been doing the trip.

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