Waiting for a drought....

Here we are in soggy old Southern Ontario and the only weather guarantee we've had for the past two weeks is RAIN! Our normal, reliable July/August temps of 25-32C and sunshine is anything but predictable these days and I doubt we had more than a half dozen days over 25C in July. Alberta and BC have been getting our summer weather over the past several weeks.

We won't let that dampen our our yakfishing enthusiasm though. The normal slew of bass reports from across Ontario has been slow coming this year and the average size appears to be down. The reports are steadily building now as are the sizes. What I have noticed since late May in the unusually high numbers of baitfish still holding in the rivers and close to shore in lakes. Once these have moved to the deep and the bass turn their appetite to the normal bugs and crayfish, there should be be some big hungry beasts lurking about out there. I'm looking forward to a long rewarding late summer/fall of larger than average smallmouth bass.

Lake Ontario is only a few weeks away from some prime salmon fishing too and with the higher, cooler tributaries, there should be any early run. This could prove difficult to pick off those staging fish from the yak, if the water level allow them to run right thru at will.
Time will tell and we'll be there to see what develops.

Good Fishing!

2009 Nomad Adventures River Smallie Weekend

For info on this event, please visit '09 River Smallies and stay up to date on the latest Tourney Talk on Yakfisher.net.



On the heels of success of our 2009 Ontario Kayak Fishing Classic, Nomad Adventures is proud to offer up another kayak fishing event to this burgeoning kayak fishing community here in our great province.

'09 River Smallies is a nice change from the Lake fishing format of OKFC '09.

Hope to see you out!

OKFC '09

The "Ontario Kayak Fishing Classic" was a definite success!!
A huge "thank-you" to our 36 entrants all those who came together to make this event possible!
After thirteen months of planning that included a lot of ups and downs for this first ever freshwater kayak fishing tournament in Canada, I am very proud to put the Nomad Adventures stamp of approval on it. The event ran very smoothly right from the day prior, to the clean-up after.
This can be attributed to an excellent cast of organizers L-A Shibish, Don Theoret and Jeff Goudreau to Ken McPhail the owner of Kashaga Lodge.
Special thanks to Confluence Watersports, Fogh Marine and Swift Canoe and Kayaks for taking time to attend, compete, provide demos and insight into all boat related queries from the field.

Our guests were amazing and not too shabby a bunch of yakfishers either. There was a decent mix of Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass and a few Muskie too.
Prize fallout is as follows;

1st place - Mike Harris, new '09 Tarpon 160 angler
2nd place - Don Theoret, Kokatat dry suit
3rd place - Jamie Pistilli, Kokatat PFD

Youth winner - Alex Goudreau, Youth PFD

Pro/Team Division - Ocean Kayak Don Theoret/Jamie Pistilli, Muskie Innovations gift pkg

Largest Fish - Neil Danby, Okuma reel/rod combo

Everyone took home their fair share of wares and our charity, Haliburton Highlands Outdoor Association can look forward to our contribution based on this year's success.

Kayak Fishing Chronicles Blog has moved per below.

Our former Blog Kayak Fishing Chronicles ran from Nov '07- July 14 '09, has officially ceased operation(thanks Yahoo!), but can still be viewed at http://nomadac.com/blog.html/.

It's been a whirlwind of activity since our last post April 30th, so let me try to get things back up to speed!! That could take a couple days