Nomad Adventures new website and blog

Visit our new website and blog at http://www.nomadadventures.net/ for all the latest on fishing, kayak fishing, and paddling adventures in Ontario, Canada!

We have lots of new things going on this year at Nomad Adventures; mothership kayak fishing trips to the Blue Zone on Lake Ontario for salmon and steelhead, a whole new competitive kayak fishing series in Southern Ontario http://southernontarioshootout.weebly.com/, all new paddling trips from June to October, we've moved to Cambridge between the Grand River and Speed River near Puslinch Lake, we have kayak and fishing kayak rentals available, our guided steelhead and Niagara River trips keep increasing, and Ontario Kayak Fishing Series http://www.ontariokayakfishingseries.com/ is reduced to three events as it goes into its fifth year.

Hope to see you soon!!

2010 spring Steelhead season came early to Ontario

Can you believe the weather!!
We've had daytime temps ranging from +15/25C for close to three weeks now.  Ontario is the new Florida!  They wish they'd had our weather.

Unfortunately for a lot of steelheaders in Southern Ontario, it means they miss the spring runs if they don't get out in the next few weeks.  There are always the dropback fish I guess.  Smelt runs have been in full force with each sprinkle, for the past two weeks and there are guys steelheading the northern rivers around Sault Saint Marie for a week now too.  Crazy!
Can't wait for Brookie season around here because they'll be good and fat by then with the spring season being so far advanced.

The Niagara River has just started picking up for shore fishermen and has been decent from boats for about two weeks.  I'm predicting it to get real hot in the coming week and there already huge deluges of people flocking to fish it.  I picked up one fish in 6hrs on the big river last Wednesday after covering several miles of the gorge, and ended up breaking out the hardware to do it.  Lost a massive muskie in the process; estimate in the 50-55" range!



Reports from Lake Huron rivers are positive with decent catches coming from the Saugeen to the Maitland.  The water is clear and low for this time of year though.  Brown trout, steelhead, coho/chinook salmon, perch and pike are being caught.  Georgian Bay should soon pick up too.

So get out there and Good Fishing'!!

Grand River Kayak Fishing with Nomad Adventures

In 2010 Nomad Adventures expanded its guided kayak fishing trips and tours to include more Grand River destinations.  Areas to be added will now include sections of the Grand from Cambridge to Brantford.  In addition to these trips, we will now add flyfishing to our schedule.  Please see below for more details;

Paris to Brantford - catch & release, barbless
Steelhead Fishing: April/May, Sept-Dec
Smallmouth Bass Fishing: July-September

• Trips: solo kayak or in guides boat
• Times: Morning or Evening approx 5hrs long
• Method: Float, Fly or Spincast

Cambridge to Paris - no special regulations
Smallmouth Bass Fishing: July-November

• Trips: solo kayak or in guides boat
• Times: Evening only approx 5hrs long
• Method: Float, Fly or Spincast

We will also have trips below the Brantford Dam and on the Nith River.
The Nith produces smallmouth, pike and walleye.
The Grand below Brantford produces Brown Trout, Steelhead and Smallmouth.
All trips encourage catch-photo-release fishing.
First Steelhead trips begin April 24th and Smallmouth June 26.
All trips include boats, paddling gear and fishing equipment(if needed).

Book your adventure soon!!  Kayak Fishing the Grand

The Steelhead Gods are smiling again!

It was long time coming, but we finally got out again for some winter steelhead fishing on the Niagara.  The day was beautiful, +3C with sun all day.  There was a bitter E wind just to remind us that it was still winter but the sun made it feel more like +10C.  The morning was slow and we never saw any fish where we started out at Pebbley.  Around noon we decided to make our way upriver toward the Glen, and it was at this point that I noticed the fish had begun to get slightly active around the surface.  We fished the tailout section of a long 17' deep run, and on the second drift my partner hooked up with the smallest steelie I'd ever seen pulled from the mighty Niagara River.  But hey, it's a start!!  We kept moving upstream fishing all the pockets and deeper runs as we came upon them.  I spotted a real slow run of about a 50 metres in length and decided to set up shop there.  On the third drift my float did the super slow sink as it does on all telltale snags, so I gave it a quick rip back in the direction it had drift from.  Oh what is this, the snag fought back!!
I landed this hearty buck after a very lacklustre battle.

The drift kept changing speeds from very slow, to dead stopped but we persisted.  Two drifts after my fish, Ben nails another buck just slighty larger than the one I caught.

We fished for about another hour and I lost one fish about the same as these two.  The sun had now left our side of the river and the temps started to drop quickly, so we decided to weave our way back up and out of the Gorge.
Not a stellar day by any means but hey, it was great just to be out on a gorgeous winters day and catch fish.

til next time, Good Fishing!