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

Fishing Report - March 24th 2010, lower Niagara River

Weather in Southern Ontario has been stellar for the past few weeks with lots of sun and plenty of days in the mid teens.  Doesn't bode well for fishing in most river systems though.
Made it out for a few hours today on the lower river.
Vis was about 8' below the dams and 15' above. My client Peter got nice fresh chrome hen in the first 15mins, and I managed a fat Brown Trout to cap of a half day of fishing.
Baitfish are moving in now but the fish aren't too active yet.
There were a lot of folks fishing all the different areas that we checked out, "get to work dammit!" :D
Beauty weather and they'd had a big rain down that way last night.








Can't wait to get out again for a loger day of less people.

Nomad Adventures OKFC'09 donates to HHOA

Thanks again to everyone who participated, organized, sponsored or contributed in any way to last year's kayak fishing tournament in Haliburton. It was a very successful tournament and we were able to give a considerable donation to our charity, the Haliburton Highlands Outdoor Association.
HHOA is the local hatchery for the area and also supplies stocking fish(trout-walleye) to various other regional programs in Ontario. We were able to raise just over $925 for a first year event!! Anyone who has ever been involved in charity events knows that is a sizable donation for a 1st year event, and is a true indicator to the success of the tourney.




If you ever have a chance while in the Haliburton area, please stop by and take a free tour to see the hatchery. They have some pretty impressive going on there! HHOA raises several breeds of Lake Trout that are unique to the area - Silver, Haliburton Gold, another which name escapes me. A couple of these breeds are specific to the types of glacial kettle lakes in the area and are thought to be the oldest breeds of lake trout known. Many of the regions lakes have some sustaining populations of these Lake Trout, but HHOA is there to ensure the future of the species.
You can also see brook trout, rainbow trout and sometimes walleye populations being reared at this facility.

We hope to carry over this success into all of our 2010 events, OKFS and River Smallies.

Jeff Wall of Nomad Adventures hosts beginner kayak fishing seminar

We recently had small 2hr seminar and information session at Fogh Marine in Toronto.
This was directed at new or prospective kayak anglers in the Southern Ontario Great Lakes region.  Fogh Marine offered great deals on Ocean Kayak, Old Town and Hobie kayaks.  There were several attendees from the http://www.yakfisher.net/ forum and others from the local area.  Even one guest from the Nippissing area of Northern Ontario.

This was the first of several seminars and clinics to be conducted by Nomad Adventures in Ontario throughout 2010.  The next session will be an on-water clinic at Guelph Lake on May 8th for the opening of Pike season.  Fully outfitted fishing kayaks will be available for those new folks wishing to participate.
The full 2010 schedule is available at Nomad Adventures.

Lake Ontario south shore kayak fishing March 9

The weather has been amazing here in Southern Ontario over the past couple weeks!!  Several days of mid teens temps combined with the lack of ice on the Great Lakes was enough for me to take a day off for some early season salmon and trout action.  With any luck a northern pike too.
The fishing was slow and I only managed to hook what was probably a Coho, but never got it close enough to see it before losing it.
Weather was +14C with no clouds and a slight breeze.










Saw a large pike but couldn't get it to commit.  The water temps was a cool 40F and there was 50' of visibility. 
Should only get better from here.
 
Good Fishing!