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!