Kayak fishing for steelhead in Ontario

The snow piles are dropping, days getting longer and sunnier, and the rivers have started to open up here in Southern Ontario, as winter slowly loses its grip on this part of the province. I've been seeing early winter black hatches on my last several trips to the Niagara and my thoughts quickly turn to the impending spring run of steelhead!!

Will there be enough water to run the rivers? Will the fish have dropped back by then? Will it be a strong group of year classes running..... and all kind of such thoughts start rattling around in my brain.

What is for sure is that the fish will run and there will be fishable water to hit somewhere. It's up to us to monitor the conditions and be ready to take the time off if necessary when it does happen.
Steelheading is like sacrilege in Southern Ontario, and anyone exploiting these tightly guarded waters with anything more than the bare basics is heavily frowned upon. And no, a kayak is not considered a basic.... that is except by us here at Nomad Adventures. A kayak is an essential tool to success for spring and fall steelheading!
If you aren't implementing all tools at hand, then what exactly are you doing?
All rivers are fair game, and we all know there's a lot of rivers coursing thru the Southern Ontario peninsula, surrounded by 3 Great Lakes plus Georgian Bay.

Our steelhead kayak fishing trips run from Spring: late April - late May, Fall: late October - end December.
Opportunities for Brook, Brown and Lake Trout exist on these trips. Fishing methods are float fishing, fly fishing, bottom bouncing and spincasting.
Beginners to seasoned anglers will all enjoy these trips.

Inquire at Nomad Adventures for your 2011 Steelhead Kayak Fishing trip in Ontario; we look forward to hearing from you!!

2010 recap plus what's new at Nomad Adventures in 2011

So it’s been since August since we reported, yikes.


Don’t really know what to say about that except 2010 was a great year for the growth of kayak fishing in Ontario. Thanks to everyone who came out and participated or supported our events in any way, and we look forward to seeing you again in 2011!!


The arrival of our young one pretty much kept my off the rivers until November, but we sure made up for it in the final two months of the year.
Browns, browns and more browns were the order of the Niagara for seasons end, along with a few steelhead and lake trout interspersed. Three times in that span we hit fresh runs of chrome moving thru the system and they destroyed us on all occasions. 1 for 10, 4 for 12 and 2 for 9 was the score, and that included a lot of bent hooks/broken leaders.
A detailed pictorial shall follow!


2011 will go down as the “yaksteel” year for Nomad Adventures with heavy focus on implementing kayaks into our Southern Ontario steelhead fishing trips. There will also be a lot more Niagara region trips that include the Upper Niagara River and Lake Erie smallmouth.


Another new venture for us, but may not happen until late 2011 is “Drifters” our online pro-shop that will be dedicated to float-fly-kayak fishing.


Please stay tuned since we promise to update you regularly on all things stated above!

Ontario Kayak Fishing Series gets a website for 2011!!

That's right, we're growing again.  The site should be up and running by mid February, so stay tuned.
All tourney talk and updates shall remain at http://www.yakfisher.net/ 

Hope to see you out this year!!