I just spent the last week in Algonquin Park. I did a whole lot of fishing. I'm hoping to get the photos or videos posted one of these days but they are with my uncle. The lakes are all very healthy in the park, everywhere you look in the water you can see schooling minnows, crayfish and sunfish frolicking. As this was a fishing trip we were targeting delicious sport fish. We caught more than our fair share of smallmouth bass (very healthy population) of all sizes, 1 decent sized pike (6lbs or so) and a tonne of rockbass. We paddled up a river and about 10 feet short of a beaver dam there were schooling common shiners and I netted one. We got 1 accidental catch when we made a refrigeration bag by filling a mosquito net with with our perishable food and sinking it to the bottom in 50 feet of water to keep it cold. When I went to pull up the bag there was a sculpin inside. I'm not completely sure but it was most likely a molted sculpin. It was a great trip and I'll try to have some photos soon!

I just spent the last week in Algonquin Park. I did a whole lot of fishing. I'm hoping to get the photos or videos posted one of these days but they are with my uncle. The lakes are all very healthy in the park, everywhere you look in the water you can see schooling minnows, crayfish and sunfish frolicking. As this was a fishing trip we were targeting delicious sport fish. We caught more than our fair share of smallmouth bass (very healthy population) of all sizes, 1 decent sized pike (6lbs or so) and a tonne of rockbass. We paddled up a river and about 10 feet short of a beaver dam there were schooling common shiners and I netted one. We got 1 accidental catch when we made a refrigeration bag by filling a mosquito net with with our perishable food and sinking it to the bottom in 50 feet of water to keep it cold. When I went to pull up the bag there was a sculpin inside. I'm not completely sure but it was most likely a molted sculpin. It was a great trip and I'll try to have some photos soon!

whats a molted sculpin? was it shedding its shell like a crayfish?


just so we can keep this scientifically accurate my friend was referring to a mottled sculpin....he thinks.

Edited by bumpylemon, 10 July 2010 - 09:32 PM.

maybe a sculpin mated with a crayfish to produce one lol

oops my bad, mottled!

I just spent the last week in Algonquin Park. I did a whole lot of fishing. I'm hoping to get the photos or videos posted one of these days but they are with my uncle. The lakes are all very healthy in the park, everywhere you look in the water you can see schooling minnows, crayfish and sunfish frolicking. As this was a fishing trip we were targeting delicious sport fish. We caught more than our fair share of smallmouth bass (very healthy population) of all sizes, 1 decent sized pike (6lbs or so) and a tonne of rockbass. We paddled up a river and about 10 feet short of a beaver dam there were schooling common shiners and I netted one. We got 1 accidental catch when we made a refrigeration bag by filling a mosquito net with with our perishable food and sinking it to the bottom in 50 feet of water to keep it cold. When I went to pull up the bag there was a sculpin inside. I'm not completely sure but it was most likely a molted sculpin. It was a great trip and I'll try to have some photos soon!

I am heading t5o Algonquin today. Any recommendations for me? I've never been there before.

I am heading t5o Algonquin today. Any recommendations for me? I've never been there before.

No live bait is allowed; so don't be netting anything. My recommendations for lures would be Rapalas for bass and pike and worms if you plan on trying to catch lake trout or whitefish. Brookies are only in a few lakes in the park now as they have been all but destroyed by bass and pike. What part of the park are you going to be in?

No live bait is allowed; so don't be netting anything. My recommendations for lures would be Rapalas for bass and pike and worms if you plan on trying to catch lake trout or whitefish. Brookies are only in a few lakes in the park now as they have been all but destroyed by bass and pike. What part of the park are you going to be in?

Not sure, but I am leaving now.
Thanks for the info!

Enjoy the trip, I wish you the best weather. It was hot, then windy then stormy while we were up. It was still a great trip though1