Where are the coochaching ice reports

Was a great bait for me last year, thanks for making it!

Great vid. I just picked up 2 of them

Hey wheres the closest spot to the north to find walleye?

That was awesome!

What depth you guys in? 25ft? 40ft? Thanks

At least share some info about the area 😂

5.4 is always a 7 on the eye scale

Hi, isn't the camera waterproof by itself?

where is this wreck? where did you get in?

Sir, thank you for this video. I am typing from the shores of Simcoe right now as the sun just went down and I loaded up my kayak. I had such a great night of Simcoe top water. They were nuts. I felt like I was you in your video. If it wasn’t for me watching this video, I would not have had the confidence to throw a popper. So glad I did. Thank you!

Just bought mine cant wait to get it in the water but im at work rn 😅

Hi Cal, curious what's the App you use to check water depth?

looking forward to the ice fishing season again, your videos were fun to watch

I thought Simcoe smallies on top water didn’t exist 😅

What area of simcoe you on

you make it look easy (or maybe I just suck) i've been on simcoe and havent caught a single bass yet, although this is my first year being able to fish on a boat so it may just be lack of experience

Wait, so top water can be good for smallies there 😂

Haha love taking the sunglasses off

Well done new Dad Callum

Love it, great night fishing

Thick ones bro

Cal,I’d like to know more about this boat you were using. Can you share a link ?

I thought the baby would be out with you already....lol

where roughly in the lake were you fishing that day? What depth were you fishing?

Pike here barely hit my lures but prefer hitting a camera.

Jake Scneider Greg Schneider we need to go

Great video, thanks for all your hard work

Tournaments are a big factor, catching spawning bass then bringing them away from their spawns in my opinion it would make sense not fishing during spawn to give us more bass but that’s not the case

So i learned even if you dont fish bedding bass they will still have a chance of never coming back…? So again why are we so restricted yet theres plenty of non restrictive lakes and ponds that hold trophies bigger then some people can dream.

I find this fascinating. Obviously more factors affect a successful spawn than I thought! Nice work.

Absolutely

Interesting debate. I say deff don't fish bedding bass but what do I know

Yes

Don't fish beds. Never have never will. Don't get me started on the tournament fisherman.

Thanks for this video and amazing footage. I have been fishing Lake Simcoe for thebpast couple of years and noticed a ton of gobies during the summer when fishing for smallies. Spring there are a ton of Perch to catch so I know there are multiple species eating the gobies. Around Georgina Island is where I noticed a ton of gobies last year and my son even caught one. Hopefully other area's of the lake the gobies are under control from smallies and other fish eating them.

There is nothing good that comes from Bed fishing other than self gratification. It’s killing the fishery and although this is only one video and one pair of fish it is happening every where.

maybe try putting bait fish traps out to reduce the goby population ?

FFS takes the challenge and mystery out of fishing. It's turned BASS and other fishing tournaments into watching (or not watching) boring fish catching exhibitions! Really, if that's what I was interested in watching, I'd go to Dave & Busters and watch people play video games. It has the potential to greatly harm fisheries. In golf they don't let tournament golfers use a yardage device. Why?...to protect the integrity of the game. In hunting some will think they're hunting on a high fence property. The fact is, no matter the acreage, it's still a cage and not hunting...just shooting and cheating yourself of the challenge of the hunt at that. In fishing FFS takes away the challenge of finding fish and a successful pattern...it clearly takes a day on the water from fishing to just plain catching.

Damn, that’s a worrying amount of Gobies. I always wondered how the smallmouth populations would be affected by Gobies. Sure, the overall average size is increasing but are there less fish numbers now due to less recruitment?

Nice footage! The fisheries seem to be doing fine, so there must be some areas where predation is much less. I bed fish sometimes when the season first opens, but find it boring and doesn't take much skill. Fun to get a newbie their first 5+lbr. I'd rather catch them post spawn, imo

If only people would eat these damn gobys...

I didn't realize it was that bad. I've never even thought about it before..wow that's horrible

Shared to 613BASS'N 😎

Honestly, I've always been of the opinion that taking your limit home to eat once in a while is more conservation than fishing them on their beds, even if you catch and release. These fish need their energy to fight the egg stealers. Last thing they need is to waste that energy fighting with us during that time. I'm surprised bed fishers don't get shunned nearly as much as some of us who take some home to eat once in a while.....just don't bother them at all until season opens!

Thats hard to watch, I remember when gobies didn't exist in our lakes and now its invested because of freighters for overseas emptying their ballasts. This is just as bad as Canadas immigration policies.

It's common knowledge the size and populations of smallmouth have exploded due to the gobies as a food source so it's a little give and take. The smallmouth will find a way and not all fish are the smartest at nesting, much like ducks. Some are smarter, and more aggressive than others.

I love bass fishing and am not a fan of bed fishing myself. It’s hard enough for those eggs/fry to survive when they have an adult looking after them. Taking a fish off a bed can only be hurting the chances of any of them surviving.

Hate. Hate. Hate opening day tournaments on the lake. Tournament organizers need to do better

So sad to watch