Big Ontario Smallmouth and more Salmon

[bulletbob]

Nice Bronzeback..
SMB fishing up here has changed drastically.. The Great Lakes, Cayuga,St Larry River, are all full of gobies... The bass gorge on them relentlessly, and get huge these days. On the flip side, the bass both LMB and SMB, are greatly reduced numbers wise simply because the Gobies are relentless nest raiders, and carpet the bottom .. There are huge swarms of them, and they eat the bass eggs.. I haven't caught a sunfish out of Cayuga in years, and rock bass have virtually disappeared as well.. The breeding fish that remain in the lakes simply can't protect the nests, and reproduction is way down.. The few fish that do survive get REAL big, but the biomass is out of balance these days...6 and 7 pound SMB are out there these days, maybe even bigger, but bass fishing in general is a shadow of what it was as far as numbers of fish ...Thats a really nice SMB, a 7 pounder is a great one anywhere, I have been here 31 years, and my best out of thousands caught is not even 4 pounds.

[DanH]

Originally Posted by bulletbob

Nice Bronzeback..
SMB fishing up here has changed drastically.. The Great Lakes, Cayuga,St Larry River, are all full of gobies... The bass gorge on them relentlessly, and get huge these days. On the flip side, the bass both LMB and SMB, are greatly reduced numbers wise simply because the Gobies are relentless nest raiders, and carpet the bottom .. There are huge swarms of them, and they eat the bass eggs.. I haven't caught a sunfish out of Cayuga in years, and rock bass have virtually disappeared as well.. The breeding fish that remain in the lakes simply can't protect the nests, and reproduction is way down.. The few fish that do survive get REAL big, but the biomass is out of balance these days...6 and 7 pound SMB are out there these days, maybe even bigger, but bass fishing in general is a shadow of what it was as far as numbers of fish ...Thats a really nice SMB, a 7 pounder is a great one anywhere, I have been here 31 years, and my best out of thousands caught is not even 4 pounds.

Very interesting thanks for that info !

[DanH]

WOW ! That's a beast of a smallmouth ! The NJ record is only a few ounces bigger ! WTG !

[FASTEDDIE29]

Atta boy Luke! Can’t stop, won’t stop! Beautiful Bronze! Whoooooooo!