Fishing around Montreal

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Fishing around Montreal

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Have been on the water a few times a week since June, chasing walleyes, mostly on lake St-Louis, just west of Montreal.
Caught fish on all my outings but not much on the size.... Seems water is fairly warm, surface temp of 76 degrees.
Outing Tuesday on Lake St-Pierre, 60 kms on water, with only 3 released small walleyes and 1 bass.
Yesterday on Lake St-Louis, had a very slow start, but ended with 5 nice keepers in the boat, all caught on jig with crawler. Fish are deep and not very active.
Will be on water again tomorrow.
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Fished 4 hours on Saturday July 25. We got a few bites but only 1 made it to the livewell.
It was getting pretty hot in the afternoon.
Weekend is harder to fish, too much traffic on water making lots of waves and noise.
Should be back when weather cools a bit during the week.
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Thanks for the reports Gerry. Boat traffic is very high all over... weekends are almost unbearable on lake Champlain right now.. :?
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Could not fish since last Saturday because of high winds. Instead I spent some time building about 100 jigs for walleye fishing, 1/2 and 3/4 ounces. Half are round, others are oval shaped. Now I need to test them :D
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On the water this morning at 7:15 am till 1:30 pm. I did not do much, only 2 small throwbacks.
However my friend Dan had some good bites. He caught a keeper as well as a throwback and a small sturgeon.
His throwback was 27", a beautiful grandpa walleye.
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After a few pics, it was revived and released to grow bigger.
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The sturgeon was also safely released.
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Friday July 31, I fished with my friend Bob (Fish Fanatic). We launched at Sorel, about 1 hour north east of Montreal on the St-Lawrence.
We spent almost 8.5 hours and covered 56.3 miles on the water. I only caught 2 keeper walleyes and 2 throwbacks.
Bob got a grand slam: Walleye, perch, bass, catfish..... nothing worth keeping or taking pics.
Weather was gorgeous and traffic was minimal on the water.
We got back at the ramp around 4:30 pm. We hit a thunderstorm on our way back home, it washed the car and boat clean. :D
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Nice water and destination Gerry! Good stuff! Noticed the shipping channel.. Do they have to dredge that?
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They dredged the channel around 40 feet many years ago.
Some part of the lake can be pretty shallow.
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On Lake St-Louis with Andre today, Friday Aug 10, around 7 am till 1:00
Caught 3 walleye keepers. Beautiful day on the water.
Will be back tomorrow morning.
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Love the updates but what I really wanna see is some pics of you and Andre’ holding some of these great fish!


Many thanks for sharing Gerry... I see a couple of million dollar white marlin were caught at the WMO in Ocean City yesterday...... one at 1.7 million!

Hope we can fish it again together in 2021!!!

Fish on!
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Many of the fish we catch are not worth taking pics, and I don't have a BBQ onboard to make spectacular lunches like you do on yours. Our sandwiches are not very elaborated :lol:
I miss being in OC and the White Marlin Open. It was not the same thrill following the tournament as being there.
Despite the virus, 433 boats registered and the tournament is spread over 7 days instead of the usual 5.
Some high $$$ whites in the leaderboard, the top winner can get up to $2.9 million this year. Unless they are lucky today, Longfin is not one of them.

Unfortunately, our longtime friend Larry Jock, owner and photographer of the "Coastal Fisherman" local newspaper passed away this spring.
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On lac St-Louis Saturday morning from 7 to 2. We only caught 5 walleyes, all too small. It was a nice day on the water, not a lot of traffic, but the fishing (biting) is getting harder. Water temp 76-77, much too high for walleye to be active, and we are starting to see a lot of floating weeds making trolling almost impossible.
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Went to Lac-St-Pierre on Sunday August 16, about 1 hour north-east of Montreal on the St-Lawrence river.
On the water just before 7 am till after 5 pm, covering close to 58 miles.
We were targeting walleyes. Hard to believe but we did not get a single catch all day, only 2 lost bites.
We tried jigging and trolling, the only things we brought back to the boat were weeds and debris from bottom.
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Fished Lac St-Louis Friday Aug 20 with my son Martin.
On the water before 7 am until passed 5 pm. We put 50 miles on the water.
It was a beautiful day, no boat traffic and calm water.
The bite was not incredible, but we still managed to catch over 2 dozens walleyes, only kept 2, and a big 10 lb catfish that gave a good fight.
Lots of floating weeds, so we could not troll, spend the day jigging only. Most all catches were done in 45-70' of water.
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I know you want pics, so here's one of the fat catfish.
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