Each year my father and I go fishing in Canada with a group of our customers; not www.texasbuffaloadventures.com customers rather www.imsdfw.com customers.

We always travel to the trophy waters of north west Ontario, Canada on Lake Umfreville.  Trophy designations are assigned to captures larger than the following lengths;

Walleye              - 27 inches
Pike                   - 38 inches
Smallmouth Bass - 18 inches

This year, with only 3 full days of fishing, I captured 2 trophy fish.

Although it may not be considered a giant pike by European standards, according to Canada, the following pike was one inch larger than it needed to be to qualify as a trophy designation.

My 39 inch, 17 lb pike.


My 19 inch trophy smallmouth bass.


The following is a special capture for me only because this species is rare to catch in these waters.  As a matter of fact, none of the local guides could even tell me what it was for certain.  I had to look it up when I returned home.

My lake whitefish capture.


Some beautiful landscape pictures.

The Northland Marauders from Texas!



I love fishing up north!  I have a great time every year. 

Next month I will be going back to the northland for my second annual, week long, fishing trip to the Minnesota/Canada border to fish Rainy Lake with my wife.  Last year I captured several smallmouth bass over 18 inches but my wife captured a true monster measuring over 20.5 inches.  I intend to be the one with bragging rights this year!  lol

 

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This was another successful fish-in for my Lonestar Carp Brigade friends.  Both Chris and Jase captured buffalo over 40 lbs along with many other buffalo.

I have decided to not show the pictures of most of these captures.  The reason?  The buffalo are beat up from the spawn and look a bloody mess.  Buffalo are very rough spawners. 

Here are a couple of pics of some of the carp that were captured this weekend.  These carp only have minor spawning injuries.

It was soo HOT that all of us left a day early.  The heat was miserable.

Justin with his beauty common!  It also had a couple of injuries from the spawn.


Krista with a strangely shaped common.

Since I was at Lake Fork mowing, the several acres in preparation for next weekends Lone Star Carp Brigade Spring Lake Fork Fish-In Kaitlyn, my daughter and my oldest child didn't have time to do much fishing this Sunday morning.  I did tell her that we should try and get her the IGFA Jr Female Smallmouth Buffalo World Record even though we didn't have much time to try.

Within 30 minutes Kaitlyn hooked into a big buffalo but it came up to the surface, nose first, and shook it's head like a tarpon.  Of course it pulled the hook.  We were bummed.

About 30 minutes later Kaitlyn caught a nice little teener carp.  We didn't bother with pictures.

30 minutes after that Kaitlyn hooked into another big buffalo and she played it perfectly.  We put it on the mat, in the sling, and on my certified scale. 

42 lbs exactly!!!






Not bad for an hour and a half of fishing!

The weekend of May 9-11 was fast paced buffalo action.  Never before have we captured more buffalo than carp in a session.  I think the constant baiting is really paying off and the buffs have determined our swims to be a major feeding spot.

This was just a pleasure fishing session with a few of my friends.  Can you imagine what would have been captured if we had done a proper 5 day session? 

FATSO!


My beauty 35 lb 12 oz


My 34.


Another Quasimodo buffalo!  Austin doesn't have any of these.


Chris with another high 30's buffalo.  Beautiful colors on this one!


Tracy's 37.


Tracy's 40 and a perfectly shaped specimen!  Beauty colors.




Donny's 40.  This thing had some real shoulders.

A crazy Quasi!


The next Lone Star Carp Brigade Fork Fish-In is coming up in 2 weeks.  Stay tuned!

The fishing on Lake Fork was very slow paced overall but it produced some very nice fish.  The best were Chris' 36 lb buffalo and Donny's 34 lb 4 oz mirror carp.  We didn't even know mirrors were in this lake!

 

A couple of Brits HAUL on Lake Austin!

What a weekend we had.  Over 30 fish captured in just 2 days and this included 2 captures of over 40lbs!


Andy Martin (UK) proudly displaying his 40 lb buffalo.  What a nice fellow Andy is.  Next time Andy comes to Texas I will be taking him to Lake Fork in an attempt to capture a Quasimodo buffalo.



My friend Jase from the UK.  A phenomenal angler he is.  Here he holds his 43 lb 4 oz buffalo.  This was his 3rd buffalo capture in a 30 minute period.  The first was a 26 lb, followed by a 28 lb, and concluded with this beast as his new personal best.

Jase and I will be fishing together on Lake Fork in 2 weeks time.  I can't wait!

I had the pleasure to introduce two newbies to the sport of carp & buffalo fishing over the weekend of March 28-30, 2008.

In all TONS of carp and buffalo were captured! 

I got started Thursday night and before my wife showed up with Tyson and Kourtney. I had already caught 9 carp including a nice 27 pounder.

The action never stopped................

Tyson's biggest captures;
* 21 lb carp
* 23 lb buffalo
* 36 lb 10 oz grasser

Kourtney's biggest captures;
* 23 lb carp
* 21 lb buffalo

My wifes biggest capture;
* 40 lb 6 oz buffalo  (Her second 40 buff in as many trips!)

My biggest capture;
* 27 lb carp (I let everyone else catch)













Tight lines!

Jason

www.texasbuffaloadventures.com