A Fish for All Seasons

Last week Dave and I spent a day targeting Lake Simcoe perch, with much futility... We caught four perch, none of a size destined for the fry-pan! But the day was not in vain!

Lake Simcoe is one of the most productive lakes in North America. It also has one of the most diverse populations of sport-fish species of any lake in Ontario. There is a fish for all angling styles, a fish for all angling abilities and a fish for any recipe. Most of all though, Lake Simcoe has a fish for all seasons! Our outing though, found us catching a fish species with no season!

We caught well over a dozen Lake Simcoe cisco, or, “Lake Herring.” 

The cisco were active again. This time though, they were fast and furious! At times we were seeing well over a few dozen circling our bait. They appeared around noon and every half hour or so a school would swim through.