Toronto SALMON Bonanza: Part 1

[Music] all right today we're out on Lake Ontario fishing with my boy Greg am he's probably the top salmon captain in the country for fresh water out here so we're looking for shinook salmon coo salmon and big rainbow trout right off the island Toronto Island not a lot of people know you can get those fish in Lake Ontario they think that they're only an ocean fish the big Sam and the COO and Chinook but you can get them in fresh water right out the city so if you're ever looking to have some fun please come out and try this it's awesome we'll show you what we [Music] get I'll set uh I'll set some of the riger and one of the rigers up can put you to work buddy yeah it's time you can already tell the water today is going to turn blue like the Caribbean it's got that greenish tinge to it already wow what a life so what we're setting up here right now is what we call Liv scope or pan Optics this one here is called the LVS 62 it's the deep water one I've got it set up on a pole so I can angle it anywhere I want we're going to be watching the fish eat the lure today live it's not cheating or anything it's not so what are we seeing on these graphs here below these are our track lines right right now we've got track lines I've been fishing this week we've got contour lines all over on on our mapping system uh we have a lot of weight points I've caught fish over the past 20 plus years you sure you've got enough weight points cuz I don't see a lot we're going to add a couple today sure 60,000 what we've got here is traditional sonar we're in 207 ft of water and uh once we see some fish I'll show you them on the screen we've got a moon R moon setting right now and a sun rising and a peak time so let's get some lines down geted what we've got is a 15 lb downrigger weight attached to our Cannon down riggers we've got our release clips we're going to be attaching our fishing line to our release clip once a fish hits it's going to release from the release [ __ ] and we'll be fighting the fish just on the rod alone these fish live down pretty deep we can catch them up to 200 plus ft deep so we need a heavy weight to get them down where they live now what we have on this one is a Fishhawk probe our Fish Hawk tells us our speed and temperature down below very important we target certain temperatures where the salmon prefer to eat lure of choices we're using some hot spots with John King heads we're going to be attaching a herring strip right into the meat head one of their preferred baits at this time of the year so why do those look neon green well Adam's good thing you asked so what these are are Herring strips I cut them myself from a whole whole Herring these Herring do come from BC we cut them into a semi-triangular shape they are brinded they've got a UV Dy in them they're salted that way the meat becomes a lot firmer so what we do is we take our bait head some people call it a helmet for your Herring strip attach it in we Peg it with a toothpick adjust the hook just below the strip and that's ready to roll down she goes [Music] [Music] spe [Music] top goes in it's wedged oh we got one already first one G pop it out there is loed it out it's like a little Shaker [Music] King shakers just basically mean a smaller fish you'll see why in a minute get them up [Music] cleer that's just the baby shinook salmon we do get them over well over 30 lb in this lake lake records 46 lb nice thing about seeing smaller fish like this is the future generation couple years these fish will be 25 to 30 lb they're fast growing it's a beautiful little guy so that fish would be less than a year old right now next year he'll be 10 lb or 12 lb the year after 20 plus the year after that 30 plus okay buddy we'll get bigger Little Hook right here that was the fish coming up to our line this little patch here this green patch that's a bait ball they're pretty definitive so we're going to set up a Dipsy diver some people call it a p Poor Man's down riger easy way to get down to achieve the depth we need on this one we're probably going to put a fly on it give them a little bit of a buffet presentation and then we can refine our bite once the they let us know which what they prefer the meat the spoons or the Flies so what we've got here is a spin doctor behind the spin doctor we are going to we have a crinkle green Atomic fly put that down now what the flashers do like a spin doctor hotpots king fisher they rotate through the water and drives the salmon attracts the salmon and they eat the fly or the meat behind you can see our live view this is our down one of our downrigger balls right yep so that's the one coming up right now we just got bit on that's the one we have down below that's our flasher rotating you can actually see it rotating and that's our meat right behind what would that is that a fish there uh that might be the thermac climb the thermac climb so gear is getting pretty Advanced I don't know what's next you're going to be able to pick and choose what fish bites aren't we that good already that that's how we do it seriously you're going to start rejecting fish you might hurt the fish's feelings so we're attaching the Dipsy diver now this Rod's really special it's a mono Rod uh sorry a wire Rod uh as opposed to our mono down rer Rod now this will achieve an extra 8 ft per 100 we let out creates a hum in the water drives the fish crazy that's our lure down below that's a big salmon following into it hopefully he's going to eat right now come on come on baby [Music] it see I like the mystery of fishing unlike Greg I like sitting there waiting for the line to pop never knowing when the strike's going to happen Greg likes to see it all he likes to watch never played a video game but that's my video game I got my joystick right here I can adjust it any way I want there's another one Adam good fish good fish there we go he popped it got him I got him oh yeah he's taking line he's taking line tight tight tight yeah all right so we're doing go hit it hit it hit it hit it hit it oh yeah there we go up here that feels like a nice C oh yeah buddy you can see the Flasher coming through the water the king is right behind him look at that look at that dancing on [Music] the salmon [Music] [Music] [Music] out here we're the only catching fish out here September 1st baby all right I'm going to start walking back got them we go Adam wanted your coo we got a nice what a nice size coo beautiful that's a healthy fish can just look at it these are very powerful fish that is a good size coo now you can see oh yeah that's what nine oh yeah 9 10B coo we nickname these fish footballs on the lake cuz they're round like a football kind of like a tuna see the beak here the gray gum line and there's no spots on the tail distinctive of a COO it's one of the top three ways to tell she is really feisty so it's going in the box now yeah you got it you got it you got it got her there she is nice oh yeah that's a good one taking line hear that be swimming towards the boat swimming towards the boat [Music] we got him another Co another Co oh chunky coo chunky coo another nice one same thing distinctive features beak gray gums no spots on the tail this one's a little bit bigger than the last one it's a little rounder but these are really healthy fish in the early fall this one's nice and girthy [Music] reset the [Music] Dipsy we're going to take off our flight going to put out another meat that's a frog catter with a Hot Fish lure Hot Fish Head all in frog with chrome go [Music] down so this is a little Shaker shinook salmon we got on the Dipsy shinook this size are great to eat cuz the meat is nice and furm the bigger they get they get kind of mushy so this one's perfect for two people two nice fillets look at that beautiful pattern on him you can see him from the top down his back looks almost like a mackerel with the teal green in the spots all right let get him in the Box nice little mixed bag today on Leo 8:30 in the morning had five strikes already three stuck on usually the bite dies down after early morning and then what would you say picks up again sort of around 9:30 10 yep usually the next bite time or around 9:30 10 just like us we have our breakfast then we have our lunch or we have a snack so they take a break and then they go back on The Chew [Music] [Music] grab it at him get out of there he's got it all right yeah that's a better one finally the bite looks like it's going our way oh yeah nice head shakes nice head shakes that feels like a nice shnook okay all right oh yeah he woke up now no I'm trying to keep the line tight but we're not going to put too much drag on him we broke the hook off last time doing that these Chinooks have vicious head shakes when they find out they get hooked when they find out that they're hooked it's game on I'm using a technique called pumping on this fish where we reel down the slack and then pump up some more distance trying to inch him towards the boat oh [Music] yeah oh yeah there we go the Dipsy in view oh yeah nice head shakes right here at the surface I got color there bu you got color I got color we got a long lead so oh yeah got him it's a king there he is yeah nice job Adam here we go oh Lake Ontario shuck [Music] baby what a fish got him what a fish look at that beautiful sh know Exon early fall Lake o you can see this one it's not as dark as the fish that are already in the rivers that have gone up to spawn but it's getting there what a beautiful salmon you can see the Speckles on the tail not a beak like a COO and not a great gum line look at the teeth beautiful if you can see the teeth in the sun on this side what a predatory fish in fresh water in a big City's backyard you don't have to go to the ocean to find these kind of [Music] fish but you do have to go really early in the morning and it's not fantastic wow that's a good what 14 yeah [Music] woo Beautiful live well now let's talk about the limits for a minute on these fish on lakeo so you're allowed to have two lines per person on the Great Lakes right two lines per person obviously on a valid Ontario Fishing License you're allowed five salmon two rainbow tro okay so you can do three lake trout two rainbow trout out of the shinuk or Coos you're allowed five on the lake with a full license if you have a sport uh conservation license then you're only allowed two instead of the the five so we've got our sport so we're well within our limit I think any other bigger fish we're going to let go unless we got a nice little Rainbow but we've got a little shnook a big one and two coost so we've got a good mixed bag for dinner [Music]