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I lived there for 23 years and fished without problems - its not too bad really. In practice there are a fair amount of places to fish (course fish anyway, there is virtually no game fishing) Its more restrictive than Canadian laws but it has to be - the UK has twice as many people as Canada in a la...

hit up my two favourite spots, one on the rideau river, the other on the canal - no bass but caught a huge bluegill and something REALLY ugly - it was about 10 inches long, VERY wide head/mouth that tapered towards a narrow tail and had crazy barbels on its mouth. I am thinking it was a catfish?? If...

Thanks, yeah any big ones will always go straight back asap! I wasn't sure what a good minimum/maximum size was, I will aim for around the 2lb mark.

I definitely will be back to that spot with my camera!

I was fishing in the Rideau Canal right in downtown Ottawa this evening off the shore, just lost a fish of about 1lb (still not used to these barbless hooks!) when I hooked into a bass - I instantly realised that it was really really big - after a couple of minutes struggle I got a couple who were p...

I have been twice now to Rideau Falls, for a total of about 6-8 hours and haven't even had a nibble, so I am wondering where I am going wrong? I fish from the bit of rocky shore to the right of the falls that you get to via the tiny little road. I have tried worms, crankbait, spinners and tubes but ...

Jamsers wrote:I agree Chris....hence why we're moving out further....Carleton Place=Kanate Lite.....*VOMIT*

(No offence to peole in Kanata....cities ain't my scene)

Kanata isn't a city, its more like someone tarmaced a bunch of landscape and built a bunch of suburbs on there

yea we were fishing the slop today many blowouts but no conections they kept missing the baits i hate getting skunked thats why its call fishing though and not catching Yesterday I was getting hits on my surface frog, at least until one got hooked and ran off with the frog, snapping the 50lb braid!...

Had the day off work, haven't caught anything the last 3 times I have been fishing so decided to try to catch something to eat tonight (ideally a 1lb bass) so started off at all my usual spots on the Rideau River at about 2ish, 3 hours later in desperation after ZERO bites I biked down to Rideau Fal...

Quite the bump there

Has anyone noticed that the bass from the canal fight a lot less than the ones from the river? I caught a few today from the canal near 5th and then one from Dows lake, and they came in with barely a struggle, while the ones I get from the Rideau River fight like stink.

Is there a reason for this?

Well I just left my 7ft 2 piece ugly stick behind at a river, and its gone. Doh. So now I am going to get a new rod and was wondering - are there any fairly decent rods that fold down small enough to fit in a rucksack? Under about 50-60 bucks? I would mainly use it for worming and surface frogs Than...

The Rideau river has a bunch of LMB in it, I hear under the Bronson or Bank bridge is good

John said he had a free spot in his boat today, so I jumped at the chance! Having only recently moved to Ottawa, my personal best bass was a 9inch largemouth caught off the banks of the rideau, as you can see we smashed that! After speeding into a hailstorm, then a rainstorm, we spent some time near...

Never gone for carp here but in England I used pretty much exclusively bread on light float tackle.

Update - fished the rideau a few more times, caught a few bass around 6 - 9inches and then today hooked a MONSTER, it looked around 2 foot long to me, though it was almost certainly less. Anyway I wasn't able to tell what type it was, since the line snapped when I tried to pull it closer to net it.....