Lake Simcoe Perch Fishing Trip! - Blue Water Sportfishing Association

ASSOCIATION
33 Years of BWSFA
Club
Happenings
Past & Present, 1978-2011
NEWSLETTER
Lake Simcoe
Perch Fishing Trip!
by Your Club Historian, Ron Angbrandt-
byTim Cook-
This article is to go over some old & new things that's
happen in the past & things that are happening now. We
started out with the Michigan Steelheader's then formed
the BWSAin 1981 to better help Lake Huron.
On Friday morning September 30th crews from liKing
Kong" and "NO I.D:' departed for our annual perch
fishing trip to Lake Simcoe. Crew aboard King Kong
included Tim and Tyler Cook and Bill and Frank Rotondi.
NO I.D:s crew included Paul Baker, Brent Gilmore, Brian
Klosterman and "new guy Rich'For 8 years now, my crew
has been making this trek to Pefferlaw located on the
Southeast corner of Lake Simcoe being rewarded with
limit catches of tasty perch and had no reason to believe
this year would be any different.
Some Information on the Club Historian:
I am Ron Angbrandt and Ijoined the club and board of
directors when the Blue Water Sportfishing Association
first started in 1978, a non profit organization. The club first
met at the Wagon Seal Center, then the Inn at The Bridge,
McMorran, Acheson Vantage Point, and now we are at the
American Legion Post No.8 on 6th street.
I fist ran the BoatTournaments from 1978-1987. Back in the
1980's I served as the Club President for two full year's at
two different times in the late 1980's.My wife Bev and I put
together the Spring Fling Dance's,one year Pig Roast with
the help of Dennis Evans.I also was and still am involved in
Hooked on Fishing Not Drugs, Salmon StakesTournament
and Club August Picnic, December Christmas Party and
other events.
The weather forecast did not look appealing prior to
leaving town for the trip, but all decided we would not
let that stop us and we were going anyway!
The Purpose of the BWSFAis to promote the sport of
fishing in Lake Huron by sponsoring, designing, or
assisting in projects, make improvement to fish rearing,
habitat or public fishing facilities. It is our purpose to
educate, encourage, and increase the pleasure derived
from fishing for our member's and the general public and
to support various charitable groups. Also to establish
more public accessareas and boat launching ramps to
area streams, rivers & lakes.To advise the Department of
Natural Resourceson fish plants, engage in legal suits to .
protect our natural resources. Keep guard on polluters, and
conduct fishing tournaments through out the year.
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33 Years of BWSF Past & Present - continued
Project Events & Activities
M. Also in the past we worked on projects and money
makers such as, Michigan Boat & Fishing Show at
A. BIG BROTHER/BIG SISTER
Cobo Hall - Detroit.
B. HOOKED ON FISHING NOT DRUGS.
We put in fishing dock's at Howard Pond.
C. BLUE WATER CLASSIC, which was the Budweiser
Tournament.
D. SALMON STAKESTOURNAMENT:
O. We also put on a Spring Show's at McMorran Arena
- Port Huron.
The Old River Crab Tournament,
now the Voyageur Restaurant,
St. Clair.
River Crab Tournaments also brought together Fishing
Club's from - Detroit Steelheader, Oakland, Flint and
Thumb Fishing Club also Blue Angler's - Sarnia Ontario
E. CHRISTMAS ADOPT - A - FAMILY
F. FISH PEN'S - Harbor Beach
G. REEFin lower LAKE HURON - North Lake Port.
H. FISH HATCHERY,Sarnia Ontario Canada
Our Sister Club we helped to start)
I.
N. We also ran the concession booth at the Pontiac
Silver Dome for Elias Brothers which feature Lions
football and Piston's basketball games.
CLUB FISHING TOURNAMENTS
J. 5 FISH CLEANING STATIONS:
Harbor Beach, Port Sanilac, Lexington, St. Clair,
One of the Best Fish Cleaning Stations around at
Port Huron. We are very proud of.
p.s. We the BWSFA Club, I think, won all the Trouney's
($500), but one. We made enough to pay for the BWSFA
newsletter. Also at regular membership meeting we have
had many DNR people, many interesting quest that gave
talks on Fishing & Technique both Boat & Stream Fishing &
some Hunting programs.
To all Club Members if you have any questions or
comments or would like to hel
K. HANDICAP DOCK'S at Downtown
Public
Dock's- Port Huron
L.
FISHING FOREVERBANQUET. - A Great Money Maker.
So in closing this has been a update of 33 year's of Club
Happening past and present 1978-2011.
ThankYou!
Your Club Historian, Ron Angbrandt
Fishing Forever
Committee
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continued After arriving Friday about noon, everything
was unloaded from the truck into the cabin and boats
dumped in the water to get ready to start the onslaught.
Westartedfishingaround 2:00 and began our search. It took
only a couple drifts to find some "keeper" size perch
(which we consider to be minimum 9") and after a couple
of drifts the wind started to howl and changed directions
making it too miserable to continue, so we decided to
call it quits for the day around 6:00 p.m. with about 120
"keepers" between the two boats to be used for one of
our dinners.
The wind continued to build all night Friday with no signs
of letting up for Saturday. During our daily visit to the
minnow man Saturday morning he questioned our sanity
that we would go out of Pefferlaw with the way the wind
was blowing and recommended we try Barrie, which is
on the northwest corner of the lake to supply some relief
from the north wind. After discussions with the teams
we decided to head north to Barrie, so after loading the
boats back on to the trailers we headed north. After
nearly an hour and a half drive we were greeted by about
a 1-2 foot chop out of Barrie as opposed to the 6 footers
out of Pefferlaw. After putting the boats in we located
some fish to pick through and fished until about 6:00 p.m.
and came away with over 200 keepers.
The wind continued to howl all night Saturday leaving
us with the same conditions Sunday morning out of
Pefferlaw so headed north again. The school had not
moved in Barrie so we anchored and began sorting
through the perch. We ended up with over 300 perch
between the boats and pulled lines at 4:00 p.m. We
figured for the two trips to Barrie our catch to keeper
ratio was roughly 5:1, which means to keep 500 perch we
had probably actually caught roughly 2500 in two days
between the two boats!
I have been making this trip the first weekend in October
for 8 years and this is the first year that we have not
brought home our limit, but still feel we were very
successful after overcoming the hand that we had been
dealt by the weatherman.
I would strongly recommend this trip to anyone who
enjoys perch fishing. There is no place remotely even
close to the amount of fish you will catch on Lake Simcoe.
If you know a youngster who enjoys fishing, this is the trip
for them! They will not become bored from the bite being
slow, but be careful you will become easily spoiled!
If any of you are interested in making this trip and needs
information, feel free to contact me. We occasionally have
an opening here or there if interested as well.
Tight lines to alH ~- 11m Cook
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twitch a bat flew down, picked up
the fly, carried it 20' and dropped
it on the water. I brought in the
caddis, straightened the wing and
1) A #12 or #14 dry fly hook
2) Tan thread
. 3) Wrap the hook shank back to the bend and cover the shank
forward to 1/8"behind the eye
4) Using a small pinch ofdeer belly hair place the pinch on top of
the shank so that thetips extend beyond the
bend 1/2 shank length
5) Wrap the thread around the shank and pinch of hair 3 wraps
cast it out 50: Waited 20sec and twitched the fly.
and snug the wraps to flair the hair
Two foot from the caddis a 16" rainbow broke water and dive
bombed the fly. I set the hook and 10 min later landed the bow.
Whenever I tie on a caddis that ~t_oryor a similar one provides a
neat flashback.
6) Tie off fly in front of butt ends and dap with head cement
7) With scissors cut off butt ends at a 70 deg. angle with the shank
and tight to the eye Tight lines
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