Happy New
Year!
I would
like to start by thanking all of our customers and anglers for the patronage in
2011! We would also like to thank-you for your support of Krista and
myself in our first year as managers at Fosters. We met many new people
and friends. It was a great first year and we made a number of
changes. We listened carefully to your suggestions and know that we have
many more to make in the years ahead.
We are
presently booking for the 2012 fishing season. Be sure to make your
reservations as soon as possible this year to avoid
disappointment. The municipality is enforcing a cap on the number of
campsites that we are allowed, so popular weekends are sure to fill up fast.
A number of
you were calling last fall asking if the “big walleye” were in the bay.
By late November we were hearing of large walleye being caught off of Thompson
point and on Long Reach but we never saw many (if any) caught through telegraph
narrows or on our part of the bay. It was a late fall to say the least
and the big walleye were slow and late to migrate into the bay.
Many of you
are anxious to know about ice fishing. The bay froze over between
Christmas and New Years. Some “Brave” soles were fishing off of Big
Island around the first week of January but I can’t imagine that they were on
more than a couple of inches of ice. I measured the ice at the end of
that week around our docks and only had +/- 3” there. Mild temperatures and
rain last week saw the bay open up again from Foresters Island (Deseronto) through
to about ½ km west of red marker buoy “Q42” out in front of Foster’s Fishing
Centre. Police were on the radio telling everyone to stay off the
bay. It just froze over again yesterday (Saturday, January 14,
2012). It generally takes a week of good cold weather before we have ice
at buoy Q42 that is safe enough to walk on. However we have rain forecast
for January 16th and 17th …. so it will be a least
another week before we could get on the ice at Buoy Q42
Once the
ice is safe we will be opening up the bait shop and will have pay parking at
the shore. We do have a three bedroom vacation suite
available for rent through the winter season, please call to inquire about
availability. Sorry, we no longer rent ice huts!
We wish you
all the best in 2012, hope that you have “tight Lines” and hope to see you in
the 2012 season.
Thank-you!
Todd and
Krista Foster
Your Hosts
and New Managers
See Fishing Reports from 2011
