WE HAVE THE ANGLES FOR ALL YOU ANGLERS!
Fishing! Seeley’s Bay was voted the 5th ultimate fishing town in Canada in 2010 by the World Fishing Network. There is an enormous Large Mouth Bass population as well as plenty of Small Mouth Bass, Northern Pike, Crappie, millions of pan fish and do not forget the Bowfin. |
One of only a handful of spots in Eastern Canada where you can fish Bowfin or ‘The Dogfish’. The Bowfin dates back to the Jurassic period over a million years ago; this fish swam with the Dinosaurs! For tips and tricks to catching the Bowfin or any other fish found in Seeley’s Bay, stop in and talk to Roger White or his son, Shane White at the Rideau Breeze Marina. The current Ontario record for largest bowfin was set here in Seeley’s Bay. The bowfin, Amia calva, is the last surviving member of the order Amiiformes (which includes 3 additional, now-extinct families dating from the Jurassic, to the Eocene), and of the family Amiidae (which contains numerous species in about four subfamilies, only one of which, Amiinae, is extinct).
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SMALL AND LARGE MOUTH BASS
There is NO DOUBT that it is the bass that keep anglers returning to our community year after year. Opening day of bass season is awaited with much anticipation, and the public dock is busy from first light. Traditionally the local Legion has a derby on opening day (insert link), and then there are a series of tournaments for the rest of the season, including a semi annual visit from the well known Renegade Bass group out of Ottawa (link). Bass is a name shared by many different species of fish. The term both encompasses freshwater and marine species. All belong to the large order Perciformes, or perch-like fishes, and in fact the word bass comes from Middle English bars, meaning “perch.” |
CRAPPIE
Nothing says ‘spring is here’ in Seeley’s Bay, like the arrival of crappie fishing. There is often still ice on the bay, when anglers cluster along Dean’s Lane or other places where water is moving close to shore. Crappies are a genus, Pomoxis, of North American freshwater fish in the sunfish family Centrarchidae. The common name (also spelled croppie or crappé), derives from the Canadian French crapet, which refers to many different fishes of the sunfish family. Other names for crappie are papermouths, strawberry bass, speckled bass or specks, speckled perch, calico bass, sac-au-lait (in southern Louisiana, lit “bag of milk”)and Oswego bass. |
SUNFISH
Everyone can catch a sunfish, and a lot of Seeley’s Bay area families have introduced their children to the love of fishing by letting them catch sunfish at the dock…it’s impossible to not catch one, and that first catch brings a guaranteed grin to most children. Generally people practice catch and release with sunfish, but they can be a tasty panfish if you are so inclined. The sunfishes are a family (Centrarchidae) of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes. The type genus is Centrarchus (consisting solely of the flier, C. macropterus). |