Merland Park Sets 2013 Ice Fishing Derby Dates!

MERLAND PARK’S 4TH ANNUAL ICE FISHING DERBY DATES HAVE BEEN SET!

Merland Park’s 4th Annual Ice Fishing Derby is set for January 25, 26 & 27, 2013.   Save the date! The number of sponsorship spots for this event are filling, the prizes are coming in, and the cottages are being booked! Proceeds from Merland Park’s 4th Annual Ice Fishing Derby are going to the Kiwanis Club’s Terrifc Kids Program again this year.

Merland Park, a small quiet resort with nine modern cottages and three motel units, is located on over 3 acres of beautiful trees and laneways. Nestled on the shores of Picton Bay, Merland Park is just 1 km east of Picton, Ontario on Highway 33 in Prince Edward County.

Merland Park Cottages on the Bay resort is extremely popular with anglers and their families. You may have even seen Merland Park Cottages on the Bay profiled on one of your favourite TV shows,or seen it as a setting for photos of many celebrity anglers and hunters.

Find out more about Merland Park Cottages on the Bay on their Lures & Tours listing page.

Great Barrie Fishing Festival Giveaway Announced!

Barrie-Huronia Rotary Fall Fishing Festival 2nd Giveaway Announced! 

Win Cash! Win Prizes!

UPDATE: Did you miss out on this Giveaway? Barrie Fall Fishing Festival organizers are sponsoring a second Giveaway! Be sure to catch this one! Go to http://bit.ly/BFFFWin2 and enter NOW!  Good luck! 

Barrie Fall Fishing Festival Offers Huge Cash Prizes Plus!

September 21 to September30, 2012, Barrie Fall Fishing Festival offers anglers and non-anglers huge cash prizes plus daily draw prizes! Plus you could win FREE registration! 

Barrie Fall Fishing Festival Registration Giveaway has re-opened,  with the mandatory entry changed to optional to make it easier for readers to qualify for this great Giveaway. The Giveaway ,which is open to all countries,where giveaways are allowed will end at 12:01 am September 22nd,2012.

Yes, there is a catch! Catch and release plus the opportunity to win BIG money and BIG prizes. Plus you could win free registration for the event for yourself and a child! Two lucky Lures & Tours readers will each win a free registration for themselves and a child for the Barrie Fall Fishing Festival. It's easy to enter, just leave a comment below stating what you would do with $10,000 if you caught the grand-prize tagged perch. This Giveaway is open world-wide, and your registration numbers will be emailed to you. 

Barrie-Huronia Rotary Club hosting the 2nd Annual Barrie Fall Fishing Festival is generously giving away 4 Free Registrations for the 2012 Barrie Fall Fishing Festival Two lucky winners will each win Free registration for themselves and a child. Registration in this great fun family event would be a welcome gift too!
  About the Barrie Fall Fishing Festival
Ready, Set, Go, Go get them! The Second Annual Barrie Fall Fishing Festival, on Kamperfelt Bay is guaranteeing you lots of fishing fun. Never fished before? Expert anglers will be on-hand with lots of great tips. Don't have a boat? Don't worry, the chances of catching the tagged fish for money or prizes are just as good when fishing from the shoreline. Want to stay at home and be a couch potato? There are cash draw prizes you could win too!
Here are some tips from the Barrie-Huronia Rotary Club about catching tagged perch.
These tagged fish are ready to be caught, and reward you big money and prizes. The more you fish, the better your chances.
Come, join the fun, tell your family, tell your friends or better still, why not bring them along to share the experience.

 Gift It! 
Give a friend or loved one the gift of a chance at up to $10,000 in cash and prizes, plus the opportunity to make great memories with their child or grand-child fishing side by side with them on the shores of beautiful Kempenfelt Bay in Barrie. Just visit the Barrie Fall Fishing Festival site and Sign Up. Online payment makes registration super easy!
Win It!
Simply enter using the easy Rafflecopter form below. Good luck!

  a Rafflecopter giveaway
We'll be there, waiting for you on the beautiful shores of Kemperfelt Bay, Lake Simcoe. See you there September 21st to September 30th.

Kawartha Lakes Restaurants Welcome You!

Kawartha Lakes Restaurants - Convenience, Variety, Unique Offerings!

Kawartha Lakes restaurants offer something for every palate. Kawartha Lakes restaurants listed in Lures and Tours value anglers and their families.

The following Kawartha Lakes restaurants and dining facilities are currently listed in Lures and Tours for publication in the new print Lures and Tours Ontario Sport Fishing and Recreational Tourism Directory and on the Kawartha Lakes regional map.

• Coffee Junction - Coboconk

• Just for the Halibut - Bobcaygeon

• St. Dave's Diner and BBQ - Lindsay

• The Landings Marina Restaurant - Long Beach

• Chat 'N' Chew - Omemee

• Lock 32 Pub & Restaurant - Bobcaygeon

• Red & White Diner - Bridgenorth

• Sweetbottoms Coffee - Fenelon Falls

• Buttertarts 'N More Bakeshop & Deli - Little Britain

• Mark's Finer Diner - Peterborough

• Coby Fish and Chips - Coboconk

• Pizza Alloro - Buckhorn

See details and the updated list of Kawartha Lakes Restaurants on Lures & Tours.

If your Ontario eating establishment welcomes anglers and their families, list your restaurant in the Lures & Tours Sportfishing and Recreational Tourism Directory by contacting RosaSharpe at LuresandTours.com  or drop us a confidential comment below.

Lake Simcoe Kempenfelt Bay Bound? Barrie Fall Fishing Festival Offers FREE Docking!

Second Annual Barrie Fall Fishing Festival Welcomes You!

Barrie, Ontario Catch and Release Perch Tournament, on beautiful Kempenfelt Bay – September 21st to 30th, 2012 offers registered anglers free docking and trailer parking.

Barrie Fall Fishing Festival registrants will be allowed free boat launching and trailer parking at either the Tiffin boat launch or the city marina during the Barrie Fall Fishing Festival. A limited number of daily boat slips will be available on a first come – first served basis. Details are available at the registration desk.Tiffin boat launch is located at the end of Tiffin Street and City of Barrie Marina is located at GPS N 44° 23.121’W 79° 41.423’

Barrie Fall Fishing Festival tournament, hosted by the Rotary Club of Barrie-Huronia, will see 100% of the funds raised benefiting Environmental Projects related to improving the health and well being of Lake Simcoe and Kempenfelt Bay, in addition to the many other Rotary projects within the Barrie community.Signing up is as easy as visiting www.BFFF.ca or any of the following locations:

• Tourism Barrie205 Lakeshore Drive, Barrie705.739.9444
• Rack & Reel250 Innisfil Street, Barrie705.737.4819
• Sutton Realty241 Minet’s Point Road, Barrie705.739.1300
• Near North Supply191 Big Bay Point Road, Barrie705.721.911
• Canning’s Fish Hut Rentals46 White Oaks Road, Barrie705.721.8500
• Baxter Corner Store104 Murphy, Borden705.423.1154
• Adjala U-Stor8011 Highway 89 West, Alliston705.434.4343

Sign up today and get ready to fish in one of the best Perch Festivals in the area!

LAKE SIMCOE FISHING FACTS
DID YOU KNOW...?

• Lake Simcoe is the most intensively fished inland lake in Ontario.
• Lake Simcoe is Ontario’s 6th largest inland lake with ¼ million lakes in province.
• Lake Simcoe is close to the largest population base in Canada … many anglers are either local or within an hours drive. Significant number of anglers fishing
• Lake Simcoe anglers come from the Golden Horseshoe and the Northern Border States.
• Lake Simcoe is a diversified, multi-species fishery. Lake Simcoe fishing community offers both quality and quantity.

Kawartha Lakes – Coboconk :Top-Bass 2012 Classic Top 10 Scores!

Lures and Tours Shoots Top-Bass Winners and Participants !

Coboconk-Canadian Fresh Water Summit saw plenty of excitement Sunday,September 9,as Top – Bass Top teams were awarded thousands in cash and prizes. Rosa Sharpe.Lures and Tours captured contenders and winners on film at this exciting year end tournament organized by Ted Gallone.

Going into the 2012 Top-Bass Classic, much speculation centred around the leading contenders: Dean and Cocks who won the 2011 Top-Bass Classic. Would they win Top-Bass 2012?  All teams who participated in this weekend event are to be commended for their tenacity,and true sportsman attitude as they dealt with the challenging ,and changing weather –smiling through the wind and rain.Weather conditions over the two-day event,offered anglers a real challenge,especially on the first day with a very dark rainy cold start. Then,Sunday the sun shone for periods,but did little to remove the chill from the air.

So who won?

Here are the Top 10 Top Bass 2012 Classic Winners

	Wt	#	Fish	Bass	Captain Last Name	Team Mate Last Name
1	32.79	18	10	491	SCOTT BURNS	JAY MACDONALD
2	30.98	4	10	5.19	MIKE WILLIAMS	DUANE JACOBS
3	29.94	67	10	409	RON PILKEY	JAY       MARTIN
4	28.30	1	10	0	JERROD DEAN	GERRARD COCKS
5	28.22	25	10	0	WATKINS	HASHIMOTO
6	28.02	22	9	403	HAWLEY	SLOCKI
7	27.82	33	10	0	COLUCCI	MAGLIO
8	27.50	24	10	0	ELLIS	GHOUNARIDE
9	26.88	10	8	0	CULBERT	JACOBS
10	26.55	47	10	4 .21	KENNEDY	KENNEDY

See full names and all standings on the Top-Bass Website.

First Place Winners Scott Burns and Jay MacDonald 

Runner Up Team Duane Jacobs and Captain Mike Williams

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Kawartha Lakes Tension Mounts Awaiting $12,000 Winner!

Top Anglers Vie For Top Awards in Coboconk Kawartha Lakes!

Kawartha Lakes -Coboconk Top-Bass Tournament organizer Ted Gallone will announce 2012 Top-Bass Classic Winners in just a few hours following the final weigh in at 3 pm. Tension is mounting after yesterday's live release weigh in,which saw Mike Williams edge out Spiro Agouras for this year's Big Fish award, a catch which could put Mike and his teammate Duane Jacobs in first place for the grand prize of $12,000. Check out this footage from yesterday's Top-Bass 2012 Classic Weigh In:

With very different conditions today, than yesterday, that Top-Bass top prize could go to any of the 75 teams competing in this season's final event in Coboconk-Home of Canada's Fresh Water Summit.
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Coboconk Ontario Canada - Fresh Water Summit Festival!

Coboconk Ontario Unique Port : Natural Singularity – Highest Canadian Navigable Water !

Coboconk – All Downstream From Here!

Coboconk, Ontario celebrates its natural singularity each year. In the serene waters of Balsam Lake, in the heart of the Trent-Severn Waterway, by seaworthy vessel. Whether you travel west toward Lake Simcoe or east into Cameron Lake, both ways are downstream from Balsam Lake.
Coboconk,City of Kawartha Lakes offers skippers four opportunities:

1. Go east to the Atlantic Ocean,
2. Go west to the Pacific Ocean,
3. Go south to the Caribbean Sea or
4. Go north to the Arctic Ocean.

What makes this most unique is the fact that from this point, one can circumnavigate the world, by seaworthy vessel, without ever having to travel on land.

While there are two higher global navigable rivers, after the Coon Rapids Dam, Mississippi River, and the Danube River where it connects with the Rhine Main Danube Canal in Kelheim Bavaria, Germany, the next highest point of fresh water in the world is Balsam Lake  in Kawartha Lakes.

Each year in June, Coboconk invites you to help celebrate Canada’s Fresh Water Summit,with a full slate of fun family activities. Several businesses have generously sponsored a page in Lures & Tours Sport Fishing Recreational and Tourism Directory to help more people find out about this unique event. Be sure to thank the following businesses for their efforts in promoting this unique Canadian natural wonder of the world.

Festival Floating VIP Centre 

Luxury Houseboat Provided by Happy Days Houseboat Rentals

• Buck & Up, 
• Coffee Junction 
• Coby Fish & Chips, 
• Happy Days Houseboats
• Shield's Home Hardware
• Thompson's Marina

If you missed the Fresh Water Summit Festival this year,you can snap a picture at the interactive sign and photo opportunity erected on the Coboconk, Ontario Municipal Dock on Balsam Lake at coordinates N 44 39.476N -78 47.815W .