License/ Outdoors card reminder! ... spring update

A reminder to everyone coming up this season to bring along the Outdoors Card you received this past winter. If you don't have it with you, we will have to charge you an additional $9 charge for another application prior to purchasing your license. Unfortunately, non-residents can not purchase their fishing license online as of yet, the Ministry of Natural Resources is aiming to have that going for next season. They do have a 1800 number you can call and purchase a license, but it does take 4-6 weeks to receive the license, so most of you are probably best to just buy your license once you have entered Ontario. We do have licenses at here at the camp, or there is a few spots you can stop on the way to pick one up.
Our first trout fisherman arrived yesterday afternoon, unfortunately it looks like a poor weather forecast for the days they are here. They should still be able to land some trout if they can tolerate the rains. (which we do badly need however!).
The water levels on all the river system lakes are extremely low, the floods is approx 7 feet low. The upper launch is still okay to get into with larger boats, you just have to back out about 50 feet further than normal. Have not been into the lower landing lately to see how accessible that is. We still have 3 weeks before walleye opener, which is a lot of time to get some significant rainfalls to help bring water levels back up. We will post about the water levels again before walleye opener.
The smallmouth are just starting to move shallow and become slightly more active. We were out last Saturday and caught about a dozen bass and a dozen northern pike. Seen a lot of fish, but the water temps were just a bit cool yet and the fish were not real aggressive towards artificials and we did not bring along any live bait. Surface temps are ranging 45-48 degrees right now.
If anyone coming up has any questions at all, please feel free to contact us anytime through our email, or call direct if you need to talk in person. Otherwise, good fishing until we see you next!