Bronta Creek Provincial Park/Lake Simcoe

Me holding a Largemouth Bass that I caught at Lake Simcoe
My friends and I telling jokes

My family and friends enjoying shade

Last week, our friends booked us a campsite beside their own in Bronta Creek Provincial Park. On Friday we all met and unpacked and in the evening my friends Zack, Noah, my brother Jesse and I did some stunts on our bicycles and watched a evening show about wildlife in the forest. On Saturday my friend's dad gave me some very useful tips on playing baseball, which is going to help me allot for next year when baseball season starts again. Then we took the Queen Elizabeth Highway to a 1.8 acre pool and played catch in the water with a football. After a few hours of this we went back to our campsites and relaxed, roosting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate by a campfire. On Sunday we met some other friends of ours and went to their place to go swimming and fishing. Swimming was fun but fishing was even more exciting. We bought some worms and dropped our fishing lines in by a small cruise liner, apparently it was a great fishing spot. We used a size 8 hook with a live worm, jigging near the bottom. My friends caught about a dozen Pumkinseeds, but they released them because they were too small to keep. We were about to move when suddenly, I felt a strong pull on my fishing rod! I quickly set the hook and adjusted my drag appropriately, since I didn't cast very far from shore the fight didn't last long. Although it was fairly difficult to land it was worth it because it was about 2 kg. This Largemouth Bass was so strong I also had a difficult time holding it. I didn't fish as much after that, instead I examined it for parasites, diseases, etc. Fortunately it had none of these except a scare on its caudal, but it didn't matter because we probably aren't going to eat it, we're probably going to mount it on my bedroom wall for remembrance. How did you spend your weekend?

Total Names of Birds Seen:

Canada Goose

Red-tailed Hawk

Ring-billed Gull

Rock Dove

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Pileated Woodpecker

American Crow

Total Number of Birds Seen: 8 species of birds