TennesseeGuy

You're a hot commodity in the labor force. Could find another, better, job within days.

October, below the Outlet has been good to me in past years. Made me think I could catch fish, for a few days.

Sioux Lookout is the final destination for some of fishing. We'll be wetting a line at a few of the rivers on the north shore on the way.

It was a true long shot, but sometimes they work. I would have fed you, but with yesterday's cold walleye sandwich rather than taking valuable fishing time to do a shore lunch.

I would have made it down some pretty nice rapids, headed down river and picked you up near the flume dam. Deep pool below the rapids sometimes holds tons of nice, for the area, walleyes for fall fishing. I'm talking lots of 19" to 26" with one 30" over many years. Fished it with a countdown several years ago and quit when I snagged two nice walleyes. Bumped a lot and didn't realize what was happening. Finally caught one in the mouth, foul hooked the next two and left.

Huge pike also know where walleyes hang out and that's where I'll find them.

Have a great trip.

Heading to northwestern Ontario next weekend and looking for some recommendations for places to eat on the way and spend the night.

 

Sudbury - Sault Ste. Marie - Thunder Bay

 

Likely overnighting in the Thunder Bay area.

 

 

Thanks for the input.

Where will you end up? I'll be at a fly in. You could journey up a couple of dirt/gravel logging roads, safely park your car and take about a 2 mile hike along a river and I could make it down some rapids and pick you up for a good half day of walleye and pike fishing. Travel light and use my equipment.

A long shot, but a maybe............

Just sayin'.

You can add a description and a picture or two to show people who you are. An offer of lunch or a little gas money or what ever you have to sell yourself would help also. I think if you can make someone feel like they kind of know you then the invites will be forthcoming. There is nothing worse than getting trapped on a boat with someone who cant carry on a conversation or has very different views on the world than oneself.

 

Good luck

 

 

Art

Great advice Art.

It's too bad you're going up so early. A few weeks later and you would not need steel leaders. Pike lose their teeth in late fall.

A few will be losing teeth attempting to eat my Suick.

I'm surprised a naked photo hasn't been posted under "Lets see your personal Smallest".

Yep, that surely beats fishing from your back porch in Red Lake a couple of years ago.

Nice report.

Thanks.

Great trip.

Great report.

Nice report Roy.

Good move not to remove the fish from the water.

Thanks for the great report Frankie. It helped me realize how much I miss the area that I visited often from 1959-1970. Meeting the Zimmerman family, fishing their lakes and seeing how much Chapleau has changed in the past 42 years is on my list.

Do you feel the shimmy in your butt, or in your feet?

 

S.

I'm guessing that a car which provides a shimmy to a sensitive body part would bring a good dollar on the market. Might make for a happy driver.

Thanks for sharing. You surely picked the right day to take pictures. Beauties.

Once it's in the books, nobody can take it away from you.

Happy Birthday Mo.

Keep sticking with your list of requirements. Don't compromise.

Happy Birthday Roy. Major period of activity today from 1:07 p.m. - 3:57 p.m. Have at it! Moon is strong and straight down.

Great catching. Great photography.

Thanks.

Impressive!

Hey Clive, meet me at the Outlet around noon August 11 to pick up a few walleyes for a Table Rock shorelunch.

It's never wrong to treat the other person with respect.

For pike I go with 100 lb Seguar Fluoro leader material, which is the heaviest Cabela's offer. It works well for me. Raf, I don't throw soft baits, so can't offer any input to your post. I mostly heave Suicks, 1 1/8 oz JSM w/an Uncle Josh's red striper strip, 5 1/4".

When fishing jigs with 15# pp (for walleyes) and no leader, I've been cut off by small pike, but don't recall ever being bit off by a big pike due to their big teeth that have wide gaps, for the line to fit, rather than being cut off. Just gotta be cool when bringing them in. Keep the line tight, don't horse and don't go too soft. Be in charge. Have an idea.

Don't underestimate the bite of big pike. Go heavy with your leader. Never wrong to go with wire. Maybe using fluoro is like owning a Harley. Kick rocks and say, "Yeah, I got me a Harley". Same with Fluoro? Status and testerone go hand in hand.

Back in 2005 season I had a pretty good fisherman put me onto using a large net/pen and not removing pike from the water during the release. Also put me onto fluorocarbon leaders. Might be why I continue to use them. That boy can fish and he can write.

Thanks Mike. You surely packed a lot of fishing into your trip. I appreciate your taking the time and making the effort to share your experience with us.

Beauty of a report. Great outing.

Thanks Mike.

Good move being camera operator while Jason takes huge risks and moves trees off the trail.

Now there's a name from the past. Thanks for reminding me, Connie. I'd forgotten his last name.

There are a lot of stories about Don Maw, but he and I have never been at odds. Without cause, he's been in my cabin a few times while I was out on the water. He's never accused me of doing anything illegal. All my mattresses have the tag intact.

If its full time and it would pay the bills I'd be interested. I worked for 2 years with the MNR (I'm probabally going to be hated by everyone on the board now that they know that) out of Red Lake and I fell in love with the place.

Were you paired up with Don Maw?

Yesterday I took Norma to lunch at a local Greek/Italian restaurant to celebrate our 54th wedding anniversary. Next was a visit to Walmart where we visited the greeting card section. I picked out 2 wedding anniversary cards, showed them to Norma and then we headed home. No way would I drop $3-$5 on a greeting card when we need to be saving up gas money for our August trip to NW Ontario. Next year we might go to a higher class greeting card store. #55 will be more special than 54.

Lew, I know you're hanging in there, but you're not closing in on us.