Back in early July of 2017, I was looking for some jig heads and plastic jigs to use while on summer vacation.
I connected with Bigugli and bought some fantastic jigs he pours and paints. I then connected with GBW who hooked me up with a half dozen packages of plastic jigs (Widow Makers) of various colours .
In August I managed to get away for a few days of fishing with Buckster on the northern end of Pigeon Lake. Our goal was to try our luck with some walleye .
We got to a spot that looked promising and be began to gear up . I had on a Bigugli chartreuse special jig head and a craw-dad coloured Widow Maker twister tail .
We fished for five minutes when I feel a dead weight on the end of my line . I says to Buckster..... "Musky...I hope the line holds!!" Well after a ten minute fight we see the fish under the surface and to our amazing delight a HUGE walleye!! We get the old girl into the boat, take a few pictures and measurements and set her free to delight someone else in the future .
As we did not have a scale, we plugged the dimensions into an on-line calculator and found she was just over 11 pounds!! Now I know there are alot bigger walleye than 11 pounds but for the Kkawarthas, I think it was a pig.
Since the first day of fishing Pigeon. ( 20 years ago) I had always said that any Walleye over 10 pounds was going to get immortalized by replica and mounted on the cottage wall.
Well, last Sunday I turned the big 50 and to my surprise my wonderful wife had secretly had a replica made and gifted it to me . I was speechless!
These replicas truly are works of art and I'm gonna enjoy many days admiring it and recounting the story of that August day .
A BIG shout-out to Bigugli, GBW, Buckster and of course my fabulous wife . Life truly is wonderful!
Now after 20 years of fishing Pigeon, I am still hunting for a six pound bass and a 30 pound Musky!!!
Here is a picture of my mounter!
Cheers,
Meely