Essox

What's the French and does it have big pike? I like catching walleye (pickerel) but like to go to a lake that has trophy pike potential as well.

We fished North Burntbush with Maurice (True North). The cabin had a gas generator and pump water into the cabin. Also the Cabin was big and very sturdy. We caught about 30 walleyes a day on that lake but most were smaller in size. we also got x2 20 pound + pike. For some reason this lake was not included in the sale - transfer to CAS? I also fished Edgar which produced more and bigger walleyes as well pike up to 45" 25 pounds. Note: We do a length - girth calculation to obtain the weight. However we've done worse as well with Polar Bear Outfitters when we flew into Chappa Lake the fishing was awful. We had trouble getting enough for a fish fry, nothing > 4 or 5 pounds all week with 4 guys. Brailey was a nice easy to fish lake but the walleye were finicky. started to catch more late in the week when I switched to jigs and worms. As you probably know jigs tend to give a higher % of hook sets since the hook is in line. I was trying to use lures that appealed to both pike and walleyes like X-Raps. It seems you were better off either fishing for one species or the other on Brailey. This was not necessary true on North Burntbush and Edgar where both pike and walleyes (pickerel) readily took X-Raps. I'd like to here more of your experiences in the Cochrane area Moosebunk?

They flew us in a day early so it was 7.5 days. Due to storms were stuck in a cold small cabin for almost another 1.5 days. They warned us it could sleep 4 but was designed for 2 they were right.

Had a good trip to Brailey. Between the 2 of us we caught ~ 100 pike and ~50 pickerel. Walleye were small to nice (12 to 21)". Most pike were between (1 to 4) pounds. We got a big 40" pike that was about 20 pounds, next biggest fish was at 36" about 10 pounds (didn't have the girth). Fished the river with poor results. Cabin was small and they didn't leave us any useful firewood (to big to fit into woodstove) oh well.

Went to Edgar, Did great. I myself got about 80 pik's and 80 pike. My biggest pike was 35" very wide ~ 15 pounds. However my brother got a 45", what a monster. We've typically done poorly with spoons (although I'm going to try Williams Whitefish this year). We caught the larger pike on large jerkbaits. Walleye trolling stickbaits and casting jigs_worm. Good pik fishing around the Island near camp.

WE usually got them pickerel (walleye), a bit shallower. 3 to 6 feet in June, 6 to 10 feet in July - August. So you go deeper in the fall? BTW any spinner worm combo as well as a jig and worm combo or Rapala stickbait usually works for pics for me.

I have only been to Edgar of the Air Cochrane lakes the fishing was very good. If you have some data on Brailey I would be most appreciative? We are heading there in 9/15.

Hi All, Were are going to fly into Brailey Lake via Air Cochrane in mid September / 2015. It's a small spring fed lake that's supposed to have ample pickerel (walleye) and some large pike. Has anybody fished this little lake about 50 air miles from base camp. If so what you caught. Also how you caught them would be much appreciated. I generally jigs for pickerel and use big jerkbaits for pike. We fished Edgar years ago via Air Cochrane and did good with the pickerel (walleyes) and caught some very large pike. We also fished North Burntbush when True North was operating and did very well with lots of (mainly smaller) pickerel and big pike. Thank you and tight lines, Essox