pikeie

Hey everyone! ive been having a great year on LOTW agian, i cant belive how fast this summer is going by! The fishing was interesting the first few weeks of the year with the really warm weather we were experiencing. We had to change our tactics and patterns to what we would be using and where we would be fishing further on in the season. Once i found the fish ive been on them ever since! the walleye bite has been fantastic with many fish in the high 20's and many numbers, some days boating over 200 walleye or more. The early serson northens were fairly slow because of the warm water i missed the really shallow water fishing. But ive still boated quite a few over 40".

And since muskie opend just a week ago ive been out targeting them qutie a bit and so far ive caught 5 this year i only have pictures of three of them at this moment lol but most of them have been small all around 40".

This is my biggest so far this year, i hooked it but let the kid bring her to the boat! you should of seen the look on his face when he saw this beast! this was also his first muskie! not a bad way to start lol

Anyways i hope you guys and girls enjoyed some of these pictures! Hope all of you have a good summer, ill post back as much as i can.

Matt

Great job Tyler! Some sweet lookin fish there!

Wow guys! thank you!

lol well i think it means im in debt up to my eyeballs . More seriously it means i am now quailified for most jobs within the Ministry of Natural Resources, or Department of Fisheries and Oceans! or any other Fish and wildlife job accross this country.... In the mean time im going to work back up at Wiley Point this summer while i look for a "Real" job lol.

Agian thanks alot everyone!

Matt.

Although im not solo, MJL, Dunn or BillM, ill still offer my 2cents lol

I acctually really like the Hi-vis line! and i sure did well at the rapids this year! i have been running hi vis raven main line this year, just because it was on sale at western for $10 for 800 yards 10lbs test lol. and i have not seen my catch rate drop since switching to the bright stuff. for leader ive been running 6-8 lbs seagaur floro, this is great leader material its small diameter and compleatly disipears once in the water, i usually run 18"-24" leader. i have also been running the same set up on the smaller/ clearer rivers and have done great so far this year!

I love to see the Boy's in green out patroling . i ve been checked 5 times in march alone! always when ive been steelheading. got checked 3 times this winter on the ice aswell. ive never had a problem with them and usually have a great conversation with them once they relize im studying Fish & Wildlife, they have givin me lots of pointers and even givin me names to help me get into the field. 3 of the CO's in the area know me by name lol, just because of them coming into our differnt classes and giving presentations/ finding me on the rivers lol.

Well it really depends if u feel like driving all the way up here, those were from a Lake Superior trib...

Got over 50 lbs last night, and just finished cleaning those little buggers. Might go out agian later in the week.

Great report ben! Cant wait to get up to the woods agian, only 5 weeks!

agian great job!

haha Wayne shhh... lol and i dont even kno where that that guys been, he hasnt posted in forever lol.

Gavin lol forsure! just let me know!

and thanks everyone!

So afternoon class was canceled, that means im goin fishin lol.

drove back out to the river which i got skunked! on last night hopeing to revenge my loss lol. well long story short, it was a slow day agian with a few missed hits and busted bags, but we had no hook ups untill 2:30 ish. I came back to my favriote rock lol and i finally had a solid hit! this hen was wild with many huge jumps and runs and landing her my self was a chalange untill i decided it would be eaiser to just bank her.

even tho only one fish was landed it was still a great day on the river!

Great job! im heading out in about an hour! hopefully we can do half aswell as you did!... but unfourtunatly ill be one of those "spinning guys" lol... ill have my new bearings tomarrow around noon, then all will be good!

Great job! I really have got to give that a shot sometime!

Wow Dr. Sal great job! Some nice lookin steel forsure!

and Thanks guys

Well it has been a long time since i have taken the float rod and reel out, but that changed yesterday!

A classmate of mine wanted to get out to some rivers to see how the fishin is goin, i havent hit a river all winter and i was waiting for the first spring run of fish up the rivers! We hit our first creek and had nothing to show for it even after 2 hours so we decided to pack up and move further north along Superiors shoreline.

After a quick drive we made it and quickly got suited up, altough it seemed a bunch of other people had the same plans as us lol there was probably 20 people fishing the main run in this river lol. So we waided past the crowds and took our drifts well below everyone else, fist drift my buddy loses one! Good sign! 20 minutes later my float goes down about 10 feet infront of my buddy lol i thought i was hung up at first untill i felt some quick headshakes followed by a blistering run lol. Boy it felt so good puting a bend in the long rod agian! after a long battle in some fast water i was able to get my hands under her!

decided to keep this one ass its been awhile since we've fired up the smoker! and now i have a good supply of roe!

i move back into my drift to start all over agian. 15 minutes goes by and as im drifting a current seam my float drops really fast! I lean back and set the hook, i have never seen a steelie jump so high lol like 4 maybe 5 feet outa the water, and the waters still ice cold! knowing that it was a little bit of a smaller fish i put alot more pressure on him and got him to me pretty quick.

gotta love the spring spawning colours on those males!

oh and a question for all u pinners, i let my friend try out my pin as he has never used one and long story short the spool came right off and landed in the water looseing one of the bearings, and ending my day. any idea where i can pick up bearings for a pin? if it heps the number on the bearing is SSR-4ZZ.

Thanks for reading/ any help with finding bearings lol.

Matt

Beauty! Hope i can do the same tomarrow, nothin like the the first few steelies of the year!

That is probably a violation of the fisheries act. The act is in place to protect all fish and there habitat... i would give a CO a call or the DFO for that matter.

Im probably going to give the rapids a go tomarrow afternoon! cant wait to get my first big steelie of the year!

look like great rods! but did u seriously see how much longer it took dave to get his shark in, compaired to the other dude using what i would call the right equipment lol it was good for a laugh lol

So as my title sugests im having a tough time with the walleye this year, up and around the soo... this weekend will probably be one of our last chances on the hard water.

I would really like to get some nice walleye lol but still not sure where to try... weve tried some lakes east of here with only a few fish iced. i was thinkin of takin a drive north and givin her a go but agian im not sure where! any help is appriceated! PM me if you dont feel like letting the world know lol

Thanks

Matt

lindy flasher spoon has been my goto spoon for specks this winter! i tip it with a minnow head, dosent matter what species of minnow. drop it to bottom and pound it a few times, lift it up about a foot and watch ur flasher lol!!

Steelhead are invaders and so are asian big head... we love one but hate the other!

The fact is its just not the steelhead that are introduced species! all the salmon species are as well, like the chinooks, cohos and pinks. But most were introduced to help solve another problem.

i could/ have written essays on the salmon in the great lakes, heres a short way of telling a long story. Early in the 19'th century the lake trout fishery was at its peak! Once the numbers of lakers got decimated by over fishing, the Alwife populations sky rocketed! which was a problem because of the numbers of dead and rotting Alwife being washed up on the beaches after winter, known as winter kill. I belive Michigan was the first state to bring up the idea of stocking Pacific salmon into the great lakes. This worked wonders, untill the alwife population decreased to stable levels. soon after the new recreational salmon fishery also started to dwindle. All of the other states/ provinces followed suit and now that is why we have our pacific salmon fishery. I belive the Pink salmon was accendentally released in northern superiour, due to a power outage at a hatchery, they had no choice but to dump the brood stock.

I myself have been lucky enough to go to school in the soo, and to experience a phenomenal atlanitc salmon fishery! Which is pretty much all thanks to LSPU. I have never landed an atlantic... yet, but i have hooked them many ways. and let me tell you, i have never had a fish hit so hard and peel so much line that quick! i have hooked most of them on the fly rod which is a feat in itself! I think it would be very interesting to see an atlantic fishery in the lower great lakes, im sure alot of people would catch on to the thrill of these beautys!

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Yes they are now part of the Pacific Salmon family... Their name in latin is Oncorhynchus mykiss, with Oncorhynchus being the begining of all salmon latin names.

I use them for pretty much anything lol... cast them for salmon, and rainbows, cast or troll them with a plastic grub added to the single hook and they slay pike. Or i even jig them under the ice! the pike love um!... o ya orange stripe or all orange!!

Thanks wayne! i was going to post the same thing. It seemed like they caught the problem quick enough, before everyone had a unit lol

Terry; the lodge I worked at over the summer ran HDs-5's In all of our boats. Over half of them had issues with moisture. So bad that some of them didn't turn on the following mornings. We contacted lowrance and had everyone of our units replaced. They blamed it on a faulty o- ring and apparently put out a recall. They are by far the best units ihave ever used. It's hard to belive how sensitive they are when it comes to virtical jigging! I could see my 1/8 th ounce jig and minnow in over 30 feet of water with no problems at all.

So as i said before ive been home from school this past week, because of reading week. And who wants to study on reading week right? lol.

Ive made it out fishing 5 days this past week off of Inisfill Beach fishing for whitefish and hoping to hook into a laker, but that never happend. Me and my Buddy Kyle or KBC as he is now known on here haha, went out to his hut agian and got setup.

As we were driving out we noticed there was a car "parked" 20 feet from his hut, and we were wondering if someone was fishing in his hut . Apparently its happend a few times before. So as we pull up we can see that these two guys have got their car buried in a snow drift! We offer the guys a shovel, and we set some tip-ups, Then go over to help the guys. I dig out the front tires and clear the snow away from the back of the car. Kyle hooks the car up to his truck and with a little coaxing the car started to back up. The guys were very thankful and headed on there way.

While we were busy we had some fish strip our minnows on us! a good sign lol. We rebated with one tip up each and one jigging rod and waited...10 minutes! kyle got the first one which was about 3 lbs, and he got the next, and the next lol. Finally my tipup gets slamed down and i have my own on lol, i was getting worried for a bit lol. Once i set the hook i knew it was a bigger fish! It took all the line on my stick and it still wanted more lol, i finally started to gain some line and we were swaring it was a laker because of the line it was pulling and the big headshakes... i turned out to be my PB whitefish at 24 1/4"! i was pretty excited about this fish lol.

This fish was good enough to get me 3rd place in the whitefish category!

Those were the only 2 pictures i took all day lol but we iced 9 whitefish and lost 5 more! Almost all were clones of eachother, each one weighing a little over 3lbs but it was still a ton of fun!

I was amazed at the turn out! lots of familiar faces, and met plenty of new nice people!

Thanks alot everyone that helped put together such a great event! for a great cause!