BillM

Sandals? Butler service is awesome! Take advantage of it.

I'm guessing the price is close to 3k PP just for the fly in these days. When I went a few years ago it was $2500. Great read Drew, brings back a lot of memories. Looks like the water was up, making for easy paddling and no portaging over those shallow gravel beds (Which held some insane fish for us) I'd think the prices would be on the Hearst Air website as well.

Weather was fine. I was fishing out of Port Hope that afternoon/evening. Water temps were 75-76 and the wind was SE maybe 5-10km/h. Nothing that I would consider rough or bouncy.

I think we all knew what the final outcome was going to be. I'm glad the family has some closure now. Big loss to the fishing community as a whole and definitely to OFC. It sucks, no other way to put it.

If he had a PFD he'd probably be alive. The water was 75 degrees with a SE wind that day (I was fishing out of PH), even if you can't swim you'd be able to float around for hours without having to worry about hypothermia at all. BTW, nice to see ya Mike

Yeah I don't think the Minn Kota is going to over power a kicker, but hey anything that helps in a situation like this would be useful. Instead of a spot lock it could go full left or right turn so at least the boat would go into circles and you'd have a chance to re-board. I gotta admit, I'm looking into a manual inflating PFD now. I've been out in some hairy weather but never alone.

The remote for the I-Pilot Link isn't line of sight. I've used it pointing the exact opposite way of the trolling motor before and it responds just fine. Although the range is what you'd have to worry about.

Yeah I hope so, I'd like her to get a few while casting at night. That's a riot.

Yeah it was nice to pattern them out fairly quickly. Funny thing is there was a spot that just produced fish after fish, every time I circled back and trolled through a rod went off. I should have vertical jigged them just for the fun of it, lol.

Weekend isn't too bad up here, looks like Monday isn't going to be very nice though.

I didn't wanna overwhelm her too much, lol!

Decided to head out on Lake O yesterday evening to see if we could get a few staggers to go. The winds finally changed to the north so I was hoping the warm water would finally be pushed off the shore line. Plan was to go out for a few hours before dark and mess around with the riggers and dipsys then come in close once it got dark and cast. Started in 50FOW with a blank screen, wasted 10 mins doing that until we pulled up and headed a bit deeper. 80ft seemed to be the ticket as I was marking fish hugging bottom. Figuring they were lakers I decided what the hell lets at least move some rods. Ran SD + flies + Nasty boys on the dipsys and a JPlug and a Nasty boy off the riggers. Figured out real soon these weren't lakers but chinooks. 80ft down over 85-100ft was the ticket. Tally for the night was 8 chinook and one beauty Coho. Most of the action came off the deep stuff, but we did get the coho on the SD+fly and another chinny off the dipsys once it started to get dark. Once it got dark I pulled up and got ready for casting. Water was way to warm, wasted 2hrs casting and packed it in. Need a few days of strong N winds to get rid of that warm water then it should be on. Kept a shaker for a friend, the rest are back swimming. I let her do all the reeling, she complained about sore arms

Up size your presentation.. When you think it's too big, go bigger.

I was wondering what those planes were doing out over the lake yesterday, I could see them while I was fishing out of PH yesterday evening. Let's hope this ends with good news. There was a bit of a wind from the SW yesterday, but the lake was decent.

Those fish are chasing shad. I haven't caught as many fat smallies as I did on Sunday, all were barfing up bait and their stomachs looked like they were going to explode. Probably one of the best days I've ever had smallie fishing. I don't even wanna know how many we boated, but I did count 10 fish on 10 casts. Had to upsize my offering as well, Buckshot spoons were definitely too small. When you think you're presentation is too big, go bigger. A few bonus walleyes as well. Glad it worked out for you man!

Hows the new to you graph working Brian?

Sounds exactly like the tensioner is cranked down.

Man, some of the those back drops are unreal! I drove through Fernie a few years ago, never wet a line unfortunately. Gotta change that sometime soon.

LOB and smallies are fairly simple to figure out especially this time of year. You'll be looking for wolf packs in open water chasing bait. You'll definitely need a needle to fizz them if you're fishing deep. I was slamming them on GPool out over the deep water on Tuesday, that was a riot!

Nice looking fish!

Deer are red/green colour blind. So if you're going to put a colour out there, blue is your best choice.

Shimano Sahara 2500 and a cheap 10ft or so pier rod is all you need. Load it with 8lb mono and go to town for casting. Muskie rod would definitely pull dipsys... I dunno if I'd put it on a rigger though.

Sounds like one of our members who made a vid of the north shore of superior a few months back. Forget his username.

I don't even wanna know how blown the local river is going to be after that rain, lol.