Moosebunk

I just saw something on this place a couple days ago. Will have to sleep on it

I was eating banana bread and actually had it in my reel hand when I landed my personal best pike. TAKE THAT!!!! hahaha

I didn't read any of this other than the title. So, happy 33rd Bly.

Yeah... who couldn't use a Sangria and a sailfish after that. Nice show... leave it to a woman to take pictures of shoes in a fishing report. haha.

Whatever single malt is in the flask, beer is in the cooler, berry grows on shore, or animal crosses my path. What, did you think I was going to say cranberry juice, Perrier, prunes and pate like the rest of you freaks. Seriously though, I'd take a couple from the top and maybe some licorice, chocolate or cookies or something. That'll have to change though unless I start brushing with Sensodyne. Tuna sandwiches loaded with pepper too and some cheese. If it's sunny then I don't need much but agua and the rich Vit D in the rays man.

Some fine fish. Now you can say you've done battle with the fastest sportfish in the world. Congrats.

I'd say go for it too. You will lose going to work but save on the house and travels for leisure. I'd think about 160km a day would be my max. My wife and I will be looking for a home and work in the south come next spring. Because we have the same skills and both do shift work in our profession we'll likely look to job-share a single full-time position at first to make the transition easier. That way she'll average 2 days a week of work and myself the same (picking up other work on a casual basis as well) so commuting won't really seem all that much a hassle. I used to enjoy Perth to Ottawa, gave a chance for breakfast on the road.

I've fished with a few northern Ontario fellas in my time that hold pike the same way. Not so uncommon up this way either. Sometimes fish are kept, sometimes just thrown on shore to help control the walleye populations. It's old school, sure is. Even for a three year old Mongolian or Inuit child.

Perch I don't think was all that big actually. Didn't measure it... cause... well... dunno. I put it around 9 inches maybe. Bren's not that big a girl and she's got the straight arm in your face fish pose. Camera is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ2. Sometimes use a DMC FZ4 but not these trips. Good Leica lenses, battery life and durability in cold weather. It's the software at home that often brings out the color though. Alot of grey skies on those trips in fishing, not good light for pics. Having a good photoshop at home helps. Sunny days, no probs. CCMT... I thought about a Lord of the Rings chapter dood. If there was to be one I guess I could have made a pic of you climbing out of a pike's mouth. lol. Dave..... ask Rob about the spot, he knows it. Anyway, thanks everyone for all for the replies. Some real kind words, makes my long winded reports where I'm basically showing off much more worth it. Some could say I'm pretty lucky or spoiled to get opportunities like these; I could say they're earned, but either way it's a tonne of fun and great to share. Surprised no mention of the couple vertical holds in the mix.

You did Wayne, and thanks. I was waiting to see who replied first and how fast so I could say, "you obviously didn't READ the report." Haha. You bud are off the hook though. lol.

KESAGAMI GROUNDS AND POUNDS. Chapter 3. The Cessna 206 had issues through mid march. Out of commission a couple weeks, plans for the southern'ers Ransome and HOF to fish with me unfortunately fell apart. Had things worked out though, the boys would have been in for -20 to -40C windchills and the likelihood of not flying at all because of the extreme cold and high winds. Who in their right mind would want to spend a couple full days fishing while exposed to that anyhow? A seemingly long wait between bouts of pike and eye fishing Bren and I were finally able to make the return on thursday March 27th more than two weeks after the last visit. Because of no southern visitors we went in for the first time with no live bait for the walleye. Didn't worry Bren at all as she's always confident fishing there with deads. Our work was cut out for us, maybe. With longer days now we opted for a 9:00am departure out of Moosonee. On approach to our fishing hole, far off in the distance, my eyes were playing tricks as I thought I was seeing a huge blue and white moose. A fly over concluded that the beast actually appeared to be a large Toronto Maple Leafs fan, fishing alone. Not to be rude, once we landed Bren and I began walking over to introduce ourselves. I had reservations at first because it's believed that Leafs fans are a strange brood; a rumor likely true, and a possible explanation for even my own wife's oddities. Closing in now I gazed at this big fella in awe. His shiney colossal head massive and painted with a pinkish glowing blush, I had guessed I made the mistake of thinking that this warped melon was actually a 60-point rack. He stared downward into his single hole and made no movement. "Hello there, great morning for a fish." I hailed. The unalarmed man remained still. A second attempt I shouted, "EH, HOW'RE YA DOING EH, MY GID MAAN?" speaking louder and accented-like as if we were on the Toronto metro. Bren and I were suddenly shocked, and once the man strained to finally lift that huge planet on the end of his neck we realized it was Mats... Mats dang' Sundin, Toronto's team captain and all time awesome awesomeness. "MATS, OHHH MATS," Bren barked as she went into an immediate head-to-tail spin, "It's so nice to meet you. What are you doing here all alone ice fishing?" Looking around I realized he kept no belongings with him, no auger, no scoop, no food, no nothing except an empty Gatorade bucket and an ice fishing rod. Heck, strangely he was dressed in his skates and hockey equipment. "Yizeah man, what the frizzick are ya dizzoing, out hizzere alone? Where's yer stuff, where's your pizzeeps, homey?" I questioned using my best city lingo. Tears came to Matseses eyes as he struggled to find the words, "I was on a playoff hunt, but it lead me nowhere." This dood was distraught, he kinda bummed me out. We talked for awhile and Bren got a picture with her hero. When I asked how he managed that hole through four feet of ice he told me that just one drip of the sweat from his aging brow melted its way to the water below. About the rod, he replied that after the All-Star break this year and years past he's begun keeping it with him knowing that at any moment his season will likely finish. I asked Mats what his favorite fish to fish for is and his one word answer pretty much summed things up, "Crappie." I told him Kesagami was no crappie lake at all, that the fishing here was really quite exceptional. I questioned as to what he thinks the problem really is, to which Mats sadly expressed, "I believe I could do better but my career earnings of 60 million just isn't enough to buy a good team around me, my talent alone isn't enough Bunk, I need a team to succeed with but instead they give me Cryin' McCabe, a Pilon-akorovsky and a mouthy little Darcy *ucker." "Excuses," I told Mats. "Lines always have their ups and downs yet eventually you should be capable of hooking the prize." Matseses response, "yeah, well, we caught a nice one in 67, okay." I could sense that his lack of trophies was a sore spot but I needed to ask just one more question, how the heck did he end up here in the middle of nowhere..? Retreating back into his state of despair Captain Mats just mumbled away in broken Swedish, possible saying Ferguson, or McCabe, or not "waving" goodbye or "trading Santa Clause" or something like that. Peeling Bren away from trying to console Mats we left the dood be and moved far away to our own area to get to fishing. In all seriousness though, it was kind of a miserable weather day, gusty and cold. When we did arrive on the lake two locals out of Moose Factory were already there and fishing a big spread right down the chute in the middle of the lake. Turns out they had been camping a few days and not catching too many.... Bren and I kept our distance and drilled holes in sort of a new spot. After the hour and a half process of getting all things set-up I was exhausted and a bit discouraged. A couple of the tipdown holes for pike seemed way too shallow and, Bren wasn't hitting the walleyes in good speed. I redrilled a couple pike holes in time then decided we'd stick it out and see what happens. The day continued to beat on us with wind and scattered flurries, the holes often filling quickly with a foot of slush and making for more work cleaning. Around 1:00pm way off in the distance I saw two dark objects move quick across a shoreline then behind a point. I said to Bren, "MNR is coming in again on skidoos." Well, we waited, and after twenty minutes I decided to start cooking lunch on the camp stove. It was weird, as while I sat stirring the chili I kept saying to Bren that I felt like eyes were on me. Then, those eyes finally appeared. I laughed about my mistake. Those hadn't been snowmobiles but instead two lone caribou traveling in the distance. Thing is, they can really move. Before long they were staring our group down as well as the other two Moose Factory fellas; one man had snowshoed quick to get his gun. The beasts for a moment remained too far for a shot, then they began moving towards the treeline and Bren and I. The two bulls made a smart decision keeping their distance while in the open. Once along the trees they inched closer to us all. We were about 80 meters apart from the caribou and 150 meters or so behind us was the gun, Bren and I totally in the line of the fire. The caribou stopped one last time and glared, then stepped into the safety of the forest. Bren loved that. Growing up she had only ever seen dead caribou which her brother or father would bring home from a hunt. Fishing continued to be slow for Kesagami standards. One pike setup fired hard at some point but before I could get up from the chair it righted itself and that was that. Early afternoon Bren caught a new fish species for her and strangely, the first perch I have witnessed while living and fishing in the north. She was quick to ask if we could eat it... "YEAH!!!" I think if I was a perch swimming around under the ice in the dark on this lake, I'd be the most scared creature on earth. So, we put the poor fishes fears to rest. A little while later Bren followed up the perch with a decent pike she caught while jiggin'. By the same means I released a similar sized pike as well during the afternoon, but my best fish of the day turned out being a nice sized walleye in the three pound range. When Johnny arrived in the plane I couldn't have been happier. We had a good time on the lake, we always do, yet the cold and wind really drained me over the nine hours we endured it. The new spot kind of failed me too, but I'm not convinced that if the weather hadn't been more stable that we wouldn't have put a bigger hurt on the trophy pike. All in all we did pretty good though as Bren and I caught 29 walleye, four pike and the perch. I'm not sure about Mats..? If he did catch any fish at all, my guess is that they never really counted for a single thing anyway. Maybe next year he'll find a trophy to make up for it. RETURN OF THE JEDEYES. Final Chapter... probably. After thawing from our cryogenic frozen state, the next day Bren and I quite stiff and tired suited up for battle on Kesagamium. The plan was an early attack on the lake. First, we would regain our stronghold at a pre-established settlement, then surround the perimeter with big gun tipdowns. Strategically we would take down as many droideyes as we can, reconvert big evil jedeyes back to our team, and finally get Bren inside for a showdown with a new PB trophy vadar pike. (I called it that morning before boarding the plane... ahem, Cessna falcon) Landing on Kesagamium I thought maybe we took a wrong turn in hyperspace. Below the surface snow was slush... much like the mushy Degobau system. Pulling our sleigh we slogged through the dangerous terrain and found the remanants of our past honey hole. The morning was mainly sunny and calm, setting up was comfortable. Before long though, droideyes were spotted probing our base. Bren easily held Fort killing 10 droids and one sith pike of about 35 inches. I wasn't really fighting all that hard during that time but I helped out and killed one droid. It wasn't too long afterward that the Rebellion showed up to help. Working another area to the south they battled with a number of droideyes. To the west a couple Chewbaccas out of Moose Factory (who had been around for days and surely must have smelled like a couple Wookies by then) were busily tending to droideyes firing on tipups. To the east Bren and I secured our perimeter until there was a breach on a southern gun-rod. I set off on the attack, leaving Bren behind to man the chowder on the stove. Once there I could see heavy damage to the rod yet it remained intact. I released it from auto then manually fired the hook. A good sith pike challenged back from the darkside below. The battle was quick. Using the force I overpowered the defenseless pike after it rolled on the leader. Coming atop the hole it was realized a worthy 41" adversary had indeed been defeated. My robotic left leg could barely contain itself with excitement. Finally, appendages and sith pike under control, we got a shot for the archives. While Bren and I were taking photos of this pike the alarm bells were going off back at base. My sith pike had only been a diversion and now another threat existed inside the perimeter. I had to subdue my fish while Bren was sent running to the challenge back home. When she arrived and set the hook I received a message, "IT'S ON!!!" "Read ya loud and clear babe," I responded in light speed. Another sith pike was wreaking havoc on our inner defenses but Bren used her jedi mind tricks and fooled the pike into sticking it's head up the hole. Once that was done, it was over for the enemy. I didn't size this pike up but I gave it about 36 inches of dang' evil. The sith may have been headed for a bonk on the noggin' then the table, but after it pleaded for it's life and sworn allegiance to our Rebellion it was released. The battle pressed on well into the afternoon. The skies clouded over slowing the droideyes and sith pike which both seem to bite better with solar energy. The winds from the north again started to blow. During a period of rest I was abruptly awoken in my lawnchair tie-fighter when surprised by an attacking Boba Fett pike. Cunning weaponry and a master of assault, I had no time to defend yet my shields held and I set off after Boba into deep space. Boba Fett pike screamed line off the reel in one long, long, long run before snapping the jiggin' spoon from my leaderless tractor beam line. Into an asteroid field that piece of space-junk escaped. The day was coming to an end and I was chilling-killing droideyes. Bren was still up on me in numbers after her 11 to one start but I was closing the gap quick. Hooked into a droideye Bren shouts out, "that rods down!" and she kicks it into high gear to our eastern tipdown. I didn't think we'd get attacked from the east today as the water below the ice there was almost too skinny at around nine inches deep. Before Bren got to the rod it had reset into position looking like the sniper had vanished. She picks it up, sets the hook and makes about three sudden turns on the reel. Vadar pike had been lurking below but Bren surprised him with just one swing of her light sabre, pulling his head instantly into the hole-vortex-jedi-trap rendering Vadar totally defeated. It was freaking rad and I'd never seen it happen before. Bren destroyed Vadar pike in like two seconds with just one move. Vadar wasn't happy none at all. He tried to tell us he is our father but we weren't buying his "bullsith." We had him now and there was no escaping. We won. Vadar pike now finished his empire on Kesagamium would soon crumble. Bren held her new PB true trophy pike high, man, was I happy for her. During the after party with the two Chewbaccas, a bunch of Ewoks, ninjas, Spartans, Mats Sundin, the entire Rebellion and our pilot John Solo, I found out my wife was really my twin sister, Princess Brenda, who had been separated from me at birth for our protection. Didn't bother me none though, cause that's how we roll on Kesagamium. Body count - 45 fish. - Play Star Wars finale music here - Anyone visiting Kesagami please release these great trophy pike to enjoy catching again another day.

KESAGAMI LEGENDS Chapter 1. There really is only one month in the north and it's called Kesagami. New moon day, friday March 9th, good and brisk at a "feels like" -31C and all gear accounted for Bren and I drove across the river to meet up with the good folks down in Tozerville. John and Dale Tozer of Bushland Air were found on the ice strip readying their 206 and waiting to shuttle us over to the big lake for some fizishin'. Johnny Turner would be the pilot for the first trip in of the season... first trip for anyone. BOOOYAH! Over the summer the plane got a new engine, John turned that mutha over and we were airborne in no time. Some folks who had booked to go fishing over the past couple weeks had backed out due to the cold weather... wimps. We touched down on the lake to find the snow not deep at all and, no slush. Perfect. No signs of life ever having been there either. Little wind in the air the day was cold and mainly cloudy, but, as the day would go on the weather was all over the place. One hour sunny, the next cloudy and flurries. Bren and I set up. While I was drilling Bren got into the walleye within minutes. The process of setting up took me longer than I could remember. Worked up a wicked pit-back-bum drip, steam was coming off my nog and I was panting like a dog. I finally got everything finished around 10:40am. I have a method, but it seems my arse is slowing down as the years go by. I got back to our walleye area, put a lure and minnow on, dropped it, and before it hit the bottom of like 18 inches of water I had a peyekeral. Sick sh!t if you ask me. Haha. 11:00 on the nose and for me the bell tolls, and so I'm off an running to the east. Big fish time.......... Feisty buggah!!! I get some reel peel, some shakage and bakage below the ice. Digging the set-ups I've created for this year, it's nice to have rods with reels that act like perfect tip-downs. I felt all his moves and countered with a few of my own. It was real Travolta versus Bacon Saturday Night Footloose vibe. DRUM ROLL DOOOOOOOODS!!! Up comes a teenaged 35 incher. A rebellious teen caught in the act, he was totally underdressed for the cold weather so he received a quick f"lashing" before being grounded back to a warm room in the basement. I barely had time to reset my whipping stick when the bell rang again. Big brutha was home and in one real foul donkey mood. Little did he know the "Chuck Norris" was still flowing through my veins and when he stupidly decided to take a bite out of me I turned around, charged and drove an uppercutting treble deep into his yap. "YO IQ challenged!! YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME!" I says..... Big Brutha pike did in fact want a piece. He was all like Pike-Fu and Pikarate under the ice. A few times I felt his kicks and blows... when the wussy wasn't trying to run from me. I may have lost an emotional tooth but after a sprited battle my "Chuckness" was not to be "fawked-with" and I did what any good fishing Ninja God would do... I pinned him in the hole then smacked him in the kisser. ONE........ TWO........ THREE!!! There's the count and here's the trophy. 40 inches of CHUNKY MONKEY... take that. All is chill again after awhile. Actually, I'm chilled. The sweat before the cold didn't work out. Figure it's lunchtime and some hot chinook-scallop-crab-clam chowder on the Coleman oughtta warm das bones. Ohhh, but wait...???... before I can get the kitchen stove out Bren's got something sizzling under the ice. My lovely wife after giving a good stir reaches into the pot and pulls out.... .... A 35 INCH HOT DOG. Turned out my regulator for the stove was pretty close to shot. We ended up being only able to cook one bowl of chowder for the both of us, and that took about 1 1/2 hours. I had my half bowl with a Moosehead and some banana bread. Recharged, Energizer'd and EverReady'd Bren and I got back to catching feesh. Lots of these happy scrappy's were shopping around our neighbourhood Dimestore. We were minding our business... sitting back enjoying the walleye-ness of Kesagami, when a couple nasty nasty bad mannered skank pike came cruising down our street. Bren, whom is quite well trained in the art of Pike-Kwon-Jitsu, kept her cool and calmly said to me... "I'll take care of these brats." Choosing her jiggin' rod equipped with small spoon and 10lb Power Pro she slapped the first pike in the mouth and said, "You likey pikey?" Ohhhhh, and it was soooo ON!!! They traded slaps, pulled the 10lb hair, screamed at the top of the reel, but near end of this hot mudsling, Bren summoned her inner Wonder Woman and sexy redboot-roundhoused pike beeyotch number one into the atmosphere and grabbed her by the chin in a death grip. "YOU LOSE LOSERGIRLFACE!!!" Bren shouts at her defeated opponent. Moments later Bren sent Nasty Skank Pike of 37 inches packing with a message for her friend. For awhile we thought we were OK in the neighbourhood again. The sun broke from behind the clouds and we lounged out to the sweet sounds of silence under warm rays of Vitamin D goodness. Things were peaceful again................... but below, in the cold darkness, maybe behind some piece of structure, skank Dirty Scuz Nasty Pike two, waited. SHE SPRANG!!! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Screamed the reel. Caos insued, utter pikedemonium. Dirty Scuz Nasty Pike using sniper skill momentarily stunned Bren........ ........ Not for long though. The Vitamin D of the sun had cured all ailments from Bren's earlier battle with 37 Nasty Pike. She healed fast and between rounds pressed buttons A & B as rapidly as possible in order to build energy like Little Mac does in the old Nintendo game Mike Tyson's Punchout. Entering round two Bren snuck in three quick jabs and gained some stars. When Scuz Nasty Pike Dirty took a swing and miss Bren pressed her start button and using her stars KO'd the big fish. As her coach I couldn't have been happier. I'm not telling how big Scuz Nasty was becuz you're all dirty for even guessing. That was that. The afternoon sailed by. We mustard and relished in our accomplishments. Trophy pike on Kesagami and we were on 'em like flies on honey on bears eating rice. It was nice. Thinking of food as it was late in the day when I set the rod down on my chair and got up for some banana bread. Mmmmmm chocolate chips-O-MY-GOSH my rod was heading for the hole!!! No real time to set my food down I was left no choice but to enter into combat with King Koopa Bowser. Power of the banana in hand I did battle Bowser with my long rod Excalibur. He proved a very cunning adversary possessing veteran skills and superpike strength, I wasn't sure during some moments whether to defend myself or continue eating my supper. Bowser's rage grew though as time wore on, and cloaked under a veil of ice the rogue threw fireballs of hate and daggers of just wicked-gnarly Swiss Army make. Chomping at the bits (of walnuts in the bread) I shielded myself from the attack waiting for my moment to go all Spartan King Leonidas on Bowser. And then that time came... I sprung from under the shield and using Excalibur thrust hard at Bowser. And I won. Bowser submitted, laying defeated just then on my lap. Becoming my P.B. - personal beeyotch. And a picture for my mom all smiley and grown-up like too. Here ya go babe, aren't ya proud of your son the great Ninja Spartan Chuck Norris Fishing God he turned out to be. Haha. After I set all 23+ pounds of 42.5 inch Bowser free to swim again it was getting late so we packed up our gear and summoned Pegasus to take us home. *** this one is for you Wayne*** Once in the clouds on Pegasus 206 a gorgeous sunset guided Bren and I home back to Mount Olympus. Newt and Toot were waiting when we got home and were very excited when we shared our legends of leviathan Kesagami Pike. KESAGAMI STRIKES BACK Chapter 2. We'd caught word that Kesagami lake was building an army empire of trophy pike and droid walleye. Fearing that someone may catch them first, Bren and I, along with our friend Gillian joined up as a rebel force to overthrow evil plots of grandeur by other unworthy anglers. Sunday March 11th we climbed aboard the Millenium "206" Falcon and hit light speed towards deep subarctic wilderness bush on Planet Kesagamium. Captain Dexter was Solo at the helm. Windchill was -38C that morning but warming up enough to fly. Daylight savings time had my body in a deprived state but we were ready. On the way in I couldn't get the song "Jungle Boogie" out of my head. In fact, I hummed the lyrics and the brass section over and over again in preparation for our battle. Upon landing we set out our artillery. The usual weapons for jiggin' and riggin' were laid out and I got to work drilling out our old holes. The day was dang' cold with the wind. Sixth hole into the rotation I find pan grease and spare walleye bits in the hole. A quick realization that someone had landed here the day before was concluded. I did not want to work too hard and relocate because of my fear of overheating then sufferring hours of chills in the cold so, I stuck with the plan but drilled only one new hole to replace the wasted one. Not long after setting up day camp on Kesagamium a probe pike wandered into our territory. Gillian was quick investigate with me at her side. The probe was equipped with a number of defense mechanisms to prevent capture but, Gillian herself having three young children is well trained in chasing probes down, securing the scene and exposing the truth. Gillian did just that with this probe 35-36" pike. Around lunch time our Rebellion began to feel as though the droideyes were not overly numerous in our area. Taking a break, I retrieved the "new" regulator from my coat and fired up our Coleman Instamatic Food Materializer 3000. As our goulash cooked a Tie Fighter broke over the horizon and landed on Kesagamium. As soon as the Fighter touched down, from the eastern bushes two Skidoo Crafts came tearing towards us. One as it was approaching veered off to the Tie Fighter while the other met our Rebellion. A large Cree Wookie got off his skidoo and introduced himself as John MacDonald with the MNR... He carried a primitive taser but seemed nice enough and wore the badge of a peacekeeper. He asked me for my permit. Upon reading my name on the permit the large Wookie then says "You must be Moosebunk? We've heard about you." "Is that a good or bad thing for me" I replied sheepishly. Then we laughed. The Wookie and I talked along time about Kesagamium's army of trophy pike and droid walleye. We discussed the areas politics, special interests, policing, past, present and possible future. This Wookie John MacDonald turned out to be related to Dexter Solo our pilot who flew us in. He also may have dated my sister-in-law a few thousand light years ago back on another planet called James Bay. Our Rebellion befriended the Wookie John MacDonald and allowed him to view all our artillery and captured droideyes. The MNR Wookies left after some time. I am sure we will be visiting with them again on Kesagamium. Once I finished my goulash I approached the Tie Fighters. There were two crafts now which landed on the ice and three aliens were cramping our Rebellion's style by co-habitating a little too close. After initial greetings I learned these folks were from Timmins. Turns out one of them knew of the cyber-space phenomenon known as me, "Moosebunk." Couldn't be all that bad I figured. (even though they greased garbaged my hole and fished in my zone, lol...... probably thinking I was not planning to fish there again) Turns out they weren't bad doods at all. A few nice fellas indeed, they befriended our Rebellion as well. I hinted to them before my departure back to camp that, in future in order to conquer Kesagamium's army of droid walleye and trophy pike that, they need not be nearby us but, that in fact the area where the army lies is quite vast where we are and they could easily find battles with fish off of many regions. I pointed out a few and afterwards left to join my camp. I hope these newcomers in the future release any of the trophy pike they happen to catch. Upon my return, small waves of droideyes were attacking Gillian and Bren, a number of them being captured. Dexter returned in the Millenium 206 Falcon too, telling us that he saw an army of 30 or more Moose clumped together in parties to the north. The winds of the day were finally settling and a warm soothing air heated by the seven suns was providing a spectacular stage for our final battle against the droid-eyes. A platoon of larger droideyes came in and Bren captured one. She attached a message to this droideye that warned the empire of trophy pike which had eluded us on this day, that, we would return again when the moon is not new, but it is full. And, that they better prepare for battle then cause we weren't leaving without one. The droideye was released. Minutes later a large jedeye and I fought. This one battled unlike any other I have battled. With it's masterful jedeye skills it cut off my lure by getting it hung up on the ice. I was devestated and now require repair. We may have seemingly lost the battle this time, but we will win the war on Kesagamium's trophy pike and droid-eyes.

All the way out in PTBO... huh??? You're in TO man. I have an excuse, you don't. lol.

Very nice fish Steve. Thanks for the report.

Couple sweet fish for the husband wife duo. Good show Cliff and Bly.

Glad to see you still gave it a crack. Beautiful area up around there, I used to go every weekend almost to some buddies place in Maberly. If working in Perth in the future I'd maybe build or buy out that way. Like I said Wayne, it's rumoured to be a tough fish. Driving by it that many times though I'm surprised you're only stopping in there just now. You'll bag one for your efforts next time I bet. I don't recognize that spot in Perth. Likely cause I was a good kid and never around that neighbourhood... much. lol.

Great report Roy, you really slayed 'em all this weekend. lol. Chores that is.

All the best to your bro and you rickster.

Very popular topics are Leafs and Sens, and, Leafs and Sens fans. Vertical muskie holds and several pictures of the same bow go over really well too. Keeping trophy fish for the wall. Gill netting and spearing always get too. We should have one thread started today to discuss them all at once. Civil-like of course.

Plenty trial and error will help with set-ups. I fish tonnes of time alone, don't carry a tripod as it's cumbersome to move around in a canoe that I fish out of bow to stern when alone. Afterawhile though you'll know where you can place a camera without zoom and where you should be in the boat to make it all work out. Try it without fish a few times first. If there's a flat surface in the boat that you know will provide you with a good angle for photos with catch try placing there and work with it. As far as the big muskie goes... if you're not set-up you likely be too slow. If you know how to set-up quick as you've practiced keeping things handy then, I'd suggest removing the lure, giving the fish a little to breathe while setting the timer, then, quickly hoisting the fish for the shot. I've done this with pike a few times but, with practice and a fish that co-operates with hook removal you can usually have the fish in the boat for under 30 seconds and have everything accomplished. To summarize, PRACTICE and work out photo scenarios ahead of time, then you'll be ready quickly and efficiently.

Exactly what it does Dan. Opening the world of fishing up to a whole bunch of new possibilities. I missed out. Should have been thinking brookies instead of pike.

Thanks guys. Chris, Kesagami report is in the making. Some hitches this year in the plans but it will arrive in the coming weeks. So far so good. WallyB. Everything that comes out of the dirty Abitibi is freakish in nature. lol. You know that. The clarity turns everything pale... real pale. Yes, the road was a benefit to the community this year. First time ever having that kind of access to south. The local hockey tournament weekend saw 253 vehicles cross the dam at Otter. I hear Hydro didn't like that much. New hydro lines are pretty much in now so next year it will likely be back to the same isolated normal. I didn't take the drive. I hope the community finds funding to open it themselves in the coming years as it seems to be harder to reserve space for vehicles on the train now that development in the area (DeBeers and all other things DeBeers) is booming. About the MNR... yep, you'll see and read more on that in my winter Kesagami report to come. It's great seeing them out there protecting Ontario's trophy fishery.

Bought a Frontier 7 foot M-H spinning rod last year and liked it very much for pike. I'd use this too for deep water laker jigging if I was ever in the need, and, it pulled a few bass through the slop OK.

I'D ONLY WISH SHE'D WANT TO COME OUT MORE. This year it'll happen. She'll get bitten by the same bug the rest of us have.

Great vid. I was a couple lakes over camped on Red Cedar Lake that same day. Part of a 100km canoe loop in the area. Wished we had those kinda fish on the line.