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Great pics. Tey are a large bird for sure!

We call em ShadFlies http://www.nugget.ca/2013/07/02/shadflies-are-back

Thanks all... I miss those shore lunches aready.. ive got a 20 min recap video of a bunch of the pickerel we caught.... if anyones interested. ill post the lnk when its don uploading.

Sweet ride, sweet day... cant ask for much more!

Giver boys!!

Awesome fish Lew!!! hope your shoulder feels better!!

PM sent And Mike.. Brandon will be ok.. but Poor Stuart... 3 days in the boat alone with us... hell never be the same... nope never be the same... we were relentless...

OK.. Point taken... lololololol

LOL.. Dont worry, nothing i could show her can shock her anymore.... lol or anyone else for that matter...

OH YA!! I forgot to add this photo of Monique coming across a section of the lake with a pretty good chop..hahahaha (shes gonna kill me for this one..)

Last time i was at camp.. I pulled my minnow trap outta the water and left it on the bank of my favorite pond. While we were home they had a huge rainfall and the water in the pond went up 2 feet!! The next time i checked there was the trap... with no bait in it... in 1 foot of water and FULL of minnows... location is key!! Shade and cover is always good.

Really Pretty Fish!!

Lotsa nice fish in there!!

Here is the second half!! Then prepared us a fantastic lunch. Lemon and herb spiced!! And ohhhh did we eat!! After a few more spots we called it a day, with Stuart picking up a decent northern! Back at the Lodge... we find my wife in her happy place... lol.. by the fire.. The next day was a veritable pickeral extravaganza.. we honestly lost count of how many we pulled out that day. Events were much the same as the day before, which was not hard to take! I am pretty sure poor ol' Stuart had never guided anyone like the two of us before.. lol I think he'll be spending his summer earnings on therapy sessions... Today it was Cajun' Pickeral.. which turned out to be my favourite of the trip!! Best seat in the house! That afternoon we scoured the shoreline for big pike.. but the pickeral were ON!! and no matter what we casted (Stuart wouldn't let us troll... BOO HOO) we couldn't keep the pickeral off! We fished till late then called it a day.. once again exhausted, full and happy! The next morning the long days had taken its toll on Monique and she decided to sleep in a bit so I grabbed Stuart and off we went in search of shore lunch first.. then we tried for some underwater video. Which I knew was gonna be hard. Shore lunch was not hard.. in 10 min we had all we needed. Love this shot with the plane in the background. The underwater work proved difficult.. I got three strikes, but twice they hit the camera instead of the lure!! So shore lunch it was.. and I managed to get Stuart to cook over the open fire. (Teryaki Pickeral this time!) So after lunch we headed back to pick up Monique and feed her her share.. lol and then spend the rest of the day on a great spot and proceeded to haul out more than 70 walleye in a fierce competition between us (combined) lol and the Guide. Then... Monique gets THIS!! What a blast!! 41 inches of fun fun fun!! With our quest complete we sadly went back to the lodge to watch one last sunset and pack our gear. The next day, a quick flight back to Cochrane and our trip was over... (till next time!!) Thanks to Charlie, Jacob, Avery, Frankie, Stuart, Brandon and all the girls.. (They put up with alot!!) The staff there are fantastic and are always on the lookout to make your trip as good as it can possibly be.. We only had one glitch/complaint... one time they put ice in my whiskey... I mean come on....

Finally got a chance to post some of this stuff. We went up to Kesagami Wilderness Lodge last week for a 5 night trip, to eat some shorelunches and mayhaps get that big pike on weve been looking for.. and do some underwater video... AND get a chance to see Avery, who is working as a dockhand this summer there! We got to Cochrane, and checked in at the best western. Im sure that there are nice places other than the Best Western, but the last time we were in Cochrane, I cheaped out on the motel, and well.. lets just say for only the second time in my life.. we left a motel without checking out.. and wound up at the best western anyway lol. Top notch accommodations and a continental (really nice) breakfast available at 6 am so you can make the drive to the airbase by 7 am which is when they start flying out. Quite convenient. The flight in is about 45-50 min depending on headwind so we climbed into the Beaver and away we went! The scenery was awesome. Our Pilot Promptly upon arrival, we were treated to a full breakfast while the dockhands bring the luggage to your room/cabin. This dockhand seem genuinely happy to see us!! It was a cloudy day, but not Raining so our guide Brandon for the day grabbed us and out we went for some pickeral fishing! We were only out for three hours before lunch but managed at least 60. AS the weather started to degrade we deiced it was time for shorelunch, which the guide prepares... I gotta say after getting over the discomfort of not helping clean the fish or cook the lunch, being catered to was kinda nice!! We pondered the fact that life was good! Poor Brandon cooked us up a feast in the wind and rain! Warming up by the lunch!! LOL The wind picked up so after lunch we found a quite spot, put on some spoons and just trolled around for a bit. Was suprised that even in an area that wasn't "spot" we managed to pick up pickeral on our spoons! and they all went back in! After an afternoon like that we sat back and let our guide get us safely back across the lake where we retired to our room before dinner for a beverage. Then with BBQ Ribs on the menu, we sat down and had the pleasure of sitting next to these gentlemen. I told them Id make them famous. A quick view of the sunset and it was time to call it a day! We deciedd to strike out the next day on our own and explore some parts of the lake that we hadnt been guided to. WE didnt get the same amount of fish, BUT there's literally no where in that lake along the shoreline that you can catch fish. It was a beautiful sunny day and we made the most of it. With enough fish for lunch we descended on a beautiful beach, and did up our lunch!! Our Favorite dockhand had a few hours off and offered to give us a little tour of the lake... Momma was happy to have some face time!! Hes looking great, happy and is doing a bang up job!! (Im told!!) After and afternoon of that we went back, had a wonderful supper, once again watched an incredible sunset and got ready for the next day! For the next three days we booked a guide, one of the more senior ones, Stuart. We should have gotten aguide that couldnt fish.. because it rapidly descened into a competition as to who could catch more fish him or Monique. I am not at liberty to say who won... lol.... The next day started with us going out and getting what we needed for shore lucnh in short order. then staying and catching and relasing at least 60 more before going to lunch. The lodges policy is 2 pan size pickeral for lunch per person and everything should be on a single barbless hook. And then the best time of day... again! He cleaned hem while we kept fishing... (I almost wept with joy ... ok... ok.. I wept with joy) then prepared us a fantastic lunch. Lemon and herb spiced!!

Thanks!! As soon as we get some weeds up at camp, ill be trying some more!!

Good for you.. and yes.. you'll never be bored.

LOL.. Ive lost bigger!!! I don t wanna catch it!!

Got this neat video up at Kesagami, Water depths and colour made it difficult to get the footage I wanted, BUT we managed to score this one. Amazing how aggressive these fish are there... too bad it didn't grab the hook, but was very interesting in the white grub... So is this fish a pickeral or a walleye??

Welcome aboard... what did you want to fish for??? or does it matter??

Funny you say that... the day before we lost a nice one.. well Monique lost a nice one cause i decided to adjust the drag mid fight.... now theres a lesson learned... it was pretty quiet in that boat for a while.....

OK... I give up.... when are you taking me fishing.... wow.. wow... wow...

GEEZZZ!!!! Where are the BIG walleyes lol.. wow what a report as always, stellar.. just stellar.

LOL and

That looks awesome... those puck boards also make awesome sled sliders as well.. where did ya get them??