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I figured it out after Terry, thanks for pointing that out

 

That one put a smile on my face.

You may want to buy him a fish identification picture book for Christmas.

We also saw dozens of pike jumping out of the water, straight up like a missile being launched. Some really big fish as well. I'm assuming they were after the hatches. Very cool to watch. Thanks for the report.

What you may have seen is Sturgeon. I've been on that river system.

Dave (Ramble On) is a guide up there. I know another guide named Stewart who works there as well.

 

 

Dave saved us on our first Kesagami trip. Our motor conked out on a wickedly cold and windy day, and he spotted us from 2 miles away. Leslie was never happier then when she knew were not going to spend the night out there! We hired Dave for our first day, in memory of his heroics, and to also give us a leg up. After that we like to fish alone. We have a busy household and don't have much personal time together, one major plus on a trip like this is being alone together.

 

It was warm and muggy when we arrived. Luckily we got into camp before the cold front. Large bands of rain were only a few hours behind us in Cochrane but that weather took the day to make it up there. And then the cold front sat still nearby so we had this really weird mix of weather for about 4 days with some powerful storms moving through. One day we had 5 hours of the heaviest rain. Another day it was on and off with the wetsuit all day long. Before we came they had just had 4 days of over 30 degree weather. Dave tried his best to put us on big fish but we only got a few dinks that day. It was really weird. Water temp at 72 but not the weed development you would expect at 72. Fish feeding on a summer pattern but the mayfly hatch was just starting.

Middle aged men like to dream and play. I liked this sandbox!

 

Of course silly men do stupid things, notice the orange hands and red face! The face is a natural colour, the orange hands come courtesy of yellow food dye put into Yum bait products. I wanted yellow bait. I'm left scratching my head wondering if there is some sort of adhesive ingredient added to their products. That dye didn't come off easy.

 

Sure was nice to live the dream.

 

Some people think grown men are nuts about fishing. Well then, how about this newly wed couple? What woman would want to go 50 miles south of James bay for their honeymoon? How about a girl from Cochrane.

 

I took along a cute girl. She likes to fish!

 

We got up early most everyday...

 

...and fished late some nights.

 

The weather sure was crazy. There was a cold front that took four days to move in.

 

Sometimes you could out race a storm.

 

...and sometimes you couldn't and had to put to shore. Look closely you should see lotsa skeeters all around us.

 

It was harder fishing this time around. We came on the busiest week, with 20 boats on the water.

 

Some of the choice bays were like a Tim Horton's drive threw with 5 boats in them at a time. You had to wait your turn to fish spots. If you are thinking of going, avoid the week after school's out. Lots of dad's with their sons were up.

 

Our favorite area was too warm to fish. The water was 73 degrees on the main lake. So we got right out of our comfort zone and trolled points and open water. Leslie who had never caught anything trolling liked trolling Kesagami. Two minutes of fishing and bang you have a double header and three fish for shore lunch.

 

She loved shore lunch.

 

She even caught a 31 inch pike trolling.

 

This skinny 38" came off the same structure. It was day four and we were very happy to finally find a pike pattern that produced.

 

We took some time to look around.

 

Sure was purdy up there.

 

As the cold front finally settled in, we found another pattern. Water temps dropped over 15 degrees in 4 days.

 

Leslie with a fat healthy 38 incher on our last day.

 

As luck would have it, we were grounded for an extra day because of weather. Some people were disappointed. Charlie let us fish in the afternoon, boy was I sure happy.

 

All of our stuff was packed at the camp so we went out with the bare minimum. We could only find the cheap tape measure, that stopped at 40". So we guessed that this one was 41".

 

Never got to lift this one. Leslie thinks it was 44-45 inches long. It wrapped itself around our windsock line. I had to twirl my rod around the lines several times which created slack. Still, the fish was on and she made some spectacular runs and leaped out of the water twice. Finally she came to the boat. Leslie was looking for the proper tape measure in our only bag with many pockets. I played a tired fish and had good pressure, and then she flung her head...pop she was off. Shouldawouldacoulda. If I had only put her in net as soon she was tired. Oh well.

 

We fished some more and Leslie caught this beautiful 26" walleye. Had to go back or we would have missed dinner. Our best day was this short afternoon of fishing. So it goes!

man, this is by far the tastiest fish in this world. who tried it, knows what i am talking about. 2 bad is not a keeper.

 

great catch...

 

Seeing that the Sturgeon is a bottom feeder, they don't mature until 15 to 30 years of age, and can live for 150 years...I'd be a little worried about toxins.

 

Beautiful fish! It gave you the fight of a lifetime, and remember most anglers never catch one.

Thanks for the ideas!

I'll be headed north soon to a flyin where i know the boats are fiberglass. Last time there the suction cup kept coming off. Eventually we duct taped it to the bottom of the hull and it did give us depth, but you can't get temp that way. Is there anyway of keeping a suction cup on fiberglass, or do I need to bring up c-clamp and rig something up?

I fish it a few times a year. Walleye are smaller and you got to work for them. Fair bit of fishing pressure, you will see boats out there. Temper expectations, target pike or bass and you should do okay.

Sturgeon...... Your devotion to fishing is unmatched.

Prescription Maui's...about $450. Worth every penny.

When pike are in the mood, you don't need much. I like something that can also make noise on the surface and it doesn't have to be a buzzbait. It can be a spoon, spinner, or plastic. With pike one lure for weeds is good. You don't want to be snagged every cast in the slop or close to shore. When you can't catch, it's more a case of you finding them...and just going slower, smaller, and deeper.

 

So in a nutshell, it's not so much the right lure, but more the right location, the right time, and the right action. Lures do their job....that's why I own so many of them.

I recognize that place.

If the registry actually lead to preventing a crime I'm sure we'd hear all about it...

Yeah right! Crime like shooting a police officer? Knowledge is a key ingredient in any successful police operation. Do you think a police officer is going to go running to the media because he didn't get shot?!???

 

Remember these facts?

*73% of trained police officers state the registry influences the way in which they handle a call.

*81% of trained officers say it has been beneficial during major operations.

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/a...illed-shooting/

Back to the US example where three policemen were murdered on a domestic call. What was that all about? Apparently a pet had peed on the carpet. The killer who murdered the police officers, ambushed the first two police officers at the door by shooting them in the head. Had they known that he owned several weapons I'm sure a lot more caution would be used. The killer believed that President Obama was going to take away his rights and his guns. He owned an AK-47 rifle and several powerful handguns, including a .357 Magnum. Now do you folks honestly believe that such information wouldn't be useful to a cop coming to a domestic disturbance call, and could have prevented the death of police officer? And do you also really believe that a similar situation hasn't happened already in Canada? Ideology to the max!!!

and the number one fact

the gun registry has not prevented even one violent crime

How would you ever know that? If the crime is prevented there is no statistic. If the police use that data base 3.5 million times a year, they ain't doing it check their lottery ticket numbers.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but Guns don't kill people....people do.

I saw this on a t-shirt.

Guns don't kill people...they just make the bullets go a heck of a lot faster!!

 

 

The correlation between the amount of guns in a province and the death rate from guns is very robust.

 

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/informa...sur-son-eng.htm

*The registry was used by police 3.5 million times last year.

*78% of trained police officers use it in their day to day functions.

*81% use it in responding to service calls.

*73% of trained police officers state the registry influences the way in which they handle a call.

*81% of trained officers say it has been beneficial during major operations.

 

Looks like you folks have been duped and are swallowing the NRA propaganda whole. The data base is being used in a major way, and most police officers see it as a useful tool. I'd respond to all the other comments because I disagree with most of them, but there are too many.

1- they should always be ready for a situation with guns because there could be illegal guns anywhere. Illegal guns can be in any house just as marijuana can be in any house, not just in the residences of people with legal prescriptions for marijuana

 

2- mentally ill people would not pass the checks made during the Possession OR Acquisition applications. They could only get the guns illegally, in which case, having them registry is moot.

You are wrong on #2, see my previous post. Do you honestly believe that a police officer should treat every call as if the owner is armed to the teeth, with guns drawn...ready to shoot, with several police officers involved? They want to know what sort of individual is in the house and the gun registry gives them valuable information. The police once talked to me about a renter, they wanted to know what sort of individual he was, if he was violent. With guns drawn there is always the chance of accidental shooting, and I can see why they wouldn't have guns pulled every time they knocked on someone's door.

These are the facts that get distorted by the media. They are not getting rid of firearm licences for individuals. Anybody who owns or has in their possession a firearm still will have to have a firearm licence. It's just the registering of each gun that they are trying to get rid of.

 

The police will still know that the occupant of a house has a firearm licence and possible has access to firearms.

 

Also people who have mental health issues should be picked off in the renewal process for their firearm licence.

 

You don't think it would be important for the police to know that an individual had say a dozen weapons including handguns, say vrs a single rifle?

 

You would think that getting a gun license would be difficult for someone who is mentally ill but there are privacy laws. My brother who was a schizophrenic before he committed suicide(not with a gun) had no problem getting a gun license and it was only during the waiting period that through the extraordinary efforts of my mother, that he never got the license. He would have been dangerous with a handgun. Not that he would kill someone with evil intent, rather that he was so delusional who knows what he would have done.

Another fine example of propaganda making it on to OFC, and OFC allowing to exist because the moderation team is too biased to realize this. What are moderators doing posting on a thread like this?

 

Fact - the majority of police officers think the registry helps them in their job, especially when they can check right in their cruisers if the parties in a domestic dispute own guns.

 

http://sify.com/news/international/fullstory.php?id=14878802

For instance there is a good probability that the three policemen killed recently in the US would be alive today if the US had a gun registry. They would have known that the eventual killer of the three policemen owned several guns and would have been much more cautious before attempting to enter that house. The gun registry also benefits society in keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.

Sure, long weekends make a reservation...but midweek or non-summer or holiday weekends...how late can you typically arrive.

Thinking of taking the Chi-Cheemaun. Anyone take this ferry regularly, and if so how close to departure can you arrive and usually get on?

I'm not sure of my age when this happened, but I couldn't have been older than 10. Me and my brother(5 years younger than me) were just casting off the dock. We never really caught much, we just liked to cast. There was a jug out there that we would try and cast to.......kinda like a distance casting competition. We'd go thru the old mans tackle box, and get the biggest, heaviest lure we could find, and just chuck it out as far as we could. I always got the title for the longest cast.

 

So, one year, we're out doing the distance cast thing off the dock. I always did best with a big old rusty 5 of diamonds spoon. This time, my brother got his hands on it first. I was a little mad, but I let him keep it. So, here we are casting as far as we could, then reeling it in as fast as we could, so we could cast again. It wasn't about catching a fish......we never did anyways. So my brother lets a good long cast fly.......he almost got it to the jug. I will admit, I was quite impressed with that cast. He goes to reel reel in, and nothing will budge. He says, there's something wrong with my reel. It was an old Mitchell 300. I look over, and his rod is bent right over......he's looking at the reel. I said, your snagged dumbass.......now your going to lose my lucky spoon!! Just at that moment, the reel starts screaming. We both looked at each other in total disbelief. Now I'm getting a little excited, and wanted him to give me the rod......yeah right.....that's not happening. He's got his tongue hanging out of his mouth, rad jammed into his belly, and he's reeling against the drag like a mad man......I'll never forget that moment and the determination in his face.

 

By now, we've drawn quite the audience. There is an old guy that comes running with a net, who is now coaching him on what to do. Well, wouldn't you know it, he ends up landing this HUGE pike. The old fella nets it, we get it up on the dock, get the hooks out, and the old guy says "Are ya gunna keep it? You should really let that one go." There was no chance he was letting it go......it was his biggest fish ever, and we just had to show Dad this fish. We put it on a piece of rope, and dragged that sucker up the hill to the campsite. When my dad saw us coming, he didn't know what to think. It measured 42", and had a 2lb smallie in its belly. It was FAT!! We filleted it up, and had a huge fish fry with it.....LOL. I think we fed the whole park with that fish.

 

Now, If I had that moment back, I would have taken my spoon off that little brat in the first place, and that pike would have been mine!!!! We still talk about that fish everytime we get together.

 

Sinker

 

A damn good piece of story tellin'.

It was our last day at Kesagami in June 2007. My wife Leslie came up with me and fished like a trooper for the whole week. I had been worried since this was her first fishing trip ever. It had been a really good week in so many regards, and we lingered that early afternoon over her first shore lunch of fresh walleye. My wife wanted some action to finish off the trip, so I brought her to place were we had seen some hammer handles earlier in the week. After about 10 minutes she hooked into an absolute monster. Thick as a brick and we worked together to bring her in. The lodge has a barbless policy so we brought her in perhaps a little too green. Of course it had rained a little that day, and of course nothing was where it was supposed to be in the boat. Coats and other layers of clothing were strewn about in a haphazard fashion. We had no idea where the camera was. And there SHE was is in the net...at least 44 inches by my estimation and probably a few inches longer. It could have been the largest fish to date caught at the lodge that cold spring. Leslie was actually frightened by it. I told her to find the camera. I knew she was worried that I would ask her to hold it up like she had held up a smaller pike earlier in the trip. I should have said, get a camera we need a picture of this. She started complaining about how messy the boat was but I think she was really just trying buy herself a little more time to mentally prepare for how she would grab this thing. I had unhooked the pike and held it just by the jaw in the water. I should have kept it in the net just below the top of the water but the thing was oversized for the net.....Time elapsed and you can guess what eventually happened. Just one picture.......a head shot would have put me in heaven.

 

Here she is holding a pike she caught earlier in the week. The one that got away would have been more then a foot longer and probably about double the weight of the pike shown here. She had no idea how special that fish was until we were eating dinner and we went around the table and most of the guys said they had never caught a pike that big.

http://www.bcfishingreports.com/forum/

 

Try that forum out for info. They are very helpful.

I hear there are some awesome spots on the bridge to the mainland. Santa Maria was a place I was looking at.