So it's finally becoming spring in the North and my buddy and I went to try out a couple of spots for some open water action. The first spot (The Yellowknife River) opened up nicely this week and we were going to see if we could get smoe whities, grayling or pike to cooperate, but they wouldn't.
We saw a couple of fish swirl on the surface but no takers.
We decided that since the river had popped nicely that another current area back in the bush aways on a different lake may have the eyes up and aboot. We drove to the trail head donned our waders and grabbed our gear and off into the woods we go. The trail is well marked and runs though stands of birch, pine and spruce as well as some lowland wetland areas plus there are a few large granite Canadian Shield hills to scale and decend before we arrive at our destination an hour later. The trail was mostly hard packed ice and snow with numerous bare patches and some deeper snow in areas to just above the knees in depth.
Well we were too early the river mouth is still frozen!!! :wallbash:
It will be open by next weekend though so we should be able to get into bunches of eyes.
OH, and no pictures either as I brought the camera but forgot the battery in the charger back home.