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Good read! TDunn

Nice fish buddy! By the sounds of it your one lucky dude to be friends with Cliff! Good luck with the rest of your season! TDunn

Send me a PM spincast! I'd be more than happy to hook you up with some info or set you up with a guided trip. TDunn

Thanks guys! I love to read reports/reviews on the board. You can actually learn a lot from them. I must admit, I enjoy posting them also! TDunn

Was out for a day of brookie fishing about a week and a half ago. Hit a lake north of the Soo by snowmobile. Biggest was a little over 20" and skinny...smaller fish were still a decent 16". 20" 18" Since then Iv have just been sneaking out to some panfish and pike territory. Lake Superior....Deep basin perch Lake George... Weedbeds heating up! St. Marys River Steadily hitting pike on the tip-pups. This next month should heat up and the big girls should start to steadily roll in. Ive only seen one 36-40" fish hooked so far this season, only to be lost in the hole.... Even stopped by the locks one afternoon for some downtown whitie action! I hope to report back next with some nice pike results....Maybe even a trip to LSPP! TDunn

thats what I thought....not much of a mechanic here tho... TDunn

Hey OFC! Put together a slideshow of pictures and a few video clips from 2010. All fish are from the Soo area! Just a heads up, its a bit long! 10 mins.... TDunns fishing with family and friends TDunn

Same! I do at least 1 trip for eyes off the sultan a year. Ive even stayed at Wakami...Enjoyed that but nothing beats those lakes that take some bush whackin!

Forsure! Ive never even fished Aubrey ....always kept on going up the highway to the Sultan at least. What I would do for a camp almost anywhere up the 129....

Had friends there may long of 2010. They did well with walleye and whitefish and to be quite honest arn't elite anglers... Im not to sure about the size but I would think a 12-16" average with a 24-25" fish being a big walleye for you up there. I'd be jacked to spend a few days on the ice there. There was a blurb about it in an issue of In-Fisherman Magazine as a North American hotspot but even around the Soo you don't hear to much about it. There isn't a lot of traffic on that body of water. It was drained at some point in the last decade but Im not sure when or for how long. Put it this way.....definitly on my list of walleye water I want to try around here... If I can scratch some more info up for you I'll let you know. I'd be interested in knowing about the roads tho....If they are plowed or not and how far in..... TDunn

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My GF is a registered sleep tech. She agrees that you should set up an appointment. It really couldn't hurt. A CPAP machine might be exactly what you need. Goodluck! TDunn

Awesome post Jay. Great tips on proper release and flasher techniques. Beauty laker your GF landed! TDunn

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Nice jumbo's Mike! TDunn

Yup! Brookies and lakers are closed until jan 1st.... Those are splake. They have a year round season. Look like a brookie but have a fork in the tail like a laker. Pretty good eating too! TDunn

I appreciate all the kind words guys! TDunn

Giants!! A great year my friend! TDunn

Solid fish! Keep em coming! TDunn

Awesome Steve! Bro's bloodworm has been producing for me too this year. When the perch have been there but finicky with the rap. The bloodworm would take them. I'm planning on getting down to simcoe this winter for perch....oh and visit my sis in orillia. Im not to familiar with the area so I might hit ya up for some info on where to walk out from steve. Nice report, TDunn

My condolences Rick. TDunn

Thanks to all for the kind replies! Yup, weirdo looking december ho's forsure. The males seem to really turn red in the rapids. The female with the close up pic actually isn't even spawned out yet. Full of roe still! Oh and just for the record those trout are splake. Thanks again for the great replies OFC, TDunn

Hardcores! What I would do to catch some browns.... Awesome! TDunn

Tank! TDunn

Hey OFC! Since my last report the open water has left us and the hard water is now in full swing up here in the Soo. The end of the soft water season had me out on the St. Marys in the boat and in the rapids with waders. On the river we trolled spoons and cranks off the riggers and one of us always bounced bottom with spawn/gulp/pinkies/flies off the bow. Nothing bouncing the last 2 outings. All fish came off the riggers. Ted with the final fish of the season in the boat The fish holding in the rapids were also hitting hardware. My 2nd last outing only resulted in one bow on a spoon and my final for 2010. My last session in the rapids was one afternoon and it was chalked full of these. Landed 4 out of a half dozen that hit my countdown. It was pretty cool watching a few follow it in and strike right at my feet in full view. December Ho's Our ice fishing season didn’t start off very well. From the reports I read on here it seems some places in southern Ontario had first ice at about the same time as us or maybe a week later at most. I began my year east of the Soo fishing some areas a few times on Lake George/Lake Huron. The tip-ups were hot but the perch were hard to come by at the beginning. A lot of pike in the 2-5 pound range were caught and all released. We landed a few bass also. Ted fought this hog for 15 minutes on 2 # test. That 15 minutes fell into the 25 it took me to go back to the vehicle and grab my cell that I had left. The fish was caught OOS but I don't blame Ted for snapping 2 quick photos of this fish. One in the hole and the other just at arms length quickly. This largemouth was released within seconds of being out of the water. Please no haters,I thought some here would enjoy a pic of this bass. 8" hole for comparison A couple days and a few hundred holes later I finally started to get a decent perch bite going. Took the first cruise of the year up the highway to Lake Superior Provincial Park for some trout just before Christmas. I was pleasantly surprised to see no signs of previous fishing on the lake. We were probably the first anglers to hit the lake and we weren’t disappointed with the results. We never landed any trophies but action was steady throughout the day. Biggest was 18" Boxed a few. Beautiful orange meat! Aside from the warm weather we had at new year’s everything has tightened up nice. During the warm spell at the new year, I was staying at a lodge on Wakomata Lake for the 31,1,2. We got onto the ice but it was way to dangerous. We had 2.5 - 3 inches of ice in 20 feet of water. Open water was still all over and no more than 30 feet away at the closet spot to us. The ice at the shoreline was sinking under our weight. We could literally see the ice cracking under us do to no snow. Needless to say we pulled the pin.It was a bummer but we spent the 3 days bringing in the New Year drinking, eating, hitting the hot tub and playing cards lakeside Moved to a new place on the 3rd and literally assembled furniture for days! Wouldn’t hurt my feelings if I never have to put together another dresser, end table, coffee table or night table ever again! After a few hectic days of moving things, I finally snuck away for some fishing north on Superior. Target species was perch with maybe a bonus whitie. Well we started the day at probably the busiest ice fishing spot around the Soo. If you know the Soo, gitchee gumee is all I have to say. Slow for us. After 3 hours we only had a few dink perch, smelt and lost 2 whities Earlier that morning I ran into a good friend of mine and his GF when we were getting minnows at the bait shop. Found out we were heading to the same bay and told him to come over and say hey. Well they did! They also brought this with them! Her first time fishing let alone ice fishing. What a way to start! Giant Lake Superior Pike - 25 pounds 10 ounces on a digital scale 1st ever fish 6# test no leader through a 6" hole For the record I'm against keeping trophies but what can you do. It was a legal catch and already dead by the time I seen it. I never had a tape on me so I used my ice scoop as a measuring device. 2 3/4 almost 3 of my ice scoops long and the fish wasn't even laying flat nor had a pinched tail. Scoop ended up measuring 16.5". The fish came in at 45-49" using that method. I would give it a healthy 46-47 inches for my guess. After we took a few pics and the holy hell's were done he told me the story on how they landed it. Turns out the fish had both of their lines at one point. My buddies broke and she keep fighting it. When they realized what they had on. They had no idea what to do and a guy beside them helped them land it buy jamming the end of a metal ice scoop in the gills and reefing it through the hole. The fish didn't stand a chance if it was released anyway. He did get his lure back which was in the northerns mouth. We proceeded to make our way down the highway to our next spot. After moving twice we set up shop on a spot that was producing a bit better. Caught a lot of dinks and only ended up keeping a dozen and a half between a couple guys. We did get a few bonus fish though! Another Superior Pike (I have this on video but it is taking forever on photobucket to upload....might add later) Superior Whitefish I hope you enjoyed, TDunn