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Beauty fish chuck... lets go back up that dirt road again next year to see if we can find some  more like that !

On 11/10/2018 at 8:43 PM, porkpie said:

Yeah I have no problem trusting my GPS.  I have 3 of them on he boat.  2 in my sonars and one in my terrova.  None of them are ever off of each other by more than 0.1mph. If you want you can spend $1000 on a fishawk and clip a probe to your rigger and it will give you your downspeed.  Lots of guys swear by them but they are spendy.

i have downspeed probe an older cannon unit. and my catch rate while downrigginging doubbled.  worth every penny.  Some days downspeed if differnt than surface speed by 1.5  mph.   

We shoot every coyote and wolf we see in the Ottawa valley they are over run with them.  They snatch pets, livestock and fawns. the last 10 years they have exploded.  I shot a deer last week and had a pack circle me within 15 min of me shooting the deer they are brazen. 

  May sound weird to some even though i shoot them i couldent bring my self to watch the video.   I hope they get the  book thrown at them no animal deserves to suffer like that. 

nice going Rick  i need to scratch that itch next season

fenwick hmx and shimano nasci....unless were on the big pond. we run okuma coldwaters and whatever rods were on sale. 

I do more damage to the salmon population than anyone of of those guys.  Im with porkpie, our boat  and guests in years passed easily have kept 100+ bbq kings(5-10lber's) a year.  But i  dont like the straight up snagging with trebbles that goes on. 

nice going.  i have inly been out three times all season need to get out at least once more. 

Nice saw this one the other day.  I can't imagine the laughs had in the boat with Niko for a day. 

Nice. Been meaning to get out there all summer I only seem to ever fish it in the winter

Buy a really good tent if you plan on using it more than once a summer.  I have a eureka timberline a frame could camp in a hurricane and not get wet. Should last another 15-20 years

Looks like a great trip as usual.  I can't wait to get back.  Worth every min. Spent in the truck getting there.  

Crazy read.   Awesome as usual

Is this  the same zman I played hockey with and went to Vermont with? Never been to that lake, but sounds like a good time

Took the words out of my mouth

Sweet deal . Thanks.  I'll pop in in the upcoming weeks

Love it.  Hope I still have it In me at that age.  

Beauty. Love to see these kind of reports  

Looks like fun the Mrs. Keeps bugging me to get a pair of kayaks after this post it's got me thinking I should

4 hours ago, Jds63 said:

great report , did you guys have some maps that marked the shoals ?

No I used various satellite imagery sites as the Google earth imagery is not the best images  on nipigon and made my own.  Never seen quite so many vertical lines on a graph for bottom.. if I was under 50 fow I had one hand on the throttle.   I looked down at the graph nice and had just drove over 15 fow  150ft on either side 

2 hours ago, pics said:

Just got home from up in that area.. Too bad we couldn't get out on Nipigon due to having a small boat.. Lol 

There's stretches of the river that are more are friendly to small boats that's what I did 2 years ago but not quite the same experience 

A few weeks back me and two good friends did a trip 5 years in the making.   We have himmed and hawwed  made excuses over the years this that and the other but we finally made it to Nipigon.

Its an intimidating lake, no known charts, shoals that literaly jump out of 200 fow , not many campsites marked, water is cold as sin and a few hundred km from anywhere.  But over the years seeing a few reports here and there of the monsters that lurk we couldn't resist the urge any longer.

   We left on a Friday night drove through the night and arrived around noon at the launch of our wildest dreams.  The lake was flat we , explored a bit and found a suitable site about 10 km from the ramp. 2 trips to haul our gear and fuel for the week , a few hours to set up camp  and the wind picked up. It would not let up for 48 hours along with a relentless driving  rain. 

  We managed the odd boat ride here and there but with 39 degree water temps  , 10 degree air temps and white caps everywhere we were not pushing our luck.  We managed a few Brookies from shore and a billion annoying pike but this was not what we signed up for.   We hunkered down in our bugtent/tarp Igloo of sorts and rode out the storm.  She was not going to give it up easy. 

  2 days later the rain lifted  our beer and whiskey supply's severely depleted we had the itch to fish hard.  The winds still strong for the next 2 days  we were bound to the sheltered side of islands but we covered miles and miles of fishe'y looking shoreline picking up the odd Brookie here and there about a million annoying pike.  Even managed  the odd accidental Laker in 10 Fow on Brookie gear    it wasen't till the 4th evening till we kinda figured them out.   We managed a 25.5' and a 22" 10 min apart along with a few other fish that would be trophy's in any lake but this .

We had been hovering around the marine radio for days on end at this point and on the 4th evening we got the news we had been watiing for.    For the next  two days the lake was a pancake and we could roam as we pleased.   It was pure bliss putting over 150 km on the boat  fishing the most ridiculous Brookie shoals / bays, / points known to man.   

PS.whitefish are annoying. you think you have a trophy Brookie on and its a dirty whitefish  we must have caught 50 in 5-10 fow. 

For a First time on a rather intimidating , massive, and scary at times lake we felt like we learned allot, dealt with the cold water temps  and picky fish and cant wait to get back and explore the 95%of the lake we haven't seen.

You only get one ride in life, get out there , explore, and enjoy.

Fish Porn in no particular order

Nice Brian,  great way to spend a day

Good going. Looks like the water warmed up since I was up there.  

Nice going.  Dont do as many canoe trips as I used to sure have some good memories paddelin. 

Final pack is in full swing. Leaving Friday.   Any last min. suggestions? 

Starting to get to the can' sleep at night phase.