solopaddler

Welcome to the board, great report! It's rare to see a report from the fairer sex let alone a solo canoe trip, very impressive! Nice hat btw, I'll assume you're a fellow Hamiltonian.

Glad to see you and your friends pulled it off Gord. Next time you can go minus the guides.

Nice report, thanks for taking the time!

What a great spot you have there Chad! You should be proud.

Outstanding fish, congratulations!

Nice fish Brad, if I'd have seen your post earlier I may have been able to help. Hope your trip went well!

So glad to hear this, I'm praying you find your boy.

I've used them a lot with very little luck. Cool bait though, I'm not ready to give up on them yet.

A very good friend of mine in Thunder Bay sent me these photos a couple of days ago. I'm just in total awe of this fish myself and thought it was worth sharing. A hair over 25" long, incredibly thick and fat, and 8.1lb's on the digital scale. The photos aren't the best, he was fishing alone as he usually does, but nevertheless very impressive. What gets me, he told me he had an even larger fish rush in and swipe at his lure a couple of days later. What's killing me is I don't have time to get up there and fish with him. It's torture LOL!

Nice report, and definitely a unique way to catch those lakers!

Beautiful spot Bernie, looks like a perfect weekend!

WTG Dougie, you're definitely dialed in.

Mike, you're an inspiration in more ways than one. Great work.

Great idea, but it deserves its own website.

I was going to suggest you contact Chris through OFC when you switched from Wanzatika to Quantz. You're way ahead of me! By all accounts you picked a good one. (99.9% sure Hearst will have an axe at all of their outposts)

I would LOVE it if you guys could join Brendan and I! Something to plan for over the winter.

Hours of daylight play a role, but a minor one at least imo. Bear in mind different strains of fish will run at different times. A prime example being the Notty. That river traditionally always sees the earliest runs of fish. The two biggest factors are water temps and rainfall. Beyond the first couple weeks of July this has been an extraordinarily cool and wet summer. Fish are showing up in certain rivers waaaay earlier than usual. Pulaski for example has seen an inordinate amount of rain and there's already been a substantial amount of fish enter the Salmon river. Locally guys have been hitting kings, browns and rainbows off the local piers for a while now. Again, way earlier than usual. Many of the salmon are already dark and are staging off the rivermouths for a while now, again much earlier than usual. Watch the weather forecast. If your favorite river gets hit with another good slug of rain there will be a push of fish.

Thanks once again guys! Thanks Joey. You know, I think I can help you with that if you're serious. Did you notice how heavy I was breathing in the cabin tour video? Seconds before I was running around like an idiot hauling bags down to the dock and pulling the boats up and flipping them over LOL! You caught that did you? It was pretty funny.

Frank looks pretty happy, good for him!

Great report! It's nice to see that you and your brother had a successful trip.

So glad to hear you guys had a great time Scott! Very cool that you brought your dog as well. I've been considering bringing mine but she's horrible in the boat, whines and jumps all over the place LOL!

Thank's guys! Not sure about the eyes Frank, but they're definitely different. Especially the blue/grey colored ones. It's a really unique lake despite the small size. Deepest basin is 90' and there's two others that hit 55' and 60'. I suspect the really deep water plays a role in their makeup. They're also some of the most aggressive hardest fighting walleyes I've ever seen.

Hey thanks guys, always appreciate the comments! HAHA! You're pretty intuitive Adam. My daughter already went to the One Direction concert last month in Toronto. She still won't stop talking about it. I've used Sassy Shads for years and these are nothing like them at all. The Sassy Shad body is much wider and more compact. These Northland things are much longer and tapered, more like a Fin S Fish except with a tiny paddle tail. Unlike the Sassy Shad's they're also really soft and infused with scent. I know HAHAHA!! It was driving me crazy too. I kept making him switch to the OOD hat but he would have none of it.

That's a GREAT pike! Congrat's to Jaden.

Thanks lads, it was another great trip for sure! I'd end up like Bill Barilko if I flew the plane myself.