limeyangler

Hey Ben!....good to hear from ya again.. Guess we'll be treated to a summer summary post from you soon right? Cant wait. I dont keep the big ones, i dont fish Lac Seul for supper as a rule......but if supper fish are biting.........BONUS! Ok ..................i'll go back Jacques...........just for you... Not all were on the big suckers MJL. I like to have the big baits with me though this time of year, its like Ben said...........they are fattening up for a long cold winter... OK........OK...LOL...........i'll go back I had to laugh when i was stitching the video together, i did not realise i caught the 'rod snap' moment, i have that reaction frequently..... I hear ya on the evening bite, we were thinking the same thing on the way back that day... Always fun fishing LS......but it was slow compared to usual...

Stunning report as usual T! Fantastic pics...

Great report and pics Cliff, congrats on a nice looking largie... Classic middle finger pose...lol. Looks like fun...thanks for posting...

i'd recommend the terrova..................12v 55# is what i have and pushes my 16' fine.......but in strong winds it can be a pain..........if i was buying again i would go 24v and up the thrust to 70 or 80.... If you can afford it get the universal sonar..........transducer in the motor head unit works great, and the auto pilot is a must for me but the new 'i-pilot' looks awesome! No.....i dont work for Minn Kota...........i'm just very pleased with the product i got, although some folk swear by Motorguide...

LMAO........good one

Great read Splash. Chill down my spine (good chill) when i got to the bit about the eagle and your friends presence, i lost a dear friend to cancer 10 years ago and often sense her watching me when i'm alone out on the water in quieter moments, strangely comforting...

Awesome Ryan!.......like a few others said.............."dad Get him" comment = priceless!

CONGRATS FOR THE WIN AND THE PB!

Great win Cudzy, 'hooters Family Restaurant'....

Hi all, headed out at stoopid o'clock to do a last fling outing for the year to Lac Seul. It was a tough days fishing by lac Seul standards, The biggest walleye being around 22". I've found it hard to find the big ones there this year although the abundance of 17"ers is good for eating if not the waistline. My only problem with yesterdays fishing is that i wanted to go out with a bang on LS this year....now i'm tempted to head back there "one last time" to see if i can get into some of the bigger walleye. Mind you, fishing deep even makes the small ones punt a decent bend in your rod! EVEN SMALL ONES FISHED DEEP PUT A NICE ARCH ON THE POLE The biggest fish we had all day was not in deep water but on a sandbar, and it fell to a 6" sucker minnow on an 'oddball' jig. The fish seemed scattered today, you'd pick off a couple at each spot before hey seemed to dissappear. There were other people camped at the landing and they were saying they were experiencing the same thing out there. It was freekin' cold and windy most of the day which probably added to the feeling it was a slow day, but i would do it all again if i had the time...love fishing Lac Seul! BIGGEST OF THE DAY....WENT BACK IN HERE'S SOME VIDEO FROM THE DAY <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhD20j-FE3s?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhD20j-FE3s?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhD20j-FE3s?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

Yeah..thought the mnr should know as i have never heard of anyone...even die hard local fishermen catching largies on the wabigoon chain....i am suspicious about how it got there, but thats another thread altogether...lol. Glad you responded Bushy....cuz i know you know the lake well, and your reply backs up what i'm saying...even long time goon fishermen find it surprising. That would be cool...i have still to ice a bass...largemouth or smallie. Thanks TB4me, More walleye action to follow tomorrow evening....headed up to lac seul with six dozen sucker minnows...should be awesome...wont sleep much tonite....lol. Thanks Jacques, Ive caught largies before on Erie, just not up here, and especially on a lake where they are unheard of...strange and cool all in one me thinks.

Hey all, Well i had quite the surprise on Monday fishing in a small lake connected to the main Wabigoon Lake. I have fished this lake for bass (smallmouth) for 3 years now, some sessions producing 50+ smallies, but had never caught a largemouth before until this Monday. I headed out armed with some nightcrawlers to try for bass. I chose nightcrawlers just to use something different from my usual topwater/mepps/jig attacks on my chosen quarry. Literally first cast produced a bass, which i only realised was a largy when i lip gripped it and thought...holy ....this smallmouth has a strangley big mouth....well duh...thats cuz its a LARGEMOUTH! My surprise in catching the LMB is due to the fact that i have caught 100s of bass here...but never a largemouth. I have never even heard of Lmbs in that lake....i called the MNR biologists and they were surprised too...pretty cool really...i think so anyway. The rest of the 3 hour morning session was spent trying crawlers on spinners for a bit and a couple more walleye on jigs an minnows. Water temperatures have dropped 10 degrees already...however the walleye have been predominantly in the cabbage and still remain there despite the weed dying off slowly now. VIDEO OF THE MORNINGS CATCHES <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fTK-c9yakA?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fTK-c9yakA?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fTK-c9yakA?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> TO MY SUPRISE

Love the underwater shots!

Great report, great pics.... I really must get up north one day too

I think you are asking if i picked up any french words while away...lol...my French is more like Franglais...a bit of a hybrid language but i get by. I talk to all the fishermen along the banks of the river...seems like fishing is a universal language. Thanks man, lol...in fact me and jack did lots of bonding while there, really pissed mum off as he always wanted dad. hey Blair, thanks for the welcome back...OFC ROCKS! Its terrible when the start exploring, Jack has had his fair share of bumps...never forget when he faceplanted the hard floor in Walmart...the bump was the size of a grapefruit...people looking at me like i was abusing the kid! If you go...make sure you get to carcasonne, fantastic history (cathar's, holy grail stuff etc..) and amazing sceneryarchitecture and climate. No worries Rattle, glad you enjoyed the pics...travelling the US is something i'd like to do more of too. The fishimng pics are my favourite too JB. How's the new job goin?

Thanks for the replies guys, aalways appreciated. What bothers me is karma is a 2 way thing, i must have done something pretty crappy...lol....dunno what it was though. the perch in Europe are Perca fluviatilis whereas in N. America they are Perca flavescens. Whilst the N.american yellow perch get big i think the european ones get bigger BRITISH RECORD PERCH OVER 5LBS As for trout i think you generally get most of the species you get here, with a few you cant get here. LOL...i know Tours, used to miss the turn to the highway everytime whislt driving down from England, spent alot of time in one way systems in that town! Thanks Bruce, yup...trouble is on the way!

Hi all, Back from my hols, only fished twice for a total of 2 hours, most of the time was spent with family at our house with a few outings to Bordeaux and some local rivers for swimming with our young lad. JACK LOVED PLAYING WITH MUM AND GWAMMA JACK LIKED HELPING GWAMMA WITH HER HERB GARDEN MOST DAYS LOTS OF TIME SPENT JUST GOOFING AROUND STILL LUVS MUM ALMOST AS MUCH AS COUS-COUS ALSO WENT ON MANY WALKS TO COLLECT BLACKBERRIES....NOT MANY MADE IT AS FAR AS THE PIE THE GRAPES ON OUR VINES WENT DOWN WELL TOO (click on pic for video) WE ALL ENJOYED HANGING OUT AT THE POOL MOST DAYS JACK EVEN WENT FOR HIS FIRST SWIM IN THE OCEAN WHEN WE VISITED THE COAST NEAR BORDEAUX AFTERNOONS BY THE RIVER WERE ALSO PLENTIFULL EVEN MANAGED TO GO FISHING TWICE EVENINGS WERE QUIET...JUST SPENT TIME WITH MY WIFE, BABY MUM AND DAD AND RAMBLING AROUND THE COUNTRYSIDE MEETING INTERESTING CHARACTERS ALAS IT WAS TIME TO COME HOME SPENT AN EXTRA DAY IN WINNIPEG AS THE @#$#@#$ BROKE INTO OUR VEHICLE AND TOTALLED THE IGNITION AFTER 2 WEEKS OF ALMOST NO FISHING I LASTED ONE DAY BEFORE THE BOAT CAME OUT(click on pic for video)

Hi all, Well last week was an interesting one. I dont usually fish after work, and with evenings drawing in earlier again, after baby Jack is in bed there is not much daylight left even to fish at the end of the yard, and the fishing has been awful by comparison to recent years in front of the house anyway. However, we are off to our cottage in France today and the fishing there is even worse, so bad in fact i am not even packing a rod! Instead i decided to just relax with family for 2 weeks and eat lots of fresh French pastries , rather than frustrate myself hunting small vegetarian fishies on very beautiful yet hard to navigate riverbanks in southwest France. Knowing that i was going to not be fishing for a whole 2 weeks(unheard of in my universe)i have been grabbing any opportunity to fish all week, which resulted in 3 or 4 half hour sessions in front of the house from shore and in the boat and a last fling trip early morning yesterday to Lac Seul. The lack of walleye in front of the house is surprising, not sure what has gone on this year so far, but if you even get a bite its tiny little ones. But in the last week i did manage to catch a lot of perch from my boat at the end of our shoreline and a couple of bass(one from the boat, and one from my lawn) this i have never done before, very pleased to have caught a bass right off the lawn....hopefully they move in permanently. Anyway i stiched together a vid of the half hour sessions. HALF HOUR SESSIONS FROM LAST WEEK <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> I also got out to Lac Seul yesterday, hit up a spot i fished 2 weeks ago with my wife with the intention of leaving more time to fish a section of the lake (main body) i had never fished before. I brought Kyle with me, the tackle shop owners son with whom i have fished a couple of tournaments before. The spot i fished with my wife which produced tons of fish 2 weeks ago was very slow, a couple eaters and a couple of over slots right off the bat....then pretty much nothing except a nice Bass that Kyle caught. This forced our hand pretty much and we headed to the main body of the lake earlier than planned in search of fish. We started by searching for deep structure as this often produces at this time of year. A couple of fish came from these areas but thats all. So we decided to take the hint from the lake that the best producing spots were betwenn 15-7' in the weeds. We basically headed to the shore lines and searched until we hit the jackpot. A small island in the middle of a narrow channel, on the wind blown side in a small almost rockpool like area with pencil weeds then cabbage in fornt of that with lots of rocks going down to around 15'. I did not swap all day from the same 1/8 oz chart/orange jig and minnows where as Kyle was more adventurous trying leeches and crwalers on his jigs. The minnows were way outfishing crawlers and leeches...although Kyle got a couple more really nice bass on the crawlers. After a slow start i started to 'hammer' the walleye, straight almost deadsticking their preferred presentation, the fishfinder was showing that the fish were all hugging the bottom closely. Nothing huge today, the biggest walleye at 25 inches that barely registered as a bite, i thought i'd bounced a rock....lol....at least 20 slot fish and 8 keepers with loads of 14-15 inchers released. I got a nice big jack that fought like a walleye and had us all excited for that reason, Kyle got 3 nice bass, the biggest near 5 lbs and we got off the lake just before the thunderstorms hit. LAC SEUL VIDEO <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Great stuff Dan, good job on getting all that work done, time with kids and still manage to fish....you are way ahead of me on the time management skills.

Brian....you need to hitchhike up here and help me with my boat! Then i'll take ya fishing

Great read, i took my pops fishing...he's not really into it...my mum however LOVED IT, the fishing that is...not the fact she got rid of dad in the boat with me

Nice blue pike, i caught one this year locally, it was in between a regular pike and a blue....had not had time to complete the transformation....BWAHAHAHA

Great read man! Pics are awesome as usual...and the size of bass you catch does nothing but make me jealous Really liking the pic of the truck with all the gear stowed....dunno why...just like it.

CONGRATS! a keeper for sure.

Great pictures....great fish.....nice drive to work!