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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!

Awesome....well since she's hooked so to speak and the excess luggage seems to be an issue....i'd be taking her to some boat shows to show her some bigger boats with all that neat storage, built in speakers etc...etc In all seriousness though...thats awesome....lucking out on my dream package(although a 12' boat would be the best) for some small bush lakes.....and then finding your wife is the perfect fishing buddy....AWESOME!

A terrova 55# would be perfect. given your limited casting deck space if you get the co-pilot remote control you could operate the motor from anywhere in the boat....the autopilot is also great to have as it means less time readjusting course and more time fishing. if you have the cash go all out..get the new i-pilot! i wish i could afford it1

Yeah JB...especially that one. Ever since he got it 2 years ago the shift to reverse wont work, he's had it back at the shop twice...told its good to go only for it to mess up first time out. Chuck was really having a 'bad' day out there. His Merc packed in again, the trolling motor would not turn, and his new fishfinder was not working...again...after getting a new transducer cable sent to him as the original new one was faulty right out of the box. To add insult to injury we were pulling in fish after fish right next to him and they caught 3 all day, but weve all had that happen before i'm sure .....he was a little bit grumpy by 2pm....but a good sport considering.

Thanks for the replies guys, was definitely a memorable afternoon, hopefully we get out there more as a team! Finally managed to get photobucket to work again and added the pics of my wife's PB's

JB!....holy crappola...your on here even less than me these days. Yup, it took a while for my wife to warm to the idea of leaving baby for any other reason than absolute necessity, but she has finally cracked and 2 days before we left she actually said she could not wait to get away with just me for the afternoon. I tentatively suggested we make it a monthly thing if possibly, she agreed very enthusiastically....COOL!

Hi all, We booked our childminder last week so we could head out in boat together for the first time in over 2 years. My buddy chuck made it a double date and he and his partner joined us in their boat. We kinda headed out in different directions once we hit the water, passing occasionally to swap fish counts, jokes, chattering nonsense and friendly verbal abuse....lol. The spot is near Frenchman's Head on Lac Seul, and we tried to go round the Sioux Lookout/Hudson way round to avoid all the bush roads you take if you head from Dryden, definitely less stress on the boat/trailer/equipment as its all highway except for 15 kms, but it only left us 2 and 1/2 hours to fish as it took a long time to get up that way. We found the spot 2 years ago after spending a whole morning trying to find a remote bush lake up that way only to find the trail to it was washed out and needed to find an alternate fishing spot. We fished it twice 2 summers ago with good results, and today was not as good as the first time but better than the second time fish wise. Its all weeds in the bay, so fishing can be awkward, i love rippin' weeds for walleye, but my wife struggled at first for 2 mins but thats how long it took for her first fish and she did not seem to mind after that. It took her about half an hour to work out what was weed and what was a bite. She got her PB walleye of 27", in fact that was the biggest fish of the day, with scores of 19-23" ers and our 8 under slot. No fish over 18" were kept, and even the fish over slot ( you are allowed to keep one over slot each) were released to continue to make Lac Seul what it still is AWESOME!!!! WHY KEEP A 27"er when you already have 6 eater size on the stringer? (ps..if you fish Lac seul, rember to kill the fish before you put them on a stringer.....no live fish except bait allowed.) Jigs and minnows as bait, fish moving out of the thicker weeds as the morning moved along and prefering a fast trolled action as opposed to vertical presentation, the jigs totally outfishing the walleye spinners my buddy and his partner were using. My wife said she now really liked walleye fishing.....lol...she hated it before because she said we would wait all day for a couple of little fish, i guess thats what it was like when she last fished for them with me 3 years ago on Lake Wabigoon when we first moved here and i'd never even heard of a walleye before.....but i've learned a lot since then, and going to Lac Seul is a no brainer if ya want walleye. HERE'S THE VID <object width="640" height="385"><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="640" height="385"></embed></object> HERE'S THE FISH MY WIFE SAYS IS "THE BIGGEST EVER" IN THE VIDEO NOT LONG AFTER THAT SHE UPGRADES HER PREVIOUS BIGGEST EVER WITH THIS BEAUTY 27"er PB!