limeyangler

Ths exactly what i thought! great report Jacques, that really is a nice sauger. Its so kind of you to post a report so we can see what summer looks like up here in NWO....lol. 20 bass as well....great day out!

Hi all, Had a great day yesterday, had to share....lol...such a proud dad here. Was baby Jacks first swimming lesson yesterday, he was too cute (imho) in his little swimsuit CHECK OUT DA MOVES! Jack was by far the youngest in the pool, most of the babies were at least a year old, lots of them were wailing as they went in....water was pretty cold, but jack took it all in his stride....he was a bit unsure at first but was loving it by the end. WHAT THE HELL ARE MUM AND DAD DOING TO ME NOW! Well the weather sucks here this summer, but I’d planned to take a young lad who I mentor out for some trout, so we had some lunch and took off to Thunder Lake. I decided not to take the downriggers as I’d been doing really well using a Jiggin' Rap with a piece of minnow. The lad had never jigged for trout and was pretty hyped ( LOL....he's a very subdued character....so you probably cant tell from the pics.....but he was hyped....lol). I trolled around the 60-70 FOW just near to a shallow ridge until I marked baitfish, then anchored up. Gotta get one of those electric anchor winches...lol...pulling up a 28lb anchor from 70FOW is a chore....lol. FOUND THE BAITFISH...TROUT SHOULD BE NEARBY Wesley was a bit disappointed that I did not have another Jiggin' Rap for him to use and looked a bit dejected when I offered him a plain jig, don’t think he thought I was playing' fair. But before I had tied my rig he was into the first fish. What followed was 20 minutes of fast and furious Laker action. Lots of hits and misses. The kid was loving that he could watch his and my jig on the screen and see the trout chasing his jig up and down. LIMITED OUT IN 20 MINUTES YOU SHOULD SEE HIS FACE WHEN HE'S NOT HAPPY....LOL The God's were smiling on us that day, because we got out in a break in the lightning storms, and no sooner than our 4th keeper was in the wind whipped up the whitecaps and thunder flashes all around...so it was a short but sweet fishing trip. The bonus to the short trip was I got back before babies bedtime and had the chance to be goofy with him before bed. HIS GIGGLE JUST KILLS ME! Great day with baby...always is, and some pretty good trout fishing thrown in....like I said.....LIFE IS GOOD!

Great report Glen, nice haul of 'schoolie' bass as they call them in limeyland.

Great fish Cudz, never tried night fishing for bass before....lol...the wife and baby would never see me!

BEST POST EVER ON OFC Too funny Glen

whats the worst that could happen, apart from having to catch Marlin instead of muskie for a few years, cuz catching marlin, giant grouper, yelowtail, shark, trevali, permit, bonefish, tarpon, barracuda (barracuda on topwaters is better than bass in my humble opinion)in the beautiful carribean whilst doing the job you love sucks right?? Seriously Rich, i'm like a lot of peope you already mentioned.....GO FOR IT!!!!!! But seriously....ask yourself whats the worst that could happen?

Great Pics, nice fishies, and cool shades

Not trying to dissagree with you Cram....but in my experience you do get alot of line twist after a good days use, specialy if using braid. I use braid with a verry small swivel to attach a 18" flourocarbon leader. Just my 2cents worth. Or if i'm tying direct il use a snap swivel. But have to agree this is one of the most versatile ures i have in my tackle box i also ike the reverse colour mepps aglia (chartreuse with black spots). I have caught Bass (LMB and SMB) , Walleye, Pike, Perch with these.......lethall for smallmouth if you can avoid getting a pike every cast!!!.

Have a blast TB! My spider senses tell me you are meeting with Benbeattie for Musky....lol. I'll be in France near Bordeaux when your up, guess w'ell have to get a timmies some other time. All the best Limey

Garmin do good GPS...but crappy sonar.......stay with Lowrance, Eagle or Hummingbird....my preference is Lowrance.

Good stuff Cudz, nice looking bass there. I take the kids out that i work with all the time, lol....i know how you feel about lending out the good stuff. IVE STOPPED DOING THAT....lol....They get jigs or save their allowances now!

Pretty freekin good report there mate! weather is terrible here too..but ya just get on with it...right? That sturgeon is a bit of a freeky lookin' critter...

Went out for only my 2nd time ever targeting musky. Went with my buddy Lew who is an avid and experienced musky fisherman, he took me up to Thaddeus and Ord lakes about an hours drive north of Dryden. I was kinda ambigous about the whole Musky thing......to be quite honest i did not think i had the patience to cast what seem to me to be giant lures all day with the likelyhood of catching nothing. In the end we did not even get a follow, but i was surprised how quickly the day went, and how the anticipation of a bite was sustained all day. For me, I think what helped sustain the anticipation was the fact we were catching relatively small fsh (not muskie) on these big spinner baits, crankbaits and jerkbaits. Although i know these big baits catch muskie, it was hard for me to imagine anything going for them...especially some of Lew's homemade contraptions....but even the most outrageously bright coloured , non fish like creations were catching fish.This helped my confidence no end, which helped me believe i could actually catch one....lol...which made me feel like every cast was gonna be the one. Another spin-off benefit from the day was getting waleye on the large natural and firetiger jerk baits. Again a confidence thing but i'm warming to using hardbaits for walleye more and more, and this trip certanly re-inforced this. I went into a Bass tournament a few weeks ago and during the pre-fish and the tournament itself we caught more walleye on "wigglewarts' than we did bass....maybe should go in for a walleye tounament instead....lol. And whilst fishing local small lake a week ago when the bite was slower than slow, i decided to try the wigglewart and caught fish after fish when live bait could not get a fish for love or money. So i guess the point of my rambling is...... that even a 'bad days' fishing is a learning opportunity. Anyway...here's some pics and vids from sundays outing with Lew. ONE OF THE WALLEYE SOME OF THE BASS SOME NORTHERNS KINDA COOL GOING THROUGH THE CULVERT CONNECTING THE LAKES SOME COOL PICTOGRAPHS TOO IN THADDEUS LAKE Whilst fishing for muskies was fun, these 2 lakes have some awsome bass fishing, we were watching 4 and 5lbers swimmng over the boulders all day...definitely worth a trip again.

WTG Ben....thats a monster. Like someone else said , the smile says it all....if it were me i'd still be grinning now....lol!!! PS...thanks for the sneak preview.

Jeeze....looks like the bucket your holding is a semi vegetarian with all that salad half way down its throat....lol Good job Splash!

Thanks Ben. Yup, Pike was from the 'fishless, brown Goon' as i call it now....lol

Good idea Lunker...will have to add a hole punch to my tackle box I almost didn't put that in...but hey...you gotta be able to laugh at yourself right? Its called Thunder lake, i did a load of ice fishingon here from that lake reports last winter, its about a 1/2 drive from my house....even quicker in the winter cuz i can scoot across the lake from my house, come off lake wabigoon at the twin towers, cross HWY 17 and i'm on Thunder Lake Dude!!!! How's it goin man!....good to see ya on here, i'm not 'Tobanist' lol...thats Glen(da). The young one is AWESOME...cant believe we were ever without him...lovin' being a Dad. We gonna meet up on softwater this year?

Goddam 'TOBANS' poaching our NW Ontario lakes....1st i catch 'em at it on Shoal Lake........... LOLOLOL Good to see ya again 'Boatless" Welcome to the site from Viciouscircle

I know...i know...i'm working on it. Trying to convince the wife we need an slr....something with decent zoom. When ya see the deals ...post me the link if ya like...would appreciate it if ya did.

Hey splash...no fancy gizmos just a lot of fumbling around....lol

Great pics Rob. LOL...i have to laugh...cuz i know exactly what you mean about not wanting to be the person on a plane with screaming baby...we are doing our first trip on a plane with the baby in 2 weeks....dreading it really.

Great report Lunker! Glad it paid off for ya...nice LMBs. I've been doing some similar searching out spots recently...really feels great when it pays off. Thanks for sharing.

Hi all, I went back to the lake where I got two 27" walleye the other day to see if I had just got lucky the other day or whether I could repeat the success and semi confirm to myself that I was doing something right for a change....lol. I anchored up on the same spot, and sure enough first jig with minnow to hit bottom attracted a bite within seconds. Last post I did I received a lot of accolades for the camera work.....lol....but it does not always go to plan and I lose a lot of fish messing around trying to hold the camera....as I did with the 1st fish...... MISSED THE FIRST FISH WHILST MESSING AROUND TRYING TO FILM There was a bit more wind than the previous outing and I kept drifting off target and having to pull up the anchor and re-anchor again (hard rock bottom without much to snag the anchor). It is amazing that at this spot you only need to drift 10 feet or less into 30'FOW and the bite stops, get back to 28FOW and the bite resumes. Anyway.....I dropped the jig back down with a nice 3" dace minnow and bang...fish on....this time though I made sure the hook was set before grabbing the camera....lol....and would ya believe it....another 27" walleye. I am beginning to think its the same fish...as i've now had 4 walleye all exactly 27" in as many days. ANOTHER NICE 27" WALTER I had to laugh when I got home and realized the still shot I thought I’d taken of the 27"incher in the clip above was a video, I’d had the camera set on a timer but did not switch the mode from vid to still. YOUR STILL IN VIDEO MODE IDIOT!!!!!!! Like I said before, I was on a learning mission, wanting to see if I it was luck or whether that spot consistently held fish, and using the same method as the previous outing. So far it was going exactly as the previous outing except I was on the spot half an hour later than previously and there were not as many keeper size fish. 2ND CAST PRODUCED ANOTHER NICE SIZE FISH The last time I was out there I also noticed that the bite stopped...or at least slowed at around 8:30am, and true to form the same thing happened, and I ended up taking an hour after that to get another nice 21" walleye. The amount of fish on the screen definitely slowed and the fish that were showing would come up and inspect the jig but were biting very shy, I need to start a little journal with all these observations as a record to determine patterns so I don’t have to bore you all with the details....lol. AFTER 8:30AM THE BITE SLOWED, AND THOSE THAT DID SHOW INTEREST WERE SHY I DID MANAGED TO ENTICE ONE MORE AFTER ABOUT AN HOUR The thunder clouds were starting to gather so I decided to see if I could jig up a few lakers. I headed back to the same spot as before in 55'FOW but the bite was not as fast and furious....and although there were plenty of trout on screen they would chase the bait but not take it ( jig and minnow). After a frustrating hour and a half a landed a respectable 23" laker, no pics as the rain was coming down, so I decided to try the downriggers. I was marking the majority of baitfish clouds and fish arches at around 30 to '40 FOW so set the downrigger at 31' ( I have this stoopid superstition of only setting the downrigger on a prime number) and 37' was the next depth I tried after no hits. As I was trolling around I noticed that there were a couple of spots in the deeper water(60-70FOW) with huge amounts of bait fish and large fish arches...so after a while I stopped using the downriggers and ended up anchoring over the deeper sections. LOTSA BAIT AND FISH IN THE DEEPER WATER TODAY Straight away I was getting follows and hits, but I could not manage to set the hook. After numerous jig changes I switched to the little jigging rapala I never got round to trying through the ice and that seemed to get them biting aggressively...and not long after the switch I got a nice 26" fish....more inches for team #3!!! THIS WAS THE HOT LURE APPARENTLY NICE UPGRADE FOR TEAM #3 With my limit of trout I was gonna go get some smaller walleye for supper, but the lightning storms hit and I was forced off the lake at around 2pm. I still wanted to fish but after waiting at the dock for the storms to pass, by the time they did, my fishing adrenaline levels had dropped, and the early start was taking its toll so I packed the boat on the trailer and headed home. After spending a great evening with my baby boy, I headed down the lawn to see if I couldn't get us some supper fish.....lol.....at least that was the plan..... BEST LAID PLANS HUH? Well....the video trails off at the end there....but I did not get my 4th little fish...and had to make do with more salad and fries than fish....still tasty though! The next day I got a call from my buddy Lew just before I was due to finish work...."do ya wanna try for some musky when ya finish work?" LOL....ya think!!!! Anyhoo Lew drove his boat round to my place and we headed off on what was my first attempt at catching a musky. MY MAIDEN VOYAGE MUSKY HUNT We tried casting for a while but Lew suggested we troll around to Larson bay with some giant musky diving crankbaits. We were not even round the corner of the bay when I got the first and only fish of the evening, a nice 39" pike.....another nice upgrade for Team #3. ALMOST TOOK 2 OF US TO HOLD HER DOWN FOR THE PICCY....LOL That was it fish wise for the evening, Lew lost a really nice (and expensive) crankbait, but all in all a relaxing evening troll around "The Goon" (Lake Wabigoon). We came up with a plan to hit Thaddeus and Ord Lakes on Sunday to try and get me my first musky....so hopefully I’ll have a Musky report by Monday!

LOL....great handy work again Jaques.....i'm not gonna even begin to chime in with names for your creation.....although you could name it after a traditional English cake called 'spotted dick' or with your gallic influence hows about 'the French tickler"

Absoutetely amazing report. Poor kid , that bug bite looks awful, but she seems ok with it...lol...what a trooper! What camera do you use....those shots are amazing...especially like the one with the kid on the water tube with the dark sky in the background. Thanks for taking the time to post that. Cheers. Simon