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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

WOW

I COULD NOT AGREE MORE!!!!

Great stuff Bruce, hope all the treatment goes well for her.

Hi all, We took the kids from work to a local Provincial Park to camp for the weekend. I was on the night shift so was taking over from my shift partner at 6:30pm for the night and getting off work in the mornings at 6:30am. Of course I brought my tin boat with me , the kid I work with always wants to go out fishing(bonus). We got out for 2 hours with the kids that evening but caught zilch. Its a deep lake with good trout fishing, but the kids wanted to catch walleye. Despite trying last summer a couple of times to find them from a boat , I only caught my first walleye on this lake through the ice accidentally while fishing for lakers this winter. Anyway, since I knew i was off at 6:30am, I’d brought my downriggers with and had planned to get on the lake as soon as possible to get a couple of trout. What a perfect morning it turned out to be weather wise............ ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS MORNING! LAKE WAS LIKE A SHEET OF GLASS I decided to start at the drop off of a shoal/reef that extends from the point of an island, which drops from 20 FOW to 60 FOW. All last summer i was fishing with a faulty transducer, which would pick up bottom as long as you were not fishing water over 50' deep, i never knew it was faulty until i tried it as an ice transducer and realised it was not picking up my jig under the hole despite showing bottom, so i was excited to see how it would work in the deeper water , actually being able see trout on the screen at trolling speed. I was also eager to try out setting up the downrigger with my new 'auto pilot' trolling motor, as it would keep me on a straight heading whilst setting up the lines, not something that’s easy to do on your own without that feature. Because i was trolling on autopilot on flat calm water, I had plenty of time to set up the downriggers and keep an eye on the fishfinder, it was then i noticed a whole bunch of fish arches at 28' on the drop off. I thought it was worth dangling a jig to see what they were, so i dropped the anchor and was happy to discover that it was walleye. FOUND WALLEYE BY ACCIDENT WHILST SETTING UP THE DOWNRIGGER FOR TROUT GOT SOME KEEPER SIZE STRAIGHT OFF THE BAT i was glad i was using braid with a flouro leader as the fish were biting really light. A guy i know called Lonnie who lives on the lake said hello and asked if I’d got anything, told him i was on a bunch of walleye, he said he'd try the other end of the reef about 100 yards away and took off. I was kinda watching where he was going as i had not realised the reef extended that far when i felt a really light tap...tap bite....i set the hook and it felt like I’d snagged bottom............turned out to be a 27" beast of a walleye. Lonnie heard the commotion and came over and took some pics for me. I WAS PRETTY PLEASED WITH THIS FISH LONNIE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO TAKE A PIC FROM HIS BOAT WITH MY CAMERA A FEW MORE INCHES FOR TEAM # 3 I THINK I got the fish back in to go spawn again some day, said thanks to Lonnie and set about baiting up. i dropped the line down again and waited about a minute before a fish arch showed up on the graph. It was interested but did not strike until i gave the jig a good shake at least five feet off the bottom....and he nailed it....straight away i could fell it was another good fish, and it was...exactly 27" inches again.....lightning does strike twice it seems........ ANOTHER 27" NOT FIVE MINUTES AFTER THE LAST!!! LONNIE WAS TOO FAR AWAY TO ASSIST WITH THE PIC, LOL, I DID IT ON A TIMER BUT HAD IT SET ON 3 SHOT MODE SO YOU GET THE CATCH AND RELEASE SEQUENCE MY CAMERA IS TOAST, BUT HERE'S THE TAPE MEASURE SHOT After that one the bite died off, still marking fish but they were only inspecting the bait. I didn't really care though at this point, i was just a little pleased with the mornings results so far, I’d not even been out for an hour yet! I was kinda worried that the fish fly hatch which happened over night would slow the bite anyway (you can see in the vids that the whole lake was covered in the larvae cases) but so far so good, i wanted to get the last eater and then head to deeper water with the downriggers for trout...took 20 minutes but i got the final keeper and headed off the reef. GOT MY LAST KEEPER AND WENT IN SEARCH OF TROUT Whilst i was talking with Lonnie, our conversation turned to whitefish which also live in the lake but have eluded me thus far both on open water and on the ice. Lonnie had said that he was marking what he thought were whitefish at the far end of the reef 15" of water. So i decided t slow troll over to the vicinity he was in earlier to give it a go. I could not find the 15' FOW part of the reef and ended up in 55' FOW where i thought he'd been anchored. However i was marking fish on the bottom so decided to drop a jig with small minnow in the hope of some whities......within seconds of the jig hitting the bottom i had a hit, but missed it. There were fish following my jig all over the screen, and it was not long before i felt a light tap, i set the hook.........hoping for a whitefish it turned out to be a decent laker.....LOL....so much for setting up the Downrigger today! OK...NOT WHITEFISH....I AM SOOOOO DISSAPPOINTED....LOL The action was intense on the fishfinder, fish following the jig up and down all over the place. I was finding they became most aggressive and would chase he jig fast when you really cranked up the jig , but were shy biting. Great fun though, it was flat calm and i was anchored so watching the jig it was like ice fishing in a boat. LOTS OF FOLLOWERS ON THE SCREEN I was busy trying to entice one of the followers on screen to bite when i noticed a nice fish arch up at 40' FOW. I quickly reeled up and as soon as my jig went past the 40' FOW the arch shot up to follow and nailed it at around 20'FOW....electronics rock!!!! THIS GUY NAILED IT AT 20' I was working that night again at the camp, so decided to count m blessings and call it a day at that point, go home clean the fish, get a few hours sleep. But what a way to find your 1st walleye from a boat on a particular lake, and come to think of it that is the first time i have caught trout jigging............great couple of hours on the lake. MMMMMMM....TROUT AND WALLEYE FISH FRY TONITE!

Thats flippin' AWESOME Jacques. cant wait to here how it makes out on your trip to sis's cottage.

What a topwater feast there Rick. good on ya for fessin' up it was your oops....i know i few that would not admit that. I'm still waiting for the bass to turn on like that down my way....but its great to see sme pics of what i've been missing.......dunno how you manage to not fish for a month....but with our new baby i'm beginning to see the end of my carefree , fish when i want lifestyle too....lol!

Happy birthday Roy, have a great trip, gets lotsa specs.

Fantastic shot of that pike inhaling the bass.The pics almost distract from the other pics of some real nice lunker LMBs. Great session you had there!

Zander( Sander lucioperca or Stizostedion lucioperca) are similar to walleye(Sander vitreus, formerly Stizostedion vitreum)

Thanks TJ for the concern , i'm fine...i'm busy pre- fishing a local bass tourney at the moment. Very sad news bout the guys who perished,. I heard another guy is missing when his cabin was hurled into another lake 1km away!!!

Personally i think there are only 2 brands worth looking at....that is Lowrance or Hummingbird...but like i said that is my own opinion. I think which model specs you choose really depends on your budget, i love my little Lowrance X67c...use it on hard and softwater...but if i had the money i'd upgrade without a doubt. As for colour....very usefull in target seperation and sunlight viewing Dual cone...i'll let someone else chime in about that cuz all i know is that it picks up a larger area underneath you...and something about sea water use...lol Power....i'd tend to go for nothing under 2400...lol...coming from the guy who owns an 800 watts peak to peak resolution....again...if its depth and structure your'e after not such a huge issue, any new fishfinder will have sufficient resolution....but if ya can go higher why not? Just my 2 pennies worth.

Great report! gotta love when ya tune into where and what the fishies want.....sounds and looks like an awesome lake.

Nice one Bruce!

Your really getting into the eyes now AJ.....nice fishes. They look a bit pale, is the water very stained in that lake? Its just they look very similar in colour to Wabigoon lake walleye where i live, The lake here is the colour of a Timmies Double, Double. We got mercury in our Lake too, but apparently its all on the other side of the mill dam, i think they call the fish WALLEYE, EYE, EYE....genetic deformities....lol. Great report man......still waiting for one caught on the floating jig though

I agree with lots of the comments here, i was new to topwater bass fishing last year, but found out pretty quick not to set the hook to soon, but its hard not to i will admit, as when that fish explodes outta the water its like a reflex reaction , but you kinda get used to it...lol...sometimes.

Hi All, Well, it was always on the cards to happen, just never quite did....lol. That is to say I have been up to Lac seul (about an hours drive from Dryden) 3 or 4 times now, always hoping to really get into the walleye. We've had teasers of the lakes fishing potential, but never really got into the fish in a big way before, until friday last week that is....a fish a cast really, well over 100 fish, the majority being slot size (18-21") and over with the best ones being 24". We tried 2 different spots, the first spot produced a 24" right off the bat, then nothing but missed hits and jackfish, so we moved to our next spot and never had to leave. Nothing fancy about the fishing, we just anchored up and cast around the boat or fished right over the side with jigs and minnows. I was with my work collegue and a kid we work with. We had promised the kid a trip to lac seul for ages, and he certainly had a blast, only confidentiality issues restrict me from showing the look of joy on his face, it has also limited the pic/video footage of the day, i had some awesome videos of triple headers and giant pike...oh well. It was a swelteringly hot day, and because of the numbers of slot and over slot fish being caught it took a while to get our legal limit of 12 fish between us, but we stopped fishing at 4pm and got the tube out....really great way to end the day....here's some pics and vids of the day. NON STOP WALLEYE ( and some nice pike too) GREAT WAY TO COOL OFF AND WASH THE PIKE SLIME OFF AT THE END OF THE DAY ME DOING A 'WIPE OUT'

pretty sad day. He was a great artist!

Thought these 2 sites might be useful to ya. One is softwater....the other for icefishing....the links are to the 'Manitoba' sections of the websites. Manitoba soft water site Manitoba icefishing forum If your in winnipeg your only an hour from Lake of the Woods.......3 hours from Lac Seul....if your missing Ontario that is.

WOW.....you a proffessional photographer or what!? awesome pictures, had to show those to my wife......she thinks they are awesome too...she wants a better camera now....lol....so i guess i should say thank you! Great report, thanks for sharing.