limeyangler

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.

Ive always used a flourocarbon leader when fishing topwaters for bass. Either the swivel or uni knot is effective to connect the line to the braid. I was using 17lb vanish, reason....Pike! However the pike seldom got anywhere near the leader line, even when i was using mepps spinners. I am rethinking the flourocarbon leader for topwater lures though, as i've heard it sinks rapidly and would maybe have an effect on the action of the lure, especially the heavier 17lb test....just my thoughts out loud really.

Hi All, Went out on Monday on Lake Wabigoon with the intention of getting some walleye. I was in a couple of small lakes off the main body of water hioping the walleye had moved onto one particular mid water hump. Alas no walleye yet. So plan B was to cast for bass with topwaters, 2 follows but no takers....so to plan C. We have noticed a real explosion in the crappie population in one of the lakes, and have been catching them frequently, if not incidentally while fishing for walleye, so i decided to actually try and target them. To cut a long story short the pattern seemed to be, find the bays with a grassy like weed, set your slip bobber to 2' and away you go....all nice size too. I did try using a powerbait microtube as bait as i was ripping through minnows because of the abundant perch and small pike also inhabiting the bays in the grass. Once again i have to say that the claim that powerbait/gulp outfishes live bait is far fetched in my experience, and whilst i did catch some, the bite was not as aggressive or as frequent as with the live minnows. MONDAYS FISH WERE ALL AROUND THE 13" RANGE So.....Monday i layed a slaying on the Crappie, i only kept 4 as i realised as i was putting them on the stringer i had no idea how many made up the legal limit, i knew it was more than 4 (12 or 15 i think) but being uncertain decided to be cautious. I wanted to go back to see if there was an actual pattern or whether i had just lucked out, so i headed back there yesterday(thursday) Turns out it was not luck and the ticket was to find the grassy weed bays and set the bobber shallow. It seemed that they were only on the east shore of the lake too, as i tried across the other side first to test my hypothesesiseseises ....lol...however you spell that. Anyway, now armed with the knowledge that you can legally keep 15 in Zone 5, and with the killer tactic worked out, i put another beating on them crappie, although i did only keep 6, as they are big and i dont need 15 to feed my family....here's some video of the action........ CRAPPIE DAY.....LOL

Ok....lol.....next time i wont bleep out the swaring Glen

Hi all, Had another great morning on another little back lake with some good buddies. We carried the 12' boats down to the lake, attached the 4Hp motors and were off. First cast produced a 21 incher for me....and so it went on...and on. Lots of jackfish too....always fun. I could go into huge detail....lol...but wont. I was using a hammered gold Beetlespin witha yellow 3/8 jig, and chuck was using a hammered gold walleye spinner, both tipped with a live minnow. Most of the fish were caught on the wind swept shoreline in 12' to 3' FOW. Chuck and myself must have thrown back over 20 fish, the majority over 19".....with the best going to me at 23"......man these guys were fighting hard! Here's the pics/videos from our morning. WALLEYE VIDS ALWAYS LOTS OF PIKE SOME PICS HAD A BLAST......CANT WAIT TO GO AGAIN -Cheers -

Hi all, I've been invited to pre- fish for the Dryden Walleye Masters on Tuesday. The guy told me he wants to try trolling for walleye. The water is very stained to tea coloured where we are, nowhere is more than 40' deep. Any and all tips would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

AWESOME!

Too bad about the tourney sign Looks like a great day out, like others have said, your son's smile says it all.

Excellent walleye there Bruce......i sympathise with your daughter......despite my natural in-built tan...i still fried today...and thats with sunscreen......had the shades on all day too so i look like a panda.

Great Pike there girls, excellent report TJ.

Yup, certainly am getting through my cash for bait, we are busy scoping possible minnow ponds at the moment, first traps should be in this week. I did a little experiment with a buddy last year, he was using Gulp leeches from the tub a i had live leeches....i out fished him 5 - 1. Last year the now never to return PWT Can- Am tournament on my home lake wabigoon was artificial bait only (Canada won!) and the guyswere bringing impressive 8 -10lb walleye to the weigh ins every day, not sure if that was on gulp type baits or trolling crankbaits though, lol...they tend not to say where and with what they caught their fish. A lake i went to weeks ago fishes best with twisty tail grubs, whereas when i tried those at the lake in this report not a sniff. I guess they work, but for me its a confience thing, if i'm already shelling out $50 in gas for boat and truck to get into some remotish lakes, i'd rather put in an extra $10 with my fishing partner for 4 dozen minnows. I might revise that as my funds start to dwindle though....lol. Actually yesterday was the first time i have been bit all year, its been soooooo cold here up till this week, but i'm sunburnt now....YEAH....SUMMER....AT LAST! Hey Splashhopper, its a good job you live down there...lol....my wife'es folks are in Dorchester, w'ell be down in October so you can put me onto some good spots when we're down....sound good? Gissa shout when you're back TBAY. You mock my pain.....lol.....its a tough life for me here...you could try and be a bit more understanding Would love to see ya up here JB....LJ could team up with my missus and give us a lesson in fishing. If ya come in september w'e hit Lac Seul for some Fall fishing....some real hawgs to be had. Yup Grt1, i wold be going crazy if that was me....you are a lucky so and so to be on Gullrock....my time up there last August is still the best walleye fishing i've experienced so far .

Hi all, went back to a a lake i'd only fished once before...and that was icefishing, but we did pretty good so had high expectations for it. Took a good hour to get in there with the ATV, trail in was in pretty rough shape. We headed to the creek mouth we'd fished in April on the ice....no joy except a couple small pike. We then tried to find some sheltered shoreline as the good ole weather network was ....as usual....way off the mark with its forecast and there was a really strong northwest causing whitecaps.... ........anyway after struggling to get good boat control with no fish to show for our efforts we headed to a spot we had fished through the ice in February, and after a 2 hour search for walleye we limited out in 20- 30 minutes, with a good number of oversize fish going back, a couple of small whitefish (i'll be back to target those for sure) and a boat load of slimey pike. All taken on jigs with minnows, colour did not seem important as we all caught around the same amount with different colours. Minnows were main bait, i had a few nightcrawlers and they worked just as well, just hooked on the jig. 12' 14' FOW was where all the fiash were, including the whities. Here's a video of us when we found the fishies, and a few random pics of the afternoon. WAS WORTH THE WAIT LOTS OF MINNOW THIEVING PERCH TOO LOONS WERE NOT SHY AT ALL LEW'S DAUGHTER INSISTED WE KISS ALL THE FISH BEFORE PUTTING THEM BACK, NO TONGUES THOUGH PLEASE...EWWWWW! ALWAYS LOTS OF PIKE IT SEEMS THIS WAS SITTING IN THE MUD AT THE LANDING, KINDA COOL THE STRAINED LOOK ON MY FACE IS CAUSE I HAVE AN ELBOW INJURY AND THE STRINGER WAS HEAVY!

Congrats on the first '09 crappie Mike. the carp battle sounded like fun. I love circle hooks ....but someone mention the hair rig set up...good advice.