limeyangler

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Great stuff Ben, welcome to canada from a fellow ex-pat. That is one hell of a carp. keep up the good work...and dont try too hard finding a job

Congrats on the beauty walter and a top 20 finish too. Lol...still drooloin' over that new boat set up of yours Stoty...real nice.

really great pictures, and nice splake too. Thanks for posting and sorry bout the sad news of the passing of a friend.

drooooooool! nice set up!

great stuff Ander nice trout!

jeeze....wtg...nice fish man! and nothing wrong with lopping in nature shots

Thanks for posting that, laughing still at the 'peeeeed' bit........it does look like that lol. my ucnles trailer lights are also a pain....i think its the earth too...good tip using the jumper cables...will try that.

Hi all, Went fishing today at work, work with kids in care and take our boys out evey chance i get...which is lots during the summer....gas and minnows on expenses cant be bad, and the kid loves it so its a definite win/win. I had heard the suckers were in the creek and thought it would be fun to have a go catching some. I had a net which would have been easier but the kid wanted to use a rod and line, so i grabbed some small minnows and we headed out. I got 2, the kid tried but was unlucky. QUITE A FEW IN THERE, GOT A COUPLE SMALL ONES After that we headed up the road to a good bass lake by the highway, i kinda thought the water might still be a bit cold and the bass not very active as the lake is spring fed and the ice only cleared of it a week ago. I was wrong, we were there for an hour and got 5 all from shore with slip bobbers and minnows, i lost a real lunker...aint that always the way. KID HOOKED INTO FIRST ONE, IF IT WAS NOT FOR CONFIDENTIALITY YOU WOULD SEE THE BIGGEST GRIN ON HIS FACE I GOT 3 SMALLER ONES AFTER THAT AND OF COURSE THE BIG ONE IS 'THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY' After work i decided to have a few casts at the bottom of our yard......and finally got a decent pike...water must be warming up now, lots of minnows and shiners in the shallows. It should be non-stop big pike down there now for the next 2 weeks before the water warms up more and they move away from the bay, they are always around, but for 2 weeks at ice out there are usually large numbers of large pike right there. I only had one big minnow left so after i got that one i called it a day and grabbed a few moments to watch another beautiful sunset. THATS MORE LIKE IT.....MAYBE 30" USUAL GREAT SUNSET

i have shaddupped

Great report DJ, good on ya for giving the worms away. i love the picture of the boat in the pouring rain.

absolutely amazing Wayne...real good job!

27lb!! wow, thats a big lump...must be fun to catch 'em. Weather dont bother me much either...sucks a bit if you get cold and wet and get no fish, but i'd rather be fishing!

Congrats on the PB! great video too....wow...looks sooooo nice out there!

Bass season is open all year here...is it unethical for me to catch them?

I'm just building up to it ....lol

Thanks Mike, were near Winnipeg, so pretty cold up here, but the ice is all gone now and its a rush to get my boat ship shape for walleye opener on the 16th. Hey Jim, like i've said before, i never tire of the sunsets up here...awesome....as for baby limey, Thanks for asking as it gives a very proud daddy another excuse to show him off...he is really coming out of his food/cry/fill the diaper stage....a real character....he has a smile that melts my heart........ Plenty of water here now Bigugli, come on fishes....really cant wait to see if i can beat my 30"pb walleye this year, and a first ever musky would be another goal of mine.....come on Team #3! Nope not long now Glen till i'm holding up traffic at the launch and burying my truck up to the belly in the beach, whether i'll give the fishies a dickensing this season remains to be seen....but i'm sure i'll have some good moments this year. Why aint you out there? You read my mind again Jaqcues, i was looking back through last year's posts, and it was definitely warmer this time last year. I lost a huge pike yesterday, it snagged on an underwater branch and snapped me off, so they are starting to show. Hey Dale, i forgot to mention in the post about our recent speck trip that it was a blast despite not catching, and gotta say, not being a fan of smokies as you know, those moose smokies have me converted....lol...they were awesome! Hey Rick...long time man......like you i cant wait till saturday...good luck out there dude...but i dont think you need it Hey Joe, got the seats sanded down, and applied the first coat of Helmsmans varnish, i think it will weather proof it for another year, but the quality of wood i used to build the new seats last year was pretty crap, think ill re-do them again next year with some nice hard wood.

i hope i do start catching soon Glen, its been tough going here for me recently.......anyway...what you doin' back on the main board...your usually in the tourny section giving 'team 15 minutes' grief...lol I had to move it quick...before she thought it was her mothers day gift and tried to whisk an ommelette with it!

Hi Yall, got m new Minn Kota Terrova 55#, Autopilot with Universal sonar and remote control(Co-pilot) Bought the quick release mount and got the 54" shaft as suggested in a recent topic on here. The deploy button alone seems to be worth the extra bucks over the powerdrive, just push the lever in, press down and the thing just glides out of the cradle...sweet! Only seven more sleeps till she hits te water....hmmmmmm.....now all i need is a hd Lowrance GPS combo unit so i can hook my trusty old X67c to the front and use the big GPS with me by the tiller! then i woke up from my dream....lol any ways....here's my new addition....

nice one ........i cant take it anymore....aaaarrrrghhhhh! but seriously...lol....great stuff , looks like you had a blast!

Hi all, The ice finally started to give way on the lakes round here on the 23rd of April, and i have been busy taking pics of the ice retreating as a kind of record to look back on in years to come, keeping a close eye on how the weather/wind/temps etc.. affect the ice. I fished a lot later last year, even though the ice was probably safer for longer this year, just had other stuff going on....so the first opportunity i had to cast a line was not soon enough....lol...i would have cast into a puddle by the side of the road if i could have. I did not intend this report to be so long...but i kept putting off writting it up.....but now i'm at work (boring night shift) and have some time on my hands...lol...at work and have time....at home...not so much...ironic. Anyway....here's a few pics of Lake wabiggoon the week of 21st april, showing the gradual retreat of the ice...AT LAST! I think it was around thursday 30th April that i noticed that there was a large enough area at Olsen's landing to cast for some Pike, so i dropped by at Lew's place and we arranged to go that afternoon. We skunked, Lew sliced his thumb open opening a new lure packet, but felt great to cast a line again and lew got to try out some of his homemade lures. LEW TESTING HIS HOMEMADE LURES I had been talking to OFNer Brkygtr about getting a lake we had skunked on in jan/febfor some ice out specks, he called me Friday night and we arranged to meet the next day...neither of us knew whether the ice was actually out yet on the lake...but we were gonna chance it....we arrived to perfect conditions. half the lake was still covered in ice....more slush really, with a slight breeze clearing the ice slowly but visibly........ PERFECT CONDITIONS GREETED US WE WERE IN BRKYGTR'S 12' WITH HIS NEW TROLLING MOTOR. Its not a very big lake...almost a pond....lol....so we covered a fair bit of water, and having ice fished it knew the structure/layout pretty well, after trying shallow, then deep we headed over to the retreating ice to fish the ice shelf.... we were casting various mepps and blue fox spinners, split shot rigged worms(nightcrawler) i even tried thew slip bobber .....nothing! TROLLING THE ICE SHELF I had stupidly underestimated the weather, and had not brought warm enough clothing , so when the wind picked up Dale took pity on me and we found the most sheltered shoreline and breaked for a cast and a bite to eat......dale had brought some moose smokies he had someone make up from a bull the got some time in the fall.....damn good smokies! FOUND SOME SHELTERED SHORE FOR A CAST AWESOME LUNCH...THANKS DALE! After lunch we headed back the the ice shelf, this time we were trolling what i think are called 'gang troller' rigs....i.e. 4 or five large in line spinner/flasher blades with a hook at one end, we had nightcrawlers on the hooks. After freezing our cojones off in ever increasing winds with no fish taking, we decided to get back to the landing while we still had juice in the battery, as paddling against whitecaps was not on our list of things we most wanted to do.... TROLLING THE ICE SHELF AGAIN we got back to the vacinity of the landing and started to cast again, i tied on a little cleo to give me a better casting distance if nothing else, and started to cast at the submerged boulders along the shore. that produced the only action of the day, a large swirl, and a fast follow , but no strike. this encouraged us to try a bit longer but at around 2pm after 6 hours trying we decided to try a splake lake further up the road........ WENT UP THE ROAD FOR SPLAKE....UNFORTUNATELY THE NW WIND HAD BLOWN THE ICE TO THE WRONG SIDE OF THE LAKE MAKING ACCESS EVEN FOR CASTING FROM SHORE IMPOSSIBLE After that we called it a day and i made the 2 hour jouney back home to Dryden. On the way back i noticed that one of my favourite lakes for bass(sm) had open water, and stopped to cast a few lures, nothing taking......probably a bit too cold still. THIS LAKE IS RIGHT BY THE HIGHWAY AND HARDLY EVER FISHED BUT HOLDS THOUSANDS OF BIG SMALLIES...I WILL RETURN....lol. I was greeted by a welcome sight on Sunday morning (3rd may)...OPEN WATER AT THE BOTTOM OF OUR YARD!.......I had a few things/chores to sort out so got busy with the intention of getting my first big ice out pike later in the afternoon...man was i psyched up....... YAY...OPEN WATER! By 5pm i had done the chores list and got some big sucker minnows for bait.....only to see that whilst in town running around the wind had changed direction and blown the ice back into shore.....DOH! No fishing today...lol...but got some nice pics anyway as the sun went down. DOH...WHERE"D ALL THE ICE COME FROM NICE SUNSET PIC OPPORTUNITIES THOUGH I was working the next day, but was back by 7pm and had to give it another go, the strong SW winds during the day having cleared a good swathe of ice from our shore......The sucker minnows were still lively, so i made the short trek down the lawn, full of anticipation on a beautiful evening.... A FISH!.....but a small one That was it...not another bite....wow...this time last year it was non stop 30"+ pike one after the other, mind you the water was warmer last year at this time. Anyhoo, i took some more susnset pics as i was waiting for the fish to bite........ MORE SUNSET PICS I did not get out on the 5th of may....but coming off the night shift on the morning of the 6th i gave it another go out the front....no fish again........but it was a beautiful misty morning ...soooo...lol....took some more pics as the mist cleared.....hopefully i can be posting some fish pics again soon....... NICE MISTY MORNING , BUT STILL NO FISH I'll keep trying....cant be long now before i get some fishies...till then...tight lines all!

top stuff old man (could not resist) The water looks soooo calm.......i might be down London way in september.....any room in that boat?

Great report...thanks for sharing that.

congrats on the firsts....and that is a hell of a walter for a first one!!!!

Great report! What a great way to start the new season! I was given a book with pictures and descriptions of freshwater fish when i was about 10 years old, there were pictures of grayling in it, and ever since that day i have wanted to catch them....some day......... Thanks for posting.