limeyangler

PBs all over the place!!!!! Excellent stuff jacques....what a day!

Hi All, Had a brutal few days at work, was sooooo tired Friday night was not gonna go fishing today, but the body clock had me up at 6:30am. I was kinda considering going, then about 8am Lew called to see where we wee going. I had to go now.....lol. We decided to stay local, no epic journeys, so Thunder lake it was. Got there about 1:30 am, and not much shoing. Was about an hour before any action, and even then it was a tiny little guy for me. ITS A START We saw fish on the screen, but the bite was slow, i hooked into 2 nice fish and lost them in the next hour, and Lew landed a lunch for one. LUNCH FOR TWO..... MAYBE 2 <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/lunchfor2.flv"> The next hour was Lew spent trying to coax what we thought was a Walleye on the bottom, I managed to get a 21" and a 24" in that time. Credit to Lew , he managed to get the fish that was messing him around for an hour...it wasn't a walleye but a baby laker....more like a sardine....lol. CREDIT TO LEW...HE GOT IT TO TAKE THE BAIT AFTER AN HOUR TRYING......lol <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/thatsnotatrouteatsasardine.flv"> THE BIGGER OF THE 2 TROUT I GOT WHILE LEW WAS BEING KEPT BUSY BY THE SARDINE AFTER THAT IT WENT DEAD......we tried everything. Then Lew noticed his flag was up outside, and got another little guy, went back...should have kept it as that was the last fish of the day.....we did move at around 3:30, but had no luck at the new mark, called it a day around 4:30pm....slowish day...but we got supper. I WOULD HAVE BEEN RUNNING....LEW TOOK HIS TIME WITH WHAT WAS TO BE THE LAST FISH OF THE DAY. <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/Flagup.flv">

My kinda day....great job guys!

You make it look easy Ben.......what a great way to spend a day...limit out on walters...pack up, short sled to hammer lakers....aweome!

Great stuff man! you guys on simcoe are killing me.....i'm torn between great joy from reading about great days out fishing, and complete and utter unfettered jeeeeeelouseee I WANNA GET SOME WHITIES!!!!

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Nice set up you got there WW. PMSL @ size 10 sandle...good one...too funny. Nice pike too BTW Thanks for sharing Simon

Top stuff ramble on, great description of the days events...and the commentary about moving./staying.......lol....i know exactly what you mean....and its great when someone confirms your instincts and your not feeling like...what if i had moved....? great feed of perch, great report to go with it, and i learnt a new word today....ORNERY.... thanks Simon

i was gonna suggest a new ranger too...good advice Disspatcher.

Ya...was a good team we had there last year...if we'd rgistered our extra points and got a muskie we were in with a shout at 2nd place!

Crack of 1:30pm....lol....too funny. looks like it was more than worth the effort and crotch freeze though...outstanding work Mr. Sinker I've only tried once for those trout...was not successful....lol....but been up to the nutz in snow before very successfully

Thats just not natural SNAG...open water in February Just Kiddin' that looks like good fun, always a bonus when the action is hot when you kinda aint expecting it be....nice snotrockets for sure!

NOTE TO SELF: must leave the shack more often....lol

AAAAARRRRGH....your'e trying to kill me Dale...i have to work tomorrow good luck though mate..watch that slush...gettin pretty warm

LOL...thats tough cuz the price goes up and down by 30cents a litre every day it seems!!! Its about a 60 litre tank empty...about 70 litres if i fill it up the tube. average price is around 80cents a litre at the moment here so i'd say it costs around $36 from a quarter tank left. take off my 3cents loyalty bonus for Fasgas and its around $30 for 3/4 tank

I own a canyon 4x4 crew cab...love my truck...but would not get one that wasn't 4x4. I wont even say how much it cost new....but the incentives were right and the economy was different back then...lol a year and a half ago. great little trucks...but that sounds very pricy if its not 4x4 considering how old it is. Lots of bargains to be had at the moment...its a buyers market...especially with the Big # who are up poop creek without a paddle. I even saw an ad from a dealer in winnipeg for the Nissan version of the Canyon crew cab 4x4......and they were throwing in a new 4x4 quad and a Snowmobile in the deal.....ok the unit itself was 39,000, but buy it and sell the quad and snowmachine and there ya go! All i'm saying is maybe dont leap just yet...i just did that as well with my snowmachine and got burnt with lots of regrets...not how i wanted to feel after buying my first ever snowmachine.........I hate giving advice probably because i'm crap at receiving it...and listening...but i would just like to say shop around a bit or bring that price around the 12,ooo dollar mark for starters.

Thanks for the replies guys, certainly was a contrast between the 3 days....started real slow and got better and better. Just wish lew and dave could've got the good bite on Thunder. certainly was big...about 2/3 the size of a golden retriever...or maybe that's what it was snacking on Glad you enjoyed that twighlight....i could never fish without my Lowrance....dont know how i ever did before! Yeah Sinker it was fun....can't wait till opening weekend....last year that was only 2 weeks after ice out, my buddy Dave was in there with his boat, the trout were still shallow and he was hitting 20"+ walleye and 25"+ trout along one stretch of shoreline in 25'FOW on little joe walleye spinners on light spinning rods....OH YEAH! COME ON 3RD WEEKEND IN MAY ! I'm gonna Keep on it as long as i can, but with the baby due anytime now...time is running out for me....so you'll have to take me to that Walleye/Laker venue you went to last week sometime soon Dale...sound good? Is that a genius plan or what? Hey JB.....can ya do me a big favor?....next time your out take a pic of how you rig your stinger and where ya stick it in the bait....would be much appreciated... Would seem i was using those darned hooks again Jaques Cheers Roy....just cant believe it took me sooooooo long to register one for us......i promise to try harder....lol your welcome up anytime, if ya come bring Jacques and Whitespinnerbait with ya!

would love to come up on MONDAY! you goin?

toatally awesomely wicked my man! I am not at all jealous...lol..really i'm not (i'm also a really bad lying) that sounds like sooooo much fun....i love catchin' da whities..yesirree

Great to see you out there Clamp-it....i almost had to do a double take when i saw it was a fishing report from you...lol Lovin' the smiley face hut...awesome!

Nice Laker that....tube jigs seem to work everywhere.

Hi all, Got out fishing Tuesday and Wednesday....went to Dore lake for the 1st time with Lew, then back to Thunder Lake on Wednesday. DAY 1........DORE LAKE Had planned with Lew to go to Dore Lake after a somewhat dismal afternoon on Thunder Lake the Friday before. I had tried to get in there with my boat in the summer, but the trail was washed out and I almost did not get out! We eventually got going at around 11:30am after having to take a hairdryer to my carbs on my snowmobile to defrost the throttle cable, Lew made I detour to my house to show me this neat trick...lol...I thought the cable was broken. We both knew where the trail in was, and had to snowmachine 5 kms up the logging road to get to it as they are not hauling. After a few getting stuck incidents, and a few trees blocking our path we came out onto the Lake in glorious sunshine with no wind. We headed to a spot about half way up the lake, looked good, small island just off the middle of the lake that formed a channel between a point into a small bay. Drilled some holes and found 30' FOW. WAS A GORGEOUS DAY.....NO NEED FOR THE SHACK...STAYED FOLDED ALL DAY We started to see fish almost immediately on our fishfinders, looked mainly small, but then normal service resumed....hooked into at least 3 fish that got off!!!!! Lew also lost a couple. FLAG UP!....GOT OFF!!!! <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/2flagupbutgotoff.flv"> It went quiet for a good 45 mins so we decided to drill holes back up to the midwater island......well Lew did all the drilling...lol. Looks like we were right at the bottom of a steep drop off from the island.....because in the space of 10 yards it went from 12.5' to 31.8' where my hole was.....another 10 yards in to the island it was down to 5' deep. Lew decided to set a line at the 12.5' deep hole, just as he was setting up, a big school of baitfish showed on my screen, and right behind that was a nice deep orange fish arch...I dropped my minnow down, the orange arch literally did a double take...and nailed the bait....a little jackfish...at least it did not get off!!! THIS GUY DID A CARTOON DOUBLE TAKE WHEN IT SAW MY MINNOW....LOL It seemed like I had the honey hole today...as most of the bites were for me.....BUT I COULD NOT KEEP THEM HOOKED!!!!! I know I should use a stinger...and many have suggested it...but I tend to find that when I use them the fish don’t even bother biting...lol. Anyway, after a good couple of hours, and only a host of missed bites and a baby pike to show for it...our patience was rewarded and I managed to finally get a respectable eater through the ice. ITS A START.....JUST NICE NOT TO HAVE TO SEE IT WAVE GOODBYE WITH ITS TAIL!!! After about another half hour, with the time creeping close to 3pm, we decided to move and took off half a mile up the lake to a point where the main body narrowed, we followed some snowmachine tracks and found some sticks marking old holes. We quickly drilled next to one stick and found 10'FOW. Because we had been seeing fish in the deeper water, we drilled a series of holes out from shore until we found 25' FOW. Lew set the Tip-Up in the deepest hole and we both fished around 17'FOW with one of my rods in the 10' hole. Anticipation was high as the sun started its descent and wally witching hour approached. SUN STARTED TO SIGNAL SUPPER TIME LEW SET HIS TRAP DEEPER THIS TIME It was very quite, for an hour at least, nothing showing in the deeper water, and only uninterested picky perch in the 10' deep hole cluttering up my sonar screen. Then at around 4pm the first fish started to appear....and once again normal service resumed...we were hooking them but they kept getting off!!! Finally I landed what was a decent fish...around 19", but it was smaller than the first 2 that got off, and the ones that got off did not feel like jackfish either! I rushed to get my OFC tourny badge......only to find I’d left them at home....Lew lent me his iceshanty.com badge (that’s the forum where I know Lew from) , not quite the same as I’ve been dying to get Team#3 a fish! THATS MORE LIKE IT!! We packed up just as it was getting dark, and luckily had no troubles getting back the 30 minute snowmachine ride, we avoided the numerous slush holes, and I got my sled up to 85mph with my 200lb shack in tow...did a good job of scaring the crap outta myself in the process.....lol. We planned to meet up again the next day and try another venue, and Lew was gonna phone later on when we'd had a chance to think of a good place to go......on the way back I saw a really big eagle feasting on something left out on the ice road, always fun to see these guys. GOOD DAY....could've had our limit...but at least the fish were biting. THIS GUY WAS BIG! DAY 2........THUNDER LAKE Lew did call back on Tuesday night, but couldn't make it....I kinda decided I was not going to go either, but when I got up Wednesday morning, my addiction got the better off, and I got the all clear from the missus so decided to head back to Thunder Lake and try for trout. Not only is this normally a good local place to catch, I am getting free bait from the my tackle shop guy if I bring him some trout from time to time...and with sucker minnows at $8.99 a dozen its a good deal!!! It got really cold the night before....and when I stepped out to warm up the snowmachine it was minus -40C. Good job Lew taught me the hairdryer trick the day before, cuz I had to put it on the pull cord for 1/2 an hour to loosen it up.....no chance the electric start would do it today, even my auger needed some TLC to get going. After spending the best part of 2 hours warming up engines and packing I headed out at 10am....it was still minus -30C!!! WAS STILL MINUS 30 DEGREES CELCIUS WHEN I LEFT AT 10am It was cold out there today, but no wind. I did not set up the shack as I wanted to get going quickly if the fish did not bite or show up in the first hour on my normal spot. I set one line with a big sucker minnow, and was jigging with a smaller minnow as I could see small stuff on the bottom, and having got a walleye on Friday at this spot I thought it might be walleye again...lol....I was wrong...it was a little trout....and I mean little! TINY TROUT! Not more than ten minutes after that, fish started to show midwater......and although taking the bait aggressively...again it was a small one....... GETTING BIGGER THOUGH <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/thun3littlebitbigger.flv"> On this basis I decided to stay put, not only that, there was a portable shelter on the spot I intended to hit if the fish were not biting where I was. So I decided to fish in the luxurious warmth of my heated shack...lol. It was a good decision in the end...as where the bite was slow for us on Friday...it was non stop action for the 3 hours I was there. Started off with 3 or four small ones....then managed to get a decent 23"...not huge...but a good size for thunder lake....AND ONE FOR TEAM #3!!!! COUPLE SMALLER ONES TO START THEN A KEEPER....GO TEAM 3# After that things just got out of hand....lol. I'm reeling a fish up at one hole, and decided I better bring up the transducer from the hole next to it. As I lift the transducer out of the hole....I see a nice trout flash past the bottom of the hole. It was not the trout I had on the line as that one was only half way up at 25', damn trout thought my transducer was bait and went for it!!!! With all the messing around I lost the fish I had on, and in the process got wrapped up in my other line and pulled my other rod into it's hole. I had already reeled up the line from the now sinking rod and managed to pull it up the hole I had been paying the fish through....lol....Lucky. It did however mean I had to change my gear because I had to cut the line...so I opted for a white with 'black pepper' speckles tube jig, topped with a Power Bait 'fishfry' and minnow guts....filling the tube with Powerbait Trout Attractant. Remembering seeing the trout near the top I just jigged it around 5' under the ice...and WHAM!...so cool to see the trout taking it right before your eyes! I actually got 3 more like that right under the ice before it slowed off. THEY WERE LOVIN THE TUBES 5' UNDER THE ICE As the action slowed up high in the water column I started to notice a bit of activity right at the bottom again. And decided to see if Mr. Walter was coming out to play. Well whatever it was ran me a merry dance for the next 1/2 hour......... WHATEVER IT WAS .......WAS TEASING ME....lol <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/thun9walleyeperhaps.flv"> I got frustrated with that and in my desperation threw a tube jig down, just trying to change things up a bit.....the jig reached about half way down when a fish mark on the graph shot vertically up from the bottom and nailed it! NOT A WALLEYE THEN...BUT A KEEPER <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/thun10afterwalleye.flv"> With my trout limit in the bag, and it only being 2pm, I decided to go small and see if I could get a walleye, after a few more smaller trout, and one decent one, and another really decent fish that got off, I managed to get a Walleye in the next half hour! GOT A FEW SMALLER ONES AND A NICE BIG ONE (forgot to take a snap of the big one...lol...too much excitement) GOT A WALLEYE TOO! <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/thun7gotawalleye.flv"> After that walleye I got 2 more small trout, and decided to call it a day, did not really want to stress out the young trout unnecessarily as that’s the next few years’ fun, but all fish not kept were successfully released, and swam away with vigor! TIME TO CALL IT A DAY <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/vishuscirquel/thun8straightafterwalleyecandr.flv"> NOT A BAD WALLEYE TO GO WITH YESTERDAY'S 2, AND ENOUGH TROUT FOR SOME MORE MINNOWS!!! All in all a fun 2 days fishing, promising 1st visit to Dore Lake, and a fairly normal action packed couple of hours on Thunder lake....even if the trout were not trophy size...you wont hear me complaining! .

WTG again boys...nice eyes...wow....Lac Seul is just the best.

WTG Ben....wow...that means i've met a real live famous person!

Thanks so much for sharing that....i actually misted up...we are expecting our 1st child any day now.....CANT WAIT!