limeyangler

I am like Percher...i'm doomed...i dont drink....the antidote is useless......but although the outright cure eludes me, i keep the virus at bay by doing exactly what you advise...

nice day to be out for sure....seems like the bite is as slow for you there as it has been for me up here bigugli...dying to get a fish entered for our team......was not planning to go fishing tomorrow...but just realised i have nothing that important to do...the wife's at work...hmmmmmmm...lol...guess i'd better drag myself out somewhere....hehe

Thanks for that Jim...pretty awesome...especially the Rainy River episode...only 2hrs drive from here...guess where i might be trying 3rd weekend in May

Having been skunked almost religiously the last three outings before I FIND THIS POST HIGHLY INSULTING....HOW DARE YOU USE THE NAME OF THE SKUNK IN VAIN!!!!!!!! Top stuff Jacques. Do ya think the ones that were getting off were whities? You must be using those barbless hooks they've been selling me up here too.....lol. Great report as per usual....very impressed with the PB branch too, not easy to get snagged on the ice....even more impressive to land the snag Cheers Simon

LOL...must've been a good day Dale...lol...you took a picture!!!!!!!! Good stuff man, you always get 'em. Did ya get any walters?.....and when are you taking me to this lake?...hehe

Big Fat dace minnow for trout...was using the same big white long shank jig i was using when we went to vickers those 2 times.

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'Skunky pants"....too funny. Unfortunately i will not be fishing this weekend....i'll be at work....being very productive chasing bugs off the screen like someone else i know

Hi y'all, i've skunked the last 3 times out....so decided to go to Thunder lake just to break the run of bad luck, as it has produced lakers consistently. Turned into a party of 3 and we hit the Lake by 10:30 am. Not before Lew got his truck buried in the ditch, lol....made a nice change to pull someone out...its usaully the other way round.....i was very proud of my little Canyon yanking that big Dodge Ram out!!! Anyway, we set up in the same spot i had fished all ice season so far, and not long after setting up Lew iced a small one...and threw it back. I then got 2 nice ones in quick succession, both getting off right at the hole....DOH!!!! After that we missed a couple bites...but it gradually got quieter...until there was no action at all really. We would have moved but tie was an issue as i was on-call for night shift. Anyway....we did see some small stuff hugging the bottom in 55' FOW, i managed to hook into one...pulled it up...and there it was...a WALLEYE! ok...this lake has a lot o f nice walleye, but i tried in vain all summer to get one in this lake, then when i'm trying for trout to break the skunk...lol...i do it with my 1st Thunder Lake Walleye...sweet....not the best fishing action...but mission accomplished! FOR ONCE IT AINT ME IN A DITCH OR BURIED TO THE BELLY IN A BEACH! CHASED A SKUNK AWAY WITH MY 1ST THUNDER LAKE WALLEYE!

lol...it was acually pulling uphill, took a few runs, but we made it out.

I drive a GMC canyon. Its a 5cyl and i get good gas mileage...even when towing boat/snowmachine. It handles the rough terrain ok....i even pulled a big old Dodge ram outta the ditch yesterday....lol.

Mine's a Double Double!

i have the Ping speed and graph speed both set at max........however on my latest trip i had to turn down my ping speed one notch to pick up my jig properly.....strange....as i'd fished that depth(60FOW) before without any problems.

Those there are some really nice whities...WTG

I have not caught a musky...but pike...lol....its actually pretty hard not to catch them....up here anyway. Ive spent many a happy hour or ten with the wife throwing topwaters for pike...in fact thats how i discovered some excellent bass fishing on a lake here...we were going for pike but started catching bass....and i never even knew there were bass in this lake! I know its different on different bodies of water....but at ice out in front of our house....i use a slip bobber from shore with a big ...big minnow or sucker minnow. Then i'll get 'em while jigging for walleyes with a smal jig and minnow. When i specifically target them i'll head for weeds with topwater 'poppers' or my absolute favourite the yellow with black spots Mepps Comet #3....my buddy likes spinnerbaits. I have even caught them whilst using downriggers for Lake trout, on 8" Nasty Boyz. I think somebody already said you may be trying too hard. I am always amazed what a pike will try to eat....i have thrown some hideously unnatural looking baits...all colors of the rainbow and they slam it! I find up here they love orange colors....its almost as if the noise and color just annoys them into hitting. By the sounds of it your gonna have some fun this spring with all the new lures you got.....i get the feeling it wont be long beefore i see a good report from ya with a nice picture of a giant pike...tight lines dude!

Looks like a great time......and you guys caught fish....lol....better than our weekend getaway fish wise. Like the dropped loop pic

well said....lol...only prob with that defence is i skunked on the trout and whitefish too..hehehehe i kinda had the feeling you would not let the walleye thing slide....lol

WOW...lol...cool post never thought people were so into birding here too...they are nutz for it in England...i figured cuz they killed everything else that was wild...lol. OFC = Ornitholgist Favorite Network?

LOL...looks like Downtown Dryden

Hi Y'all, Well it was an interesting 2 days...lol. Saturday morning went according to plan, apart from the fact that Brkygetr broke down and couldn't make it, lol...that might have been blessing if it was fish you were after Dale!! The group for the first part of the adventure on Lake Keikewabik for walleye was Glen, Mark, Barry, Matt and his son Ian, Lew and myself, without Dale and Benbeattie I was the only OFC member for the first day. We arrived at Donnelly's Minnitaki Lodge near Sioux Lookout at 10:30am and were ready to go by about 11 am. Excellent camp...run by a nice guy called Darrel, very helpful, good service, lent us all kinds of stuff including a snowmachine helmet as one of our group forgot theirs, and got someone to lead the way across the 1/2 hour trail ride to the cabin. When we got there they had kindly already got the woodstove going that day so it was warm....did i mention it was only $25 per person for the night...generator and propane for cooking and lighting included...I RECOMMEND THESE GUYS ! ALREADY TO GO FROM DONNELLY"S After dropping our gear at the cabin we headed out onto the lake...IT WAS FREEZING!!!! It must have been at least minus 25C , but the wind was at least 30kmh....and where we set up it was being channelled through the islands and was gusting unto god knows what! Lew brought a couple of portable shelters but in his own words when he and Glen tried setting it up it was like " two fat guys para-sailing across the ice"....lol...i missed that...i was busy trying to set up my gear. The 1st fish went to Matt....even before we were all set up....promising! After that it was sketchy. A few more Jackfish were caught, and kept because we were worried about supper as Dale who could not make it was bringing the supper stuff with him. In the end we got around 8 Walleye and 4 Jackfish......I SKUNKED!!!! oh well always tomorrow MATT GOT THE FIRST WHILE WE WERE STILL SETTING UP IT WAS FREEZING...ONLY THE ONE SHELTER TO GET OUT THE WIND A FEW MORE JACKFISH AND WALLEYE IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. <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/gtg4.flv"> It was sooooo cold and the fishing pretty slow we did not wait for the evening bite and were headed back to the warmth of the cabin with enough fish to eat by 3:30pm. The company was great, Glen was hilarious as usual, and kept everyone in stitches all evening, even when the Whiskey had closed his eyelids his jokes and banter were still going...lol. Hers a few shots from the evening. LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL (clockwise from left...Matt, Glen, Barry, Lew, Mark and young Ian) HAD TO THAW THE FISH GOT ENOUGH FOR SUPPER MATT AND GLEN GOT TO WORK FRYING...YOUNG IAN ASSISTED LOTS OF JOKES AND BANTER........THE WHISKEY FLOWED BARRY WAS TOO FUNNY....HE KEPT LAUGHING 30 SECONDS AFTER THE PUNCHLINES.... MARK AND MYSELF GOT CLEAN UP DUTY We all agreed that Matt was a twisted firestarter, and was not allowed near a woodstove again...he cooked us all that evening...it was like a sauna in that cabin!!!!!! Shouldn't complain, was better than freezing your Cojones off. I was up at around 7am the next morning to get breakfast started, was freezing out again but the wind had dropped off completely...hoped it would stay that way. After breakfast we did a good clean up of the cabin, packed our gear and headed back to the camp to load up and take the short drive to Big Sandy Lake for Whitefish and Lakers. We had arranged to meet Benbeattie and his buddy Graham at the lake. BEAUTIFUL MORNING AT KEIKEWABIK LAKE ROLL CALL We got out on Big Sandy Lake by 11:30am, and as we rounded the peninsula we could see Ben’s 2-man portable set up by the reef. Ben had already iced a whitefish....things were looking up. Mark and myself went to the far side of the reef to cover more area so did not really have much contact with the rest of the group. I had all sorts of issues with my gear...first off i got water on the buttons of my fishfinder...so although i was not going to set up the shelter i did so i could thaw out the buttons to make it usable. Then my auger was malfunctioning....crappy gas in it, lol, and to make it worse i then ruined Graham's auger too cuz he'd run out of gas, and putting the stuff i had in it pooched it too...some maintenance coming up for the auger me thinks!! The smelt was thick all over again. Even thicker than where I’d fished 3 days earlier on the same lake. At one point my whole screen in 50 FOW was completely blacked out with smelt. Mark did not get a bite, i got one follow and saw another large trout high up the water column but that was it. The wind picked up again and normal service resumed...freekin' freezin'! did not even get a pic of Ben's whitefish, too cold to want to get the camera out...i did not even get a picture of the whole group that day. SMELT WAS OMNI PRESENT After an hour or so, Glen came over to say we were moving from the reef cuz we had to get out of the howling wind, also nobody had caught a thing...except Matt who snagged a smelt. We headed around the point of an island and set up, not really much fishing was done, and we built a fire, had smokies and chatted, The augers were kaput9both) and it took half an hour to drill 5 or six holes, Smelt all over the place again. Ian had quietly broken away from the group and had dropped a line down the nearest hole in 9 FOW, he started shouting "I GOT ONE"......he certainly did, one of those big Jackfish that inhabit Big Sandy had hammered his minnow................... GOOD JOB IAN!.........CANT DO MUCH IF A SWIVEL SNAPS. <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/gtg17.flv"> After Ions break off Lew and myself tried in vain to land a fish with no luck. I'm a little shell shocked as that is the 1st time ever i have not caught a fish in 2 days of trying! Oh well , that’s fishing. Shame the fishing was slow for the much anticipated meet up, but the company was awesome, we laughed a lot, froze our nutz off, ate well, and all returned safely without too much drama. Everyone agreed we should do lots of summer meet ups and next year do an ice meet up in March!...lol...a little warmer and perhaps the fish would co-operate a bit more. Anyway....that’s it for now. Cheers Simon

man o man o man...these simcoe reports are killin' me...lol those fish really are in the mood to bite at the monment...top stuff RF...its way to much fun, hopin' we get some action like that on Sunday. Keep up the good work.

excellent stuff Ben, i'm not jealous at all...lol just glad you'll be there Sunday so i can learn a bit of that fish catching know how from ya.....and paln to join ya fior some lac seul action ibn the next couple of weeks, like you said we're not more than 1/2 hours drive away if we meet in the middle.

Its not cheating in Europe...lol anyway...thanks ...might just need that luck...but we have some good fishemen coming......i'm sure they can succeed where i failed....lol.

WOW...NUFF SAID