limeyangler

Thanks for sharing....hope you dont mind...but i'm stealing that pic of the water and trees...its spectacular!

Hey GRT1, nice to hear from ya again...i've not been up to red lake since the fall classic tourney...RED LAKE IS AWESOME FISHING! your a lucky man living up there. I really appreciate your reply, it helps me feel that its not necessarily anything we were doing wrong...lol. I live on Lake Wabigoon...the locals call it the Dead Sea too....and thats all year round....lol.

Hi Y'all, after a brief discussion about an hour ago via Leechman's 'Weather ' thread....he decided i should go fishing down the end of the yard, bso i decided to see what i could get in 1 hour. OK...OK...I'M GOING! <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/MVI_2092.flv"> I WALKED THE WHOLE 100 YRDS......ITS A REAL CHORE! <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/MVI_2094.flv"> I STARTED OFF JUST TOSSING OUT A JIG AND MINNOW FOR WALLEYE....BUT THE WEEDS WERE A PROBLEM AFTER HALF AN HOUR AND !)LBS OF WEED.....I GOT THIS LITTL GUY ON THE JIG AFTER ANOTHER 5LB OF WEEDS DRAGGED TO SHORE I CHANGED UP TO A FLOATING GLOW JIG AND SINKER AFTER 15 MINUTES THIS TINY PIKE KNOCKED THE ROD CLEAN OFF MY LOG ROD REST <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/MVI_2097.flv"> THE WIND STARTED TO PICK UP AND RAIN STARTED TOO....MY HOUR WAS UP ANY WAY <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/MVI_2102.flv"> OH WELL>>>>WILL JUST HAVE TO WATCH THE SECOND HALF OF ARSENAL V WEST HAM TYPICALLY....AS I'M WRITTING THIS THE SUN HAS COME OUT....BUT STILL RATHER BE IN HERE AS THE WIND IS REALLY HOWLING NOW Cold...wet and very windy....but avoided the skunk!

i'll be watching for a hard water report too....your a lucky man Drifter...wow..icefishing in October...how excellent...i love fishing for lakers too....whitefish being my second favourite target species.

ok....i'll just get outta my PJs and head down...see what if anything i can catch in an hour...will do a mini report in 60minutes time....lol.

Awesome darsky....awesome....glad you got into the fish....makes the weather an irrelevance....we got rained on too on Friday...but we never really got into the fish.....sounds like great fun. I never had any luck with those cheap wet skins, they always rip...but i got a good jacket(cheap) and a pair of cheaper black waterproof skin trouers, with plenty of give....and i spray them with that waterproofing sparay...the water just beads of it.

its a constant struggle Leechman...lol.....the water....it speaks to me.......calls me.

I could go on a rant...but i wont...i think its great they are goin to ban cell phones in cars...been like that in England for years. Dunno about GPS though, one problem that did arise in England with the use of GPS was that big semi trucks would get stuck in tiny villages with no suitable roads for them...lol...

at the moment its rain and wind...wind due to get upto 35kms today...so much for my fishing plans...lol...i might brave it though. LIVE WEATHER SHOT FROM MY COMPUTER DESK WINDOW...GREY, WET AND WINDY...WOW...JUST LIKE ENGLAND AGAIN!!!!....LOL

welcome aboard Bluegill, from one 'foreigner' to another

Certainly does look a bit 'breezy' out there...good job the rain held off. Too bad the fish got off. Cliff...that picture of the blackbirds in the tree with the rushes in the foreground is stunning!!!! congrats on that pic.

i have 2 walmart $39 6'6" spinning combos (mitchell), and one softer action $30 combo from a small tackle shop in Sioux Lookout. I use a 10' ugly stick light with a Shimano aero GTE-B Baitrunner reel for downrigging. I would like some better gear...lol...all donations greatfully accepted. I would love to upgrade to the Fenwick/G Loomis rods...have held a few of those babies at tackle stores in Winnipeg.....TO DIE FOR!!! but i am prone to lose rods in the same way as JohnyB's ....i shut them in car doors, etc...etc...etc...I have have broken 4 rods this year alone!!! such a clutz. will one day upgrade my reels...its just the ones i like are from England...and i dont have a credit card so ordering them is a bit of a pain. Thy are Shimano reels but the products in England are slightly different. I love rear drag reels...especially ones with the 'fightingdrag' adjustment too...You can get them over hear...its just that the one i have seen which is similar always have that really annoying bail arm trigger thing...WHY DO THEY PUT THAT THING THERE...??? is it just me or is that the most redundant piece of !@#$@ ever??!! Anyway ...would love one ...actually 4 of these...2 of the 2500 size for walleye and spinning, and 2 smaller 1500's for my icefishing rods. What i want for Xmas

Wow.....thats perseverance....congrats on a beauty walleye...certainly was beat up good. My buddy and me had a similar day on Friday...rain, rain and more rain...and like you the camera remained packed away because of it. Those cheap rain suits suck...lol...had 2 explode on me, you go to sit down...and...rrrrrip!

Welcome to the site SandE....get posting...we love piccies as leechman said.

Welcome to the site Kostya

Thats great musky you got there...i live up north...i love those back lakes on logging roads...great report ...thanks for sharing.

nice fish there springbok...thanks for sharing.

Hi Y'all well we took off to lac seul early Friday morning....about 5am . Dave and me were really pumped for this...as lac seul is a real fish factory, and although neither of us has fished it much, we have always done pretty well when we do...the walleye fishing in this lake can be spectacular. We were even more pumped because all the local walleye populations seem to have their feedbags on.....so things were looking good . After an uneventful journey we were on the lake by 7am, still almost dark...we would have been out earlier but we got chatting to some hunters who were at the boat launch. NICE EARLY START Dave wanted to try a couple of islands he had been told were good, so we headed off on a 30 min boat ride to our destination. After an hour of trying and not a fish to show for our efforts we headed to a reef we had found on a previous trip. Basically a midwater reef, nice 13-15' shelf extending in a long 25 meter plateau, with a harp drop off to 40' at one end....we were marking fish mostly on the slope at 20-27 FOW. We decide to try the shallow part of the reef too...but that only produced 3 small smb for me. GOT 3 LIKE THIS After about 1/2 an hour...Dave finally landed a walleye...but by Lac Seul standards it was tiny. We fished for anohter whole hour before i finally landed another fish...much more like the walleye to be found on Lac Seul...a nice 24". Then, despite marking fish on the bottom...we had no more bites for another hour. 1ST WALLEYE OF THE DAY 2ND FISH WENT FOR MY BAIT By this time the wind was up, and it was pouring with rain....SO MUCH FOR THE DARN WEATHER NETWORKS 5 DAY FORCASTS!!!!! (rant over) It poured all day, which did not help with the mood in the boat with the lack of fish, i dont know how dave lasted th whole day, he did not wear his waterproof trousers, his jeans were soaked through, it was only about 6 degrees centigrade, god only knows what the wind chill was...he's crazy!!! Anyway, we lthen embarked on a three or four hour search of fish, deep, shallow, weedlines, sand bars, mud flats, even tried trolling with hardbaits as we had marked suspended fish too. We tried casting swimbaits, x-raps...hell...i think the only method we did not try was downriggers, and would have if we had them. We did catch some fish, a few nice pike, and our limit of walleye, but aparrt from the 24" one early on, thy were all under 16"...some even smaller. The lack of pictures was a result of the pouring rain...did not want the camera getting soaked...not that there was much 'fish porn' to show...lol. We ended heading back to the reef to fish out till sunset...at least we knew there were fish there, and we caught a load of small ones...the biggest fish being a Ling that Dave hooked into just before we left, they put up a good fight, dave was convinced it was a big walleye...he was very dissappointed when he saw it was a Ling. DAVE'S LING The weather was truly terrible all day, the fishing not much better, almost thought we had a banana hidden in the boat...lol, anyway...we caught fish...its just our expectations were higher and the weather worserer.....tough days fishing...but hey...better than working....just.

that just looks like too much fun....thanks for sharing.

Fantastic report, and wow...thats a nice wally ...real nice.

Joonmoon....lol...banana terrorism/sabotage! My buddy Dave brought a whole bunch of bananas one fishing trip this summer. It was at a lake we were told was swarming with walleye, we just about skunked save for a few small walleye. Half way through a day of some of the poorest walleye fishing ihave had...Dave produced a bunch of bananas at lunch...he thought i was crazy when i started yellin``why did you bring those!!` he had never heard of it before. We went back to that lake 2 weeks later and pretty much hammered walleye for an hour or so....dunnoif bananas made the difference though.

Hi Y'all, This time last year my boat had been in the garage for at least 3 weeks, i kinda figured that because i had not had much success on the lake i live on, fishing everywhere was similar. Well one year later with lots more knowledge (lots gratefully gleened from the pages of this forum), and my own truck to pull the boat on...which helps, i am discovering the whole new season of fall...fishing wise.........and it ROCKS....cold....but WHO CARES! I had been busy all day getting the house/garage/woodpile etc...ready for winter and had decided early on in the day(lol...the moment i got up) that i would make do with a couple of hours at the end of the yard casting frm shore. I was done at about 2pm, and thought i could easily do better than the yard and head off for the evening bite at Beaver lake, again. So i hooked the trailer up, drove to town, picked up minnows for today(and tomorrow as we are heading to Lac Seul at 4:30am) did some quick repairs to my trailer lights in the car park of canadian Tire, and was on Beaver Lake by 3pm. Like the time i was there last i headed to the 'honey hole' we have discovered there. For the firsat hour i did not even get a bite. Then i started to catch the usual jackfish.....and another, and another....strangely all the exact same size...and lol....no....its not the same fish over and over in the pics below..... AFTER 1 HOUR ALL I STARTED TO CATCH WAS JACKFISH I must have caught around 10 of those little guys before it went quiet for around half an hour. This time, unlike the last time i did not move off the honeyhole, i was sure the walleye were there, and at around 5pm ish i hooked into the first one. From 5pm till dark the bite just got better and better. All the fish were between 18" and 24"...really fat, and feisty, must have caught around 20 fish, all in 12 FOW, water temp now at 47F, most on a small chartreuse jig, some near the ned on slip bobber with orange /white jig...minnows for bait. I did not keep any as i could not get any smaller ones, and being a small lake i put 'em back to breed more little wallaces Here's some piccys and videos of a really enjoyable and successful hour and a half walleye bonanza....sorry bout the sound on the vids. <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/gg-1.flv"> <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/jj-1.flv"> <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/ll-1.flv"> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Hopefully tomorrows outing on lac seul is as rewarding, but hey....i dont care...its just great to get out there.

Cliff....thats not fair.....making me wait for the 'real' report...lol. BTW....i'm up at 3:30 am tomorrow for a day on Lac Seul....cant wait.

Really fun read, thanks for sharing. I hope you dont do the 'snow day' thing all winter again.....GET A SNOWMACHINE.....YOUR BUDDY ALREADY HAS AN ICE ROD......GO DRILL SOME HOLES THIS WINTER!!!! Once again, fun read....thanks.

Great report! very informative...love all the different baits/lures you used...will give that a go some day. I cant agree with you more about fall being a great time to fish, lots of hungry fish, and nobdy out n the lakes....perfect!!!