limeyangler

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!!!

OUCH!!!!!! holy crapaola.....thats gonna sting. 10/10 for the days catch though...quite the session you had there GCD!

Nice catch....i've not tried perch yet....too many walleye up here...lol.

Very inventive, imaginative, thought provoking(ouch...it hurts to have thoughts provoked at 7am....lol) and funny read. thanks for posting. I treminded me of a local to erieau i met this summer who singlehandedly cleans up that town by collecting all the bottles and cans around the lake shore. he let me fish from the dock behind his house and in return i loaded my pick up truck for trips to the beer store to cash in...one trip i had over $60.....my pick up was full.

Great catch guys.....congrats.

what next!!??? Lakebunnies?....lol....that wont work ...we shooot bunnies up here.

Hmmmmm....TRUCK WENCHES.....sounds like one of those late night shows....not that i ever watch them ....and yes it is a 4x4...and all the advice given is very greatfully recieved , some of the advice i even thought of myself!!!!...lol...but seriously...thanks for all the replies guys, and Rickster....we are headed up to Lac Seul for the swansong of the open water season on Friday, if ya wanna join gissa call....Sandy has my number. If not we really have to stop saying we should meet up and JUST DO IT! Probably only just over 5 weeks till hardwater...so if i dont see ya friday we'll arrange aa meet up for first ice..

That looks pretty good to me!!!! enjoy.

I'm not retired or anything, but i just fish so often a lot of my buddies cant keep up....lol...so i also fish alone a lot too. I dont think you can have enough safety gear...as anyone who has seen my recent posts would have to see where i'm coming from. I am definitely going to get one of those GPS spo signal things, not only for my own safety...but my wife's piece of mind, cell phone a no go up here...can hardly get signals even in town!!!! Lots of folks thought i was weird last winter here....i was wearing my boat pFD jacket under my winter jacket when icefishing.....made me feel safer...specially around first ice, even when the ice was 4 feet thick by February i always carried my ice spikes. Happy hunting/fishing...keep safe all.

Great report Solopaddler, great looking fish. I'm pretty jealous as float fishing is my absolute favourite, whether sea or freshwater, and to catch fish like those must be amazing. Best wishes to your buddy Fergie, must be stressful.

Great report New Angler. I tried for salmon this year hen down south...no luck, but got plenty of rainbows, great fun, but enough about me already....lol....congrats on your first salmon I would like to agree with the comment on the 'Fish I.D.' comment by Fisherman. TURN IT OFF. I personally never use it...much prefer to see arches and bait clouds on screen....much more accurate....for example....go over a weed bed with fish ID on and it will tell ya there are thousands of fish there......ya...right!

great to see ya back TBAY...was wonderin where ya'd been. Great report as per usualle.....i was laughing when you describe 'not knowing what goes throuth your mind' bit.....i came to the exact conclusion a few weeks back...out on Lac Seul catchin nice walleyes....what do i do as soon as i start catching...yup...change the pattern thats working...lol...GO FIGURE! Great pics, some nice tmb's as GCD calls em

Nice reports and pics, even better is the walleye you caught...beauty fish!!!!! I think you guys are lucky to be near BOQ, especially for icefishing season....the size of the walleye i've seen pictures of always amazed me....10/10 for perserverance.

Welcome aboard Pikeslayer, nice to have another Northerner in here, we seem to be a rare breed on here....

Hi Y'all, Went back to Beaver Lake again as it was so awesome there 4 days ago. This time a short late afternoon session with my buddy chuck. Last time I was there was a real gale blowing, but the weather the day before yesterday when we went was awesome ...sun and not a breath of wind, although this did concern me a bit as i tend to do better catching walleye the worse the weather is! Anyway, i had spent all day cleaning my truck after the adventures at the beginning of the week and did not head out to meet chuck in town until 2pm. got to the lake at 3pm. Before i left though i wanted to test the weight of a jig on my bobber set up as i thought this might be a good technique for the day, since the last time i went there an almost dead still , vertical presentation seemed to be the ticket. I went to the bottom of my yard to the lake, stuck a minnow on...lol...might as well since i had some at he end of the dock in the bucket.....and the jig balanced the 6gram drennan piker bobber perfectly.....and just for good measure i landed a beauty pike within seconds........... JIG WORKS PERFECTLY IT SEEMS <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/a1-1.flv"> It was hard to resist the one last cast syndrome after that, but Chuck hates me being late so i tore myself away from our lake and headed out to meet chuck. I went straight to the spot we did well on the other day, i had memorised the three land marks to 'triangulate' the exact spot.....man o man do i wish i had a GPS....lol. We started our drift some 50 yards upwind of where the hot spot had been just to cover a bit more ground in case the fish had moved a bit. It was a very slow drift as there was hardly any wind. As soon as we passed over the spot where the fish were the other day chuck got into a pike,........... NICE START <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/a2.flv"> We drifted way past our marker buoy into around 8 FOW and weeds, with only a small walleye getting off the hook before i got it in the boat. We decided to troll back up to the marker buoy sitting on the edge of a 12-13 FOW weed edge and anchor up. After a few minutes jigging at anchor chuck landed the First walleye.....then another....then it went quiet. FIRST WALLEYE 2ND WALLEYE HEY....ITS GONE QUIET! We moved off the marker buoy and moved around for the next hour, with only a few perch, small walleye and plenty of pike....mostly caught by Chuck. However, every time we got within 20 feet of our marker buoy we would get a bite, so in the end we anchored up next to it and fished. That’s when i started to catch all the fish, and yup...on the bobber. It was particularly effective i think because the bottom where we were fishing was covered in a slimy sort of weed, and because the fish were hugging the bottom, the best way to trigger a strike was to leave the jig motionless about 3-4 inches off bottom. However, just jigging meant you had to hit bottom to reel up, thus covering the minnow with weed.....which the walleye would not touch, but with the bobber, because it was an even 12 feet deep around the boat, i could pre set the jigs depth and not have to touch bottom......anyway......we got our limit, well one limit, i had had my fish suppers for the week, and got plenty, if not as many as the previous outing, of over and in slot fish. I'll leave you with some pictures of the bobber on a glassy lake at sunset. PERFECT FALL EVENING

great report, wow...looks so warm there still...lol...T-shirts...if only. Its hitting minus temps at night now every night....oh well, not long before i'm drillin' holes. Thanks for sharing that tropical thanksgiving report.

good on ya for taking care of the slobs garbage. i used to take a garbage bag with me to fill with other peoples mess when sea fishing in England......i really hate that! I saw something that really shocked me last winter on the ice. Went to a local spot and bumped into some real hardcore , local born and bred icefishermen. They shared a lot of tips/tactics with me, were really helpful. I left before them but went back the next day to try out some of the tricks they showed me......only to find all the beer/pop cans they had the night before, food wrappers/ tin cans....you name it...strewn all over the ice!!!!!! They had left 100 of yards of tangled line all over the ice, and tossed the minnows and fish guts all over....perfect to get the eagle to land and get snagged up. Could not believe that people who claim to 'love' the outdoors would show such contempt for the very thing they claim to love.

saddest part of putting my boat away is that its too cold to sit out there in....lol....but my fishing season only gets a 2 week break at most as i wait for at least 4-5icnhes of good ice....lol....some will go out on less...not me.....i'm chicken....or should i say smart?

very...very nice fish....congrats on yer 1st, i've still to catch one of those.

great musky...congrats on the PB

Go get 'em reel trouble....its minus 1 degrees here....but i'm headin out with a buddy myself at 2pm....cant wait...tight lines to you.

Too funny GCD....lol....had to wonder though....you got a lot of time on your hands at the moment?