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  1. Great stuff cliff, first the young 'un gets a prize and the fishing derby, now kickin' dads butt, not long before she has her own TV show......she'd be better than the muppets we get now on TV fishing shows!!
  2. great report and pics, chain pickerel ....dont get those up here, very similar to pike?
  3. Hi Y'all. Well i took my downriggers out of the garage and dusted them off so to speak to give them a go out on Thunder Lake on Thursday. Thunder Lake is not the best Lake Trout venue, but i've never skunked there for trout, its just they are small. The advantage is that it's access point for the public is in Aaron Provincial Park which means easy boat ramp/dock which for a novice boat trailer person(getting way better at it though) is great. My wife joined me for this trip, as did a local kid who has been through some rough times who loves to get out fishing with me when his health permits it. Anyway, the absolutely useless weathernetwork got it wrong as usual...but in our favour for a change...it was meant to be cloudy with isolated thunder storms, but after 1/2 hour in the boat the sun was out and the wind was down....maybe not perfect for fishing...but certainly the weather my wife likes when in the boat. AAAAAAH.......SOME SUN AT LAST.......PERFECT! I have used the downriggers on my boat before last year and we did good, however i always went with my buddy Matt who is very experienced using them, this was gonna be the first trip out using them "all by myself" ...lol.....with no help as my wife and young friend definitely dont know anything about them, so i was really hoping it would not be a disaster. I found the edge of a reef we fished last year and after lots of messing around and birdsnests we finally started the 3-5mph troll with 2 downriggers set up by 3pm. Well it was not a disaster and it looks like Matt did a good job of teaching me how to use the downriggers because after 5 mins just after a slow turn to go back the route we just travelled when the first rod did the tug...tug movement...pause...then bam! snapped out of the clip. I have to admit it was a real struggle for me but i let the kid grab the rod, he reeled it in with out too much of a fuss....and when it broke the surface i thought it was a pike, we were laughing ....then realised it was in fact a healthy 25" Laker!!!!! Wesley was very excited as i had taken him icefishing in april for lakers but he had to leave because he felt ill so never caught one yet, so he wanted his picture taken with it.....soooooooo....he holds it up for the shot...and....the fish does one flip and SPLASH....back in it went oh well....C&R. As we were sitting there i had forgotten to reel the cable up on the other rod, when i yanked the rod to release it from the clip, i realised there was a fish on that rod too.....not bad for the first five minutes...a double header!!! This one was a little on the small side too , so it went back as well, i was now pretty confident we would get more. I THOUGHT IT WAS A PIKE.....I WAS WRONG....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/MVI_1445.flv"> THIS ONE WAS PATIENTLY WAITING ON THE OTHER LINE About 5 mins after that Wesley was not feeling to well, so my wife agreed to get him back home, about a 40min round trip, so i dropped her at the dock and said i would return in 40 minutes to pick her up. I headed straight back to the reef and gave it another go, i had one really small one almost the same size as the lure and and a better 20" one. i could see my wife sitting at the dock in the distance so decided to keep the 20"for supper as i knew she would want to target some bass and pike on spinners. NOT MUCH BIGGER THAN THE LURE! <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_1451.flv"> A FEW MORE INCHES FOR TEAM#4 AND OUR SUPPER! PATIENTLY WAITING FOR ME TO GET OVER THERE After that i stowed the downriggers and we headed of in search of bass and pike, i actually wanted to get a walleye which are few and far between on this lake but the ones you catch are usually of epic proportions. Well after about an hour slow trolling around with worm spinners with live minnow and only getting little perch i gave up on the walleye quest and joined in with my wife who was having great fun with bass and pike...here's the pics from the rest of that aftenoon. COULD NOT GET ANY 'EYES TODAY, ONLY FEISTY LITTLE PERCH MY WIFE WAS HAVING WAY MORE SUCCESS <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_1471.flv"> I THOUGHT I'D JOIN IN THE ACTION.....NOT QUITE AS BIG AS THE ONES MY WIFE WAS CATCHING WE CAUGHT SOME NICE PIKE 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/MVI_1469.flv"> I GOT A 'BIGGER BASS' IN THE END Good day, shame wesley is still suffering his ilness....hope he gets better soon.
  4. Those do look awesome Danbo....but ya better use a wire leader at over $50 .
  5. Should add a 'drowning guy' section in the tourney. He could even hold the Tourney Logo up for ya while you took a picture...that would solve the probs i have with the fish flapping all over it.
  6. Thanks for the replies guys. Terry, i just recently changed my settings to auto depth range and auto sensitivity and what a difference it made....started to work more efficiently. GCD i was checking constantly yesterday whilst downrigging for trout, i had it set to 100 feet because i know from last year that the deepest point where i was fishing is 85 feet deep. I am a bit concerned that the transducer may be faulty as well as being wrongly/improperly installed because it seems to fade to nothing when i'm on soft bottom as opposed to rock, even in fairly shallow water at a standstill. Every now and again it works brilliantly so i too am convined that is is not correctly installed(the transducer. I have played around with it lots but cannot get it to work properly all the time. It absolutely does not work if i go anything over 5mph. I would have liked to install it on the hull itself but as you can see from the picture there is an aluminum panel blocking access to fit mounting screws, hence the aluminum flat bar mounting bracket. I took my lead from the old fishfinder/transducer mounting that came with the boat package so am guessing that it would be unwise to try and remove the panel blocking access to mount direct to hull if the last guy decided not to...especially since the guy was obviously skilled in metal work/and welding as he built the casting deck himself. I have tried to mount it between the ribs to avoid cavitation, but another issue seems to be that when moving at speed, the shape of the hull creates a wash that leaves the transducer almost out of the water at the back.....i could go with one of those mounts from Cabelas or Tite-Lok and try and get it lower under the boat with less resistance than the flat bar...waddaya think? Failing all that i could just buy a bigger new boat with all the trimmings......lol.....in my dreams. Here are some pictures Roy....
  7. Hi all, wondering if anyone can help. i have an Lowrance X67c fishfinder....i have it on a clamped bracket on the transom. it works well in depths upto 50 feet, although it does freeze up every now and then, but as soon as i get over 60 feet the bottom dissappears. I knw it can register these depths as i have used it ice fisahing in over 100 feet of water, although i appreciate that is while stationary...any pointers for me as to the problem??
  8. Thanks for the replies guys, yup the fish fries were endless for 2 days...cant bare to look at another walleye fillet for a while...lol. I will try drop shoting when i next get into mile and trap lakes JB, oh yeah...JB my accent sounds british cuz i am....lol...hence the name "Limey" angler.
  9. Thanks for the great read, thats a nice bass you hooked into.
  10. Great report and pics. the Bay of Quinte certainly seems to hold a lot of nice eyes.
  11. from experience beware of taking time off school before going back....ya might never go back!!!
  12. Great report Jaques, thats alot of fish you got into., nice walleye at the end there too.
  13. Great report as usual GCD. I never knew catfish were that evil...what with all the voltage and death slime shooting darts....lol.
  14. Thats just awesome, what a way to christen a new set up! WTG (like Victor i also found Cliffs comment very amusing)
  15. Welcome Ryan, ice intro. I am a 5-7 guy too, also new to this forum....look forward to your reports. maybe i need to fish 8 days a week before i will get a musky like your avatar.
  16. Thats great....especially since it did not happen on wednesday when i left my bicycle outside
  17. WELCOME, great intro...lots more to follow i hope
  18. Hi Y'all, Managed to get out 4 times in the last 9 days or so, and here's what was happening. I have been back to my usual haunt of mile and trap lake to see if the bass were still in shallow or moved onto the deeper reefs.....well I got some on the topwater, 3 in all, which suggests they have moved deeper as 2 weeks ago we were managing at least 15-20 each per outing. I don’t mind though as it always fun catching and I did get my PB smallie that day of 20"........... FOR A 20" SMB HE DID NOT PUT UP MUCH OF A FIGHT http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/v...current=103.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/103.flv"> MORE INCHES FOR TEAM#4 On the way home I decided to try for my supper....so stopped at my favorite little walleye spot. On the approach I noticed a Heron sitting fishing for his supper too, I got a snap of him but was surprised that it let me get within 10 feet for a really nice close-up picture. THOUGHT I BETTER TAKE THE PICCY BEFORE HE TOOK OFF WAS SURPRISED HOW CLOSE HE LET ME GET The fishing had died down a bit around the island and I only managed this little guy in about half an hour of trying with jig and minnow. I moved off the island around 100yards and tried my luck on the reefs, which was a bit better and within 15 minutes had my 4 fish all around 16"-17". After that little expedition work kinda got in the way of fishing....but what has really scuppered getting out has been the weather!!!...it’s been rain...rain...rain....with big storms and very...very strong winds. By Saturday of last week I was beginning to go a bit stir crazy, but the wind was up, the thunder and rain was hammering down all day, and my boat was in the garage because I had pulled out the water because of the high winds. But even though there was a 30kmh wind it was a westerly and I knew that a small lake with good bass fishing just up the highway would be sheltered....so at around 6pm I got the ok from Mrs. Limeyangler to take off for a while. Well the fishing was not that great, but it was still nice to be out....only managed these 3 little guys and a load of small jackfish. Most of the bigger fish coming on the bobber with a large live minnow set at 6-7' deep on a rocky outcrop with a shallow shelf on the edge of deep water with a weed bed on one side. Work rudely interrupted fishing on Sunday, but managed Monday and Tuesday with my buddy Chuck. Like I said my boat was out of the water but Chuck had just bought an old 12' boat and 5hp motor package and wanted to drag it into some more remote lakes for some walleye...sounded great to me so we set off on Monday with chuck's pal Mel and his son Pat to find Cherry Lake which is connected by a small creek to Lac Seul . After a nightmare trying to find the entrance access to the lake, and realizing that the Offroad Mapbook was wrong and not us, we got to the access roads...the first two goat trails into the lake were washed out...and the one that was not was only suitable for using an ATV as it was still a good 1/2 mile to the lake and completely flooded in some places.....and we did not feel like hauling the boats on our backs in and out...specially since Chuck has a back injury anyway. We did walk down to the lake and it looked awesome....we may be going to try it next Sunday as Mel owns 2 ATVs. CAN’T GET THROUGH THIS ONE . CAN’T GET THROUGH THIS ONE EITHER AHHHH....FINALLY A WAY IN...... THE TRACK NARROWED OUT SO WE THOUGHT WE"D CHECK IT OUT ON FOOT WE COULD NOT GET THE BOATS IN TODAY>>>BUT IT LOOKED AWESOME>>>WE WILL RETURN!!!!!! We decided to head back to the main logging road....which by the way is now called LYNX LAKE RD.....and NOT....KEIJIC BAY ROAD as per the not so accurate OffRoad Mapbook, and put in to the main Lac Seul lake body by a bridge marked on the map....lol...which was there as shown on the map, I now have a really good excuse to get a handheld GPS! We were still confident of a good days fishing for walleye as Lac Seul is well known for its excellent walleye fishing...in fact I have been meaning to get in there since I moved here, as I have heard it is difficult to actually get keepers because most of the fish are in the slot or above. AFTER 3 HOURS OF DRIVING AND WASHED OUT ROADS WE WERE FINALLY ON THE WATER! Mel and Pat went to the right hand side of the bridge which was a dead end bay about 1 mile long, chuck and me headed under the bridge to the left into the bay which headed out to the main lake. We tried jigging in the current under the bridge, tried worm spinner rig things with minnows, and in the end I said "right...something is wrong if I don’t get at least a jackfish with my mepps after five minutes in all these weeds" well five minutes later still nothing, so we headed back under the bridge to see how Mel and pat were doing, they only had one jackfish...so we decided to head to the end of the bay where there was a nice weed bed off of rock/cliff shoreline. The weeds were rushes from the shore for about 10 feet, then submerged cabbage weed extending around 10 feet more from the edge of the reeds with scattered clusters of lily pads. the edges of the cabbage weed were pretty well defined on my portable fish finder that I brought with us so we decided to go with hammered bronze worm spinners with minnows and work the edge of the cabbage beds in about 7-9' of water. It did not take long before chuck got into his first eye of the day...followed by another ...and another....he out fished me 5-1 that day, and the only difference was I was using braid and a stiffer action rod...but it seemed to make all the difference. We threw the marker buoy onto a pile of lily pads where every single pass was producing fish...we had quite a few double headers at that spot. Mel and Pat came along about an hour later, still with only one Jackfish, mouths dropped open when they saw our stringer(all dead on the stringer as no live fish in your possession on Lac Seul) and we quickly told them what was working and they changed up. After another hour of non stop action for Chuck and me it was becoming apparent that Mel and Pat had only added one more small Jackfish to their stringer...turns out Mel never brought any minnows!!!!!! fancy coming all that way with no live bait??!!!!!??? Anyway....we were kind and gave him some of our dwindling supply, but they still struggled to keep up with us...or Chuck really...he was hammering them....I got the bigger ones though SOME OF OUR FISH The next day Chuck and myself decided to drag the little boat to Anaway Lake, which is not connect to any main water bodies and is a lot closer to home, as chuck had fished this years ago with his dad and wanted to check it out. No hassles putting in or finding this lake which is only an hour drive from town on the main logging road heading north out of Dryden. NO HASSLE ACCESS TO ANAWAY LAKE Once out on the lake we quickly discovered that it had the same reeds/cabbage weedlines as the lake the day before so we decided to try the same trolling spinners along the edge of the cabbage....with pretty similar results, lots of walleye!! They were not as big as the day before but plenty of them kept us busy, chuck caught the bigger one that day...whilst I swapped to a lighter action rod and mono line and out fished Chuck today 5-1....Chuck also got the smallest one of the day...lol Again another great days fishing, great company, lots of good natured competition and joking around...what its all about really. There were storms threatening all day and we did get a soaking at the beginning but managed to avoid the rain the rest of the day and the bugs were kind to us too. I think we are gonna try Cherry Lake again with the ATVs on Sunday and I’m gonna be firing up the downriggers for lakers this Thursday hopefully so will post those reports soon...till then tight lines all!
  19. hope ya find the boat ya want Misfish...i'm a little bit jealous that you can even afford a new boat....lol...all i want is a 4ohp 4stroke for my tin pot for a little extra power...and better gas mileage....but i'm broke!!!...must be all the gas i put in my older 30hp 2 stroke
  20. sounds great Hawk, cant wait to see the pics....in fact you are only about 2 hours up the road from where i live...better ge4t up there and get some of that action...and i dont mean the local girls...lol
  21. Nice one guys, congrats on the PB Bly. Glad to see someone else using bobbers for bass Cliff, i found a lake where thats the best method by a long ways to catch the smallies.
  22. Awesome...congrats on the offer.....hope it works out great for ya if ya decide to go for that one.
  23. I bought my waders cuz the water levels on the Lake here was so low a couple of years back(before i moved up here permanently)i had to drag my uncles boat through the shallows before i could even begin to use oars /paddles to get to deepr water. I thought at the time it was a bit extravagent...even though they only cost me $39 from W-Mart. However i left them at my uncles when we returned to England, and they were waiting for me there when we eventually moved here. I am so gladi bought them....i take them in the truck when putting small 12' boats into hard to access lakes, i use them to get my boat out when i'm on my own, i use them when i'm doing work on the shoreline, i've been very glad to have them just recently when un-sinking my boat, they are excellent when i'm in our small foresty bit clearing downed trees as you dont get soaked, i have not used them to fish yet, but i'm sure the opportunity will arise one day .........BUY SOME!!!!!
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