limeyangler

LOLOL...yup i think GB has it in the bag so far, love the way your still trying to lip hold it GB

Great pics guys, MONSTERS!!!

Hi Everyone, After seeing a couple of pics of tiny fish on CCMT's post requesting pics for a 'special project' (intriguing) i could not help remembering some of the little guys i caught, Stoty's tiny bass is very cool and just thought you guys must all have some not so Trophy pics...would be fun to see them. Here's a couple i have. One is a tiny Pike that really hammered a mepps spinner and one of my wife with a GIANT Walleye.

Definitely try this

hey ccmt, i like this one, i got him icefishing, jigging for trout and whitefish in 70ft of water...he held on all the way up.

Great report, great pics, enjoyed reading it, thanks.

One of the things i love most about living on the lake apart from fishing is the Loons.......took this at sunset the other day

Great pics Nauti, warms me just looking at them, been so cold up here so long almost forgot what spring is like!!!

Lakers like cold water, hence why they are...mostly....found in deeper water in the summer months. Spring fishing is awesome up here in Northwestern Ontario because its not long since the ice went out and they can be found in the shallows too. During the summer i would say what the others are saying is right...45 - 55 degrees is about right. Dont know how deep your pool thermometer will go but temps at the surface wil be different from temps at mid range and deeper waters so dont know how useful that will be. I can pick up the thermoclineson my fishfinder and fish either above or below depending on where the fish are showing.

LOLOLOLOL......i did not store my stuff well either, the batteries in the garage from last november, we had weeks of -40 celcius this winter, so may need new batteries, i got the nautilus battery charger from crappie tire last year, very good and does the job, but keep the reciept cuz the first one stopped working and got a replacement. I also am fitting a new fish finder, my bearings will need to be sorted on the trailer as soon as the boat is in the water, but that wont happen till the motor comes back from the garage ...the B#$%%@%s have had it for 3 weeks now. Seems like we are in similar position here Sconceptor!!!

I'm with Garry2r, I love Shimano...lots of different size reels for the same models to suit your needs and easy to get extra spools. Stradic is a good reel, but coming from Europe i like the rear drag with fighting drag features that they have over there....take a look here under rear drag reels. I have my heart set on the GTM RB 2500, pricey will be around $C200 with postage but an awesome reel!

Thanks for the post Fisherman, very interesting. our woods here are packed with mushrooms and fungus of all sorts, your link has shown me that quite a few are edible, i will be careful, sooooo if ya see no more posts from me you'll know what happened

Hey Stoty, I would go with what a lot of the others are saying, powerpro with a flouro leader. Only problem i have ever had with flouro is knot strength,. To combat this i use a Palomar Knot or Trilene Knot. Definitely go with the swivel in my humble opinion, the only time i dont use a swivel is for ice fishing cuz my fishfinder shows it and makes for a messy screen so i will join line to line.

Hey Sconceptor, Have a look at this, the 565 is recommended. Visit My Website. I think it depends how much ya wanna spend. I like the dual beam capability of the Hummingbird.

WOW AGAIN, the welcome from you guys and gals is awesome....and ive already spent some time looking through back dated post and am learning lots...thanks, i will be adding my 2 cents worth from time to time to put back in what i get out.

"well oive gots a brannew combine 'arvesrter...and oyle gives you tha keys, oiyve gots forty acres......." its hard to spell a devon accent.......and anyway...not to be technical...the wurzels were from Somerset....lol....

THAT IS AWESOME.....looks so warm too, still like winter here.....ice has only been off the lake for 10 days.

THAT IS AWESOME.....looks so warm too, still like winter here.....ice has only been off the lake for 10 days.

LOL...i think they are equally beautiful, both have nice moorland too. We say OOOOOOHHHHAAARRRGH.....you say AYE UP LASS

Thanks for the welcome guys! Lol nanook...petrol is that stuff they were charging me twice as much for as they do here Nauti.....i was living in Devon in England...great seafishing!

Hi all i'm new here, signed up while still in England and moved here a year ago, totally forgot about this place...great site btw. I am a complete fishing addict, and have moved here to be on Lake Wabigoon and enjoy the great outdoors. I fish every day if possible....ice fishing or open wter ...all good to me. here's what i was upto today. lake it looked so perfect i just had to grab the rods and have a cast. HOW COULD I RESIST? As you can see the water was mirror flat for the first half hour. What i have found is that i usually catch a few fish when its calm but as soon as the wind puts a bit of chop on the water the action starts. This morning was no different. I had a few bites from walleye and caught a few small pike while it was calm (could not hook the walleye well enough to land so sharpened my hooks). As soon as the sun had pulled above the horizon the wind started to pick up.....as soon as this happened the loons showed up to feed...always a good sign in my experience THIS GUY WAS HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE GETTING THE BAITFISH DOWN>>>AMUSING TO SEE A LOON DRY HEAVING I did not have to wait long after the Loons arrived for the action to start. I had started off using a single floating jig with a sliding sinker set up, but changed over to slip bobber and 1/8 Oz chartreuse jig and minnow fished at 4' deep as I'd have had a lot of success in the last week with that. The first Pike was a decent size and put up a good fight, then i got a small walleye followed by a keeper. I had 2 small pike hit on the retrieve right at my feet before my wife showed up after her night shift, just in time to video the biggest pike of the morning. 1ST NICE PIKE ONE FOR THE POT 2ND BIGGER PIKE After that last pike i called it quits and headed to the house with the intentions to sort out a few bits and bobs in the house. I was having breakfast with my wife when i see Dave in his boat pulling up at our dock, my wife gave me the nod and Dave and i took off on Wabigoon. We spent hours on the lake, got totally soaked and caught about 3 tiny sauger and walleye, not much bigger than the minnows they attacked. We had planned to kill the eyes and my wife was expecting a walleye supper, so when Dave took off i went back to my floating jig set up and within 30 minutes had 3 more walleye large enough to eat to add to my earlier one....that will keep the missus happy! Its exactly like last year, before the water warms up my best fishing is to be had in front of the house from shore....that's pretty good ...CONSIDERING THE PRICE OF PETROL!!!!! GOT OUR WALLEYE SUPPER!