limeyangler

Welcome to the board.

It seems that not many people I know appreciate close encounters of the 'turd' kind....lol. I don't mind too much if the person encroaching starts up some banter, had some fun times meeting with people who saunter over, don't do it myself but thats just me. One time last year a guy from the US came over to my boat and we started the banter, ended up parking our boats on shore and trekking into a cache lake to cast for bass, great adventure and still in contact with them. I'll talk to anybody, so when you approach my boat within conversation range at least have the courtesy to say good morning. Had a guy 2 days before the incident in the picture come about the same distance to me with the bimini up and his back to me....just ignorant. I rarely confront people as if they are showing all the signs of ignorance it rarely ends well, I resent moving, but half the time these people are useless fishermen, so I slam a few more, making it plain to see, exaggerating the hook sets etc....watch their frustration increase, then move on. Maybe they should introduce a rule in the regs like the slot size, e.g.. Zone 5...keep a minumum distance of 100yrds from boats not in your group. There could even be Zone Exceptions....eg "Zone 4, Lac Seul from Manitoba point to Burntwood Bay.....minimum distance 3 miles".....lol

Don't overlook what you are setting the kids up with, if you have live bait with you tossing a minnow on a jig at the shore or anywhere you think the bass are. Like AKRISONER said..."pop pop let it rest". Also a nightcrawler under a slip bobber can be absolutely deadly. Mepps type spinners also good. The water still sounds cold for this time of year which is similar to here, I have not found the smallies to be in their usual haunts at all. The most consistent pattern I have found is shallow, Like Manitoubass said, cast at shore, especially if there are small boulders present, and I mean right up on shore almost.

Hi all, I don't understand how some people figure its ok to encroach on where you are fishing just because they see you catching fish. This was the other night at a very popular local spot. Just the two boats out there, mine and his. He saw my son and myself catching fish after fish and just came right over within feet of our boat, did not say much and just hung around. Even my son whispered to me "Dad? What is he so close for". The guys boat was Ontario registered also, so not always are friends south of the border who think this is ok. R U KIDDIN' ME? https://www.flickr.com/gp/150826879@N02/6wYH5K

On 2 separate occasions the wive's of two locals have approached my wife to tell her that they laugh at their husbands because they spend hours stopping and starting the videos looking for landmarks and trying to triangulate my position with where the sun is etc..etc..and using google earth. It kind of irks me because never have I ever had one comment on my youtube channel from anyone local. It is hilarious to see the embarrassed faces of parents (males) when their kids run up to me and say "My dad watches all of your videos!" but that person has never approached me to say hi or anything, even funnier when I have had numerous conversations with them while waiting to pick up the kids and not a mention of my videos. Most likely these are some of the people in town who frown on my videos for potentially giving away my location, yet here they are taking advantage of the very thing they all get their knickers in a twist about...lol.

Hi all, The bite has been on here on the Goon in the evening. 1/8oz jig with nightcrawler, 12'FOW, vertical jigging. The spot i'm on is a very well known local go to and the nearest camp always has a few boats there whenever I'm there. This being said I have had nobody fishing the spot i'm on all week....lol....but the video is a dead giveaway of where I am on the Island so should be interesting to see how many boats migrate from their usual spots close to the island out to where I was. I am going back tonight and I know that the nearby camp watches my videos....almost sure of it....and I know that at least 30 locals watch them. WATCH THIS SPACE. SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERIMENT IN PROGRESS!

Typical bloody englishman, next thing it will Bivvys, hair rigs.........

We had no wind here with the storm, the other week though I lost 2 of our 150' spruce....firewood for next year. The sunset afterwards was stunning, but I was being eaten alive just getting those shots, the skeeters have finally arrived....and I swear I could hear them saying...."fee-fi-fo-fum.....we smell the blood of an Englishman" depending on which version of Gopro you have there is a feature called 'time-lapse video', however I did not use that I just let the camera run at 1080p @60fps, the hero 5 I have does a decent job of auto setting for darker environments. If I had the time, could have got a lot sharper image using the regular photo time-lapse setting but with only being able to have intervals no shorter than 1 sec I'm not sure I would have captured the shot. Thanks. Definitely a wild light show the other night, went on for hours! Don't know if you know Brian, but the higher FPS you have the better slo-mo you get, but you will lose some image quality.

Hi all, Set up the Gopro facing the storm the other night and captured a video still of the lightning across Lake Wabigoon.

Sorry for the delay replying folks! 1st work, then other stuff, and then 4 days off the grid camping put a dent in my social media activity. Thanks Rick, Jack is still laughing about it now, it is so great to spend some decent time with him again, loving that he is out of school for the summer and we get to hang out more. Before I left that evening he showed up at the boat on the shore in tears just before I launched, there was a misunderstanding that he was 'not allowed' to come out with me that evening, so there he running down the lawn to catch up to me before I left , tears streaming down his face saying "dad, i don't want to fish but I really, really want to come out and hang out with you before we do the fireworks", broke my heart to think he thought I was abandoning him, his face lit up when I said of course I wanted him to come, big smile and huge tears on his face...too cute. Thanks Bruce, with school out I feel like I have my little man back, things get so hectic with the work schedule i'm on. Thanks Rick, I was serious about the teenage years textbook, get to work on it please Thanks man! LOL...I love the winter but by March i'm done with it....lol. Just did a three day camping trip with the family, 'real' camping, in tents, on an island....absolutely amazing, did not brush my teeth or bathe for 2 whole days! Finally took the plunge in the lake, it was bloody freezing, lake still only just about 60F...its been a cold spring. LOL...it was not until after we caught 4 in 10 minutes that I realized how good the fishing was that evening, had to really dig deep to go back right away. needless to say I went back out the next evening and absolutely hammered them in the same spot, BEST fishing I've ever had on Wabigoon for walleye, nothing huge, but everything a respectable 16" -17" fat keeper walleye.

Thanks Cliff! What a write up, fishing and family, does not get much better than that , and the setting you describe is to die for. LOL...i would not expect anything less than a brutally honest review from you, and think it is great that you have done just that. I have dealt with quite a few camp owners in my short time here, and while there are some truly fantastic people and camps there are some where I wonder how they ever got their 'good' reputation and have managed to keep it. The problem with reviews on Camp websites is that they are in control of the content, I use the site Tripadvisor to review places I've been.

Hi all, Went out for a half hour boat ride while we waited for it to get dark to do some fireworks. Got a few fish and just left the camera rolling for the ten minutes we were fishing, got quite the conversation going, toilet humour at its best. Jack totally lost it laughing when he realized I was recording the whole conversation...I LOVE the little guy....so funny.

Yes, these are awesome. I also keep a large tarp and some bungee cords to make a shelter, lays flat nicely in the floor storage, a machete and a small ratchet set and screwdriver set, probably other crap too but I can't think off the top of my head. GOOD THREAD!

I love the big ones too, its just when I got that one was 2 weeks prior when I needed smaller minnows, my tank works pretty good, kept that sucker for 2 weeks!

Hi all, Posted some stuff earlier this month about meeting up with a fellow Youtuber and his buddy from Idaho. They were staying at a camp on Lake Wabigoon which is the lake I live on so we managed to meet up a few times. On their last day I scooted from the house and met them near the camp for an hour or so after they texted me they were on some fish. Got there and hooked into 2 beauties....both 28"ers. Was a real hoot meeting up in the real world, they told me they would be in the camp boat wearing red carnations.....

Hi all, The walleye are on the move.....AT LAST! Been a cold spring and start to summertime, which has kept the walleye very shallow. This last Saturday got out to Lac Seul for the afternoon, and it seems the walleye have moved from the shallows where they were last week and are spreading out into the main lake. Still most fish between 12' and 17'FOW. Big sucker minnows and leeches on jigs kicked butt!

Hi all, Even though he can be a royal pain in the derriere while in the boat, Roloff is also very endearing and amusing to have along for the ride, its safe to say he LOVES FISHING too. Got out for an hour or so in the evening the other night, headed to a midwater reef on Wabigoon that will take your skeg off in low water years. Fished in the 4'-9' range close to the drop and was rewarded with numerous small walleye, pretty much a fish a cast on bobbers and jigging 1/8oz lead jigs. Tried a variety of baits as you can see in the video, leeches were the best that evening.

Hi all, It was 'PD' day at school on Friday so I promised my kid we would go to Lac Seul. he was so pumped all week he told a bunch of kids at his school where he was going. One of the kids told his dad he wanted to go too and his dad texted me and so the plan was born. Turns out John knows this part of Lac Seul like the back of his hand so we exchanged a few spots between us. Jack and Zack had a great time too. Fish were still really shallow, between 2' and 7' FOW. Got to play with the drone too, some nice shots of our shore lunch spot of 'Secret Island'.

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I just 'upgraded' my old Terrova to the Ulterra. I have kept the Terrova just in case the new one is junk. My Terrova got beat to hell and back over 9 years of travelling rough logging roads and apart from cosmetic wear and tear performs just as good as it did out of the box, seriously good trolling motors. Check the prop for fishing line is all I ever did. Get the i-Pilot for it too?

Or some guy called Vishuscirquel on Youtube

Hi all, Met up again with a guy up from Omaha who is staying at a local camp. This time he showed me a spot he knows. THANKS DAN! great spot, non stop slab crappie. 1/8th Oz jig with twister tail or minnow cast in by itself or under a slip bobber. Really shallow now, not more than 18" deep.

I got a good deal on the boat so I put the money I saved towards gadgets.....the Ulterra ROCKS!

Nice TJ! camp looks like heaven to me.