Jan 5 - Jeremy84 wakes up at 2am to drive 4hrs and picks up Joey in Callander. They head north, meet me, and off we go further north to a new-to-us lake, with no road access. This was a generally shallow lake and our targets were big pike and lots of walleye. Well....neither of those two plans really panned out. We got one decent pike and five walleye.
The slush got the better of us and I'm sure the other guys were just as beat as I was the next day.
Here is a short videos of the trek.
Here are a couple photos of the walleye-cleaning.
Walleye wings anyone? mmmmm
Jan 6 - Tired! The wife also had the day off so we walked out to a nearby lake and fished for the evening. She got her PB winter walleye and I missed a big girl at the hole. Pretty slow overall but fun explaining to the wife that having slightly cold feet and nose are just a part of the game haha.
Jan 7 - Wake up at 4:30 for some *%^&$% reason. Leave home at 6 and fishing on a back-lake by 730. I've never fished this lake in winter; I have no topo maps and no electronics, so it's a drill, walk, drag and jig process, repeat many times. Eventually I chart out a pile of boulders with nearby 20 ft of water. I set up on the deep side and BAM, a 21 or 22" walleye!
Overall, the fishing slower than expected, but productive enough. The winds really picked up at around 1pm and coincidentally, the fish stopped biting.
I learned a few things about each of these lakes and this knowledge will surely help me in future endeavours.
Great fishing with you again Jeremy!