manitoubass2

I see it with shiners here. usually means there are active fish chasing them. Looks pretty cool though

Tough decision.

 

option 1- My in-laws retired to Costa Rica

option 2- I spent some time around Fort Frances when I was younger as a Junior Ranger with the MNR....awesome awesome place to fish.

option 3 - My dad's family lives out west in BC and my uncle has a 34' Commander boat in which we went on a week long cruise in the inlets....OMG...so amazingly beautiful!!!

 

Some many options, so little $$$ and time! LOL

 

Colin

Amazing area to fish!

Ontario for me too around kenora no need to go anywhere else

Yeppers, me too. I'd buy a small property and build a cabin somewhere between Emo and Kenora, possibly LOTW.

The rest of the money would be to build a new family home on the Rainy River

2 little guys fishing already, 1 taking tackle inventory Thats priceless !!!

thanks for the smile.

I think she'll be an angler as well, as soon as I put a rod down it takes her .5 seconds to make it to the rod! lol

I got two girls as well that fish, but they were pre occupied on that day, by crawfish and frogs, lol

Present time!

The girls fish too!

sucker

Great family fishing report!! Sounds like a great time, and, I'm sure the boys didn't care that the 'eyes were smaller.

Thanks for sharing!

It was a great time! I try to put my kids on numbers more than anything, thats what they prefer, and they find it more exciting. One lb or 10lbs doesn't matter to them, lol.

This weekend though were going for the mommas, haha

I don't understand why this thread had no hits???? Great topic IMO.

Here is one I just came across that I feel is great...

Never under estimate overwhelming stupidity in overwhelming numbers.

This ones killer too!

Beauty fish!

Looks like you got your fall pattern figured out thus far, great job!!!

Well, another birthday for us to celebrate. This time it was my son Jigger, turning 7. He wanted to go fishing, so we hit the shoreline various times during the weekend. It's just the start of shiners running into the Rainy River from LOTW and Rainy Lake, and this means walleye start moving back into the river. Despite some really horrible conditions, we figured them out pretty good, and the kiddos had a blast .

The water level is still really low, and the water temps changed by about 10 degrees, fluctuating up and down throughout the days, which can make things very tough. The all start bait of the weekend was Yum pink/white grubs on jig heads, cast into the current and burned back. No other methods produced fish, no other baits either, with a few exceptions (black grubs on jigs, and minnows on jigs).

We caught a good 60-70 fish, mostly walleye. All were dinks though, the biggest was maybe 15", the smallest being about 6". We kept enough for a family feed, the rest were released to fight another day.

Campfire hotdogs, frog catching, crawfish hunting etc all filled an adventurous weekend with my children, followed by some homemade pizza/breadsticks, and of course a fish fry. We ate good, had alot of fun, and were all reminded how much we have to be thankful for .

I actually had to thank my son for making my weekend so memorable, lol, thats pretty cool if you ask me!

Fish food

Gotta be comfy to fish!

Eagles celebrated with us!

Rare catch

A giant! lol, held out and still small.

Caught fish like this all weekend

admiring the catch, as a team!

Maybe you can join us next year my girl, lol

Hope you enjoy!!!

Some really nice work there!

Do you have a website or contact #? I'm looking to get a few done up. Thanks in advance

Straw Lake. Man, we used to have fun fishing there especially for walleye. We could catch/release over 100 fish per day, in almost any weather. It was a fun spot too, so clear and you could watch fish take baits. It seemed that almost nobody fished this lake, even though there was easy access. Then it just died, we went every year hoping it would return to it's former self, but to no avail.

Now, 15 years later, it's drastically improved. My son went with grandpa this past weekend and they did great. He even managed two nice lakers, 4lbs and 6lbs respectively. His first two trout, and boy was he happy.

Rainy Lake as well, years ago after a massive invasion of cormerants over took the lake. It too has since recovered.

There are no hooks! Did the fish choke on it?

haha, not at thank point there was no hooks, it was still drying.

Spring smallie after choking on a hookless bait!

I hope you took pictures and called your insurance right away???

This spring, I decided to take a really cheap crank bait, strip the paint off it, and tinker with the coloring. I used some neon glow in the dark paint from walmart (cost a buck), painted the lure, then added some horrendous eyes and covered it in shiny nail polish, then clear coat. It was so horrible looking words can't really describe it.

I went and tried it out, and caught bass after bass for an entire weekend. It outpeformed many of my fav. lures, like DT series cranks from Rapala, X-raps, flat raps etc.

I had zero confidence in that lure before using it. Now it's been repainted and replaced the hooks 2-3 times, and its still catchin fish. Many times it's now the first outta the box when I'm cranking for shallow bass.

Yuck!

Koppers Live Target Frog for sure! Nothing better than some top water strikes. Heard they're coming out with a soft field mouse lure too...

Harrison has pre-orders for them at etackle.

My fav. is a 3/8 oz. black jig with Gulp Alive emerald shiner

I tinker with baits all the time and sometimes try really odd presentations. Sometimes they look good or sound good in theory, other times not so much.

Turns out that some really "ugly" presentations work at times, and before catching fish on them, I would say I had little confidence in them working.

But when something pays off, thats the fun part.

A pretty good example of this would be a slow death rig for walleye. The baits spinning and looks completely unnatural (when using minnows), but man, sometimes it works so darn well

I slept over at my grandpas house the night before. I woke up and put on coffee and CNN which was our usual routine. As I made him his breakfast the commotion on the tv grabbed my attention and we began watching. This was just after the first plane hit. I really thought it was a movie or something at first, it was so surreal.

When the second plane hit, we quickly abandoned breakfast and coffee, and woke up my uncle to see as well. It was very odd experience, and as we started to watch people jumping from the towers it was such an akward, horrible feeling.

I stayed glued to the tv for the better part of three days, basically in shock.

I still shutter thinking about that day, and how it effected so many people. My heart goes out to all involved, and it was IMO a horrible day for humanity.

haha, thats a great commercial

I have been using small ziplock type snack bags for harnesses and put all of the small bags full of harnesses into a larger ziplock to hold it all together. It holds more and takes up less space than the lindy thing or pool noodles. Fits in a pocket, small pack, in a storage compartment in the boat, or in the tackle box.

I do the same. I also do this with my scented baits like Gulp! and Trigger X, that way if it does leak, I can just rinse it off and grab a new bag.

Are you not allowed near the good china when hung over?

hahahaha, it was too much to fit on our plates, and I was craving this so bad I would have ate it off the floor

If your trolling use a swivel... The larger the better...

 

When weeds slide down your line they will be caught on the swivel and this keeps you lure running...

Great tip! Works well in current also

I stick to the double uni and have never had an issue. Can be a pain in the butt trying to tie two lines in a boat on a windy day though(oh wait, I guess thats an issue)

I'd like to buy a bass boat so I have more room to perform my running hooksets.

One of my good fishing buds came for a visit last night and we had some cold ones while chatting about fishing. Well, a few hours later and about 7-8 tall boys, we called it a night.

Woke up this morning realizing that I can't indulge like I used too, lol. I still like to have beers, just not that many.

So in short, here is what booze made me do

Walleye, eggs, panfries, bacon, english muffin and some ice tea

Seems to me that people in general just love to "over think" certain topics.

I'm just stoked Winni has a team again, football is about to start, hockey is coming soon, fall walleye run etc

Check your PM Manitoubass. Apparently your a hit.

My daughter had a good laugh when I had her browsing your site, lol.

again, great job on the ad Harrison, and the site looks great