manitoubass2

Lol that southern boy gonna have fun!

I hope the ice cracks and makes him run!!! Thats the best???

C'mon man! Our average Walleye is 34" and weigh no less than 10 kilos. You need a Salmon net to get the smallies in them. Stringers of perch have been known to sink a boat. I can wade in and pick up 25 pound Carp with my hands, that's actually not what POTUS's people call "alternate truth".

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Walleyes up here eat muskies, thats why they get sooooo YUGE!!!

Ricardo, I misread the OP's question. When I saw NWO my dyslexic mind said to me North West Territories. So any of my other post can be disregarded like many of my other posts. Of course I would love to get to North West Ontario, as long as I don't have to drive with Wormdunker for 22 hours. He can pick me up at the airport and I'll flip him a few bucks for gas. Actually that isn't a bad plan.

 

No you won't catch 150 Pics in a day. But 15 of ours will weight the same as 150 of yours, as Al Pacino said whoooorhaaa!!!

Yeah, but we catch a 100 then switch gears and get 10-12lbers in the same day???

Pick a lake on cedar narrows for instance. 40 lakes and everyone of them is killer good

You need to fish backlakes like mainville, or a bunch of lakes Im not naming on here lol.

Go with locals knowledge and now lodges.

Keep up the good work.

15 years in prison?

Trust me ill be making my way to erie one day for bass.

I dont see many erie reports of 150 walleye days though lol.

Thats cool if ya dont wanna travel here.

Maybe its better left untapped?

I'd love to go there just for the whole vacation experience and the scenery. But I'd be leaving fish to find fish and for that, it's just too far. Imagine travelling that far and being disappointed with a 5lb smallie or a 8lb walleye? Now, a fly-in trip to a quiet remote lake is certainly on the bucket list.

Thats the thing. You can do one or the other or both.

There is SO MUCH LAKES its unreal. Im not joking when I say you can fish 3 lakes in a day no prob

And yes any anti bactial hand rinse, aftershave, moushwash and spraypaint are all under lock and key town wide

I'm glad you said it first Rick. I was very disappointed when I visited Kenora last summer. Beer store was dirty, grocery store not much better, drunks lying on the sidewalk. All in all not a pretty site. Cops had 1 guy in hand cuffs who had trouble walking! This was in broad daylight. I wouldn't want to be there at night!! I understand mouth wash & shaving lotion are under lock & key in the pharmacy! Get away from Kenora in places such as Nestor Falls, Vermillion Bay, Ear Falls much more friendlier & cleaner.

Yep. Kenora has massive alcohol and drug issues. Probably the highest per capita ive ever seen.

At night youll get stabbed for ten bucks.

Not a week goes by without a massive drug bust.

Its the only place ive ever seen that has a 100 person line up at the LCBO 2 hours before it opens.

The towns a mess in every way

 

Kenora area. he's a country boy from North of Winnipeg so I am sure that he won't be moving downtown.

Ah thats def. A good thing! The area is beautiful!!! Just downtown is bad news

Anyways back on topic

I see nets set here and they are all identified (on rainy river)

I see a few nets here and there on LOTWs unidentified and call them in.

Ive only been asked by COs to call them in but im not sure of the legalities of it???

I think they are interested mainly in unattended nets but im not positive on that.

A net should only be out for 8 to 12 hours. Otherwise its gonna risk spoiling gamefish

Ok, thx---never caught a sturgeon or saw one up really close.

Yeah, you dont wanna be the guy caugjt poaching sturgeon. Its WAAAAAY stiffer laws than other gamefish. These are a protected species.

Ive caught them walleye fishing but you cant target them thats for sure.

The MNR are cool about a quick pic and release but your actually not supposed to even remove them from the water as youde be in possession.

My area is where they spawn in huge numbers. So I see alot of people get busted targeting them

Lol

Really? The look like dogfish(small sharks). Where was the pic taken?

Lake sturgeon. Pics were on rainy river about 2 blocks from our house

My daughter lives in Winnipeg, the plan for them is to move to Kenora within 6-7 years. So I am sure that'll end up fishing there sooner or later.

Move to Kenora??? Geez man I hope your daughter is well off financially.

Kenora is a dump full of crime. Id rather walk the northend of winnipeg than downtown kenora

Yes AKRI I called the MNR immediately

The guy was busted a few weeks later and got hammered in court

Turns out he had all sorts of fish and game violations and illegal weapons charges etc

I've positively seen two. One was at Lingham lake. One was closer to home around Janetville. The one I saw by janetville jumped clear across a 2 lane road in one leap. The one at Lingham lake walked across an opening along the shore of the lake in a very secluded bay. Thought it was a deer at first, but there is no mistaking a big cat like that. We were only about 70yds from it.

 

There is no mistaking the tail on these cats. And the size of them is scary!

 

I hope you get some info back, Chris. Would love to hear it.

 

 

S.

Yep. See my experience. 50 or 60 yards in a few bounds.

Us outdoor folk know thats no bobcat or lynx lol

BIG CATS

You all know Im an advocate of treaty rights.

But im a bigger advocate for nature.

Ive called the MNR a few times for unattended/unmarked nets.

Give me a second and ill find pics of netted sturgeon left to die in +30 temps in 10" of water.

Unexceptable NO MATTER WHAT

These fish, by my judgement, were there at least two days. Alive, but no way the survived revival

The 75 cent dollar and the fact that for some of them in the mid west NWO is the first great "remote" fishing.

 

During the 18plus hours driving to get there we pass hundreds (maybe thousands) of lakes that have great fishing. I've been to the north west once to fish Lac Seul. It was incredible and I will go back but the 4ish days it takes to get there and back really eats into a fishing trip and the gas budget. It's 6-7 hours for me to get to the Timmins area (or North of the Sault). I can fish/hunt the day I leave my house and the day I get back without a marathon redeye drive. Now, if I had my own float plane....

Fly. Its obviously faster and cheaper.

But yeah, for some if ya got great fishing in your area its kinda hard to justify.

Until ya spend a week on LOTWs and catch trophies of 6+ species

Just to let you know,Wpg Man is a little over 2 hrs to Kenora (LOTW) & 3 to Vermilion Bay.

ThBay is 4 1/2 to V Bay & 5 1/2 to the Kenora area.The drive to TBay sucks,the drive from the Manitoba border to our area is very scenic.

I advise all my visitors flying in from the east to take the Winnipeg route.

Yeah i posted that just to show how cheap a ticket is.

Winnipeg is the better route no doubt!

Way more scenic as well

For rainy lake though, go tbay route

To vermillion souix lookout kenora ear falls def. Go winnipeg route

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a little ditty from memory, which at this stage of my life, may not be accurate....................

 

"In Canada's North, where the moose go forth

and there's little but frozen sod,

all the people stink, and are given to drink,

and make mock of the southern folks' God"

 

or something like that.

 

yes it is a beautiful part of the world and Lord knows I have been there more than once. Did not know it was as cheap to fly as that example from m2b2, I might have to fly up for the LOTW kids derby!!!

 

And BTW, m2b2, have you put that ad about the kid's derby back up here lately? You should have received a goodies box from me by now for the kiddies prizes!

 

But to answer the OP, I think most of us from the south (Ontario, that is) shudder at the VERY freakin' long drive up there, and most of us have very good fishing within a much shorter drive.

 

Doug

Your MORE than welcome to come doug!!!

Funny story, and yes I meant to email you a thank you letter for your kind donation! Sorry about that!

It came in last week. And my wife decided to take a look. And hooked herself in the finger lol. Not bad but I gotta few swears out of her lol.

Thanks again buddy!!!

Come on guys!

Where's your sense of adventure?

I think I knew what the response would be,totally understandable.

This area is a fisherman's paradise,one could spend weeks in the area & fish a different lake everyday.

Lakers one day,walleye or muskie the next.

It is amazing the amount of fishermen come here from south of the border,I spent 2-3 days a week as the PTOG (part time old guy) at the local tackleshop the last couple of summers.Some Saturdays we would sell between 150-200 fishing licenses to non-resident fishermen.

The LOTW area (Kenora) also get lots of Manitoba anglers/

From kenora, to rainy river, fort frances, dryden, vermillion bay, ear falls to souix lookout is no doubt in my mind the best fresh water fisheries in the world.

Shame most canadians dont come. It almost exclusively locals and americans

Probably cheaper if booked in advance.