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When most folks think about fishing in BC it tends to be mostly about the salmon and trout, but I am fortunate to live pretty close to one of the few natural walleye lakes - Charlie lake, which is located at about the 50 mile marker up the Alaska highway. Not many eyes over the 5lb mark, but is a fish factory for the 18-24 inchers. Figured I'd post a few pics, most of my buddies are surprised when I tell them I fish walleye in BC. My ice season got off to a slow start, rats found my otter portable, which in turn collected rain water all summer (why don't I check up on things! damnit) and also about 20 lbs of rat turds and urine. Back before Christmas I was dealing with a 5' long block of frozen ice/turds/urine...perfect excuse to pick up a new pop up while I thawed and sanitized over and over and over until the stench slowly went away I would not wish this stench on anybody, in hindsight, I should have been wearing a mask and gloves hahahah the only positive was those plano waterproof boxes are actually waterproof and 2 of my 3 ice boxes were completely ok, without any cleaning...the other box took some CLR and about 50 bucks in new hooks We had some very mild weather and ice got sketchy...froze up again and this past Sunday I was itching to get out. The navionics app is pretty handy, starting to use it more (this trip was essential as I forgot my GPS) and it was pretty accurate on water depth and easy to find one of my favourite hot spots. I drilled a few shallow holes in advance of the evening bite, and then got setup out deeper, before I had even dropped my line I was already smiling, love the LX7....I knew this was hard bottom, and I knew exactly what I was looking at I was on top of fish the whole day but it was a tough bite, I had to really downsize and they were incredibly light bites...all the walleyes were barely hooked in the tip of the nose...I kept my limit and threw back a good half dozen or so....the jig had to be perfectly horizontal, I usually tie loop knots but had to tie a clinch and set the knot so that the jig suspended nicely horizontal...once I downsized and got it dialed I was getting bit, lots of missed bites and lost fish halfway up landed a few small pike too and this guy was from my last visit, before the ice got really mushy all the walleye came on a tiny lindy jig I think it was, tipped with a sliver of tail or shrimp....but the pike came on some little jigs I tie up, feels a tiny bit nicer catching a fish on something you spun up yourself you can see how wide the pressure crack opened up a couple weeks ago That was it for the walleye, still gotta fry them up...but I don't post reports too often, so I'll throw in a few extras.... dogs enjoying the extra room in the pop up...and me enjoying focusing solely on fishing, and not constantly scanning for wolves or them dang coyotes, it's very nice having the extra room in the pop up to keep the mutts comfortable instead of exploring the shoreline a pennask strain stocker from a nearby lake my last steelhead trip of 2013 resulted in zero steelies, but I did get a big resident bow....there is not a single stocked trout in BC that can compare to a wild trout, the colours, the fight, totally different ball game with the wild guys and everybody should know who built that rod, I always get tons of compliments on it...thank you again Spiel! these perch I caught just before last ice 2013 and are from a northern AB lake, it has some pretty tight regs but I gotta say that I think the management plan is working, these fish are honestly the average size...and that's a tall boy can to clarify LOL...that big guy is a little better than average, probably close to my PB but I have seen others catch bigger this lake has a 5 perch limit and there are some legit 2 lbers in there I joined up on the OFC tourney this year, I'm fairly confident I can contribute with some big springs...this was my largest from 2013, 43" x 29...as always, I lost bigger but that only makes you fish harder largest sturgeon this year, not much to brag about on the fraser but any sturgeon is an awesome fish really...didnt' insure my boat for tidal but hoping to this year, if stupid work doesn't get in the way lol another small guy from the same day and for the hunters on here, a small 4pt mulie...that I missed spent 2 days tracking him after the shot and it is sick feeling indeed, I was very relieved and happy to see he survived the season that's it for now, since I joined the tourney this year I better work on more fishin reports lol cheers.