limeyangler Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Hi all i'm new here, signed up while still in England and moved here a year ago, totally forgot about this place...great site btw. I am a complete fishing addict, and have moved here to be on Lake Wabigoon and enjoy the great outdoors. I fish every day if possible....ice fishing or open wter ...all good to me. here's what i was upto today. lake it looked so perfect i just had to grab the rods and have a cast. HOW COULD I RESIST? As you can see the water was mirror flat for the first half hour. What i have found is that i usually catch a few fish when its calm but as soon as the wind puts a bit of chop on the water the action starts. This morning was no different. I had a few bites from walleye and caught a few small pike while it was calm (could not hook the walleye well enough to land so sharpened my hooks). As soon as the sun had pulled above the horizon the wind started to pick up.....as soon as this happened the loons showed up to feed...always a good sign in my experience THIS GUY WAS HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE GETTING THE BAITFISH DOWN>>>AMUSING TO SEE A LOON DRY HEAVING I did not have to wait long after the Loons arrived for the action to start. I had started off using a single floating jig with a sliding sinker set up, but changed over to slip bobber and 1/8 Oz chartreuse jig and minnow fished at 4' deep as I'd have had a lot of success in the last week with that. The first Pike was a decent size and put up a good fight, then i got a small walleye followed by a keeper. I had 2 small pike hit on the retrieve right at my feet before my wife showed up after her night shift, just in time to video the biggest pike of the morning. 1ST NICE PIKE ONE FOR THE POT 2ND BIGGER PIKE After that last pike i called it quits and headed to the house with the intentions to sort out a few bits and bobs in the house. I was having breakfast with my wife when i see Dave in his boat pulling up at our dock, my wife gave me the nod and Dave and i took off on Wabigoon. We spent hours on the lake, got totally soaked and caught about 3 tiny sauger and walleye, not much bigger than the minnows they attacked. We had planned to kill the eyes and my wife was expecting a walleye supper, so when Dave took off i went back to my floating jig set up and within 30 minutes had 3 more walleye large enough to eat to add to my earlier one....that will keep the missus happy! Its exactly like last year, before the water warms up my best fishing is to be had in front of the house from shore....that's pretty good ...CONSIDERING THE PRICE OF PETROL!!!!! GOT OUR WALLEYE SUPPER!
Sinker Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Hey....great report, and welcome back. That's one nice spot you've got yourself there. Your own little chunk of heaven!! Thanks for posting, Sinker
Nanook Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Nice report and great pic's. Welcome aboard, always room for another Limey. BUT, you'll have the wisacres on here asking.............What's PETROL
Mike the Pike Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Welcome and thanks for that awesome first report. Watch out for rednecks on this site
nautifish Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 lol @ Nanook. Welcome aboard great report & loved the pics. I gotta ask where in the UK are you from?
limeyangler Posted May 22, 2008 Author Report Posted May 22, 2008 Thanks for the welcome guys! Lol nanook...petrol is that stuff they were charging me twice as much for as they do here Nauti.....i was living in Devon in England...great seafishing!
nautifish Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Thanks for the welcome guys! Lol nanook...petrol is that stuff they were charging me twice as much for as they do here Nauti.....i was living in Devon in England...great seafishing! Ahhhh Devon , Absolutley beautiful part of the country, allmost as beautiful as Yorkshire but not quite. ...lol
limeyangler Posted May 22, 2008 Author Report Posted May 22, 2008 LOL...i think they are equally beautiful, both have nice moorland too. We say OOOOOOHHHHAAARRRGH.....you say AYE UP LASS
nautifish Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 LOL...i think they are equally beautiful, both have nice moorland too. We say OOOOOOHHHHAAARRRGH.....you say AYE UP LASS Noo you got that wrong right there.... You say OOOOOOOOAARRGGGGG I GOTTA A GREAT BIG COMBINE HARVESTER,...LOL.....You remember the Wurzles? we say Aye up and av u got a pund.
limeyangler Posted May 22, 2008 Author Report Posted May 22, 2008 "well oive gots a brannew combine 'arvesrter...and oyle gives you tha keys, oiyve gots forty acres......." its hard to spell a devon accent.......and anyway...not to be technical...the wurzels were from Somerset....lol....
nautifish Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Devon, sommerset its all bloody south... ..LOL.......& it aint that easy trying to spell yorkshire slang either....lol Got alot of family down south as well as up north.
snag Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Very impressive intro! As a fan of British programming..... I want MORE!!! Welcome!
Rich Clemens Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Great intro and love those pics. Too bad you forgot about us ... just don't let it happen again. Welcome back and you got a great eye for pics.
MCTFisher9120 Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Welcome. Hope you get's lot's of information here. Thanks for sharing some nice fish.
Victor Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Welcome back and great report! Congrats on your catch!
bpsbassman Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 (edited) Nice intro. Welcome Aboard! Edited May 22, 2008 by BPSBASSMAN
ccmtcanada Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 What a great first report!! Welcome back to the site...hope you decide to stick around. Great story writing, great pics....it's all there. I hope to see many more reports from you this year!
Greencoachdog Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Welcome!!! Great pics and report!!! A Brit with a good sense of humor (per your "handle") You picked a beautiful spot live in... COLD!!!... but beautiful!!!
Joey Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Welcome, what a refreshing first report. Looking forward to more. And I'm just a tad jealous you can fish from your front yard Joey
limeyangler Posted May 22, 2008 Author Report Posted May 22, 2008 (edited) WOW AGAIN, the welcome from you guys and gals is awesome....and ive already spent some time looking through back dated post and am learning lots...thanks, i will be adding my 2 cents worth from time to time to put back in what i get out. Edited May 22, 2008 by limeyangler
JFR Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 Welcome to the show, pull up a chair and set a spell. Great first report, looking forward to more. John
rickster Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 well welcome aboard too bad we had nothing to report from our day fishing this winter hope to get up there this summer and we can both post a great report about some 'goon eyes rickster
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