from Ottawa river to St marys

[tinbanger]

As per his earlier post I hooked up with Tundra and Lightning last Thursday for a day on the mighty Ottawa.

Thanks again Rod ,had a blast with you and you dad and learned a lot including how to net your fish anytime

 

Saturday Morning yougest son and I were on the road before 4am headed to the Soo to meet up with Pikeie and spend 1 1/2 days fishing the St Marys.

 

Arrived at 10 am to find Pikeie fast asleep in his dorm , cell phone off .Luckily we knew which window was his .Couple of 'wanna go fishing' and he was up .Must be those late night'study'sessions.

 

Short drive downtown and a 10 minute walk past the locks

Huron

Superior

we are at the river.

 

My second cast something slams my chartruse cleo , few minutes of fight and man do they pull, it was landed .

Not the prettiest looking fish as they are nearing the end of the spawn

 

 

 

Fish kept us busy with 30-40 on and 15 or so landed.

 

couple of scenery shots

 

took a break for lunch then fished the after noon till about 5 , action definatly had slowed down .

 

Next morning (sunday) was cold and wet , we planned to fish till about noon.

On the walk in we meet up with a fellow fisherman on his way out with a nice steelhead ,they are starting to move in and we we see one or two that morning moving by.

a few more fish and we are about to call it a day when my youngest hooks what was probably the biggest fish of the day , unfortunatly it gets away on him and soon spools him snapping his line.

Luckily Pikeie was downstream , grabbed the PP line and managed to land the fish

 

That was it for the day , another quick lunch and we drive home in the rain and snow .

Spoons ( chartruse ,blue white ,pink cleos ) all worked well.

Pikeie was fly fishing or drifting roe bags with his float rod ,Numbers of fish caught were pretty evenly split between the 3 of us.

Next year we will go up earlier for the pinks or later for steelhead

 

Lots of driving some new friends and fishing with my sons , can 't be beat

 

TB

[silveradosheriff]

Great post man - looks like a blast!

[Wild]

Nice trip TB did you leave the camera behind for Pikeie so he can make more Soo reports? You guys should have hit the pike & walleye hotspots while you were there

[tinbanger]

so many fish so littletime LOL

 

Pikeie has a camera so stay tuned for some Steelie action

 

 

I need a new camera ( again) as I dropped mine in the river while we were there

 

tb

[Leecher]

Great report and pics tinbanger

 

That's amazing that pikeie was able to land your son's fish.... congrats to both of them

Thanks for sharing

Leechman