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Just got back from Lake Nipigon.2800 km,30 hours of driving $1100.00 fuel,catching my 3 personal best priceless.We started from High Hill Harbor in Beadsmore at 6:30am for the 10 mile ride to Shakespeare Island to look for a camp site.

 

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Loaded up the boat for the crossing lake was nice and calm we thought it looked calm but was a sheet of ice all the way to the island

 

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You can see the ice from are camp site.The lake was free of winter ice on May the 12 are trip started on May 16th

 

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Our home for 12 days

 

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Ice for the coolers for the trip

 

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First fish in the boat a white fish.Caught many of these.

 

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My first lake trout in the boat is a PB 40"

 

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My first speck in the boat 21"

 

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After fishing for specks most of the time we decided to fish for some pike in a bay we found with 49 F water the main lake was 38 F .After a few battles with some nice pike I hooked in to my PB 41"

 

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On the way out of the bay I hooked my PB speck 23"

 

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It was the best 12 days of camping with 4hour of rain the rest of the days were sunny and calm winds This was my first trip to Nipigon,but not my last. The best part of the trip is we did not see another boat the whole time we were there.

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Very cool trip!!! but ouch on the gas! :o

Ran on auto propane when we could find it,at $1.00 /ltr Gas was 1.43/ltr in the north. When I got home I had half a tank of gas in the truck,over 1/4 tank in the boat and half a tank of propane so subtract about $2oo.oo so $450 each for the trip.

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Nice trip for sure. Love the look of that Laker. Got a shot of the entire fish??

 

It was tuff to get a small laker under 27" to eat.All fish were released we ate some white fish.

 

 

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Definitely one of these..w00t.gif

Gotta have this....good.gif

This one too....cool.gif

These for sure...thumbsup_anim.gifclapping.gif

And of course this one...worthy.gifokay...one's not enough! worthy.gifworthy.gifworthy.gif

 

 

Amazing trip...you've definitely inspired a bunch of us...come the day that I get "my" boat....I'll be doing this!

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