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hey everyone, new to the forum but ive been fishing my whole life, my names mike and im 19. heres a little report of some fishing in temagami on net lake.

 

we arrived early monday morning and immediatly hit the lake, the sun was already up and beating down on us. we figured the smallmouth would be sitting deeper because of the heat so we decided to find some nice rock shoals and humps in the 15-20 FOW range. keep in mind we did not have a fish finder. we were fishing tubes and crankbaits. we managed to get a few nice bass but with only catching a couple smallmouth in 3 hours we decided to head to the cottage and wait for the sun to start setting.

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later that night when the sun was almost set we headed out in the lake in seach of rocky bottoms with weeds and logs. we found the perfect bay and was actually our honey hole for the week. the bait of choice for the smallies were poppers, didnt matter if it the heddon pop'n image, rapala skitter pop or the strike king spit n king in any pattern they were just smoking them. seeing these bass hit these baits on the top of the water kept the excitment going, not to mention the jumps these acrobats did.

the action on the popers was all week for about an hour in the morning and an hour at night. after the poper bite died down it was difficult to locate the bass, we searched everywhere and fished all depths using many baits, we managed to get some on rapala husky jerks and a couple on tubes with the odd one on a spinner bait. so we went in search for some pike, we found a calm back bay that looked like prime pike teritory, about 8 FOW with scattered weeds and cattails with lots of baitfish. being in that bay for 5 minutes and we already lost a nice one on a #5 mepps tipped with a gulp alive and had a monster pike follow a chartruse spinner bait to the boat, by the end of that night we landed many pike but nothing to huge, we returned back other mornings and nighs but not a single pike was hooked or seen.

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so now it was time to find some eyes. we were fishing drop offs and rock humps using deep cranks and jigging minnows and worms but we had no luck in finding any walleye but we had a nice surprise from this little guy fishing in 20 FOW.

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in the end it was a great week and some off the best smallmouth fishing ive done. all fish were released. hope you guys enjoy!

Posted

great average size for those top water smalliesthumbsup_anim.gifthumbsup_anim.gif

 

nice suprise indeed on that whitefish. I havn't caught one in years.

 

I tried Net lake a couple winters ago but never properly explored the lake...now you've got me intrigued whistling.gif

Posted

Welcome aboard ... Nice Catch !!!

Net Lake is an awesome # , I know it well I used to live right on it , BIG Pike , Walleye , Lakers and Smallies of course , which end were you in ? East or West of the 11 bridge ?

Posted

Good stuff. I was close to the area this weekend. Smallie fishing is excellent just about everywhere up there, but also completely blanked on the walleye. Water is already warm as hell, and the walters seem to be well into their summer doldrums. Just being up there is the best part though!

Posted

Good show dood! Float tubed there a couple times before right off the highway after a buddy from Cobalt told me to try it out for smallies.

 

You and your dad did better than me. Some good smallies.

Posted (edited)

Good job, man!

 

I fished Net Lake twice, once this past Saturday and caught NOTHING and once last year, when I caught this hawg:

 

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Edit: I actually just remembered I fished it once in the winter. I had one bite, I guessed to be a laker, took my minnow off my tube jig right as it hit bottom. Other than that, nothing but the son of a perch in the pic.

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Posted

Welcome aboard ... Nice Catch !!!

Net Lake is an awesome # , I know it well I used to live right on it , BIG Pike , Walleye , Lakers and Smallies of course , which end were you in ? East or West of the 11 bridge ?

 

i think we were on the east end.

Posted

Good job, man!

 

I fished Net Lake twice, once this past Saturday and caught NOTHING and once last year, when I caught this hawg:

 

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Edit: I actually just remembered I fished it once in the winter. I had one bite, I guessed to be a laker, took my minnow off my tube jig right as it hit bottom. Other than that, nothing but the son of a perch in the pic.

 

ive tried shore fishing on net lake before and had no luck on anything decent

Posted

That's one heck of a good report, looks like you had a ton o' fun! I have good memories of Net Creek from about 40 years ago. We were visiting friends in Latchford, and went to the dam area for the afternoon to do some swimming and fishing. We started out with the snorkels, and while I was under I noticed some nice size bass. Then an old piece of mono with a spoon on the end caught my eye, and I held my breath long enough to unhook it from the sunken log it was snagged on. I went back to shore, attached the line to a piece of wood, and went back under to dangle it in front of whatever I could find. Then the others grabbed their fishing gear and snorkels and did the same thing. We caught some nice ones that day, and all while we were underwater!

Posted

great pix !!! curious as to how you go about finding the rocky bottoms, and drop offs with out a finder ? :whistling: maybe its a trick I can learn rather than spending money on a battery charger when mine inevitably dies ?? just messing with you, welcome to the forums, and looking forward to more of such fish porn :thumbsup_anim:

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ive tried shore fishing on net lake before and had no luck on anything decent

I only tried from shore once, and that's the only time I caught anything. I am sure I'll try the lake again, but there are hundreds around here for me to choose from. Are you from this area?

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