chris.brock Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 (edited) Abamasagi means "in and out" in Ojibway, that's the way our trips feel, the anticipation, getting in, you catch your breath, and it's time to come out, and it's back to the real world The "in and out" actually refers to the Kowkash River, it dumps in and heads right back out of Aba within a stones throw, a pretty unique phenomenon We enjoy checking out different places to stay the night before, we prefer a camp fire rather than a typical hotel, Hearst Big Game Hunting let us stay here, great price, great guys, google them if you're interested Aba is a big, wide open lake, vulnerable to wind and waves, weather like this is what you want The Kowkash was in flood, so we could get in straight down the river. My Hotmail account has been dicey lately, Howard wasn't impressed and actually wouldn't say a word to us when we showed up at 10:30, not 7, after not receiving my Email. The Americans coming out, also didn't acknowledge our presence I'm guessing because Howard told them the reason for their late departure was us. Some tension we don't really want on our vacation. I can't really blame Howard, he had to make 2 trips and for all he knew my story about the lost Email was Bull, it did feel like being back in high school though This grouse was like a rooster, sitting on a log behind the cabin, drumming at first light Howard came in Wednesday to do some work. Hard feelings persisted, all he said to us was- "Chris, why is the (kitchen) chair in the boat?" me- "for my bad back" Howard- "if it goes through the boat you're in trouble" here's a gear picture, one thing interesting is the golf stroke counter, we use them to keep an accurate account of fish caught There was a new member on the team this year, my nephew Teagan, the first evening he was happy with this 5 lb pike damn, Monday was a rain day, I whip up a thunderstick and wave it at the sky to blow the clouds away rain day plinking out the kitchen window the water was still high and cold, Mike Borger was nice enough to give me a map with detailed spots and GPS coordinates, the fish weren't in summer mode yet and we had to start from scratch, Solo's best spot on the lake only yielded 1 whitie, no walleye at all we had to work for our fish, they were scattered and hard to figure out, here's a 4.5 lbs walleye, released tried to head up a creek to another lake that Mike had reached, a big tangled mess stopped us about 1/4 of the way up more to come, I'm going to post this and edit in more stuff so I don't loose what I have.......... out running the storm %5Burl=http://s949.photobucket.com/user/chrisbrock17/media/sucker_zps61e5691c.jpg.html%5D%5B/url%5D some pike between 8 and 11 lbs %5Burl=http://s949.photobucket.com/user/chrisbrock17/media/100_2333_zps13c9ed8d.jpg.html'> Team Deep Bay Group shot a great trip, biggest walleye, 4.9 lbs, biggest pike, 10.7 lbs, 468 fish in total, well, the sun has set on another trip, I already miss being up there more stuff added you've heard of the Hungry Bear, here's the thirsty bear 4.9 lbs walleye pike around 10 lbs a triple header pike on the scale rapids on the Kowkash http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad333/chrisbrock17/rapids_zps73656d2a.jpg Edited June 19, 2013 by chris.brock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musky or Specks Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 When you say Kowkash was in full flood does that mean you boated in from the Bridge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danc Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 Nice. Beautiful Grouse shot!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosebunk Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 So far so good Chris. MacClays, fishcounter, E-Trex and portable finder in one pic... that may as well have been my boat dood. Too bad about the tense feeling with the outfitter. Looking forward to more. And the great grouse pic should be in a mag somewheres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.brock Posted June 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 (edited) When you say Kowkash was in full flood does that mean you boated in from the Bridge? yeah, boated in from the bridge So far so good Chris. MacClays, fishcounter, E-Trex and portable finder in one pic... that may as well have been my boat dood. Too bad about the tense feeling with the outfitter. Looking forward to more. And the great grouse pic should be in a mag somewheres. thanks Moosebunk, the MacClays was my Dads though (I ran out) Edited June 17, 2013 by chris.brock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corvette1 Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 awesome trip chris glad it all worked out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAW Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 (edited) Great report Chris. A little Erie though.. We have the exact same fish finder, beer cozy, GPS, and we drink the same cheap beer! Brothers from another mother I guess... I believe we both run Bravo's as well..... We've got to meet up and go fishing sometime! Edited June 17, 2013 by N.A.W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.brock Posted June 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 Great report Chris. A little Erie though.. We have the exact same fish finder, beer cozy, GPS, and we drink the same cheap beer! Brothers from another mother I guess... I believe we both run Bravo's as well..... We've got to meet up and go fishing sometime! yeah, that's bizarre, I guess we're on the same page we'll go fishing together and finish each other's sentences, it'll be easy for me to steal a beer or 2 out of your cooler, "oops, sorry 'bout that, thought it was mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solopaddler Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 Hey Chris, I'm not "too" surprised the main lake shoals weren't hotspots....but the inflow and outflow of the river should have been ridiculous! Sounds like you had fun regardless, although the weirdness from Howard is a bit of a downer. Too bad about that. Looking forward to some more pic's, Aba will always be one of my favorite lakes. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adempsey Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 Nice report! Thanks for putting it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.brock Posted June 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2013 Hey Chris, I'm not "too" surprised the main lake shoals weren't hotspots....but the inflow and outflow of the river should have been ridiculous! Sounds like you had fun regardless, although the weirdness from Howard is a bit of a downer. Too bad about that. Looking forward to some more pic's, Aba will always be one of my favorite lakes. Cheers I put up a few more pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musky or Specks Posted June 19, 2013 Report Share Posted June 19, 2013 Yep that looks like the Kowkash in full flood alright. Canoed it for 7 days at that color and it made the fishing suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Caster Posted June 19, 2013 Report Share Posted June 19, 2013 Great trip... that's a silly amount of fish, regardless of what you expected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.brock Posted June 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2013 Yep that looks like the Kowkash in full flood alright. Canoed it for 7 days at that color and it made the fishing suck.the fish bite around the inflow and outflow should have been great, but the water was like chocolate milk, we still found a few fish in there though did you paddle down the Little Current too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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