Timmins area report

[taper]

I am a little late getting this report in but just got the time now so better late then never. We left on Saturday morning of the long weekend at 5 AM and headed for a small inland lake just outside of Timmins, this is the farthest North I have ever been and the country side was beautiful. We arrived at around 3 PM and it had started raining at 2:30 so we had to set up camp in the rain, we were soaked by the time we were done. We awoke Sunday morning to a blanket of snow on the ground,Kinda caught me by surprise. We had brought two 14 foot tinnies and my bow rider and the ramp was a bit small but we managed to get them all in the water.

 

The fishing was pretty good a lot of average pike from hammer handles to 4-5 pounds and the odd pickerel mixed in. We did manage a nice close up of last years young moose and we seen a Bald Eagle every day.

 

By Wednesday the weather turned around and got hot, Thursday we reached 33 degrees C. I knew this could slow the fishing and it did a bit but we still caught fish.

To my delight on our last day I caught my personal best pickerel at 27 and3/4 inches and 5 pounds. I know if I fish Lake Erie much this year I will probably get bigger but from a lake that far North and maybe a hundred acres I was impressed.

 

I thought this shot looked pretty cool.

On our way back out we seen this little guy again something I had never seen up this close before.

In the end it was a great trip and will be looking forward to the next time we go.

[danc]

Nice report Taper. Thanks for sharing.

[Terry]

good report

looks like fun

[ccmtcanada]

Great job captain!! That's great...a nice 27 3/4" entry for our team! Apart from the rain/snow thing, it looked a great weekend. Nice pics and report!

[irishfield]

Great report Taper!! Looked like a good time despite the weather.

[lunkerbasshunter]

nice job!

 

cheers!

[doack]

How were the Black Flies up there? Great report!

[taper]

Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining about the weather, it wasn't that bad at all. The black flies were not an issue nor were the mosquito's only got bit 3 or 4 times all week. I think the breeze kept them away once the temperature rose.

[pameladallaire]

Hang on, where's the freezing rain and snow? How close were you to Timmins?

Pam

[fishnsled]

Great report Taper. Don't feel too bad about being late either, I just put up my ice fishng report from Temagami that we did back in February! lol!

[Joey]

Great report Taper. That ramp looks a mess

 

Nice pickerel there for sure.

 

Joey

[b2kptbo]

Nice picleral nd pic's, thanks...

[fishindevil]

Great fishing trip,and cool pics too...thanks for sharing that nice walleye pic....cheers

[Mike the Pike]

Beauty Report and pictures MTP

[taper]

Pam I'm new to the area but I think we were about 45 minutes South, around the water shed truck stop. We did see the snow and a bit of freezing rain.

[mattyk]

thanks for posting the pics, nice report!