Edgar Lake, cochrane air services

[beerman]

Hey all, just wanted to give you a report from my annual fly in fishing trip with cochrane air services.. We left thursday, may 31, drove to north bay, and got a hotel at The Inn By The Bay. We hung out on the balcony and drank beer all night. Lots of fun.. Friday, June 1st we woke up at 6 AM, for our final 5 hours to get to cochrane, ontario. Stopped along the way for 2 lbs of leeches and a flat of crawlers, and food... Arrived at cochrane around 1 pm. Checked in at the Best Westen, and met Ittalo from canadian sportsfishhing. He was flying out to Kesagami on friday. We talked, very nice person... After lunch, went to see mark and fill out the the paper work, pay for the trip, etc.. Noticed that they had borrowed Hearst Outfitters Turbo Outter, due to the fact that cochrane could not fly for 3 days and people were still in the bush.. Mark said we would be going in the outter at 8:00 am saturday morning.. Awesome!! And thank god for that huge plane as we broke the record for going overweight..1400 lbs over.. LOL. Maybe it was the 25 cases of beer?? Went to dinner, and a small bar in cochrane, then to bed early..

 

Up saturday at 6:00 am to get flown into edgar lake.. Loaded the outter, and off we went. I will tell you one thing, that plane was freekin awesome!! Landed on Edgar around 9:30 am, unloaded and got camp situated, and then we were off to do some fishing! Second cast, my cousin lands a 25 inch walleye, right at the cabin. It was on.. We caught walleye every where we fished..We did not catched a walleye under 18 inches all week..The weather was warm the first day, then it rained on sunday. I knew a front was comming, and boy, did it.. Monday it snowed, and was 33 degree f....... Monday night was 26 f... But the fish didn,t stop hitting... It warmed up and then friday hit us.. WOW..We were the whole way up the northern end of the lake, when it started to lightning and thunder.. We went into shore to wait it out.. While on shore, I found an old trapppers cabin.Pretty neat.. After an hour, it looked clear, and we left for the cabin. While motoring to the cabin, the winds picked up bad, and I mean bad... Next thing it was sleet and hail, and some bad winds... It was scary, and cold.. And the sleet really hurt the face.. But we made it.. All I can say is we experienced every kind of weather canada could throw our way.. It was awesome! No bugs, lots of fish.. I will post more later, and some pictures!! I love the great north.. Till next year..

 

PS..Fish caught 1800 walleye, 2 24 lb. pike, and a ton of white fish!!!

Only 2 cans of beer left over, ate fish everyday.

Cabin, boats , motors, etc all top notch!! Even had a Sauna on the lake..

Edited June 15, 2007 by beerman

[Terry]

now thats a fishing trip

can't wait to see pictures

1800 walleye wow

[beerman]

How do i attach pictures???

[tonyb]

1800 Walleye

1400lbs of Beer

Sounds like the ingredients for a fun trip

 

Tony

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[Kev]

Wow now that sounds like a good fishing trip. Can't wait to see the pics.

[Rich Clemens]

Sounds like someone really kicked a** on that trip. Anxious to see your pics.

[solopaddler]

Sounds incredible, looking forward to the pictures!

[fishindevil]

WOW!!!! thats alot of walleyes,man that sure was quite a fishing trip,looking forward to seeing those pics...cheers

[Carmen]

Can't wait to see the pics, sound like a super outing. Hope all made out O.K. after all the beer

[fishnsled]

How are the pics coming or did I miss them? Love to see those monster pike!

[TJQ]

Awesome... ya just gotta love those fly-ins!!

[TennesseeGuy]

Bring those 1800 photos of walleyes. Load us up.

[Nemo]

OK let me do some math. 1400 lbs is approx 636 kg. Since Beer is mainly water thats approximately 636,000 ml of beer.

 

A can of beer is approx 355ml so that is approximately 1790 beers or 74 cases.

 

Wow party on. Sounds like a great trip.

 

I'd love to see a picture of that payload.

[scuro]

In my wildest dreams I couldn't even be 300 pounds over, even if my beer was packed away in lead cases!