Hi all,

went back to a a lake i'd only fished once before...and that was icefishing, but we did pretty good so had high expectations for it.

Took a good hour to get in there with the ATV, trail in was in pretty rough shape. We headed to the creek mouth we'd fished in April on the ice....no joy except a couple small pike.

We then tried to find some sheltered shoreline as the good ole weather network was ....as usual....way off the mark with its forecast and there was a really strong northwest causing whitecaps....

........anyway after struggling to get good boat control with no fish to show for our efforts we headed to a spot we had fished through the ice in February, and after a 2 hour search for walleye we limited out in 20- 30 minutes, with a good number of oversize fish going back, a couple of small whitefish (i'll be back to target those for sure) and a boat load of slimey pike.

All taken on jigs with minnows, colour did not seem important as we all caught around the same amount with different colours. Minnows were main bait, i had a few nightcrawlers and they worked just as well, just hooked on the jig. 12' 14' FOW was where all the fiash were, including the whities.


Here's a video of us when we found the fishies, and a few random pics of the afternoon.



WAS WORTH THE WAIT






LOTS OF MINNOW THIEVING PERCH TOO






LOONS WERE NOT SHY AT ALL






LEW'S DAUGHTER INSISTED WE KISS ALL THE FISH BEFORE PUTTING THEM BACK, NO TONGUES THOUGH PLEASE...EWWWWW!






ALWAYS LOTS OF PIKE IT SEEMS






THIS WAS SITTING IN THE MUD AT THE LANDING, KINDA COOL





THE STRAINED LOOK ON MY FACE IS CAUSE I HAVE AN ELBOW INJURY AND THE STRINGER WAS HEAVY!

Another good days fishing Simon, good result too. Great pictures and as always a great long report.