Hi Folks,
Just managed to upload some pics from Sunday.
Me and 4 friends trucked our sleds to a spot north of Kenora and made our way in to a couple of lakes for our once a year dual species safari. We travel about 20 miles across a series of lakes and hit a big, beauty of a trout lake. We fish there until we get 2 fish each and then we head back and stop on the way at a walleye lake and finish our fishing there.
This year saw me having a crappy start as my sled seriously overheated and seized before we got to our first destination. Actually died on our walleye lake about half a mile from where we ended up fishing later.
So after rejigging all the load I ended up having to ride on the back of one friends sled.
We got to our spot about 09:00 and began drilling holes. We all started putting lines down when one guy immediately got into a fish. He no sooner hollered out when I got a hook into one too. Mine was only about a 1-1/2lbs so I actually landed it first
Fishing was pretty sporadic after that. We would hit 2 or 3 in a hurry and then it would die for an hour. To fill the time we had a bonfire and cooked up a bunch of deer and moose sausages and pigged out on moose jerky. Soon we had iced a bunch of trout. I needed one more fish and we were just about to pack it up when I got it. After that we gutted and stowed all the fish and made our way to destination two for some walleyes.
We arrived about 2:30pm and the fishing there was ended up being hard work. 3 guys had electronics and were only marking fish occasionally.
The limit there is 4 each and we were really hoping to get 20 fish and head home. We ended up taking 10 between us, including 3 of mine, and heading home in the dark. We all reeld up and released several really small walleyes and a bunch of pike ranging in size from little dinks to one in excess of 30". We were kept company by 3 bald eagles until it started to get dark but my photos didn't turn out.
We managed to to my sled back without too much problem and now it sits until I can fix it up in the off season
After a really long day I was beat, but apart from the sled issue I would do it again in a heartbeat. Weather was gorgeous and we all got sunburned faces
Anyhoo, here's a few pics of the day.
My first trout, the second one was bigger and I should have snapped that pic, duh -
The infamous bloodbath pose -
Our walleye lake -
My first two walleyes -
So there you have it.
Sad part is that I am sitting here typing this report while the trout derby is going on that I was planning to attend. Snowmobile access only
More walk-on fishing ahead I hope. Ice is still very good and over 24" thick on the trout lakes.
Regards,
Glen
