Posts Tagged walleye

Pathfinder/Boysen

Boysen is as low as we have seen it.  We were fishing new territory this trip.  It is interesting to see the lay of the land under the water we normally fish each year.  ’There is that hump’, ‘I didn’t realize that little hole was right there’.  Makes for a less than dull trip even if the fishing isn’t fast….Which it is was not.  We still were able to pick up several walleye between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, but we decided it would be more fun to get back to Pathfinder, pick up a good friend, and look for trout.  So, we loaded up in time to hit the road with lunch in the cab of the truck.  We drove through Riverton and took Hwy 135.  The views were amazing!  It looked as is it was early May with all the snow in the high country of the Wind Rivers.  We got to Pathfinder and met up with our friend Tyler.  Headed to Bird Island. Picked up three nice Brown’s but not many rainbows.  We then headed back towards the marina and found the feeding rainbows again feeding shallow on top in the evening.  It was one after another of big rainbows!  What a perfect evening of  fishing :)

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Glendo

A lot of fishing is best in the evening and early morning.  So, it is great that we have reservoirs nearby that we can get to for these bites.  We got to Glendo around 3pm Tuesday and headed to a spot that has not been drowned quite yet.  It is a place we know we can always catch fish when water levels are still not too high.  We jigged for walleye while also dropping a smaller jig to the bottom for perch.  It was a chilly, breezy night, but the fishing was quite good.  We stayed until well after dark and used the almost full moon to guide us back to the ramp.  We were in the water by 5am and limited out by 5:30, but we kept fishing around the lake looking for other potential hot spots for the rising depths.

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Jan Lake day 11

We started once again at Harper.  It seems like a great starting point for our days.  We hammered the walleye this morning and Erik caught another whopper of a pickerel, measuring 24″ long.  It was a steady morning with several doubles.  We took our lunch fish and headed all the way into the narrows to shore.  After we concentrated on the northern pike one last time.  They were really in the bays this day.  The larger pike came in were on the bite.  It was a perfect last day for the year at Jan Lake.

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Jan Lake day 10

We went first to Black Rock today since we had done so well yesterday.  We anchored and started jigging.  After a time we moved over to Harper to drift.  We got into the fish and had a great morning.  For lunch we went to Dunsmore.  After we threw spoons for northerns in Dunsmore, then moved up to the second narrows to fish for northerns as well.

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Jan Lake day 9

We started at Harper today,  it was very windy.  The fishing was ok, but the wind was getting tiring.  So we decided to hit some places that have produced fish in the past and would get us a little respite from the gails.  We went to MacMillan Point and anchored for a time.  The fish were definately not there.  We tried Black Rock next and within a minute or two we had our first bite.

After lunch we tried another part of McMillan Point and still had no luck, so Erik checked the map and decided to try a new place.  It was a chain of barren rock islands.  It turned out to not be good this time of year, but it is nice to try different places on days like this.

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Jan Lake day 8

We went to the upper narrows and saw a group of guys we had seen in years past. They are a group from Colorado that comes up every year around the same time as us. It was another slower day, however we still caught plenty of fish and had a great day with plenty of sunshine.

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Jan Lake 2011 day 6 & 7

Driving as far north as the roads will take us, we camp at Jan Lake.  In a place where there are only septic tanks and lake water for travelers during their stay, we are grateful for satellite technology to keep us in touch with the modern world.  The weather has been colder than we have experienced before.  However, now that the fire ban has lifted the true Canadian outdoorsmen’s laughter is as strong as ever as we listen to the ebb and flow of the conversations around their campfires.  We are stuck in camp due to the high winds and cold temperatures, but we will recover; and just have to stay an extra day or two :)

 

We drove to Flin Flon for a few hours to make our loss less miserable… Neat little town, good food- very rocky terrain.

 

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Jan Lake 2011 day 5

Back at Harper today and we very likely caught 100 fish before noon.  Quite a windy day, but probably made for such good fishing.  We let the wind carry us across the bay over and over again while we concentrated on our lines for the slightest sign of a hit.  As we cooked lunch it became evident that the weather was changing.  Before we were through, it started to rain on us.  We finished eating on the boat under the awning.  As the rain continued, the wind died down.  We went back to fishing the shorelines, but the fish were not as stacked as they had been before lunch.  The temperature continued to fall as we fished, the rain stopped and a breeze replaced the strong winds.  When we got to shore we checked the forecast; it is going to get cold and wet!

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Jan Lake 2011 day 4

One of our favorite spots is a 30 minute boat ride north west of camp. It is a place where we can usually fish without seeing another boat all day. We got to the narrows early this morning and had very nice weather. The fishing was not quite as fast as normal, but we still did well catching several dozen walleye before lunch. After lunch we focused on northerns for the rest of the day working around two different bays where we have done well in the past.

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Jan Lake 2011 day 3

Today’s weather has been cooler and windy.  To get away from being blown around, we went to the first narrows where we would be protected.  We anchored and spent the day vertical jigging with minnows.  We skipped shore lunch and kept our fish for a dinner with sauteed peppers and onions, delicious!

 

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