Fishing Trip

[Caneyscud]

Okay Boys

Only thing I can say is "Where has this Canadian fishing been hiding all my life - eh?"  Ya'll boys (that's Southern Canadian for - youse guys) have been trying to keep it to yourselves!   Had a fantastic time.  Wish I could post every one of the 500+ pictures I took.  Only one I did not come home with was a group pic.  Gave the camera to one of the Cree guides to take, and I guess he did not press the shutter.  Pike slime has a peculiar odor.  Guess there isn't any grabbling/noodling going on in that area - all them fish got teeth.  My guide had to get 4 stitches.  

A trip of a lot of first for me.  First - time in Denver, in Saskatchewan, on the "Shield", floatplane ride, walleye, pike, and others.  Went with 4 sorta goals - first was to have a great time - second, catch a big pike, third capture a bear on film, and fourth, catch a pike on the fly.  Succeeded on 3 of the 4 - only one was a pike on the fly.  Tried for a part of one day, but just a short time - most of the time it was waaayyyy too windy and the guide kept us in more open water, over deeper weedbeds close to deeper water.  Basically we were in the wind all day and I did not want to go home with more holes in my body than I left with!  But quite possible and did have a couple of follows from some snakes.  The 10 wt I took (only big 4 piece rod I have) was probably too big - or maybe it was just the wind at the backcast - couldn't feel it load up.  

Oh, yeh, between Denver and Saskatoon, the country is kinda flat and sorta desolate looking - I did definitely saw 3 trees - mighta seen a fourth, but we were at 32,000 feet and it was hiding behind a barn.  

A few pics - enjoy them, I certainly enjoyed being there taking them eh!


If this wasn't paradise - it was close.  Well except for the skeeters!  Big honking Canadian skeeters!


Did not expect to see this rare bird - That's a White Long-Billed Canadian Turkey.  Not many down here in these parts, but up there - plenty.


Our ride.  Sweet, but the amenities were lacking and the stewardess wasn't much to look at, either! ;D ;D


All day getting there, and we got in late.


Sunsets


Had a few of these hanging around!


Did I mention there were gadzillions of them things!


Mr Walley, your daughter oughta recognize this!


Can we say lard?  Everything was cooked in lard - Pig Fat Rules!


The only pics of walleye I have?  Shore lunch yummy!


Shore lunch when the plates were forgotten at camp.  nuff said!


View from camp!


Falls did not expect to see! - Yep that's Caney and yes I got drenched
BTW - this was about 10:30 at "night" - no flash.


Sweet couple


Da Bear!


A smallish one


Kissy, Kissy  -  After 3 days in the bush, them teeth started not looking so bad!


One of the ones I was looking for - almost 41 inches.  Had a couple of bigger ones on, but both broke the line.  Dang it!  
Definitely the drug of the tug had taken over by then!


Farewell.  Until we meet again.  

[classicrockgriller]

Looks like a fun trip and a good time!

How long were you there?

[Tenpoint5]

Way Cool Pics Caney!! Sounds like you had a great time.

[FLBentRider]

It looks like you had a great time Caney!

It reminds me of Canadian fishing trips with my Dad when I was a kid.

[manxman]

Brilliant pics Caney, thanks for posting. Glad you had a good time.  :)

[KevinG]

That looks like a great trip - oh and don't look behind you, but there's a wave of water coming right at you.  ;D

[Carter]

Great Pics Caney.  Wow!!

That looks like one amazing trip.

Seriously though, what's the deal with the Pelican?  You didn't actually see one of those up there did you?

Carter

[RossP]

Awesome pictures, thanks for letting the rest of us
live vicariously through you. Looks like it was the trip
of a life time. Yup us Canadians do live in a Beautiful
Country.

Ross

[OldHickory]

Thanks for the share with some beautiful pic's Caney.  You obviously had a great time.

[monty]

Caney - glad you enjoyed this beautiful country of ours. looks like you had a great time.

great pics!

Ya'll boys (that's Southern Canadian for - youse guys)

i lol'd  :D

[ronbeaux]

Fantastic!!! Those are some mean looking fish!

[Caneyscud]

Seriously though, what's the deal with the Pelican?  You didn't actually see one of those up there did you?

Actually quite a few!  That was rather unexpected. 

[Mr Walleye]

Congrats Caney!

Looks like an awesome time was had by all!  8)

Great pictures! I never get enough of looking through everyones pictures from their excusions.

What did you think of the walleye?

Mike

[Caneyscud]

Loved the walleye.  Tasting and catching.  However, they were being a little coy that weekend.  Plan was to fish for pike until about 11:00, then run to a walleye hole and catch a few for shore lunch.  First day, we only were able to catch four for lunch.  So the next couple of days we started out trying for walleye and still took a couple of hours to catch enough.  Jigging in  the current in the lake.  Had to resort to tipping with minnows.  Still, shall I say, quite a subtle bite!  We fished a couple of areas that held some biggies, but couldn't entice them.  Caught a couple of 3-pounders using some of the big hardware for pike.  They fought like fair sized pike.  But they were nowhere near the 25 pound IGFA world record that came from within the city limits of Nashville in 1960.  I was really hoping for a 7 to 10 pounder.  Ten+ pounders have been caught in the Lake fished this past weekend. 

By the way, scored a couple of scars dealing with those gill plates!!  Man those things are sharp.  I didn't believe it, but do now!

[Mailman]

nice pics. glad you had fun.