Well, another Monday has arrived. This weekend was a fun, but short weekend. I got to take my fiance up north with me to my Dad's lodge in Ontario. We left Stevens Point at 3 pm on Thursday and arrived in Longlac, Ontario at 4 am EST. We slept in the car at the bait shop until 9 am so we could buy our fishing licenses. After buying our licenses and filling up the gas tank we drove another half hour to my Dad's place. I took a short nap and headed out lake trout fishing with my Dad. I let Becky sleep a bit longer since she was pretty tired. We scored two lakers and missed a bunch of other ones.

After about an hour and a half of fishing we came in and I got Becky up and we headed to a local bush lake. This lake is my Dad's "trophy pike" lake. Becky started out the action with a fat fish that looked like it would have went 26 or so, but it managed to shake her husky jerk before I could get the net out. A short while later my Dad gave a monster hookset on a fish. We never got a chance to see the fish but they way it was fighting it seemed pretty big. It ended up straightening the hook out on his Esox Cobra Jig. A few casts later I stuck a 38 incher on a Super Shad Rap.

Then we got off that lake and headed back out for some lakers. Evening came in quick on us and the lakers shut down. Seems like they arent big night biters. So we headed in and had a good lake trout dinner.

Saturday morning we got up and headed out to another bush lake in hopes of a full limit of walleye and pike. The weather, however, dashed those hopes. Over the course of the early morning a cold front came through, with heavy rains and a temperature drop of over 20 degrees.

On the bush lake we had a little action from pike on spoons, but nothing spectacular. Becky moved a real nice pike and had it swimming around the boat looking real angry.....my Dad tossed his spoon out there and the fish came out of no where and drilled his spoon, but avoided the hooks. After a disapointing outing on the bush lake we headed back to the lodge and back out for some lake trout. After an hour or so of trolling we finally found a few active lakers and Becky landed her first ever lake trout. I scored two more. We then headed in and cleaned fish.

The following morning came early and we had to hit the road. After about 11 hours we arrived back in Point, exhausted.

Now some people may look at this trip and say, "Why would you only go for a day and a half?" This trip was about much more than just fishing and catching fish. I got to spend some time in a boat with my Dad, which I havent gotten to do in over a year and that was pretty cool for me. Becky and I had a great time up there and look forward to a longer trip next year, and no cold fronts coming through!

I must say it was great having you and Becky up... even for a short trip like that. I really enjoyed getting the chance to fish together... been a long time, and I am already looking forward to next year when the two of you are up for a longer time.

The pike will be waiting on that bush lake, and I am looking forward to hitting it with you again.

Unrelated to Canada... congrats on your tourney fishing last weekend! Must say I am proud of you... maybe one of these days we will have to get out musky fishing sometime.

Dad