As our warm winter comes to a close, where the blue wing and
midge fishing that has been great, we have turned our attention to the big trip
of the year. The second week of June, my
friend Bob and I are headed to Kenora, Canada.
We are targeting smallmouth, pike, walleye and of course big Muskie.
In northwest Canada, the winter lake ice out occurs around this
time of year, not like in Georgia where the summer is at a big start with
temperatures around 90 degrees.
The ice out is when; we believe the fishing is at its best
in Canada. The fish are spawning or post
spawn and are hungry and aggressive. We
plan to fish for a week on various small lakes, taking our float tubes. We will travel the logging roads and hike in to
these lesser known lakes of the 10,000 lakes in this area. Most of these lakes will connect to some of
the most common lakes such as Eagle Lake, Lake of the Woods, Hawk Lake, and
Canyon Lake which are the larger boat size lakes with lodges and fly out
outfitters.
For the last few weeks, I have been tying flies for
smallmouth and larger flies for the Northern Pike and Muskie. These are some of the flies for the trip
based on a patterns developed in our last trips to Canada and Wisconsin. Also, I have used the intruder style for
steelhead and created some muskie type articulated flies along that pattern
style. Some of the smallmouth flies include
a Hex pattern , bass poppers and a weedless frog.
I am hoping that these flies will bring a big one to the
tube as in the Wisconsin muskie. With
three months to go we are planning our routes and narrowing down our lakes to
fish.
