It seems like it was long ago in January the we were planning our trip to the Canadian wilderness to try and be the only fishermen to adventure into lost lakes to find the perfect fishing experience. We targeted 30 lakes knowing we could not make it into all lakes. The float tubes limit your range to 3/4 to 1 mile radius but the fishing in the tube is a stealth mode to target shallow fish.
We did find that the Bears and the Impenetrable forest were our most difficult foes. We did find a few lost lakes where fish have not seen a lure or fly in a very long long long time. 30-50 fish at each lake was common, not bad for 4-6 hours, and we fished at least 2 lakes per day. We were at the post spawn for the smallies and they were in the shallows and on the shallow rocky points. The weed beds were just starting to emerge but did hold fish at the edges.
All smallies in these lakes were 14"-19" and just very active and hungry. My best made fly was the frog pattern flies with the tube flies being a big hit for the smallies and the northerns.
The muskies were tough in the lakes but we did have two attacks but no sucess in bring one in. Imaging a 30-35" muskie coming to your tube then to strike ... wow what a rush ! The northerns were similar in their attacks but not as exciting as a potential big muskie.
We had a great trip and adventure of a life time but did learn that the forest was diffucult to get through to the lakes that we could see,,(within 100 yards). The fishing was spectacular on the lakes that we did fish.
We look forward to more Canadian adventures but fly in with our tubes maybe the ticket.
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