The amazingly pumped up guy in the picture is Dan… he loves to fish, he loves to work, and it just so happens that he caught his new personal best tonight during our pre-dinner half hour fishing excursion.
With the wind pushing out of the bay, Dan wisely opted to slowly work our way from the inside out, in an effort to produce a drift that might put us in a more advantageous position to spot and stalk some big gators. We spotted and caught a few walleyes as we approached the deeper section of the bay when all of a supped I heard GET THE NET!!! I turned my head, only to see a gigantic toad shaking her head in bitter disapproval of the large size half wave spoon that Dan had jammed into her lovely jaws of doom.
As I netted my first trophy pike on Utik Lake, Dan put in a guess at 41 inches and I said, I dunnnnnno, I'm thinking 41.5… Well, boy were we wrong! 46 inches of unadulterated raw beauty was pictured and quickly set free to swim another bay. High fives were mandatory, we didn't hug… but I felt like it.
Me and a healthy pike who clearly did not attend this years fresh water weight watchers seminar…
When I first pictured working near Thompson, Manitoba, I envisioned glacial arctic winds, frost bitten finger tips, and having to wrestle polar bears for fishing spots. When in fact, the reality has been something of the polar opposite, and bear free so far.
With gleaming sunshine and a subtle breeze off the lake, the North Haven crew plowed our way through a whole host of jobs in a machine like fashion! It's hard to call it work, but we do… because we get paid… but really, everyone that is up here, shares a similar passion for life in the bush, and that passion is what brings us back to camp, year after year. Any given coffee break may as well be a professional grade fishing seminar, with over a dozen extremely experienced guys sharing their angling beliefs, and trading big fish stories. I can't wait to do it all over gain tomorrow!
When I first pictured working near Thompson, Manitoba, I envisioned glacial arctic winds, frost bitten finger tips, and having to wrestle polar bears for fishing spots. When in fact, the reality has been something of the polar opposite, and bear free so far.
With gleaming sunshine and a subtle breeze off the lake, the North Haven crew plowed our way through a whole host of jobs in a machine like fashion! It's hard to call it work, but we do… because we get paid… but really, everyone that is up here, shares a similar passion for life in the bush, and that passion is what brings us back to camp, year after year. Any given coffee break may as well be a professional grade fishing seminar, with over a dozen extremely experienced guys sharing their angling beliefs, and trading big fish stories. I can't wait to do it all over gain tomorrow!