Saturday Aug. 13, Wow

WOW beautiful weather day and night. Started fishing at 7pm until 4am. So many bass this time and perch biting up to and after dark. Rock bass, crappie, and walleye after dark. One walleye before dark. This is the only fish I kept.

Better picture 19.5 inches.

My little friend the Martin came to visit me again last night. The blurry picture made him look more like an alien. He tried to take my walleye out of my bucket.

Another shot he just would not sit still. While I am fishing he runs around me and last night went right between my legs. When I cast he watches the lure go behind my back and I swear he is going to chase it in the water someday. I gave him a live rock bass that I hooked pretty bad. I just put the fish in a inch of water and he found it right away as it splashed around. As soon as he crushed the fish with his teeth.....gone did not see him again for three hours. I NEVER FEED WILD ANIMALS. Martin's eat fish I just helped him out by throwing it where he goes into the reeds to catch fish every night. It's like a zoo down there at night...two beavers...two muskrats one Martin and I have even been visited by an otter a few times over the last five years.

That's pretty cool Jaime. I hope you don't get any larger visitors like coyotes or skunks. That could ruin a good fishing night!!

I have only seen 1 coyote this year so far. No moose or bears or deer or skunks either. Probably because I have only been up to the family house near Sturgeon lake five times since walleye opened. That's about half of what I would like to be fishing. Will have to make up for that in Sept. Oct. and Nov. I am looking forward to fishing with you and a couple of the other guys on the Fishing Forum.

Just say the word my boy!!

Awesome report and fishing, CM!
Happy for you to be able to get back on fishing again!

The night bite is always good to you Cman. Way to go.

Yes, been very lucky so far this year with fish at night. I am hoping my luck comes from all the small ones we have seen in the past few years getting bigger. It can always be better, but the fish stocks on Sturgeon and Balsam are in good shape. Catch lots of fish and let most of them go I say.

You inspire me to try night fishing but I seem to hit the beer around sunset when camping so that idea gets put off each time.

I also try for the early morning crack of dawn fish at least once when I go on a trip but it always seem to be yeah maybe next time eh.

Just saw your camping pictures, hard to tear yourself away from that. Beautiful camp and fire, who would want to go fishing when you can just kick back and relax. You had good luck catching during the day. Good on you for not drinking and boating as well. Plenty of time for enjoying a beer and fishing at separate times of the day.

looks like you did very well.


like the wildlife attitude

Seeing the wildlife is a bigger rush for me than catching a huge fish. Bears are my favourite, then wolves and coyotes, moose and deer etc.. At my old house on the farm I would build a snow fort for my nephew, it would take me hours. There was one coyote that would come out of his den and sit there and watch me the whole time I was outside. Even if I was just shoveling snow or mowing the lawn in the summer, he was always around. Finally he was not there anymore after years of always seeing him. I assumed he got old and died, it was like losing a friend. Years ago I was the president of the humane society in my town. When an animal died for one reason or another it was almost unbearable. I don't have any pets anymore for that exact reason. I even feel bad when I hook a fish bad that was too small to keep. I was raised around guns but I could not hunt anymore. Nothing wrong with hunting what so ever, my friends and family hunt. But just fishing for me now, and the odd sighting of whatever pops out from the shadows at night when I am fishing.