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Got out today with my son in the boat, and met a friend out on one of of the local lakes. My friend has had two unsuccessful trips to this lake this last week and my last trip out to a neighbouring lake was a skunk last weekend. Told him I would show him a few spots.
Launched at 10:30am glassy waters, putted out to 80 fow and marked a suspended school of what I assumed was herring. Tossed my line down and hooked into a nice little laker off the hop, reeling it in as my buddy approached in his canoe, looks like they may be biting today. Continued to fish the deep water, had a few chasers and lost a couple then they all disappeared around 11:30. So we moved into 45-50fow along a flat adjacent to a deep 160ft basin. Managed a few nice herring, then the wind picked up a good chop and clouds moved in, and so did the lakers. We had multiple double headers and released half dozen fish, kept two under the slot for a meal, and two nice herring for meal. Kept fishing caught a number of lakers in the slot and released and finally as my son was messing around with something and I was giving him heck, as I said “and look the lees a big one on the graph! A big fish!” And as soon a I said the second “fish”…..”Thump!” Hook set! And it clearly outclasses any fish I’ve caught that day, the bend in the rod was epic…. There was no moving it with my 6lb line…. 15 minutes later I got it up to the boat to reveal a three foot monster, my son dropped the net and yelled that’s not a fish that’s a shark! He hurt his finger on the gunwale and insisted that it but his finger off…. The fish dives back to the bottom as I tell me son to sit down as there is a 4ft wall of water coming from a wake boat that was flying by too close, fish nearly spools my as I nearly fall out of the boat, I manage to grab the net before it sinks and throw it like a javelin to my buddy in his canoe and he knows it’s his turn to net the beast the next time I get it up. 5 more minutes and the fish is clearly tired enough for me to bring it back up and my buddy expertly nets the beast…. Man it’s a good thing I had my salmon net! Quick photo and back in the water… 28c out she had to go back quickly. Managed to measure it at just over 35.5” and a fat one at that. Poor quality photos but getting it done quick was more important. This fish was definitely an apex predator in this lake we were on…. Probably eats those 16” herring whole.
Barely 2 min later I’m still shaking and my son says “now catch an even bigger fish Dad!” I laughed and said we can only try. Funny thing is, when the fish hit, there was a second mark, even bigger, the smaller of the two marks is the one I caught…. I told him maybe when it freezes up, looks like there’s a bigger one for another day!. Off the water by 3:30pm. Picture doesn’t do the fish justice.
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Great outing and nice to see your son enjoying aswell .New generation of kids get glued on electronics which they miss out on our beautiful nature we have .
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Wow!! Incredible laker. Congratulations on the wonderful fish. Looking forward to the next report!! Nothing beats the sheer excitement of jigging up a giant laker from the depths.
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