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Whose lunch?

OK so you are bringing in another nice eater walleye.  The action has been steady, the walleye are cooperating by making tentative plans to join you for dinner.  After a while your attention drifts as one walleye after another makes a futile effort to avoid your oxygen rich environment.  Suddenly your rod is nearly ripped from your hands.  That walleye now has your full attention.  You momentarily wonder if the walleye found a phone booth and changed into his super outfit, cape and all.  As you come to your senses and thoughts begin to rattle around your skull like pebbles in a hubcap, a northern pike surfaces with your lunch in his mouth.  Now what?  Do you wake your net partner from his own blissful walleye zone or do you net it yourself?  Who knew fishing could pose such dilemmas?

…just another day on Metionga Lake.

Metionga Opening week

The first parties have returned from Metionga Lake.  Season for walleye opened last Saturday.  Walleye opener is our opener too.

Nice start to a great fishing season.

Lots of walleye to eat and thick northerns to fight.  A Canada fishing vacation couldn’t be better.

Success

We can measure fishing success many ways. In my opinion you can never have a bad day of fishing even if catching is slow. But if catching is good, fishing is then fantastic!

Irene Lake has produced many happy anglers with a variety of species. Small mouth bass and lake trout are the two most common species with northern pike being sought after too. Walleye can be a little tricky on Irene Lake but very rewarding when caught.

Smallie

Lake trout

Opening weekend for walleye only produced a few eaters but the bass and trout made for some great action on Irene Lake.

The guys told me the trout were everywhere and very aggressive. Their only walleye were caught just at dark.

While you play

Our business is providing the type of fishing/wilderness vacation we would like ourselves. Part of this entails us working while you play.

Doing the little things like replacing deck screens keeps mosquitos out and thus makes one more part of your vacation better.

Looks like a leak to me

We can drain the water lines in the fall, and still have a few spring surprises.  Unfortunately they don’t teach plumbing in pilot school but bush pilots either learn these extra skills or move on to pavement to pavement type flying with coffee delivery on demand while wearing a white shirt with stripes on the shoulders.  Randy has worked with us for 24 years and I am sure he doesn’t even own a white shirt.

Randy and John verifying it really has sprung a spring leak before they roll up their sleeves and fix it.  It almost looks like a government job.  If only we had a couple more supervisors.

The gremlins have been busy

Somehow some pine martins got into one cabin this winter.  I would think the only thing of interest to them would be mice.  I am sure we won’t see a mouse in this cabin for a while,  so in that regard it is a good thing.  But martins do make a mess.  They found some pancake flour in the garbage can left from our hunters and managed to make tracks throughout the cabin.

I guess if we stick round this business long enough (26 years hasn't proved enough yet) we will have seen everything. 

Alas what would spring be without a few surprises.

And after the cleaning crew have done their thing, the cabin is ready!

Walleye Fever

I am sitting here with a terrible itch to go fishing.  I think I am getting a little walleye fever as well.  My friend the doctor told me there is little he can do for me.  My maladies have been diagnosed, and the remedy is only a day away.  He said let nature take its course.  Walleye opener is Saturday. 

Ignace Outposts is just what the doctor ordered.  If you’ve got the “itch” or the “fever”, don’t give me any details and don’t fret, a fly in fishing trip is just what you need.