Survive Peak Earth

Started a new blog called Survive Peak Earth. It will attempt to document my plan to survive what I believe will be a Malthusian Catastrophy that will occur within our lifetimes. I'll keep the doomsday stuff on that blog, and keep the happy stuff here.

Can't a guy just fish for some trout....

Y'know this season has pretty much been a write-off for lakers. Firstly - the weather hasn't exactly been cooperating. Between rain-forest weather and tornados touching down it hasn't been much of a summer so we haven't been up as much. Sandra's folks like to fish for bass so all other times have been spent smallie hunting. Oh yeah, then we have good weather and my motor dies (which is fixed now!)

The trout above is from August - Sandra's folks kept this one. There were 2 more 2-3 lb trout that I caught last week but I didn't have my camera with me.

Trolling motor dead = Ski Boat = Fishing Boat

Haven't posted or fished much this season folks, sorry 'bout that. Seems like I've had even less time this year to fish than last year because of a combination of less than ideal conditions and just being busy / vacations etc.

Oh yeah, I forgot - my Minn Kota Vector 3X trolling motor is dead, only goes 0 or 100% power and nothing inbetween - it's going to cost $250+ to fix (and 2 additional weeks). Oh yeah and my battery charger died too. Arg. I guess I shouldn't leave them connected when I turn on the power to the cottage.

So I got peeved, and got a Minn Kota PowerDrive v2 bow mount and did this to my ski boat:


Got a few looks on the lake as I was quietly trolling beside people's docks... Got a "Look this guy's fishing!" from a few people as well... LOL

The Togue are Back!

Sam, Aidan and I went up to the cottage on Tuesday and Wednesday for some lake trout action. They're back! I'll let the pics do all the talking:

Tuesday:
Skies: Sunny / Clear
Water Temp: 22 degrees C
Wind Conditions: No wind - small ripples on the water to glasslike

Aidan: 6
Cadman: 5

Wednesday:
Skies: Cloudy
Water Temp: 19 degrees C
Wind Conditions: Moderate wind - slight chop

Aidan: 1
Cadman: 1

Total lakers: 13

First Lake Trout of 2009

Hooked: 7

Landed: 5

Water Temp: 16.8 degrees C

Weather: Sunny, windy

Water Action: Wavey

Thermocline: NONE! (This is really late in the year not to have a thermocline)

Ok. So it's been a really slow month. But the trout made up for the last month's disappointment by feeding voraciously on my lures. They were hitting jigs, spoons, you name it they were hitting it. Even the neighbors were catching fish.

I've switched back to Fireline Crystal 10 lb line from Fireline charcoal 6 lb. Although this means my lure will be higher in the water column, I had most success with this bright coloured line (perhaps they're attracted to it?)

We were speculating that the fish weren't hungry, that all the baitfish on the sonar were giving the trout plenty of food so they weren't hitting my lures. However if you'll notice the fish are quite skinny, they don't have the full bellies that we're used to. Perhaps the Bass are spawning late this year and the fish are famished?

Here are the fish - they range from 2-3 lbs.