I have to play a bit of catch up here, as I'm 'back-logging a years worth of memories at the cottage so bear with me. We've now been at our newly purchased cottage for about a year now. From day one the fishing, from my perspective has been great. I remember the 1st day we moved in on April 21, 2006. The dock wasn't setup yet, but I grabbedmy fishing rod anyway and headed down to the dock area and it was about a week after ice-out. I casted a flourescent orange jointed Rapala (one that I've had for more than 20 years now) out, and had a strike right by the shoreline! I was excited. I casted again and WHAM, a nice sized laker grabbed it. I reeled him in as he put up quite a struggle. I d 
idn't have a net, nor did I have a dock so it took me quite some effort to land him while trying not to slip into the water as our cottage is built on a rather steep area in the 3rd bay. I ran up with the fish, and Sandra took this photo of it before I let him go. I was pretty excited. My cottage lake has fish! As we bought the cottage in the winter I had no idea whether the lake had a healthy fish population other than the ice-fishing huts we saw. Definitely a good sign of things to come.....
idn't have a net, nor did I have a dock so it took me quite some effort to land him while trying not to slip into the water as our cottage is built on a rather steep area in the 3rd bay. I ran up with the fish, and Sandra took this photo of it before I let him go. I was pretty excited. My cottage lake has fish! As we bought the cottage in the winter I had no idea whether the lake had a healthy fish population other than the ice-fishing huts we saw. Definitely a good sign of things to come.....
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