Maybe my biggest Salmon ever!!??

Last minute decision to go out after work tonight. Didn't get down to the launch till 6:30. Fished till about 8:45. Got a Bow at about 7:30 then this bad boy at about 8:15 that instantly overloaded my 20lb scale (my guess is 27-30 lbs). She took 2 times refrozen cut bait in 92FOW down 65. Took about 20minutes to land. Lots of fun!

Bronte July 24 AM

Went out with David 6:30 - 10:30. Worked the 80-120 FOW with no action - hardly marked anything either. Was worried about getting skunked so we changed things up and went out to 220 FOW and got a nice bow, that put on a great show, and a small chinook. Both on meat. Here's David with the bow.

Back from the cottage

We love this cottage.

It has a great beach, dock and Lake. You can boat north for over 70 kms and not see another cottage.

This year the fishing was great at the begining of the week but tailed off after the wind storm which uprooted trees and knocked out our power for 2.5 days. Here's David with a nice walleye.

This one Sarah noticed the hit and reeled it in all by herself.

Here's one evenings catch.

There's nothing I like better than fishing with the whole family and we did plenty of it this week. One morning I came back after fishing with 2 walleye just as the family was getting up, so we and we fried them up and had them for breakfast.
Here's me with one.

The final tally was 16/17 on walleye, 3 pike, and one bass. The one we lost (butchered netting job) was the biggest - probably a good 5 lbs.

One of the other highlights was a waterfall that we boated to. It had a natural waterslide which would take us in the current and bring us to a safe spot downstream.

Good times.

Charleston Lake Bassmasters

Had a great weekend camping with the extended Heslinga family. The laker fishing was slow (only got one) but the Bass fishing was something else. David was the star with both the most and biggest fish caught. Here's pictures of some of the fish.