BRIGHTSANDS JUNE 4th - 5th 2005
As I mentioned in my previous post our hardcorefishn adventure was short listed to two people this year, not only that but we also shortened the trip to 2 days. Myself along with my fishing partner for this trip Steve left rather late on the Friday night, there were a few sceptics about wether or not we would make it out there (it was dark, I had only been there once, a
nd we had no spare tire for the 92kms of dirt logging road). We proved everyone wrong as we pulled into the campsite around 12:30am. We had plans of setting up our tent and spending the first night on the main land, but just as we were pulling in there was a group of Americans in the process of scaring off a bear from the camp site, they informed us that he had been hanging around and had done some damage to some of their camping gear. So, after sitting around the fire shooting the s_it with the Americans we decide to sleep in the cab of the truck and look for an Island to camp on in the morning. Well, that was an uncomfortable sleep, between the people yelling at the bear all night to Steve hitting the headlights with his knee setting off the audio alarm, I think we may have slept for maybe 1 hour. 
The only good thing about the bad sleep was the fact that we were able to get an early start on the day, we were packed up and on the lake by 6 bells. We crused across the lake to check out a few Islands and we found a nice little Island just big enough for the two tents and a fire pit. It was nice on the Island, no bears and the breeze from the lake kept the misquitos away. We got out on the lake fishing by about 7:30 - 8:00am, and within the first half hour Steve was happier than a pig in s_it, he had already caught more fish than he had caught all year last year. We were catching a few fish, nothing big
, but lots in the 17 inch range, we even hooked into a few larger Pike. We kept some fish for a fish fry, so for lunch we had our secret "Fishheitas" and boy were they tasty. After lunch we decided go out for some catch and release fishing as we already had enough fish for dinner. We again got into the Wallys pretty good, but again nothing big. We decided to head back to the Island for some fish and bea
ns dinner and a little relaxation around the fire, unfortunately with the early morning comes an early night. The next morning we decided to head down the lake to the portage past the falls to another lake, this is where the Americans were fishing and they were catching Walleye in the 3 - 4 pound range. Once we got to the portage and were introduced to the millions of misquitos that were there we decided that it wouldn't be worth it to spend our last day portaging through the bush. So we h
eaded back up the lake and fished our usual hole, boy were we glad we didn't portage to the other lake, the fishing was excellent, lots of Walleys and a few close to the 18 inch marker and 1 that was over. We even caught some very aggressive 30+ inch Pike, one even had a Walleye that was on my line swallowed all the way back to his dorsal fin. With the fishing this good we had no trouble catching our 8 fish to take home, so we finally decided that we should go and pack up so that we could get home in daylight. And believe it or not, we made it home without any problems:)
As I mentioned in my previous post our hardcorefishn adventure was short listed to two people this year, not only that but we also shortened the trip to 2 days. Myself along with my fishing partner for this trip Steve left rather late on the Friday night, there were a few sceptics about wether or not we would make it out there (it was dark, I had only been there once, a
nd we had no spare tire for the 92kms of dirt logging road). We proved everyone wrong as we pulled into the campsite around 12:30am. We had plans of setting up our tent and spending the first night on the main land, but just as we were pulling in there was a group of Americans in the process of scaring off a bear from the camp site, they informed us that he had been hanging around and had done some damage to some of their camping gear. So, after sitting around the fire shooting the s_it with the Americans we decide to sleep in the cab of the truck and look for an Island to camp on in the morning. Well, that was an uncomfortable sleep, between the people yelling at the bear all night to Steve hitting the headlights with his knee setting off the audio alarm, I think we may have slept for maybe 1 hour. 
The only good thing about the bad sleep was the fact that we were able to get an early start on the day, we were packed up and on the lake by 6 bells. We crused across the lake to check out a few Islands and we found a nice little Island just big enough for the two tents and a fire pit. It was nice on the Island, no bears and the breeze from the lake kept the misquitos away. We got out on the lake fishing by about 7:30 - 8:00am, and within the first half hour Steve was happier than a pig in s_it, he had already caught more fish than he had caught all year last year. We were catching a few fish, nothing big
, but lots in the 17 inch range, we even hooked into a few larger Pike. We kept some fish for a fish fry, so for lunch we had our secret "Fishheitas" and boy were they tasty. After lunch we decided go out for some catch and release fishing as we already had enough fish for dinner. We again got into the Wallys pretty good, but again nothing big. We decided to head back to the Island for some fish and bea
ns dinner and a little relaxation around the fire, unfortunately with the early morning comes an early night. The next morning we decided to head down the lake to the portage past the falls to another lake, this is where the Americans were fishing and they were catching Walleye in the 3 - 4 pound range. Once we got to the portage and were introduced to the millions of misquitos that were there we decided that it wouldn't be worth it to spend our last day portaging through the bush. So we h
eaded back up the lake and fished our usual hole, boy were we glad we didn't portage to the other lake, the fishing was excellent, lots of Walleys and a few close to the 18 inch marker and 1 that was over. We even caught some very aggressive 30+ inch Pike, one even had a Walleye that was on my line swallowed all the way back to his dorsal fin. With the fishing this good we had no trouble catching our 8 fish to take home, so we finally decided that we should go and pack up so that we could get home in daylight. And believe it or not, we made it home without any problems:)
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