LAKE X JUNE 13th, 2005

Lake X is a small inland lake north of Thunder Bay. I'm calling this Lake X because there are some people that would be upset with me if I start giving out the names and locations of these small lakes that are fun to fish and totally unpopulated. A few years back we started fishing Lake X and we were pretty successful, we would frequent this lake about 2 times a week, we rarley ever caught anything over 18" but we had alot of fun catching and releasing the smaller guys. As you can probably tell by most of my posts, I'm not a trophy hunter, I fish in lakes where I know I will catch fish because I enjoy catching fish. I also like catching good eaters to bring home for dinner, and I also like to provide my Grandparents with some fish from time to time.

This day out at Lake X was a warm day, the temperature was about 28 degrees celcius with very little wind and no clouds in the sky. There were six of us in 2 boats and we started off at an old hot spot around 8:00am. After some time and very little fish we decided to head up the lake to fish some structure. We found a couple of humps on the bottom with the fish finder and dropped anchor, we started to catch a few right off the start. Funny thing though, it was mid morning, clear and sunny, very hot, and yet we were catching fish in 8 - 10 feet of water and couldn't find one fish in 20 feet of water. But, who's complaining, we were catching. We spent most of the day anchored in this spot and with three of us in the boat we were able to catch 9 fish big enough for keeping. After the fishing slowed down we decided to cruise a few small bays and try some surface lures for pike, we had one guy in our boat that didn't think we would catch anything in such shallow water, but he quickly changed his mind once the pike started flying out of the water after his lure. We had to be back at the launch and ready to leave by 1:00pm so we had very little time for pike fishing, but the few that we did catch and the few that we missed were definately an exciting end to our fishing day. We made it back to the launch in time to load up and leave, and also to find out that we outfished the 3 in the other boat, maybe next time...