May Long Weekend 2006
Brightsands River
hardcorefishn adventure 2006
Well, another May long has come and gone, this year we had 6 in our group, 3 that have been out on a Hardcorefishn adventure before, and 3 newbies. The ride up to Brighthsands wasn't looking to promissing, for weeks prior to our departure I kept hearing horror stories about the condition of the road into Brightsands, and how bad it would be to attempt the 93km trek. We had even decided to head back up to Majata, but on the day before we left I got word that the road had improved and that they would be spending the day on Friday grading and repairing the road for the opener. SO BRIGHTSANDS IT WAS. We left saturday morning around 11:30 am, the weather was off and on rain, but it kept clearing up.
It wasn't until we were half way to brightsands when we realized how terrible the weather can be on the opener, we hit a snow storm while travelling on the highway and the snow continued off and on straight through til Sunday. It was terriblty cold when we arrived at the lake and started to unload our gear, it was even colder travelling across the lake in the boats, but that was nothing compaired to how cold it was at night. 
We headed across to a large Island where we decided to set up camp, hoping that being on an Island meant that there would be no bears, and there were none that we seen. Shortly after setting up camp we headed out on the lake to where we had done good in previous years, unfortunately with the early spawn and the cold front the fish were not as easy to catch, and the were not where they were the years previous. We moved around and eventually found the fish, we were able to catch enough for a good fish fry for dinner and decided to call it quits as I couldn't feel my feet anymore. We headed back to shore and built a tarp covered fire pit area and had a nice shore lunch, fried Walleye in beer batter and beans, nothing better than that! When I got up the next morning, I exited my tent to find a blanket of white stuff on the ground
, yes snow, it was cold enough over night that the snow actually stayed on the ground. Sunday was a cold and windy morning with a fairly decent afternoon and evening. We fished all day, kept a few for a shore lunch, and then headed back out in the evening to catch some fish to take home the next day. Between the four of us that were leaving in the afternoon on Monday, we kept 12 fish to take home, we figured that we should have no problems catching the remaining four in the morning.
Two of us, myself included, decided to stay out past dark for some late night lunker fishing, we had our head lamps and flashlights to find our way home. We stayed out until just before midnight and had only caught 3 fish in the dark, the largest being a 20 inch Walleye, we released them all. We were half way back to the camp when all of a sudden my outboard died and a big puff of white smoke came billowing out from the engine cover, what happened I'm not sure, but I did know that we would have to paddle the rest of the way back to camp. By the time we got back to camp, everyone else was getting ready for bed and I still had to clean the 6 fish we had caught earlier and we still had to make some dinner, so we didn't get to bed until 2:30am.
The next morning we woke up a little later than we had anticipated and we were a little cramped for time as we wanted to be home by supper time. We decided that myself and Pete would head out for an hour or so to see if we could catch the remaing 4 fish we needed for our limits, we succeeded, but it took longer than I thought. When we first got out on the lake we fished the same flat that we had been fishing the night before, except today was sunnier and warmer, the water temperature had even risen by 2 degrees. So we ended up trying some deeper water and they were there, we caught a few more decent size Walleye in 26 - 32 feet of water. Once we had our 4 fish we headed back to camp so that we could pack up and head home, wouldn't you know it, the day we have to leave is the only nice and sunny day with tempuratures in the double digets, oh well... ...there's always next year. 
Brightsands River
hardcorefishn adventure 2006
Well, another May long has come and gone, this year we had 6 in our group, 3 that have been out on a Hardcorefishn adventure before, and 3 newbies. The ride up to Brighthsands wasn't looking to promissing, for weeks prior to our departure I kept hearing horror stories about the condition of the road into Brightsands, and how bad it would be to attempt the 93km trek. We had even decided to head back up to Majata, but on the day before we left I got word that the road had improved and that they would be spending the day on Friday grading and repairing the road for the opener. SO BRIGHTSANDS IT WAS. We left saturday morning around 11:30 am, the weather was off and on rain, but it kept clearing up.
It wasn't until we were half way to brightsands when we realized how terrible the weather can be on the opener, we hit a snow storm while travelling on the highway and the snow continued off and on straight through til Sunday. It was terriblty cold when we arrived at the lake and started to unload our gear, it was even colder travelling across the lake in the boats, but that was nothing compaired to how cold it was at night. 
We headed across to a large Island where we decided to set up camp, hoping that being on an Island meant that there would be no bears, and there were none that we seen. Shortly after setting up camp we headed out on the lake to where we had done good in previous years, unfortunately with the early spawn and the cold front the fish were not as easy to catch, and the were not where they were the years previous. We moved around and eventually found the fish, we were able to catch enough for a good fish fry for dinner and decided to call it quits as I couldn't feel my feet anymore. We headed back to shore and built a tarp covered fire pit area and had a nice shore lunch, fried Walleye in beer batter and beans, nothing better than that! When I got up the next morning, I exited my tent to find a blanket of white stuff on the ground
, yes snow, it was cold enough over night that the snow actually stayed on the ground. Sunday was a cold and windy morning with a fairly decent afternoon and evening. We fished all day, kept a few for a shore lunch, and then headed back out in the evening to catch some fish to take home the next day. Between the four of us that were leaving in the afternoon on Monday, we kept 12 fish to take home, we figured that we should have no problems catching the remaining four in the morning.
Two of us, myself included, decided to stay out past dark for some late night lunker fishing, we had our head lamps and flashlights to find our way home. We stayed out until just before midnight and had only caught 3 fish in the dark, the largest being a 20 inch Walleye, we released them all. We were half way back to the camp when all of a sudden my outboard died and a big puff of white smoke came billowing out from the engine cover, what happened I'm not sure, but I did know that we would have to paddle the rest of the way back to camp. By the time we got back to camp, everyone else was getting ready for bed and I still had to clean the 6 fish we had caught earlier and we still had to make some dinner, so we didn't get to bed until 2:30am.
The next morning we woke up a little later than we had anticipated and we were a little cramped for time as we wanted to be home by supper time. We decided that myself and Pete would head out for an hour or so to see if we could catch the remaing 4 fish we needed for our limits, we succeeded, but it took longer than I thought. When we first got out on the lake we fished the same flat that we had been fishing the night before, except today was sunnier and warmer, the water temperature had even risen by 2 degrees. So we ended up trying some deeper water and they were there, we caught a few more decent size Walleye in 26 - 32 feet of water. Once we had our 4 fish we headed back to camp so that we could pack up and head home, wouldn't you know it, the day we have to leave is the only nice and sunny day with tempuratures in the double digets, oh well... ...there's always next year.
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