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When the fishing gets slow where you are, the best thing to do is get out. That's just what I did a couple weeks ago when myself and five others did a fly-in fishing trip to northern Ontario. This was pretty much your standard Canada trip with plenty of hungry, willing walleyes to grab your twister tail in 15-20' of water during a back troll. This wasn't technical fishing, but it sure was fun.



I really wanted to make a concerted effort to fish for pike with the fly rod (10' 8wt) and in anticipation I requested two books from the library....Pike on the fly and Mastering pike on the fly. Needless to say, I was pretty amped up before heading north. I had a mittful of 8" bunny streamers and enough poppers to choke a horse.

 

Guess how much time I spent fly fishing for pike? A grand total of 30 minutes one afternoon...out of 8 days of fishing. Oh well, I should have expected it to go down that way. Whenever I'm halfway prepared for a trip I end up not fishing near as much as I anticipated.

We all had a great time though and it was the most relaxing week I've had so far this year. We ate as much walleye as we could...knowing it would be a long time before we had this much walleye available to us.  And the shore lunches....how could I forget the shore lunches? Besides the solitude, they are one of the biggest reasons to pay the outfitter to fly you 100 miles north of nowhere.



I don't have any trophy pictures to show, the only 24" walleye was caught by the person who didn't have a camera along that day. That's usually the way it goes.When the fishing gets slow where you are, the best thing to do is get out. That's just what I did a couple weeks ago when myself and five others did a fly-in fishing trip to northern Ontario. This was pretty much your standard Canada trip with plenty of hungry, willing walleyes to grab your twister tail in 15-20' of water during a back troll. This wasn't technical fishing, but it sure was fun.