Our 2007 trip to Red Lake,Ont. was another one for the books,good weather, great fishing and awesome fish! We stayed at Bow Narrows Camp on the west end of Red Lake, July 14-21. For the past couple years there has been a spot on the map just calling to me but haven’t been able to fish it or get to because of high winds…a mid lake hump in 86 feet of water that the map said came up to 25 feet. Well I found the spot and was pleased to find it actually came up to 15 feet and just a hint of a breeze. Now it was time to use my toys..I started by setting my Pinpoint trolling motor in depth track mode on the 15 foot break then 17,19,21,24 feet. At the same time I laid out trails on my 332c for each depth, soon we had a picture of the hump, and found a very sweet spot, the breaks were stacked one on top of the other, and the walleye were stacked in there like cordwood in a shed! We caught and released fish for about 4 hours on that spot. My best was a 28″ piggy in 17 feet of water on a lindy rig tipped with a hotpink floater and leach. 1/4oz jigs tipped with twister tail grubs worked well too. Had good luck with BFT 1/4oz gold glitter head jigs tipped with the gold fleck K-grubs. Lots of 23″-26″ walleye off that one point! Not to strech the truth any, but we actually had trouble finding small under 18″ walleyes to eat! I got to try out some of the new draggin jigs in the sour apple color, in about 5-6 feet of really heavy iron stained water, pitched them into small pond weed type lilly pads. Have to say these jigs are great, hardly a hangup and it would just take a quick tug to free up a hung jig.
On the pike side the big gators were out in force! On Thursday my cousin Dennis and I went out to pitch shorelines , I set the Pinpoint on shoretrack 35-40 feet off shore and started throwing 1/4oz gold glitterhead BFT jigs tipped with the bleeding shad with glitter K-Grubs, what a combo! We caught over 50 pike that day with well over a dozen in the 27.5″ to 35.5″ slot size which had to be released. Dennis caught a pike which was just inside the upper slot in about 3.5 feet of water, another 1/8″ he would have made it. I ended up with the big pike of the day, a 10lb 9oz 35-3/4″ gator on my ultralite. Just something about big fish on light tackle, you just can’t beat it! Well it’s only 11 months and 15 days till next years trip…but who’s counting !
