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Tuesday October 6, 2009
Summer/Fall 2009
As summer moved along this year, the fishing continued to be great. Our summer fishing almost always produces good sized walleyes and we had a ton of 5-8 lb fish released. Due to the cooler weather this year the big pike remained shallow for most of the summer.
SLENDER LAKE
The smallmouth bass at Slender went on the beds to spawn the last week of June. The top water action really heated up then. We had many smallmouth released in the 16-20" category. Jim Battles released the largest walleye of 31" at Slender this year. Mark Schoolcraft released a super tank muskie at 51".
Steve Stremke, aka The Walleye Master, taught his son, Eric, how to catch big walleyes on Slender Lake. Steve released a 28.5" walleye and Eric released a 27.5" walleye. What a great way to start your son out on his first trip to Canada!
 
KENOJI LAKE
Denise Feller released an 28" walleye at Kenoji Lake along with Jamie Bicksler with a 42" Northern.
John & Marty Scholtens both released a 37" northern along with Todd Scholtens' 27" walleye.
Cody Broccard, one of our most enthusiastic fishermen this year, released his first 27" walleye.
The famous walleyetollah, Jeff Stepanek, released a 28" walleye on Kenoji. Dale Schnittjer also released a 28" walleye.
 
After the first half day of fishing, Tim Benedict and wife, Amy, reported she had released 49 walleyes and Tim released 47 walleyes at Kenoji. What great fishing at a great lake.
Larry Meyer brought his group from Wisconsin.
They caught walleyes everywhere and also
found several trophy pike.
Larry Kerns released the largest pike at 46 1/4".
Don Teich also released a 41" along with a 26"walleye.
Gary Scheffen released a 26.5" walleye.
Tim Hisey and Bill Hollenbacker both released a 41" northern pike at Kenoji. Kenoji always heats up in the fall for big northern and this year was no exception.
OLIVER LAKE
Tom Johnson and gang caught countless walleyes at Oliver in 6-10' of water in the River. Many walleyes were caught in the big bay north of the cabin on nightcrawlers rigs trolled slowly. The Stohl troup had an ardent angler by the name of Eric, who trolled lures on bottom bouncers directly across from the cabin. He had great catches and numbers in sight of the cabin.
The Baldwin group had a very successful trip. Drew released a 45" pike and Matt had a 45.5" pike. They reported the fishing was excellent.
SMOOTHROCK LAKE
Smoothrock lake has been a power house with many trophies being released this summer.
John Stephens' 45.5" northern. A trophy of a lifetime in
anyone's book.
James Specman's first trip with the Buckleys at Smoothrock resulted in a 37" northern and a 26.5" walleye.
Loretta Taylor strikes again with a nice 36.5" northern
and a 25 3/4" walleye.
Jon Roupp and the famous "hay shaker" Dave Devig both released a 28" walleye.
 
Steve Halter also released a 27" walleye.
Jerry Nick's group has waited several years to get a date on Smoothrock and was not dissapointed. Brett Murray released a 40" pike. Tom Austin also released a 40" pike. Jerry also tied into a 28" walleye. Congratulations guys!!!
Ronald Toons grandson, Eli released his first 40" northern. Way to go Eli!
Scott Squire, who always seems to catch trophies, no matter which of our lakes he goes to, released a 42.5" and a 39" northern. He also released a 28 3/4" walleye at Smoothrock. His friend, Chuck Mattson, released a 37" northern.
  Bruce Smith's group had their first trip to Smoothrock Lake. Harvey Barton tied into a 28" walleye and Bruce Smith had two 27" walleyes. Jack Stewart also released a 27".
 Lake Trout fishing was incredible this year. Many
numbers as well as trophies were caught and
released. The largest trout of 41" was caught by
Jacek Sandelski. Dave Evenson also released a
giant lake trout measureing in at 38".
Dave Ricke released a 25" and this beautiful
28" walleye.
WABAKIMI LAKE
In August and September, Wabakimi produced tons of walleyes in the 20-28" category along with many big Pike. Steve Collins group had a PIKE BONANZA. They released the following on their trip: Al Collins' - 44" pike, Steve Collins - four 40" pike, Dean Renner - 40", 41", 46" Pike, Doug Fogt - 42", 41.5" 40" Pike. That's great fishing!
 
 
Don Holt brought his wife for their first trip to Wabakimi and had a fantastic time. Don released a 44" sturgeon, 25" walleye and his wife released a 26" walleye. Don told us that the two of them released approximately 1000 fish in a week...fantastic!
Gary Kilpatrick released a 39.5", 36" & 35" pike.
Their group also had walleyes up to 26".
Bob Gibson, who we named a reef after, relaesed a 26" walleye. Paul Nord also relaesed a 25.5" walleye.
Terry Bryant's group reported, "In all their trips to Wabakimi, this was probably the best." They released many walleyes in the 18-25" category.
Dave Calof and his new bride to be, released some nice northerns in the 35-38" range by trolling spoons near the "flats".
Jon Hogben had another 42" northern this year.
Michael Peltier released a 40" northern, Doug Blatz,
a 38" northern, Erin Lakowski a 45" northern and
Steve Pilgrim a 40" northern.
COLES LAKE
Coles continues to shine as a great walleye lake. Because of the cooler water temperatures, we had brook trout throughtout Coles lake while anglers were fishing for walleyes. After the water warmed up, the walleye fishing moved into high gear and became steady and consistent. Jeremy Bangel released a 32" pike and a 24" walleye. Troy Schnieder also released a 24" walleye.
 
We also had many beautiful brook trout caught and released. Ralph Horsens released a 17", 19" and 24" brook trout...fantastic!
George Tait released this beautiful
19" brook Trout.
I fished Coles with one of our groups and went to several of my sunken reefs and couldn't find the fish. I sat in the boat and thought about it - they are not deep so I must go shallow. I remembered the writing on the wall in the old trappers cabin. "Go to the east end where the water comes in." I did and we caught 100's of walleyes in 3-5' of water trolling 3" sassy shads! What a wonderful day of fishing. Who would have ever thought at the end of July they would be this shallow???
All in all summer and fall fishing this year was fantastic.
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