Archive for August, 2009

It wasn’t very long after unloading the plane and loading the cabin, before Paul and I decided to go fishing (probably 10 minutes). We quickly grabbed a few rods and a few trays of our favorite lures and decided to hit some spots close to our cabin. The weather, which would remain all but one day of the week, was extremely overcast, with showers, sometimes heavy, coming and going throughout the day. Lake Kapukasing is very unique. The half of the lake where we were stationed was narrow like a big river. A few miles north of us, it opened up into very wide, big waters, type lake. The lake is supposed to have depths up to 30 feet, but it seemed like everywhere we went it was 10 or less, even on the larger portion.

It wasn’t long before Paul and I turned the corner of our cottage and saw some weed beds leading out to points. We began casting; he used a Johnson silver minnow, which would prove to be one of the most valuable lures on the trip, while I threw a topwater frog. It wasn’t but 10 minutes, and we were both on to our first Kapukasing pike.

This pattern remained for most of the trip. If you found weeds and points, you could find numerous amounts of 26 inch pike and below. Our group easily caught over 100 throughout the trip, possibly more. We would have caught close to 200 or 300 if we didn’t decide to chase after walleyes and monster pike, a story you can read about soon in an upcoming post.

The small pike were thick in the weeds, so Johnson’s silver minnow and topwater were the choice that withheld the week. Any bait with a bright orange or firetiger pattern also proved to do well in this very tannic stained water. We caught so many of these pike; I can’t give the details to them all and really struggle to remember them. We really didn’t take a whole lot of pictures of the smaller ones, due to our quest for the monsters. Here are a few more pike highlights.

Part 3 of this story will discuss our efforts in catching walleye. Part 4 will show some monster pike we did end of finding, while Part 5 will wrap up the trip.