Wow, time flies.  It's hard to believe its been over a month since my last update.  Since then there's been a lot of days spent on the lake and a lot of fish in the boat.   All that translates to many happy guests at Moosehorn Lodge.  

Overall fishing has been good this summer, with high numbers of walleye hitting the net.  This time of year, walleye are scattered on main lake basin structure like humps, reefs, flats and islands with deep water access.  100-plus fish days are the norm.  Jigging Lindy Jigs tipped with minnows is all it takes to catch fish.  

Here's a typical Lac Seul over-slot summertime walleye.    

Corey from Wisconsin with another nice 'eye.  

Here's a walleye with a big appetite - That's a 10" muskie bait in its mouth!  

Speaking of muskie - these big predators have also been making regular appearances in the Beckman net. 

Here's Kevin from Thunder Bay with his first muskie ever, caught on a top-water bait.   

This feisty muskie crushed a topwater bait at the side of the boat.  Always a thrill!  

Bruce, from Minnesota, got this nice muskie on the first spot of the morning.  Everyone in the boat got to see it eat a spinnerbait about 30-feet out.  

Lac Seul muskie love topwater baits... here's another boat side topwater fish caught on a Psycho Sister.  

Here's a beautiful muskie I caught trolling recently.  It hammered a Legend Perch bait 25-feet behind the boat.  

Check out those teeth on the release shot!   

I had a great time with Rocco and Amy from Illinois.  Check out these awesome pike they caught last week.   It was Amy's first fishing trip to Canada but that didn't stop her from catching the big fish of the trip.  Great pike Amy!  

I'm happy to announce a partnership with 50 Inch Apparel.  Check them out online at www.fiftyinchcrew.com They make some awesome muskie themed clothing.  

In other news, I'm happy to share this photo from a project I called 'pimp my ride'.  My boat got a serious upgrade thanks to Humminbird and Minn Kota.  

That's an 80-lb Minn Kota Terrova complete with iPilot and a Humminbird 788 ci HD combo.  Fish beware!  

Stay tuned for more muskie and walleye fishing as we get closer to fall.  I know August will go by as fast as July did.  

Summer is here in a big way in northwestern Ontario.  The recent weather has been hot and so has the fishing.  Water temps are way up, with mid 70's on the main lake today.  The mayfly hatches are done and the walleye have been on the move.  100+ walleye days are still the norm - its really been an excellent year.  

Over the last week or so walleye have moved en masse to structure in the main lake basin.  Traditional summer patterns are working very well.  Over the last 2 days I've caught 300 walleye all from 28-34 feet-of-water.  Lindy jigs tipped with minnows have been catching all the fish.  Hot colors are glow, chartreuse, orange and white.  

Here's a shot of one of my guests, Lucas, with a nice walleye that won him the 'biggest fish of the trip' prize.  

Here's another nice humpback Lac Seul walleye from an overcast day.  Even the guide gets lucky sometimes :)  

The Bruley party had a blast fishing with me at Moosehorn Lodge.  They timed their trip just right for some awesome top-water smallie action.  

June 16th was a special day in these parts - muskie opener!  I had a chance to chase these monsters with Nick and Rocco, a couple muskie obsessed guys from Chicago.  Last year Rocco set the bar pretty high with a 53.5" giant!  This year, however, it was Nick's turn.  Nick boated 3 nice muskies, all caught on bucktails.  On average we saw about 6-7 fish a day.  

Here's a sight I've been waiting a long time to see - a muskie in the Beckman Net!  

Let 'em go, let 'em grow!

Coming up soon - more muskie, walleye, pike and lakers.  Check out weekly audio reports at the Lindy website.  

My spring fishing update is a bit overdue as things have been really busy around here since getting back from turkey hunting.  My guiding work is in full swing and the days are flying by.  

Overall fishing has been excellent, despite the non-typical weather patterns we've had this year.  The ice went out really early and since then we've had everything from seasonal weather to the extremes of heat and cold.  It snowed in Sioux Lookout on May 29th and now less than a week later it feels like summer.  


If I could generalize the effect on the fishing, I would say the fish are more scattered than usual.  Recently, I've caught walleye as deep as 34-feet and as shallow as 4-feet, and everywhere in between.  Everyday is different and most patterns don't last very long.  

Despite this, the catching has been very good.  Most of my walleye are being caught out of 15-feet of water, give or take.  The bigger fish, however, seem to be in 15-plus feet.  Another pattern that is producing is the may-fly larva pattern.  During sunny afternoons when the shallow water heats up, the walleye move into shallow bays to gorge on may-fly larva.  It's one of my favourite patterns of the year - catching lots of walleye, and big ones too, out of 4-8 feet-of-water.  

Here's one of my guests, Bob, with a typical Lac-Seul over slot walleye.  

Bob and Mike toughed it out through some of the worst conditions - cold, wet and wind - but we caught a lot of fish!  

Not long after they left, the weather got warm (sorry guys!) and the fish kept biting.  Here's a nice one that I caught out of 18-feet on a Lindy jig tipped with a minnow.  

The pike fishing has been kind of hit-or-miss lately but I have to show off this P-I-G I caught earlier in the season.  

I also had a chance to spend 3 days in my boat with my good buddy Mike Battistoni hunting for big lakers on Minnitaki Lake.  Minnitaki is known for trophy lake trout, but it's not a 'numbers' lake by any means.  We were hoping for a couple of big-bigs but it didn't happen on this trip.  The laker bite was tough and we only boated 1 fish.  We covered a lot of water trolling with planer boards, dipsey divers and long-lines.  We also jigged deeper areas but couldn't get on a big laker.

Here's Mike with our one-and-only lake trout.

Since I didn't get to 'scratch my lake trout itch' I hit up Big Vermilion for some jig fishing recently.  The action was much better and we boated a lot of lakers jigging with white tube jigs.  We caught fish from 35-feet down to 70-feet.  Here's one of the better fish from the day.  

Since I got home from turkey hunting I put together this video.  Check it out - I think it turned out pretty well.  

Coming up - a lot more fishing!  I'm really looking forward to muskie opener on June 16th.  

Also, the Johnson Outdoors santa arrived and I can't wait to rig my boat up with a Minn Kota Terrova with I-Pilot and Humminbird 898CX Side Imaging combo, plus a 788 HD combo on the bow.