Relive Fishing the Norwalk Islands

Relive 'Fishing the Norwalk Islands'

Jim doesn't have a lot of instrumentation set up in his new(er) boat so I turned the Strava App on my watch on figured I would look at it later to see where we went.  Relive picked it up, too. We got skunked and I lost two of my favorite lures. However, when we got back to the dock we were talking to another fisherman who told where and how to fish for stripers. Going to try that on Sunday. 

Last day on the Cabonga and I had to let this monster go.

Caught this 6 lb Walleye trolling a worm rig on the bottom in 14' of water. It was his/her lucky day due to slot size. 

Bite came on this afternoon

Fished all morning and my dad caught one Walleye. My dad caught the first Pike of the trip but it was just a little "Hammer Handle."

Then he caught two keeper Walleye, back to back. 

Finally, I got on the board with this nice pike. Later, I caught two more keeper Walleyes. 

Big Laker on the big water of the Cabonga

Initially, caught a smaller but good eating sized lake trout before lunch. 

After lunch, in 100 feet of water with my lure at 80 feet, I caught an 8 lb Lake Trout. 

All the lakers, this trip we caught by one lure. A red eye spoon dressed as a perch with a red flash!

8 lb Walleye

Caught this 8 lb Walleye trolling a jig. Since slot limits are still in effect, it was too big to keep so I had to let it go. 

Catching walleyes

We must have caught 30 walleyes but only 3 were keepers. 

Old fish pics

Nice laker today

Lost one at boat but caught this one a half hour later. 

Two Pike on Shepaug

Took my neighbor's son with me. He got skunked but was a good net man. 

Got these Pike on the same lure!

First Pike

With summer hours in effect at work I headed home at 2 PM, Jim met me at the house and we went out on Lake Lililonah.  The boat was running nicely, by the way.  My father took it to Cabelas and they put new spark plugs in it.

We headed up the Shepaug to Pike Alley. Jim said he saw a pretty good sized pike come out of the water near the shore.  We fished the area pretty hard but no luck.  I was casting a pike spinner when this Northern struck at the side of the boat. It was feisty and really fought back. Jim netted it and, had a quick photo op and let Free Willy go.

Boat wasn't working well but Bucky was the star of the show

Heading for the first time on Lake Lililonah there was something wrong with the boat engine and were only able to go about 10 miles an hour.  I had my son and my neighbor's son with me and just went up river for bit and started fishing.  Bucky, casted towards a rock wall at the water's edge and hooked this nice small mouth bass. He also got a nice yellow perch, too.  Brodie and I got skunked.

5 lb Bass

Bucky and I were trolling for bike through the Lover's Leap gorge but weren't catching anything.  Then my drag went off and I started fighting the fish that I thought was a big Northern Pike.  Turns out it was a Largemouth Bass, and a big one to boot. 

 

Bucky did a great job as netman and we weighed it, 5 lbs! Caught on a pike lure!

Swimming and Fishing on Lake Lillilonah

My father brought my two nieces who are visiting from Texas for a day on the boat

We initially went up the Shepaug arm but found it too scummy

So we ventured down towards the dam and found an area devoid of weeds

and great for swimming.

I was able to position the boat in 1.5 feet of water

so you could get in and out easily

We still made use of my improvised swim ladder

Need to have some swim mocks next time

All the cousins on the raft

After lunch we moved over to an inlet and did a little fishing

Elliot hooked up first with a nice White Perch

Then Brodie took over

And Brodie also go a nice White Perch as well

Catching White Perch on Lake Lillilonah

The boys and I headed out to the Lake on July 5th for a little fishing

The wind was channeling down the valleys so we tried a spot

further up the Shepaug and the boys started catching White Perch

Brodie caught the first one

Then Elliot caught one

Although this one looked more like a hybrid bass than a perch

Then Elliot caught another

We tried our other spot out of the wind but nothing was biting

So we cruised down to the Shepaug Dam

The boys had to give me Moose Antlers

Went by the beach at George C Waldo

Checked out the new boat ramp at Rt 133

And finally went under the Rt 133 Bridge honking the horn and scaring the Barn Swallows

Our first accident in Canada, sort of.

We were driving down Highway 117 having just left the La Verendrye and coming into Grand Remous when there was a blur of brown in the corner of my eye and then a loud THUNK against the back of the truck. Looking in the side view mirror I saw a deer was now tangled up in the trailer undercarriage. 

I found a safe spot to pull off the road and assess the damage.  Later, according to my Dad's assurance adjuster this is the first claim for a Deer hitting a boat.  You see in the picture above there is in fact a dent in the bow.

The deer was big and heavy and I had to roll backwards in order to loosen it off the strut.  I threw on some gloves that I had in the car because I wasn't touching it and was able to get it off trailer. 

It took out the wheel fender and running light on the trailer.  Some Canadian guy stopped to make sure we were OK, I guess he saw it happen.  I thought he wanted the deer.

Damage to my Dad's truck

Leaving Deer Horn

Leaving Deer Horn Lodge at 5:15 this morning!

The morning sky is spectacular

We are ready and loaded

Water level has come down about a foot

Arriving and Departing comparison

Got down the infamous Rock Road in 40 minutes

Why no Deer Horn sign?

625 miles to go!