Shitty Jigs

I'm a huge fan of vertical jigging for walleye. But if there is one thing that bugs the hell out of me, it's these crappy quality ball head jigs that seem to be the only game available. Matzuo makes some really nice ones actually, with ultra sharp red sickle hooks, but they only come in 3/8 oz or smaller, and the only place I can find any is at the local Canadian Tire store.

Here's a clue to all you jig makers out there. Do you really enjoy selling crappy jigs for like $0.30 a piece. Do you really think that's a good market to be in? Let me tell you something, I would love to pay a company $3.00 per jig if it was built with some top quality materials. Give me some 1/2 oz or 3/4 oz jigs with Gamakatsu sickle hooks for example.

Is anyone listening? I don't really want to start another company...

Walleye, Lakers and Pike on Cabonga Reservoir

I'll be joining a group of friends for 4 days of fishing in late June, this time we head up to Cabonga reservoir, a massive body of water north of Mont Laurier.

Mike picked up some bathymetric maps which I will install on my GPS, of course I will be bringing my boat - I don't really like going to large lakes and use the small boats the outfitters rent, when the wind picks up in those areas of northern Quebec, you want to have a large boat for safety and comfort.

I heard there are millions of places to hit bottom so I'll be riding the boat safely (no hot-dogging!)



If any of you guys have been there before, I would love to hear about it. Which sectors did you fish, what kind of fish did you catch, which techniques did you try, etc.

I don't remember the name of the outfitter where we will be staying, but we will have larger boats with big motors, so we should be able to cover a good portion of the lake from where we will be staying.

Lac Saint Pierre Walleye Opener

well well well... finally out of my winter fishing paralysis, the company is really taking off now, we moved into a great new office on the 5th floor of a commercial building in Saint Lambert, we take up most of the floor, with an option to take the whole floor and the one below if we need it. Our pay-per-click management software is finally ready to hit the big time, and I'm ready to take the boat out for a few practice runs this weekend before walleye season begins on Lac Saint Pierre next friday. One week to go. I'm ecstatic.



I'm also taking monday off to go fishing for landlocked salmon, like last spring, we hired guides to put us on some monster ouananiche. I just hope we'll have warmer days by then, it's been quite cold here so I'm not sure if it will have any effect on fishing. Again we'll be dragging some streamers around the lake at various depths, and I'm hoping to catch at least one over 10 pounds. We'll see.