Cabonga Shore Lunch Video

We visited Cabonga reservoir this week for 4 days of fishing with friends, the whole week was absolutely fantastic, here is a quick video of a shore lunch we had on wednesday this week. This was a scary lunch, because the entire time, thunder and lightning was on the horizon, but we managed to stay dry and eat well while the storm passed over our heads.

Girls Ice Fishing in Bikinis!

Some bikini designer thought he would draw attention to his clothes by holding a bikini contest on a frozen lake and by making the girls try to catch fish. So, in order to make sure the videos I publish on this site are fam,ily friendly and offer good fishing techniques for my readers, I took it upon myself to evaluate the quality of the said video.

I think this sums it all up: "What if I caught something" says one of the models...

Thanks to Fishing Jones for the story.

Fly Fishing Landlocked Salmon - Ouananiche

Last spring, I think it was may 1st, I went out with the boys for a day of flyfishing up near Mont Tremblant. We hired fishing guide François St-Louis who works for Sebastien Lord's guiding service. Francois is one of the country's foremost experts in the art of catching landlocked salmon.

We drove up to our lake really early in the morning, in fact the sun was down when we got on the boat and pulled away from the dock. This is a full service guide so he supplied the boat, the rods and the flies.

It was a very cold morning, and we were all very happy when the sun finally came up to grace us with a little heat.

We setup 4 rods, 2 13 foot fly rods on either side of the boat, and 2 9 foot rods in the back, all rods had the same setup, long tippets with special home made flies that looked like magog smelts (long purple and silver streamers).

Lines were out between 100 feet and 200 feet behind the boats, they were setup in such a way that they covered the first 20 feet of the water column, where landlocked salmon feeds at that time of year.

Everyone caught landlocked salmon that day, everyone except me!

I don't remember the exact weight of the fish we caught, but I think they all weighed approximately 7 - 8 pounds, which is very large for landlocked salmon in this part of the country. For example, Memphremagog lake ouananiche weigh about 1 1/2 - 2 pounds each. I know Lac Saint Jean has a healthy population of ouananiche, but I've never fished there so I wouldn't know for sure how big they grow them there - but if it's like their giant blueberries, their landlocked salmon size would be vastly exagerated!!

The video features my group of friends, but only at the very end. We're the group of guys with baseball hats. I'm the guy with the blue windbreaker, sunglasses and grey baseball hat toward the end. The video also features people we don't know, in fact it was shot by the guide throughout the season, so we're only there when they show the real big fish at the very end! ;-)

Enjoy!

Aqua-Vu Walleye Ice Fishing

This makes me want to buy an Aqua-Vu camera like right now. In fact I think I'm going to right after I'm done cleaning up the basement. This video shows walleye coming up to a jig presentation, looking at it with serious intent, then backing off - probably detecting something was wrong. Awesome aqua VU video.

Speaking of Aqua-Vu, they released a revolutionary new high speed lcd flasher system designed specifically for ice fishing - it replaces the infamous vexilar flashers. This new device really simplifies reading for ice fishing amateurs who don't get the concept of the flasher. It is called the Aqua-Vu VPG - for vertical pixel graph.

Basically, this new device illustrates the water column as, well, a water column.

It is an LCD screen that won'ty freeze (according to them) because they built in a screen heater. It comes with a rechargeable 12 volt battery, a neoprene case, with velcro, the target separation is perfect for walleye at 1/2 inch.

Dealers sell this device for approximately $229 USD

Another neat product they releases is a DVR version of the Aqua Vu system - which is probably how the video was shot in the first place. It uses Secure Disc media cards foir recording, so capacity is up to you - the bigger the card, the more video you can capture.

The Aqua Vu DVR unit retails for about $500 USD.

Big walleye kill shot

Here is another Youtube walleye fishing video - this time, someone fishing the st lawrence river, not too far from here, for walleye, but he's not just fishing, he's spearfishing and he is filming it all. The video was shot in about 30 feet of water.

How to fillet a walleye video

Jason Boser shows us how to clean walleye - notice how sharp his blade is, having sharp blades makes things so much easier. There are other methods, but this is exactly how I do it.

Fishing TV Show Host Bloopers

I can honestly say that most of these things have happened to me, and to a lot of people I know, specially when you're distracted.