Another week has come and gone here at Jim and Julie’s Wabaskang Camp. Week 17 of our 2026 season had plenty to talk about so let’s get started. We saw more mild weather and dry days again this week which also saw the lake drop another inch or so. The lake level is tolerable here st our launch and dock but I’m relieved that we only have two more weeks to manage the low water.
Our guests this week fishing for walleyes had plenty of action for the 15″ “eaters” but struggled to catch 17″ fish. Many fish were caught in 15′ of water on jigs and twister tails. We did have a number of trophy walleyes caught by our guests who fished deep rock piles and shallow weeds at dusk. Dean Baker landed a 24 1/4″ walleye, Tom Greiner reported a nice 26″ fish to us. My brother Mike Lammers boated a pair of 26″ beauties—I’m a bit disappointed. Steve Oyen managed to find a bit of time between sweeping the cabin floor and picking up after his gang to go out and land a giant 28″ walleye. The biggest walleye of the week was caught by first-timer Dustin Murray, his 29 1/4″ trophy was a hat winner this week.
Northern fishing took a back seat this week to the walleye fishing, but Charlie Zender caught a chunky 34″ pike on his favorite crank bait and Larry Dufel was the hat winner this week with his 37 1/4″ trophy pike.
Bass were biting next to deep water rock structure if you were there when they turned on the feed bag. Crank baits and tube baits were the ticket. My brother Mike Lamners had times when he caught five fish on five casts and his biggest being a whopping 19 1/2″ beast.
We had some exceptionally good crappie fishing this week, probably as good as the early weeks of the season. Our guests caught fish on the south and west ends of the lake but almost always just after sunrise and just after sunset. A tiny tube jig worked great as did a slip bobber and minnow. Drew Murray reported catching a crappie that was 14 1/2″ long. The biggest crappie this week was caught by camp nuisance Steve Irish, he caught a chunky 15″ crappie to take home the free hat, he’s probably still bragging about it.
Next week we have some rain in the forecast so hopefully we will see a bit of rain.
That’s all for now this is Jim from Wabaskang.
