Another late update from Jim and Julie’s Wabaskang Camp. The incredibly mild September weather continues with daytime temperatures in the 70’s and nighttime lows in the 50’s. We still haven’t seen frost here and no cold weather is in the long-term forecast. The lake is lower each week but luckily, we only have two weeks to go this season so our launch and docking will be ok.
The northern fishing had good days and slow days this week with most of the big brutes being caught by our guests while using a Lindy Rig for walleyes. Although we only had 25 guests in camp this week, we did see some trophy sized northern being caught and released. The fish seem to have moved back to deeper water once again after briefly moving into shallow water weed lines the two previous weeks. We had one standout guest this week that really enjoys giving us pictures of his monster northern. Doyle Brocka along with brother-in-law Stan Wubbena were usually the first boat out each morning, they headed to the big lake and caught plenty of nice northern. Although Stan claimed to have lost plenty of trophy northern at the boat due to Doyle’s haphazard method of netting, I’m not so sure it was more due to Stan’s lackadaisical method of angling. Anyhow Doyle did release a 33 1/2″, a 37″, and a giant 39 1/4″ northern to claim top honors in camp for the week.
Walleye fishing was also on and off this week. Our guests caught plenty of 16″ fish and occasionally a walleye over 20″. The best bait was a spinner rig and minnow or crawler or a Lindy Rig and big minnow. Carol Muhs started things off when she caught a 19 1/2″ walleye, camp non- legend Doyle Brocka landed a chunky 21″ walleye. Gregg Weinberg was learning to operate a different boat he just bought but he still caught and released a beautiful 23 1/2″ walleye. Dave Harmon loves to fish for big northern, but he landed in second place for walleye when he caught and released a chunky 24 1/2″ walleye. The top honors this week for walleye fishing goes to Brent Minett, he released a 25 3/4″ walleye to win the free hat for the week.
Bass fishing was good this week with many fish being caught while northern or walleye fishing. Big baits and big minnows both caught fish. Gregg Weinberg made the board when he caught and released a chunky 18 1/2″ bass, Dave Harmon released his 17″ bass he caught while casting for northern with a giant Sandcat lure. The bass champ of the week was our friend Joel Minett, he came here all the way from California to land and release a 18″ and 19″ trophy bass, great job Joel wear you hat with pride😀.
Next week will be the last week of guests for the season so we are slowly shutting down and draining and wintering some of the cabins. We plan to raise and level the lodge starting next week then plan on replacing all the windows as well. The beautiful fall weather has been a blessing so far as all the work ahead really requires Mother Nature to cooperate.
We will update you again soon, this is Jim from Wabaskang
