Pretty good day fishing!

Started off yesterday. 28" walleye and a good pike.




Then today went 2/5 on musky, with a great bonus pike, and a 15 lb bowfin! Man they can fight!

Not a bad opening musky weekend.

Thanks for sharing

What a great day fishing

Looks like a good day to me!

We didn't measure the bowfin....who would, right?

Lol.


Just found out the ontario record is 31", and 15.1 lbs.


This fish was 100 percent longer than 32".


Oh well!

Nice fish! Bigger than the pickerel we have in NB lol

I never realized there were grinnel that far north.

We put a knife blade through the mud fish gills. Great catches on the toothy fish!!

Some description of the waters where you caught the bowfin please. Depth and trolling speed would also be interesting. I am pretty familiar with the Upper Great Lakes(fishery scientist who worked on Lake Superior for nearly 30 years) and am shocked by that fish if it came from the Georgian Bay.

That looks like a blast, thanks for sharing. Nice walleye

looks like a great day thanks for sharing

Jim, it came from GB. We were casting big 11" dive and rise jerkbaits over rock humps. Clear water, surrounding water was 20-30 feet. This shoal topped out at 5 feet deep, and he was on the side of it. Blasted up off bottom and hit at boatside...

We have them in closer in the murky water often, where it's really weedy. But this fella was a strange catch for sure out there!

Good fishing, you slam the fish !

Do you have a size limit on musky?

Me either, thought they were a southern thing

Put up a good fight on rod and reel

Dad always said eat them right out of the grease because if they cooled it was like chewing a cotton ball

Great job!! Thanks for sharing.

Nice

I do not fish so I am not an expert .But looking at those pictures I think it probably would be more actually described as a great day fishing Thanks for posting .If I could get into that kind of fishing I would become a fisherman

Thanks for your prompt answer Hutchy. I continue to learn at 80! Your cool/warm water fishery is much different from the cold water situation I worked with when we first established the offshore splake and later lake trout fisheries there.

Get a digital Rapala Scale. $12 bucks. Cheap Fun

Musky opener always a fun time,planning on getting out July 13 for some musky casting and small mouth fishing up at the NWA,thank's for sharing.

shucks you got over your sickness and the Musky lures are off limits now.
Good job on your catches.

the Bowfin so far is not in our drainage system

You can keep one over 54"...but why?

It's a fun challenge. And I'd rather eat a nice 5lb pike or walleye anyway

Musky are generally measured via length. Hence, I have a bump board in the boat. Length and girth makes a pretty good estimate of weight based on the charts.

I wasn't sure how big bowfin got, hence measuring it in any way, weight or length never crossed my mind.

We estimate 33-34 inches

Now you have a "big one that got away I threw overboard" story!