Northern Pike have been plentiful and plenty BIG!

In last friday's post (which you can read here) I hinted to everyone that there would be some nice fish caught in the coming week.

Ladies and Gents....enjoy!

 Kevin - 35" northern

Kevin - 35" northern

 Austin - 41" northern

 Gene - 41" northern

Jim - 39" northern

Mike - 37" northern

Greg - 41" northern

Jerry - 36" northern

J.J. - 35.5' northern

 Ethan - 42.5" northern

Donnie - 35" northern

 Bill - 34" northern

 Dave - 36" northern

 Joe - 35" northern

Joe - 38" northern

 Mike - 37" northern

 Dan - 35" northern

Dan - 39" northern

Mark - 32" northern

 Mark - 32" northern

 Matt - 38" northern

 Tate - 39.5" northern

 Tate - 40" northern

 Tate - 42" northern

We also had three 44" northern pike caught this week in Red Lake.  What beautiful fish!

 Ethan - 44" northern

Troy - 44" northern

Tate - 44" northern 

We definitely had a camp full of northern pike fishermen, wouldn't you agree?  I think they had a good time.  They saw all types of weather: rain, heat, fog, and finally some cooler temperatures.

Some walleye fishermen arrive tomorrow, so we will see how they do out on Red Lake and Parker Lake in the coming days.

Have a good weekend!

Northern Pike Galore!

Howdy folks!

We just dropped off another group this morning.  I know right?  It feels like I just typed this exact statement like 2 seconds ago.  The weeks continue to fly by and we are now down to just three groups left!  I guess I should feel lucky, though, because it seems like most people back home are starting school this week.  Isn't summer supposed to last until Labor Day (or Labour Day if you are a Canuck)?

As the post title suggests we had A LOT of nice sized northern pike caught on both lakes this week.  Several slot fish and 40+" fish, which is always exciting to see.  They saw plenty of walleye as well, with a couple of particularly stellar days for walleye fishing on Red Lake.  The guys swore by floating jigs this week for walleye - one guy used a purple one and could have made some quick cash if he had been willing to give it up!

Don't just believe what I type, here are some photos to prove it:

 Chris - 35" northern on Red Lake

 Chris - 33" northern on Red Lake

 Denise - 38" northern on Red Lake

 Denise - 40" northern on Red Lake

 check out that tail!  Ouch!

 Bob - 39" northern on Red Lake

 Bob - 42" northern on Red Lake

 Bob and Denise had a nice double on Red Lake as well!

 Pete - 32" northern on Parker Lake

Big Fish of the week! 

 Scott - 44 1/8" northern on Red Lake.  

He caught this just before supper on the LAST day!

 Here is Chris with some nice eater sized northern off of Parker Lake

Pete and Chris with plenty of walleye for the weekly fish fry.

One of many walleye caught and released on Parker Lake

Perhaps the best fish story of the week was this "once in a lifetime" fishing double off of Parker Lake.  These guys were fishing right close to the lodge and brought in a nice 22" walleye - but as they were bringing it to the boat a 40" northern clamped on!  They quickly boated back to the dock where Travis helped them get some pictures of both fish and successfully release them both back into the water.

Way to go Dave!

We have to give a shout out to Dave's fishing partner, Walt, who successfully netted both fish!  

It remains to be seen if someone can top that this coming week.  There will be a lot of fishermen arriving tomorrow that target northern pike, so I'm sure we will have more monster pike pictures to share soon.  

Looks like summer isn't over yet!  The temperatures will creep back up into the 80's this week, so we will see how that affects the fishing.  We have some veterans coming in to camp, though, so I'm sure they will do great!

Have a good weekend!

Red Lake and Parker Lake fishing report - early August

We are already getting the next group settled this weekend, but wanted to share some awesome pictures from the past week:

Craig and Mike did some fly-fishing on Parker this week with some excellent results.

Here is Craig with a 35" northern pike on Parker Lake

And Mike's 20" walleye also on Parker Lake

Mike also tracked down a 41.5" Muskie! 

These two also got some nice fish off of Red Lake as well.  

Here is Craig with a nice 24" walleye.

And Mike with his 42" northern pike

Not a bad week with several big fish caught and released!

We also had a bit of a family reunion this week as well.  We had four brothers up for a week of fishing.  These guys grew up fishing with their dad and now try and get together regularly for fishing trips.  

Can you tell they are related?

Their group got adventurous and did some portaging earlier in the week before the rain set in.  They got to test their strength, endurance, (and patience!) hauling these boats in and out in one day.  I think they had fun!

We also had another contender for biggest northern pike off of Parker Lake this week.

Here is Lynne with her 42" Northern - its huge!

Gotta love when the ladies catch the biggest fish!

Over on Red Lake Tom caught a monster northern as well.

43.5" northern pike - caught and released!

Tom was here with his son and son-in-law, both from Colorado.  

They definitely have one of the longest trips home!

Tom's son, Courtney, with a northern on Parker Lake

and his son-in-law, Marshall, with one of many more northern pike on Parker Lake

And here is Barry with a walleye on Red Lake as well 

If you couldn't tell from some of the pictures it was a bit cooler yet again last week.  Definitely feeling like September around here - not sure what the actual month of September will bring.  Yikes!  However, the forecast for this week looks great - so maybe it was just a random cold snap.  Last week's guests also battled some wet weather, but as you can see they still managed to catch lots of nice fish!