Fishing at midnight.

[KegRiver]

Just a few photos to share.

Fishing at midnight on Great Slave Lake.
Most of the time I was having too much fun to think of photography but this evening there was some sort of insect hatching from the lake.

Thousands of Dragonflies congregated along the shore line to feed on the emerging insects. It started just before midnight and lasted for over an hour.
The effect was unbelievable. There were literally clouds of dragonflies along the shore for as far as one could see in either direction.

We fished on through it all, thankful for the Dragonflies for when they showed up the Horse flies left Dodge in a hurry and the Mosquitoes went into hiding.
It was magical and so peaceful.
With the sun setting as a background it was a once in a lifetime experience.



Sunset, 11:44 pm June 27 2016

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My boat and a local fishing boat pulled up on the shore of Fisherman's Bay, Great Slave Lake, NWT, June 27 11:50pm

Notice the cloud of Dragonflies around the local boat, to the right.
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Kid brother fishing from his pontoon boat. Great Slave Lake, June 28, 0:17, 2016

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BIL fishing from the shore, kid brother on his pontoon boat, 0:03 am June 28 2016

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BIL and Dragonflies at Fisherman's bay, Great Slave Lake, NWT June 28 2016, 0:23 am

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[Talking moose]

Great pics for sure! But your fish pics failed to upload...:sHa_sarcasticlol:
How was the fishing?

[dodger]

Nice Pics !! Should have put on a mosquito fly and caught one of those big azz Dragonflies.

Dodger.

[cube]

Absolutely Magical. Reminded me of some Dragon Fly events as well.

Thanks for posting the nice pics. Glad you got such nice weather. Hope it lasts for the remainder of your trip.

[huntsfurfish]

Awesome pics Keg!

[Redfrog]

WOW!!!!!:sHa_shakeshout:

[slough shark]

You lucky punk, that trip is one on the bucket list, my father in law just got back yesterday from up there, they did pretty decent, biggest laker of the trip 29lbs.

[schmedlap]

I've been privileged to see this sort of event twice - once at a remote location and once urban. On both occasions there was a huge hatch or just cloud of small bugs which a horde of dragonflies almost seemed to be "herding" into tighter balls, and then they attacked, zipping through the dense cloud of small bugs, and you could literally hear the "zap, zap" of them snapping up their prey.

[KegRiver]

Great pics for sure! But your fish pics failed to upload...:sHa_sarcasticlol:
How was the fishing?

Fishing was a bit disappointing so I didn't take any photos of the fish.

The limit is only one a day and a total of two so we all limited out on day two.
Then we explored the lake for two days, and eat fish. :)

The biggest fish we caught was an 18 pound Jack. The average was somewhere between 10 and 15 pounds. I think the smallest was a six inch Jack one BIL caught. It was the only small fish we caught.

We caught mostly Jacks. I caught one Goldeye and one brother caught a Goldeye.
Our exploration was intended to find additional species we know are in the area, but wind limited our range so we were unsuccessful on that goal.

[B00MER]

Great pics. Thanks for posting them.

[pipco]

Awesome photos. Definitely a bucket list destination.
Thanx for posting.