A few of us just got back from our lake athabasca adventure. Three boats headed up with 7 guys for 10 days of laker fishing. I brought my 11 year old son with me so he could experience some of northern saskatchewan's best laker fishing.......I have to say, it is the best laker fishing for average size and numbers on the planet. Here are a few pics from our adventure.
The mighty Athabasca and our boat loaded up.....
The athabasca delta.....littered with debris from the mighty athabasca river.
Fort Chip....the last civilization we would see for 10 days...
Sunrise on Lake Athbasca....it sure makes you feel small when you can't see land in any direction......
After a long and grueling boat ride and 16 hours later, we arrived at our base camp for the next 10 days....
The next morning we started our laker fishing....here is my trolling captain eating a breakfast of champions....oreos and chips.
It didn't take long for my son to get into a nice red fin laker....
As the days passed, we found some really nice spots and were catching some real nice lakers.....here is a nice 38"x18.5" laker. All measurments are fork length.....none of that total length BS.
For a few days the weather was unreal......on this day the whole lake was like a sheet of glass, and the lakers were biting like crazy....
The big lake at rest......so calm and peaceful....
On the evenings when the lake was calm, we went looking for some greyling....we found some, but not the size we were looking for.
On two of the nicer days, we made the long trek across the lake to the south shore......I wanted to see the sand dunes that outcrop on the south shore.....the sand it unreal.....very fine and almost white. You wouldn't know that 75 miles south of where we were, this same sand in saturated with oil and being mined in the oilsands.....
I have never eaten as much fish at one time as we did on this trip....every day for lunch it was fried lake trout....here is my brother and my son enjoying some trout nuggets.....mmmmmmm.
The dragon flies were huge up there......they would hand around our boat all day and pick off the horse flies that would buzz around our boat as well as the little gnats that seemed to like our boat top as a resting place....In the evenings when we would be fishing for greyling, the dragonflies would dive bomb our spinners and chase them as we retrieved them.....
More to come........
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