Little Vermilion Lake 2007

Day four was even more miserable then the previous day, mostly because we started the day wearing our wet clothes from yesterday because nothing had fully dried. Clive’s shoes were soaked, so he decided to put some plastic bags on his feet. This kept his feet dry, for a little while, but it didn’t keep them any warmer. We fished hard against the elements, but were unrewarded. We took a break during the afternoon, and returned to the water before sunset to catch some walleye for dinner. While the rain and cold kept us close to the comforts of a wood burning furnace, nothing could keep us from making some casts of the dock. Believe it or not the dock in front of the lodge is actually one of the best fishing spots on the lake, and if you’re ever there and the plane isn’t docked on the end we suggest you make a few casts because you could easily land the biggest fish of your trip only a couple yards from your front door. The camera only came out of storage a handful of times and we decided to drown our sorrows and have a few extra bottles of beer, and Clive built a custom heavier in-line spinner for trolling.

Day five we woke up a little late, due in part to those extra beers. The bigger pike don’t generally make an appearance in the early morning so we figured a couple hours of extra sleep wouldn’t do any harm. Rested and re-energized, but more importantly DRY, we headed out on the lake. It was another cold day, but at least it wasn’t raining. We decided to troll the same area that Jon had caught his monster pike two days previous, and within minutes Clive was setting the hook on a heavy northern. This was truly an amazing event from start to finish, with lots of big runs and trips around the boat, not to mention it was caught on the very lure Clive created the night before. With a firm grip on the pike he hoisted him into the boat. Another fish well over forty inches, although not as long as Jon’s fish, it was most certainly heavier. We caught several nice fish through out the day but packed it in early to edit some photographs and video.

Day six was all the same, cold and overcast, so we decided to keep our approach much the same and hope the big pike turned up. Fishing our favorite pathway up the northern bays we landed quite a few small pike in the first few hours, but it wasn’t long before Clive was hooked up with another trophy pike. The northern bays were yet again producing a great deal of pike. Clive landed quite a few nice pike on his custom trolling spinner, he even a landed nice 17″ walleye while trolling. It seemed like even the walleye favored Clive’s baits today, like this long, but not as meaty, forty inch pike on his own custom spinner bait he made for Toronto Islands.

Our final day, started out grey and overcast but the clouds quickly gave way to the winds and the sun was out. It turned out to be one of the most beautiful days we had, making it all the more disappointing that it would be our last. We headed to the same shallow northern bay that had produced good numbers of our forty inch pike this trip, as we rounded the point to this big hidden bay we could see four boats. This was quite an uncommon thing to see on Little Vermilion lake, normally you wouldn’t even see two boats in a single bay. As we made our approach slowly we could see that everyone was fishing the perimeter of the bay, ignoring the thick heavy patches of the weeds in the center. Luckily for us, thats exactly where we were headed, and not 10 minutes into our first spot Jon starts and uproar as he misses two big hits and manages to persuade himself a third for the hookset. No doubt those in close proximity could have witnessed an epic battle and the power of Fishing Fury in action. In fact most of the day Jon was on a hot streak and he boated quite a few more nice pike before the day was done. As the sun set we headed to our favorite walleye spot to catch some dinner.

This was definitely one of the most amazing trips Fishing Fury has had so far, and the bar has yet again been raised. We both pushed ourselves to the very limit, fishing between 12 and 14 hours a day, eating only the fish we could catch, all while trying to capture almost every moment on video and film to share with the world. We hope you enjoyed reading about our trip and we hope you will enjoy the video that should be finished soon, but more importantly we hope to hear from you about your great fishing adventures. If you ever fish Little Vermilion Lake show up with as much heart as you can muster, because nothing can prepare you for that first run on a trophy northern, we both came very close to being pulled from the boat many times.

If you look carefully, in some of the photos you can even spot our Japanese fishing charms, given to us by our good friend and outstanding contributor Adam Guy.

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Thursday June 21st, 2007 @ 5:09 PM | Team Fury