monster_buster_fishing

Sean and I headed to Wawa to spend a week with cousin Igor and fish in the 29th Wawa Salmon Derby. The west wind started on Sat 14th and didn't stop until Wed 18th. This gave us a chance to head to a few of Iggie's river hotpots. Over the course of the next few days, Sean and I picked up some 'eyes, smallies and a big whitefish. Thursday we finally hit the big lake with cousin Igor. I have to say, it's quite an interesting ride getting into the lake with the shallow water in the river and the very narrow exit into the lake. After a couple of hours and checking out the area, we came in empty handed. Sean and I went out Friday morning before the Derby start and again had no luck. Friday evening at 5 pm, the Derby started and Team 39 - Sean and I, hit the lake. During the 4 hours, we encountered a heavy down pour. With the 5 days of west wind, the warm water piled up at the east end of Superior. Sean kept working the and changing the lines will I drove the boat (in dry comfort). Again, we came off empty handed. Saturday morning we were in the boat at 6:30 am and we worked quite hard all day. Fishing high and fairly low. During the mid day, we boated 4 fish of thee 7 releases, the largest was 8.2 lbs. We ended the day at 8:15 pm. It was the longest day I've ever spent in the boat. After getting to bed fairly early and getting up at 5 am, we headed out at 6:10 am. Again, with the warm water, it was a struggle to find the fish. Around 8 am, we heard a call on CH 68 that the new leader was 21.55 lbs. We kept working, changing lures. Finally around 11 am, we went deep after some marks - 150' down. Coming back to a hump, Sean raised the rigger from 150 to 140 and the fish hit. With the fish in the box, we turned back and went to the hump and had another release but couldn't keep it on the line. Broke lines at 12:50 and headed in as the Derby ended at 1 pm. In he end, we had a 11.2 lbs fish out of the 2 releases. It was some tough fishing. We never had any lake trout and the only 3 lb plus lake trout weighed in came in at 3.1 lbs which netted a prize of $1200 in cash and $800 in prizes. A nice deal.

    (more pictures at Pictures '10)

     I was a great week and I want to thank cousin Igor for his hospitality for putting up with us for the week, especially those two early morning. Also I want to thank Brad Buck from Buck's Marina and the other sponsors and volunteers at the Derby. It was a very well organized event with some great prizes Below are some of the stats. As stated earlier, it was some tough fishing. Of the 53 teams entered, only 35 boated fish over the course of the 3 days. Team 38 - Sean & I feel quite good about our performance. Congratulations to Real Leclerc and Yolaine Leclerc for their winning 21.55 salmon, and $5500 prize and Gaetan Bergeron and Bob Mann for weighing in the only eligible lake trout - 3.1 lbs. More info is available at Wawa-news.com. I also want to congratulate our friends Pierre Blanchard and Paul Blanchard for their 6th place fish.

Maybe next year!

53 Teams Entered		Friday		Saturday		Sunday
Team #		Salmon	Lake Trout	Salmon	Lake Trout	Salmon	Lake Trout
1	Reg Tivy	10.85
	Paul Young	7.20
2	Ray Michaud	3.80
	Suzanne Michaud	0.70
3	Wayne Roberts			10.35
	Dave Smith			7.00
				8.55
4	Alfred Blanchard			12.10
				2.75
5	Gaetan Bergeron	12.50					3.10
	Bob Man	10.70
6	Tom Moore			14.10		1.70
						1.30
7	Pierre Blanchard			12.85		1.70
	Paul Blanchard			9.70		1.30
				5.50
9	Phillip Spencer	1.10				11.25
	Pete Magi					7.00
13	Adrian Fell	12.15		9.65		6.25
	Dan Bowes			6.25
				6.65
				4.95
15	Tim Acosta			2.30
	Helga Acosta			1.05
				1.10
16	Tom Moore			14.10		1.05
				8.60
				14.30
17	Ken St. Croix	14.20		8.50
	Glyn Spooner	5.75
19	Jeremy Becker	1.35		4.60
	Rob Roy
22	Pascal Gagnon			13.90
	Crystal Peterson			8.90
23	Travis Gendron			7.05		6.05
	Roch Gendron
24	Tony Campbell			1.10
	Norm Quan
25	John Blanch	12.90		3.85
	Taylor Angers
26	Mike Guy			1.85
	Chris Fiaschetti
27	Jamie Robinson			2.95
	Brett Robinson			10.20
30	Keith Bar	5.95		17.20
	Ken Killins
31	Real Leclerc			10.85		21.55
	Yolaine Leclerc
33	Doug Bieper			3.60		0.65
				1.15
				1.30
34	Paul Primeau			1.20
	Michel Veronneau
35	Barry Matechuk	12.05
	Wendy Leclair
36	Perry Kauk					4.30
	Matt Durocher
38	George Kizlan			8.35		11.20
	Sean Kizlan			2.70
				2.05
				1.20
39	Peter Sartor	5.20		2.80
	Chuck Marco
41	Pierre Gauthier			1.35
	Barry Charsley			1.45
43	Pierre Dumont			1.40
	Gigi Dumont			1.80
44	Eric Belanger Racette					1.05
45	Bill Hanchuk	12.00				5.20
	Brian LaPierre	10.35				3.45
		4.25				1.75
46	Giles Charbonneau	11.20		13.75
	Ryan Smith
48	Ken Stewart			4.15
	Don Lewis			1.05
49	Aaron Primeau			16.10		5.75
				5.30
51	Dan See	10.60
	Jeff McConnell