Henry & Adam are both summertime guests of Vermilion Bay Lodge here on Eagle Lake who decided to team up for an ice fishing excursion. Henry had the experience from last winter, where he ice fished for the first time ever! Adam had no experience, and had never even caught a lake trout before. Nevertheless they both came prepared with all the proper tackle, gear and clothing…..along with several cases of Polish beer (Zagloba, Lezajsk, Zywiec & Tskie), Polish sausage and Pierogi. Also, the “jet fuel”……..
Some other species were caught ice fishing along with the trout…….including this really fat 36 inch pike:
While we did have fun and catch fish, to be honest the ice fishing bite seemed to drop off and there were some slow days. That’s ice fishing I guess……..there’s always the great scenery!
The weather forecast seems to be showing a warming trend about to hit us. It could be the days of venturing off to far lakes to catch trout are numbered. It may be time to concentrate on the walleye, pike, perch and whitefish fishing right here in Vermilion Bay. Today I will head into Clearwater Lake and pull one of my portage boats back to the lodge for some repairs (while there is still plenty of snow to do so!). Spring is on the way and with it open water fishing. Hopefully you all have your dates picked to be up here at the lodge when the fishing action is at it’s prime…till then we will all have to wonder what the final days of ice fishing will bring!
On behalf of the Boyes Group, I would like to pass on our sincere thanks for hosting the Muskie Madness Week and we thoroughly enjoyed our stay at VBL and had a great time!! This was our 7th year on Eagle Lake and we have stayed at a few other lodges but VBL takes the cake hands down! You can definitely count us in for next year. I’m happy to see you post some of my pics, they turned out well. Thanks again Gord for a wonderful week of fishing and your stellar hospitality, you run a first class operation, we look forward to seeing you next year!
