Ontario Canada Fly In Fishing Reports by LM Fly-in Outposts

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Otatakan

Dates: 6/11-6/14/2010

Group: Hildre

Report: Walleye fishing was excellent due to earily spring. Fish has moved into the lake from the various flowages. Cabin, boats, and motors make our annual trip with L & M a very meaningful and valued experiences. We'll be back.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Wright

Dates: 6/9-6/16/2010

Group: Krueger

Report: Great trip as always. Largest northern 38 inches, largest walleye 26 inches. We fish Wright and all the portage lakes around Wright as well.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Dobie

Dates: 6/11-6/17/2010

Group: Tomasovic

Report: "Fishing Real Good". Fish were all over the lake. Both rivers had lots of walleyes too. Saw 2 female moose with calves about 10 minutes apart. Also saw, Caribou, Osprey, Owl, Eagles, and the moose. Nice weather, good fishing, great times. Shane, Larry and Mary did it again!! Thanks.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Austin

Dates: 6/14-6/18/2010

Group: Douglas

Report: The 2 of us caught around 150 fish in Austin itself. We went to the north portage and it produced larger fish and a plenty of them. Fished at the rapids, caught 150 or more. Accomidations were top notch. Couldnt ask for any better hosts. Thanks for the memories L & M.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Fawcett

Dates: 6/12-6/19/2010

Group: Haberer

Report: Good fishing every day. Northerns up to 28 inches and walleyes in the 18-24 inch range, largest being 26 inches. Good numbers of fish.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Otatakan

Dates: 6/14-6/21/2010

Group: Benjamin

Report: The fishing was the best we've ever had in Canada and all our trips. We caught all we could eat each day in the mornings first thing. The northern were hitting better than at Fishtrap (spent the week prior at Fishtrap), but not too much action in the weed beds or lilly pads as we hoped. The facilities at Otatakan are super great. The lake has calm water to fish even on windy weather days. The water was up considerably from our last years trip to Otatakan and covered numerous areas that before were exposed and easy to see. Great fishing, great accomindation, and Great service. Good time had by ALL!!

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Austin

Dates: 6/18-6/22/2010

Group: Lundgren

Report: Great fishing, bigger walleyes at the north portage (at the falls). Walleyes seem to take the gulp and Mister Twisters as well as minnows or worms. Caught about 180 walleyes and lost over 50. Northerns, largest 36 inches. Great pike fishing all over Austin, perch were fun too.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Wright

Dates: 6/16-6/23/2010

Group: Guerra (The Texans)

Report: Had great weather and fishing. The Adams' are the best outfitter in the buissness. Their equipment, lakes, and cabins are tops. The walleye avg was 19 inches and the pike avg 34 inches. Largest pike 40 1/8 inches, caught by Hanibal.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Dobie

Dates: 6/21-6/25/2010

Group: Godfrey

Report: Great trip. 2 guys in our group caught 100 walleye off 1 rock after lunch 1 day. Another day, 2 guys in the group caught 207 walleyes in 1 spot in a 3 hour span. Biggest northern was 42 inches. Had good weather and a great time. This was our first trip to Dobie Lake, I will be back this August.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Otatakan

Dates: 6/21-6/26/2010

Group: Butler

Report: Bright and sunny days made fishing hard. Still caught many walleye 12-20 inches, largest 22 inches. Caught many northern 15-25 inches, largest 2 were 35 and 36 inches. The cabin and flights were outstanding as usual. Thank you Larry, Mary, and Shane, you are the best.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Fishtrap

Dates: 6/22-6/27/2010

Group: Glover

Report: Outstanding outdoor experience. Smallmouth bass fishing spectacular with many, many 13-16 inchers with some over 20 inches. Largest walleye 25 inches. Largest pike 36 inches. We caught more fish during this trip than we could catch in 3 years of fishing at home. L & M crew are second to none. Facilities are excellent, everything worked like it should. Thanks so much for the trip of a lifetime. Used artificial lures only. Cant wait to come back!!!

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Dobie

Dates: 6/25-6/29/2010

Group: Bruening/Kapelski

Report: Walleye spread out on the lake. Caught small numbers in multiple locations. 22 inch was the largest. Northern spread out, low numbers and small fish. 28 inch pike was the largest. Still a great time. L & M did a great job again.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Austin

Dates: 6/22-6/29/2010

Group: Furmanski

Report: Nice clean cabin. Boat motors are close to the end of there life cycle, new 9.9 hp would be better. Lake is alittle on the shallow side. All in all a good trip. 120 V electical was a good feature. Lots of big northerns caught, had walleyes everyday for lunch. Game Warden stopped by one evening at about 8 pm to check us, said all the lakes around the area reported slow fishing due to the recent mayfly hatch.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Otatakan

Dates: 6/26-6/30/2010

Group: Poor

Report: 3 guys, 4 days.... 500 Walleye. Chunky fish with the largest being 21 inches. Large northern grabbed one of our walleye at the boat for added fun. Excellent cabin and service. We'll be back.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Wright

Dates: 6/23-6/30/2010

Group: Troup

Report: First time at this lake and we are coming back next year! Tough bite at Wright Lake itself because we hit the luck at a fill swing mayfly hatch. However, we caught plenty of 20 inch class walleye at Kaminskag lake as well as large pike. 37 inch pike was the largest of the week and 22 inch walleye. Great cabin, fun portages, and plenty of fish in all of these lakes. Will be back next year!

[thatoneguy]

Lake: Dobie

Dates: 6/21-6/25/2010

Group: Godfrey

Report: Great trip. 2 guys in our group caught 100 walleye off 1 rock after lunch 1 day. Another day, 2 guys in the group caught 207 walleyes in 1 spot in a 3 hour span. Biggest northern was 42 inches. Had good weather and a great time. This was our first trip to Dobie Lake, I will be back this August.

207 walleyes in 3 hours for two guys? That's more than a walleye every two minutes for each guy for three hours straight - not counting the time it takes for casting, baiting, taking fish off hooks, measuring fish etc...that's unreal.

[LMFlyin]

I agree that is good fishing. Thats why people do fly in fishing trips, theres potential for fishing like that. Not every trip is like that as you can read above some weeks are better than others. Im just writing what the group wrote down on my fishing report clipboard on the flight home after there trip. Ill add alittle more info on the background on the Godfrey party. He doesnt use any bait so he wasnt wasting time baiting any hooks, and it was all catch and release so I doubt they where measuring all the fish unless the fish was worth measuring. Oddly enough the group after them the Bruening party had a tougher 4 days of fishing than the Godfrey party, caught fish but hit the mayfly hatch to toughen things up.

One of todays reports (the poor Party) flew out today (there report listed above), he is a FM member and I hope he reports back too. Sorry I didnt see you Ray when you left here today as I was doing the Wright lake flight.

[Jaypo]

My brothers (Ray and Tim) and I hit horrible weather for the 4 days on Otatakan with the exception of Monday which was overcast and windy, but the rain subsided. We found the side of an island opposite the wind where the bait fish were pushed around each edge of the island and we parked there for 4 hours. We hit 200 walleye that afternoon. It was literally catching a fish every cast (or every minute or 2 minute stretch). Home now, hands are completely macerated with Walleye gill cuts and I can barely grasp a cup with how sore the hands are from handling so many fish.

Other days were productive with us each catching 20-40 fish, but Monday was un-real!!

Try it, you'll like it! Thanks Shane, Mary,and Larry for a great time and smooth landings!

BTW: Next time we will not overthink it. GULP Alive 3" Emerald Shiners were almost as productive as leeches and minnows, but minnows were surefire! Also, no need for lindy rigs or anything but gumball jigs. Should have brought more as I went through a lot on the rocks!

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Fawcett

Dates: 6/26-7/2/2010

Group: Oran/Swanson

Report: 1350 Walleyes. Many over 20 inches. 24 7/8 the largest. The 2 boys out fished there fathers 1 day. Great Group. Good Eating, and great weather. L & M Services and equipment perfect!!

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Otatakan

Dates: 6/30-7/4/2010

Group: Woolsey

Report: Cabin, boat, and motor were great. Everything ran well. Cabin is on a nice breezy point. Fishing was excellent, 15-20 foot range. Any point or island had fish on them. Nice river systems to explore, live bait outfished gulp 3 to 1. Beautiful sunrises.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Fishtrap

Dates: 6/27-7/4/2010

Group: Clark

Report: Lots of wind, fish, and flies. Jigs with chartreuse twisters and leech worked best. Husky jerk-baits and spinnerbaits were also very productive. Caught wide variety on the trip. Everything worked great. GREAT TRIP! 24 inch walleye, 19 3/4 inch Smallmouth bass, and 36 1/2 inch northern were the big fish of the trip.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Dobie

Dates: 6/29-7/5/2010

Group: Tierney

Report: Fishing was spoty, lots of bad weather moving through the area. Everything else was great as usual. Good friends, good food, and cold beer!!

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Wright

Dates: 6/30-7/5/2010

Group: Moose Bunch

Report: Walleye on all the lakes were very good. Depths of approx. 8 foot. Size range 17-25 inches. Northerns ranged from 17-36 inches caught on all the lakes. We all had a great time and hope to be back soon.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Otatakan

Dates: 7/4-7/9/2010

Group: Christianson

Report: Steady fishing in pretty much every spot all week. Not huge numbers but better than average. Weather was breezy but very little rain. Biggest pike 37 inches. Biggest walleye 20 1/2 inches. Another great trip. L & M are the best.

[LMFlyin]

Lake: Wright

Dates: 7/5-7/10/2010

Group: Bud Rose

Report: Wright lake is always a great trip. Fishing was slower this year than past trips because of the weather. Better fishing though than at home... Thanks again for providing us with a top notch fishing trip!!