It was 7 hour drive just to get to Chicoutimi then straight to the campsite.
The ministry has almost finished installing a moose fence along the way up the highway from Quebec City. it's a massive fence that runs on both sides of the highway. it'll stop moose from getting onto the road, but not bear!
quickly saw this little critter on the opposite side of the road. he was just sitting down in a patch of flowers of somesort.
I got to my little spot in the bush at about 930 that night. and went straight to bed. it was a very long drive. I woke up the next morning with brook trout in my eyes.
i managed a crap load of brookies. i didn't keep any for a snack as i was just there to fish. and relax. and that's what i did.
i drove back to ottawa to unpack my car, do a quick load of laundry, stock up on some sleep and then straight to the airport.
My brother and his girlfriend just moved out to Thunderbay couple days ago. The drove down, rented a 12x6 u-haul trailer and off they went. they stopped for the night at Pancake bay Provincial Park. Then drove straight to the airport here in Thunderbay to pick me up.
After all the unpacking we stopped in a D&R, wow that's a sweet tackle shop. they have everything!! so i picked up some jig heads, some berkley gulp minnows and couple other little things, and straight to Dog Lake.
we drove yesterday evening all the way up to Dog.
we got there and crap our pants! man what a huge lake. so we start to fish Dog and work our way back to the City stopping along the way hitting lakes here and there.
we did manage to catch a couple pike from shore. and 1 nice 3 pound smallie. The smallies in thunderbay fight much stronger then the smallies out in Ottawa.
I had my first encounter with a gator out here. not a 6 pound pike, but a beast.
first cast in the lake, bang, boil, and run! this one fish hit my single colorado blade booyah like a freight train. i have 50 pound braid on, and my drag was damn tight. but he managed to run with it like it was nothing. i saw him once, and he broke off right in front of me.
This just a guesstimate as the size. i did not land the fish. but if i did, it would've been my new pb Pike. it looked like it was a massive musky. but there's non of those in this one little lake out in the bush.
anyways that massive pike broke me off, c'est la vie, right???
well i have couple days left in ThunderBay, back on Saturday then off to Bay Comeau in northern Quebec, i got a job logging 4 hours south of Labrador! man lots of travelling for me.
oh yeah i think it's supposed to snow tonight! just kidding, but it is damn cold here.
