November generally means easy walleye jigging on the Ottawa River. It's the only time that jigging is allowed on the Princecraft. Jigging drive me nuts! The action was steady all November with lots of dink to keeper size walleye keeping us busy between heftier fish.
The smallmouth were particularly active this fall.
On what would ultimately become my last guided trip of 2016, with literally seconds to spare, Brian hooks onto something decent. I was convinced this was anything but a walleye, but what do you know, it turns out that our last fish of 2016 was our heaviest walleye of the year. At a girthy 28 1/4'', we figured she was in the 8-9lbs range.
It was a consistent year for us on the Ottawa. I was able to guide 120 groups or so and I can count on one hand how many I would consider to have been tough days. Bookings for the ice bungalows are flowing in and hopefully my next report will be talking about having the huts on ice earlier than planned!
Tight lines.
Yannick
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Beauty fish, love seeing all your stuff on facebook too.
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Congrats on a great season and hope we get good ice so you can get them shacks out early. Great pics
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That's a great way to finish a season indeed. Great walleye for the Ottawa.
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That's pretty cool!
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Some nice fish Yannick.
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Now that's how to end your guiding season! Mine was a client with a Rock Bass out of 35 fow on the Larry...
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Great stuff Yan!
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