Tubalization wrote:You da schnizzle Bunkizzle.... fo sho dood!
T'was out of this universe, an experience that will last me the rest of my life....huge feesh....great company....awesome food...wicked adventure
Killer report man....looking forward to reading your up-coming arctic adventures.
I take it you are Slop.
Ratso.. this is what most Bay goers use...
Arctic 24'
Length: 24 feet
Beam: 68 inches
Depth: 26 inches
Weight: 600 pounds
Capacity: 5000 pounds
Model: Flat wide
Recommended motor: 40 to 60HP
Crossing the Bay where we were luckily had us protected behind an offshore tidal sandbar. We were out of the big stuff but still had 5 to 7 foot waves coming across our boat from about 7 - 10 o'clock. Joe had to bail most of the 25km's while checking water depths with a stick as, the flats we were running across were likely about 3-6 feet deep with the tide in, yet you have to constantly be checking to make sure you're not going to run a sandbar or too close to shore. When the tide is out, the mud/sand flats can stretch for several kilometers off shore, you want to travel as inshore as you can to avoid the big sea, but as offshore as you can to not suddenly run shallow ashore. It's tough to judge in big waves how deep you're running, and you could drop into a valley between waves and just hit bottom. Just for us to get the boat out from the mouth of the Ekwan to where it was deep enough to start the motor, we had to haul that canoe over 1 km across and around skinny bars in skinny channels of water. It was hell as a 24 foot canoe is a windsock when major northeast gusts are pounding you from 9-12 o'clock, and the boat wants to go in directions you don't want to go. The further out we got the bigger the waves that began to pound and blow up on us, and, the more the wind tried to push us back ashore as, the outgoing current of the river grew weaker and weaker against the incoming tide and windblown waves.
That was Ekwan and the bay on a cold september morning. Joe was soaked to the bone with cold waters by the time we got back to Attawapiskat. I was wet but not too bad. Had we not braved that weather we would have been on Ekwan an extra 3-4 days. Fishing was great enough and we had enough lard and evergreen tea leaves growing in the bush we would have been just fine for food and drink.
Beating that Bay and all that went on to just get up that river through all it's shallows, swifts and small rapids made for 3 days of the most labor intensive but satisfying bush work I have ever done. It was totally harsh and out of my element that I felt such accomplishment to have done it. You can't imagine the work from sun-up to sun-down that Joe and I did so we could spend just 13 hours fishing to catch around 160 pike.
! I can't wait to read about the Grayling trip...it's still a fish I haven't got off of my wish list yet.
...but it was fun doing the research. I actually found a really cool website while trying to find where in the world Missisicabi is. I'm a bit of a weather buff...used to chase storms when I was younger in the mid-west States.
for PMg me this post, which I missed while away at the cottage. 
. Thats is deffinetely 1 of my dream trip 
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