Info on Saskatchewan ????

Wandering Sagebrush

Wandering Sagebrush

Free Range Human
This is probably a pipe dream, but does anyone in CBrats have information on power boating on any of the big lakes up on the Canadian shield? Lac La Ronge looks like a person could get to it with a couple three days travel from the pacific northwest.

Steve
 
sounds like you have been cooking all day :cocktail

I have heard that most of those lakes are shallow and unmapped with lots of rock, and unfished. When do we leave :lol:
 
Tom,

Hang on, I need to open a new bottle of red. Definite case of cabin fever.

I think an autumn trip would be in order, say Labor Day for a few weeks. Black flies and mosquitoes should be gone by then. I hope that someone with info on the area will chime in. One of my friends has canoed a lot of that region, and says it's pretty nice. Big lakes, lottsa islands. It probably will not be this coming year, but maybe....

Steve
 
Steve and Tom:

Walleye, Great Northern Pike, Muskies, Arctic Char?

What's on the agenda / menu / catch and release?

Any experience with them critters?

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
Joe,

I don't have any experience with that area, and have only been walleye fishing once, while visiting Minnesota. One of my friends has canoed the area around Lac La Ronge a couple of times, but they were on the Churchill River system. It just sounds like an interesting place to visit.

Granite, birch trees, big lakes, islands, not many people. Sounds interesting. When it comes to fishing, the agenda is going to be fillet and release.

I don't know if I will really get up there, but would like to consider it. Hence the request for information. I didn't think to check El and Bills blog to see if they have been up that way.

Steve
 
Steve...

I've been to Dore Lake a number of times.....caught so many big northerns my arm got tired. We flew into the small grass strip there but the guys I was with later drove a motor home and boat to the lake. It's remote and unpopulated. LaRonge is bigger, more populated.

Chuck
 
Steve,
Any particular reason for the Saskatchewan choice? Manitoba has the Winnipeg river system that provides excellent fishing and travels into Ontario water at Green lake. Eagles Nest lodge operates off this river among others. Most of the bigger fish are available including bass, pike and walleye. And yes there are large pieces of granite hidden, covered up by the river system.
They are also some bigger lakes with one having a Coast Guard station and a commercial fishery.
Sask does have alot of lakes and some excellent fishing as well but I spent 19 years in Manitoba and preferred to fish there.

Andrew
 
Andrew":2o602u88 said:
Steve,
Any particular reason for the Saskatchewan choice? Manitoba has the Winnipeg river system that provides excellent fishing and travels into Ontario water at Green lake. Eagles Nest lodge operates off this river among others. Most of the bigger fish are available including bass, pike and walleye. And yes there are large pieces of granite hidden, covered up by the river system.
They are also some bigger lakes with one having a Coast Guard station and a commercial fishery.
Sask does have alot of lakes and some excellent fishing as well but I spent 19 years in Manitoba and preferred to fish there.

Andrew
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Hi Andrew, probably the only reason I said Saskatchewan was that it is a bit easier to get to from Oregon, and had most of the neat stuff that you find on the shield. If there was a real compelling advantage to going to Manitoba, I would not be opposed. I just want to get up and really see that country before my body gives up and I am not able to. I would love to find some nice bass, walleye and brook trout fishing, and char too if they are in the area. So fishing rods, cameras, birdoculars and boats are all in order.

Where is Fort St. John, near Quesnel?

Steve
 
I was just going over some old photos of the Great White North- La Pas, Flinn Flon, Cranberry Portage, the Grass River, Overflowing River, and on and on. I have always considered the area, which is huge, that you are talking about as more of a canoe area than a C-Dory area. One thing for sure, to anyone going up there- be prepared! There is no help in these remote areas. There are even less people now than 25 years ago since most of the indians now live on reserves in towns or mini-outposts. I am sort of proud of the fact that I witnessed operating Hudson Bay trading posts when fur trapping was still profitable. This was just before the advent of snowmobiles. Cumberland House, Norway House, once full of activity, now crumbling back to nature. We still canoe alot but mostly in the states and also have a B.W. Montauk and CD 22. My choice for the CD22 would be Lake of the Woods. I would be interested in what you decide and also hearing more thoughts on the subject. Roger Juntunen, In Cahoots CD22
 
Roger,
Lake of the Woods is a very large area and would be a nice place to explore and fish. You would need a map/gps etc for the area as there are alot of Islands and different passages. I have fished there near Kenora, Ontario and found a few larger Pike and Walleye. I have worked in The Pas, Flin Flon and different areas on that side of Manitoba. There are alot of people from the States that go up to Flin Flon to fish every year at Bakers Narrows. The Winnipeg River system would accomadate a C-Dory nicely.

Steve,
Fort St John is north of Quesnel about 5.5 hours. You pass through Prince George and then head north through the Pine pass. Dawson Creek is the start of the Alaska Highway. FSJ is about 45 minutes north of that on highway 97 (the Alaska highway). Its rugged up here with very few places for a 22 ft C-Dory. You could put it into the Peace River but if you head West, you would run into the W.A.C. Bennet dam. I believe there is a Brat in Quesnel using his C-Dory on a local lake.

Andrew
 
In '67 two weeks after I returned from Viet Nam, my dad and I drove from our home in Montana with three other guys to a lake in Northern Saskatchewan (don't remember the name of the lake). Shortly after casting our lines out the first day, the fella in the boat with me caught (what to me seemed like) a huge fish (northern pike). After he landed it, I turned to resume fishing and heard a splash, I looked back and didn't see his fish in the boat. I said, "where's your fish?" to which he replied, "aw, it was too small". After five days of constantly hauling northern pike and walleye in the boat, I understood what he meant. There definitely were some good sized fish in there. When it came time to bathe the only water available was in the lake which still had ice on it in some areas. When I left V.N. I said that I'd never take another cold shower but since I was smelling a bit ripe, I jumped in the lake with a bar of Ivory soap.... :roll: .

(Great memories from the past!)
 
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