Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Northern Quebec Day 03

Day Three: Tuesday, May 24th

Last evening’s red sky was prophetic in that today was gorgeously sunny day with nary a cloud in the sky. It started as a calm day but as the sun heated up the forest, the wind kicked in again and came out of the north-northeast straight down the length of Lac Larouche. It again caused sizable waves with some white caps in the middle reaches of the lake.

Joe and David packed a lunch and went off to South Lake. Every one of Oliver’s outpost cabins seems to have some smaller lake or lakes you can walk to and that have boats and motors for you to use. This one is a 45-60 minute walk through the forest over a well-marked trail with some tricky footing. Fir roots and mud holes wait for every misstep. They had a 4-horsepower Mercury and an aluminum boat to use on the lake. Between them they caught 6 pike in the first hour before the wind kicked up and made maneuvering more difficult.

John and I fished the south end of Lac Larouche and then the river down to the trailhead just above the outlet waterfall. John caught two small pike in the river before we returned to the cabin for lunch. After lunch, we went to the north end of the lake to try our luck around the islands again. The wind was still blowing pretty hard from the north-northeast and we allowed it to blow us past the islands into the main lake. About 150-200 yards from the islands, we started to bounce our lures off the bottom, apparently having found a shallow area. John caught a nice walleye so we ran the boat back to the north and let the wind blow us over the area again. I picked up another walleye. So we tried a third run. We kept getting snagged on the bottom and had to repeatedly maneuver the boat to unsnag our lures. After the fourth or fifth attempt and no more fish, we gave up and headed back to the cabin with our two walleye.

Dinner this night was pasta and meat sauce.

Joe went out again on his own after dinner and caught two more pike.

The total for the day was 10 pike and 2 walleye.

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