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Here is a picture of a Beautiful Northern from the end of May on the Cobham. Thanks Dallas.
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Hello everyone, we hope you are having a good summer. This is a first for us. We are going to start doing a newsletter at the half way point of the season. A lot happens during the summer and it is hard to fit into one big newsletter in the fall.
Some other things are changing as well. John has started a blog. This is a site linked to our website but gives everyone a view of what is happening weekly around the North, some humorous stories, and pictures, both from John's eyes and some that get sent to us from our guests. The address is amikoutposts.blogspot.com. Check it out. John has plans to keep updating it in the winter because a lot of people ask what him and Rena do in the winter. Keep watching!
Another change is that we have added whole picture galleries to our website on some of the camps individually. This is going to be a different view of the whole outpost experience. Shorelunches, travelling in the boat, scenery, and of course pictures of the BIG ONES. Usually there are some pictures of the small ones too. I like to see those as well because you know a lake is doing well if you are catching all sizes of fish, even the 6 inch Pike might be a trophy one day, if another big fish does not get him first in this fish eat fish world.
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44 inch Northern from the Doan Boys. This was caught and released the last evening they fished. A nice way to say good-bye to Cobham until next year.
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Now to fill you in on how our summer has been going. Everyone's favorite subject is the weather. Here goes. We started out the season with a normal ice-out and beautiful temperatures when we arrived at the beginning of May most days were sunny with temps from 60-75. Perfect weather for opening camps. Cool enough to work hard and not get overheated. We were actually in a restricted fire zone to start the season and were hoping to start getting some rain. Dockhands tend to fall in the lake a lot in the spring and this year was no different. We had one young pilot who was wet almost everyday during the camp opening. Some of them were pretty funny swan dives right off of the float of the airplane or dock.
Then the fisherman started to show up. Then the Weather started to change. And not in a good way, Rain and cool temperatures. Fishing was okay on most lakes and good at times on others. Most of the people that fish at that time of year have experienced awesome fishing most years, so with the cool temps leading to slower fishing it was less quality than they had grown accustomed to. A lot of guys coming out had said that the water temperature actually went down during the course of the week but when the sun shone the fish came alive!
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Findlay Llke produces some HUGE walleyes and here is a picture of one of it's finest. A 29.5" Wallye caught and released by Foster from the Novotny Party from MN.They had some real Big fish on their trip.
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May and the first part of June were very rainy, most everyday there was some kind of precipitation. But as June got underway the weather got nicer, and the fish started to get back to normal just being slightly deeper than normal on some lakes but up in the shallows on others. There was no real pattern to where you would find them. Fisherman will always find the fish. Trophy
Northerns were plentiful and seemed to be getting more aggressive as each day passed.
As we approached the middle of June the Monster northerns started to hit hard. Walleyes were no slouch either as there were quite a number caught in the upper twenties. Northerns however were quite good. Many over 42 inch being caught and released during this period the largest being 46 inches.
Summer seems to just fly by(no pun intended) July was here and the temperatures were pretty normal. 60 and 70's during the first part of July but the rain had subsided. July fishing was as good as usual. Walleyes were in 4 to 10 feet of water generally. Trophy Walleye have been caught and released by the hundreds. Trophy meaning walleyes over 23-27 inch. Some groups coming out reported catching close to 100 over 22 inch. Now that is great fishing. The Peters Party was in Loree Lake and had 2936 Fish for the week, for eight people. Mostly walleyes but some Northerns mixed in there as well. Now that is a lot of fish. Jarett has been coming up here since he was 7 or 8 and is now a teenager I am sure he had quite a chunk of those fish.
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Here is the Gazebo at Cobham River. A wonderful addition to this camp. It sits up on a nice high deck overlooking the Lake.
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The largest Walleye Caught and Released to date is a Beautiful 31 inch Monster caught at the Cobham River. By Brent Sander, not far from the camp. There has been a absolute ton of nice walleyes caught, too many to mention. Check out our blog where John has a report of many of the nice fish caught.
As July has moved along, the heat has come with it. We have had temperatures up around 85-95F for a couple of weeks with only a couple of days where it was to hot. Out on the lake the temperature has been perfect. Walleyes are still being caught in under 10 feet of water when the temp hit 100 degrees on the 24th of July. This extreme heat is not common up this far north but it happens every few years. The Novotny P
arty was on Findlay recently and had very good luck. Foster caught the largest walleye measuring a HUGE 29 1/2 inch during their trip. They also had a number of walleyes over 25 inch. They were very happy when John showed up. It was hot during the time they were up but the fish were fairly shallow but they commented that they just seemed to be everywhere.
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The Northern Lights. This photo wa take by Joel Henner from Calf. He had never seen the Northern lights and stayed up until 3:30 am his last night in camp watching them.
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The one question I always hear is "Out of your 12 lakes, which one is the best?" The answer is that we have Trophy fish being caught and released in all of our lakes so it is hard to say one lake is better than another. Alot depends on you... What are your preferences? What is your fishing experience? How secluded do you want to be? Are you bringing the whole family? We ask these questions so we can put you on a lake that will best suit you and your party.
In closing I would like to thank all of our fishermen, fisherwomen, and families who have made the journey North to see us and experience the true outpost adventure. We appreciate your business and hope to see you in the future. Keep checking our website and our Blog to be kept in touch with the goings on around Amik. We would appreciate any pictures or video that you wish to send us as we like to have recent pictures on our Website and Blog. If you want to send us a whole disk or just email a few it is always appreciated. These pictures do not have to be of just the trophy fish you catch but scenery and the whole experience.
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What do you use for Bait? How about a 19 inch Walleye. That is what this fishernman did. Thanks for the picture Tom.
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Next years dates are booking up. Give us a call or drop us an email and let Rena pencil you in at one of our Premier Outposts so we can show you a great Canadian fishing trip. If we are holding dates for you now just a reminder to get your deposits in so that we can send you your confirmation.
See you next year.
Thank you, Bruce, Debbie, John and Rena
