Every year around this time I travel to NW Ontario and drive a loop from Thunder Bay to Dryden to Kenora, to Fort Frances and back to Thunder Bay again.
I travel up there to provide severe weather training to various organizations.
In previous years, I have brought with me a small collapsible fishing rod and a few lures. I would stop at a few roadside rest stops near a lake and make a few casts.
A couple years ago, I had made a stop at this location just out from Kenora and caught a few SMB. So I marked it on my gps and saved the waypoint. This year, I was eager to make my rest stop at this location and had my rod/reel ready in the back seat.
I arrived the waypoint this morning at about 10am. Had a quick pee in the bushes and pegan to cast my Mepps spinner with fake minnow. Right away, I catch a SMB…then another and another… I recalled that my son (Mad_on_fishing) had put a camera in my suitcase the day before…. I decided that if I caught any more I would take a pic or two.
First pics were of the location where I stopped to fish,
Her is the car rental.
Here is a typical SMB that I always seem to catch at this location.
I caught likely about 10 of these within a 30 minute period.
All the bass were caught on the same spinner with a simple retrieve just below the water surface. Then I decided to try something different. I thought that I would cast out as far as I could in what looked like deep water , let the spinner sink to the bottom and try a slow retrieve. Within about five turns of the reel, I get something on, its big I can tell. I continue to retreive the fish until I can see it, Its HUGE, immediately I think a big PIKE, NO … it’s a walleye!!!!!.... NO net, I try to get his brute onto shore, just as I drag this puppy up, the line breaks and the walleye begins to thrash around in the 10†water, Before the walleye can get its bearings, I jump in the water with only my running shoes and grab this guy…
Put him on shore, and take a pic before he was let go. Just then I hear my blackberry going off and I realize that its time for me to go, feet totally soaked but with a smile on my face….. until next year when I drive past this spot again!
.....looks like it's still slayin' em! 
