Trip Report - Alwaki Lodge - July 16 to 20th

[Greg]

Had a great time... I posted several pictures and summary of the trip here...

http://gregkipawa2015.weebly.com/


Exert....

Myself, my friends Don and JL, booked a 5 day/4 night getaway at Alwaki Lodge on July 16 to 20th, 2015.  I have been going to Kipawa for 10 years now, Don has come with me on different occasions and this was his 5th visit.  This was JL's first trip to Kipawa.


We had a great time, did a bunch of great things and laughed so many times at so many stupid things. 

Overall, a great trip - fished the final Monday morning alone for about 3 hours, but no luck.  We had a lot of wind (daily it seemed) and one day of a very overcast  low cloud ceiling and rain, but not enough to make us stop fishing.  The bugs... really, were not that bad (based on other trip reports, I thought we would have had a lot more).  Yes we had horse flies biting our ankles out on the lake (as always) and we had some mosquitoes (especially after the rain), but not what I expected.  Honestly, I can expect the same amount in my back yard.


We caught 20 lake trout (trolling about 3 hours a day).  We caught over 30 walleye mainly trolling (but some jigging).  JL also caught a nice perch, but strangely, nobody caught a pike (first time since I have been going to Kipawa that there was NO pike).


I always like to explore the lake a little, we fished lake trout in Hunter Lake (a first for any of us) and took a 30 minute boat ride through Butteney Narrows (not sure of that spelling) and into Grindstone lake and had a look around - two more beautiful areas of the lake that I had never seen.   


For an adventure, we changed up our route back to Alwaki - we went up through the north river and around Turtle Island home (we actually went through the shoot three of four days).  Always be careful going through the north river, slow and steady with someone on the front looking in the water (we slowly thumped one rock but nothing serious).


People just don't get what your talking about when you try to describe how big Kipawa lake is.  This round trip - Alwaki through Hunter, into Grindstone and up to Turtle Island and back to Alwaki would be over 60 minutes at full throttle (40mph in my boat) - and that is only the central / south-east part of the lake.  And I want to stop and fish every shore line!! and check out the shore line and depth/structure around the back of every small island!!



Our final full day (Sunday), the hottest and nicest day, we packed up the boat and had a shore lunch on a little beach on Turtle island after Don and JL caught two great lake trout and I had my one and only swim of the trip.


We also met Robert from Ohio and his son William (I met through www.kipawafishingforum.net) - I hope they had a successful trip and made it back home safe.


Overall - we each had an off day (we had to drink from the Toronto Maple Leafs night-cap-cup of shame once) - I won the largest walleye ($20 from the pool) and Don won the largest Lake trout ($20 from the pool) and nobody won the largest pike (another $20 - so we gave the title to JL for catching a perch)..


I can't wait to go back next year!

[Jay Thomas]

Thanks Greg for your report and pictures. Couple of nice walleye and one nice (63 cm) lake trout. By the way, great looking rig too!

Jay

[SgtCrabby]

Thank you for a great repott.  I love the pictures.
Not being a big hockey fan, the Maple Leaf cup wouldn't bother me.

Sounds like you had a good time (how could you not?)

[getthenet]

Enjoyed reading your post,Greg.Thanks !!!

[Ozzy30]

Great report and pictures.  Glad to see you guys had a great time.

[johnny walleye]

this post has me fired up .packing to leave in the am . thanks for posting

[Greg]

I wish I was going back up with you!!

Thanks for all the comments everyone... I rebooked a week at alwaki next year (July 16 to 23 I think) - is it to early to start the count down?  I think we have to wait until Jan 1st, 2016 to start that though....