Alwaki June 16-23

[Captain Hali]

Drive up with my daughter Lisa, who flew in from NORFOLK Va., was uneventful, well we did see one bull moose off of 533. Met up with my son Peter who drove in from Georgetown ON., at the IGA. Quick drive over to Kipawa Bait for worms and leeches, to the ramp to load up the Lund, gassed up in the little bay and off to Alwaki. With the three of us and all the gear plus food and drinks,the Yamaha 70 strained for an eternity to get us up on plane.Arrived @ Alwaki 35 mins. later. After settling in and a cold one, an early supper, we were off in search of eyes. Half hour on Sunnyside without a bite we boated over to a rocky point across from the Lighthouse. We were into fish within seconds of our jigs hitting the 16 foot water depth.5 keepers and a lot of undersized ( by 1/2"-1" ) fish, we called it a day before dark.
Sunday morning saw us on the big shoal south of Corbeau Isl. but did not mark a single fish so opted for Sunnyside.Not much action there so went North to the next island. within minutes I had a fish on, but this did not fight like a walleye, lots of head shaking and bulldogging, taking drag to stay deep.Eventually got the 24" laker to the surface and into the net. Minutes later, Peter brought a 27 1/2" to net.Both took chartreuse jigs topped with same coloured plastic and half a worm. Depth was 28 feet. We kept Peter's laker as he's wife likes them.When gutting it it had a very large bulge in it's gut so, curious as I am, I opened it,and much to my surprise I saw a partially digested, 10" walleye. I was expecting to see a cisco ( lake herring ) or whitefish, but never a walleye with all those sharp and sticky defenses. Walleye continued to bite well until Wed. night, but kept going deeper as the week wore on.       
Monday night a severe thunder storm warning that materialized chased us off the water shortly after getting to our chosen evening hole. Torrential rain with high winds lasted throughout most of the night and into morning, when the bilge pump worked overtime to raise the boat some 6" when it finally finished it's job.
Fishing continued to be good Tuesday & Wednesday. Lisa caught a 24" walleye in Butney Channel, that was released after a few quick pictures. Thursday the eyes developed lock-jaw and were almost impossible to get to bite regardless of what we offered them, worms, leeches, anything we trolled, including, Hot-n-Tots, Rapalas, worm harnesses, and more. Lisa did manage to hook into a small wally on a worm harness that was then grabbed by a 34 inch pike that somehow managed to hooked and netted.
Friday was much of the same, nothing jigging, but then around 8:30 p.m. they started hitting blue backed chrome bottomed Hot-n-Tots.We managed to limit out for out take home fish, and had 2 fish fries during the week.   
All in all we left very happy with our week at Alwaki. Thanks to Tina and Brian for their usual great hospitality, and looking forward to our next trip to Alwaki. Not next year as that will be Ketchikan Alaska for salmon and halibut.
Oh, almost forgot, the black flies were minimal, but mosquitoes were pretty bad after sundown. Good thing that Lisa was with us as they seemed to preferred her blood type to mine.



                           

[JLG]

nice report

[T-Bone]

Thanks for the report...I know every location you referenced like the back of my hand. Surprise you didn't get anything at Sunnyside...but they do move around on that location quite a bit. Nice work on the lakers. We've had that happen before where the pike latches-on to the hooked walleye and you end up netting both...a two'fer!!!!

Can't wait to get up there...

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[Fort Wisers]

Nice report Captain, great detail!
Thanks for sharing.....

[limacharley]

Thanks for the report Captain. I think I saw you drive west on Sunnyside on Tuesday the 19th as I was driving east to Hunter's. Is your Lund black with a bimini top and outboard? My Lund is black also with an inboard. My springer spaniel was with me.
Looks like you had a successful trip with all those fish.

[Jay Thomas]

Very much enjoyed your trip report. Thanks for sharing.

Jay

[Captain Hali]

Limacharley, must have been someone else. My Lund is silver and blue powered by a 70 Yamaha smoker ( 2 stroke ) and a 9.9 Honda 4 stroke kicker.

[Robnfl3]

Great report this sure helps, I'll be at Alwaki on Saturday.  Just wondering do you have the 4 stroke f70 Yami?  I was think about that engine for an eventual repower wondering how it trolls?

[Captain Hali]

Robnfl3, no, mine is the old 2 stroke, I use the Honda 9.9 4 stroke for trolling, very quiet and economical on gas.

[GregL]

Nice report! Glad ya had a good week