August 12th, 2014: Our 26th fishing season is coming to an end fairly soon. Just 2 groups left for Aswap Lake and then the hunting season will begin in late September. For the next month we will be building the new cabin at Aswap Lake and getting a bit more work done around the lodge when the weather doesn’t allow us to fly over to the outpost camp. We chartered an Otter yesterday and moved almost all the building supplies for the new cabin at Aswap Lake! Everything that didn’t fit in our plane went in the Otter and our plane has already done about 12 trips with materials as well.
The last few weeks of the season were very good for Pike and Lake Trout. We had no problem catching Walleye for shore lunch but the bigger ones were not hitting like they were in late June and July. The weather has been much better with almost no rain. It got hot for a while but for the last couple of days it’s felt more like fall in the morning.
Here are some more great fish, wildlife and scenery pictures from the past 2 weeks (and a couple from earlier in the season I missed):
- The new building site at Aswap Lake and a map showing the new location of the camp.
- Adam and Fred with a pair of trophy Pike, 41 and 42 inches!
- A couple more trophy Pike from Aswap Lake!!
- And a couple more trophy Pike from Aswap Lake! The last few groups have done very well!
- The bear at a shore-lunch spot finding some free food!
- Carter and Fred with a real nice Pike!
- Christian and Richard with a nice Lake Trout!
- Fred and Chuck with a big Pike from the spring!
- Christian and Kelly with a nice Pike!
- Don and Fred with Don’s 41 inch Pike!
- James and Scott with one of his trophies!
- Scott and James with another trophy.
- Scott and Fred with yet another!
- Scott and Fred with Scott’s biggest trophy from his trip, 45 inches!!
- John with a nice 41 inch Pike!
- John and Rick with a couple of big Lake Trout!
- Rick with his 36 inch trophy Lake Trout!
- John with his biggest trophy of his trip at 44 inches!
- Sandy and Ray with a trophy Lake Trout!
- Rich with his trophy Walleye!
- A couple of nice scenery pictures, the first one is from the spring when the ice was all but gone!