Just back from Ignace, ONT

[Strut10]

Spent a week or so in the Ignace area of Ontario.

The trip was beyond lousy (due to mechanical nightmares with RV's). But the fishing wasn't too bad. We were really figuring out the walleye bite when we had to leave. Never fished Ignace in June before and the pattern is about 180 degrees off the August bite.

Anyhoo.....here's a pic of my little Strutlet Princess with her very first walleye.

[Shaun_300]

Too bad your trip was lousy Don! With all the mechanical problems I'd be beyond frustrated too. Glad you at least caught some fish. The walleye bite is pretty different now compared to later in the year. Not sure about up there but where I fish, now you catch them in the shallower water, 15-30 feet. Later on in the year they move deeper as the water temperature gets higher. Usually in August I'm fishing between 70 and 90 feet.

What way do you take to get up there? West to I-75 head up to the Sault then 17 to there? Or cross at Buffalo/Niagara Falls and take the QEW - 401 - 400 - 69 - 17?

[Strut10]

We were getting the 'eyes on crawler-tipped jigs in 4-11 feet for the most part...........weeds and weed edges. In August the bite is generally 12-24 feet over rocks backtrolling spinner rigs.

We go up to I-80 across to Toledo then 23/I-75 to Sault then out 17, yep. We came home 17 to Thunder Bay then down to Minnesota 61 to Duluth then down thru Wisconsin on 53 to I-94 to I-39/51 to LaSalle, IL (torrential rains....I was looking for funnel clouds) then I-80 back home. With all the crap going on with the RV, we wanted to be in the states if it puked on us again. Nobody had a Canada plan on their cell phone.