Kwagama Wilderness Speckles
Kwagama Lake is surrounded by Canadian Shield mountains typical of the Lake Superior area.
This lake is reported, by the ministry, to have only speckled trout and it has them in abundance. However, our Humminbird finders kept marking fish at depths which are not frequented by speckled trout. My friend just picked up a portable downrigger to attempt to fish those depths to see what is laying on the bottom in as much as 100 feet. We suspect that there is a lake trout population as well. He'll have to wait until next year to find out as we don't have the financial resources to visit these kinds of places at will.
That's Bob sitting in the ATV trailer waiting for me to take the picture. Some lodge guests choose to fly in at
5 times the price of our Algoma Central Railway train ride. The "Windsor Wormers" on the other ATV chose the economy route as well. The lodge owner and his son meet the train with two 4X4 trucks and then load all the gear onto the ATVs and trailers. After that everything is loaded on a party style pontoon boat for the trip down the lake to the lodge. Those Windsor boys were deadly with a spinner and worm or a worm on a floating jig. The Ministry encourages harvest on this lake and we had a couple of big feeds of fresh caught speckled trout. The wormers from Windsor could have kept all of the guests fed every day the way they were catching fish. Although I'm still a dedicated flyfisherman and ultra-lite spinning enthusiast if I had to compete against these guys I'd be using worms. Good old "garden hackle"!
The boys from Windsor set for the "ride" in. Maybe it was a combination of the worms and the Bass Pro camo that was the secret to their success. Bob looks out of place in his regular jacket. The boys make regular cross border hops from Windsor to the Detroit Bass Pro Shop.
This lake is reported, by the ministry, to have only speckled trout and it has them in abundance. However, our Humminbird finders kept marking fish at depths which are not frequented by speckled trout. My friend just picked up a portable downrigger to attempt to fish those depths to see what is laying on the bottom in as much as 100 feet. We suspect that there is a lake trout population as well. He'll have to wait until next year to find out as we don't have the financial resources to visit these kinds of places at will.
That's Bob sitting in the ATV trailer waiting for me to take the picture. Some lodge guests choose to fly in at
5 times the price of our Algoma Central Railway train ride. The "Windsor Wormers" on the other ATV chose the economy route as well. The lodge owner and his son meet the train with two 4X4 trucks and then load all the gear onto the ATVs and trailers. After that everything is loaded on a party style pontoon boat for the trip down the lake to the lodge. Those Windsor boys were deadly with a spinner and worm or a worm on a floating jig. The Ministry encourages harvest on this lake and we had a couple of big feeds of fresh caught speckled trout. The wormers from Windsor could have kept all of the guests fed every day the way they were catching fish. Although I'm still a dedicated flyfisherman and ultra-lite spinning enthusiast if I had to compete against these guys I'd be using worms. Good old "garden hackle"!
The boys from Windsor set for the "ride" in. Maybe it was a combination of the worms and the Bass Pro camo that was the secret to their success. Bob looks out of place in his regular jacket. The boys make regular cross border hops from Windsor to the Detroit Bass Pro Shop.
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