portage dog wrote on Jun 16^th, 2023 at 10:27pm:


  I feel a trip report with pics coming on 

Coincidentally, I caught my first whitefish on MP and my recent trip 5/27-6/9.  First day, west end of Saganaga, deep water.  It was about 18-20 inches and we ate it pan fried in a bit of butter....quite tasty!  I'll have to get a pic posted.

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Found them on curtain falls also. One of the guys had a small white spinner casting waiting for the rest of us and caught two from the top of the falls. Funny we found them on the north side behind Green Island also. There was a huge school off one of the north points. We didn’t know they were white fish dropped a small spoon on them and caught some.

I will bring copies of the document for portage dog and arnesr and anyone else who requests one. If there’s a way to scan with a smartphone, perhaps someone there can teach this old dog a new trick.

Turning the page from document discussion, I want to get back to a discussion of whitefish fishing. I was watching a fishing show recently about an arctic Grayling trip. I was struck by the close resemblance Grayling have with whitefish. Both have big eyes and small mouths. Fishing tactics and tackle is pretty identical for both. Small spinners and spoons and jigging raps with a piece of Gulp or similar all seem to work well. They had an underwater camera on some whitefish footage that shows they truly hang on the bottom and deep water jigging can be quite effective. Ice fishing lures work well.

On the Grayling show, I saw a sequence that I wouldn’t have believed if I hadn’t seen it. The host caught a Grayling and while he was playing it, a laker about 6-7 lbs ate the Grayling. So he is excited and playing the laker when another laker in the 30+ class takes the small laker. Amazingly, he is able to catch the big laker on his ultralight tackle.

So, if you or I can hook a whitefish, who knows what size laker might take it!    I’m gonna give it a try this year.

Back to Whitefish...

Old Salt wrote on Feb 19^th, 2018 at 6:10pm:


  Anyone with a Smart Phone should be able to scan those documents if you bring them to Canoecopia.

Some printers if you have one allow you to scan documents and put them in PDF file on your computer too.

solotripper wrote on Feb 19^th, 2018 at 5:55pm:


Not a question of whether or not I’m ok with that. I don’t know how to scan. I need a teenager.

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IF you can scan that info, you could put it on your computer as a PDF and then send it via E-mail to anyone that wanted it, if OS is okay with that.

I will bring copies for those who request them. Looking forward to seeing you on Friday and hopefully on Saturday. 

I plan on coming to the Friday night pizza extravaganza this year.  I will probably show up later though, as I want to attend some presentations at Copia.  I would love to get a copy of the information you have OS, printed or scanned.

I don't know if the Q Park Supt will be at Copia this year, he's not listed as a presenter.  Perhaps he will still be at the parks booth.  I did chat with him last year, and he was really helpful in providing information.