Nice Walleye!! I believe I watched the video on your youtube channel for this one. "Soho Walleye"??? I like how calm you guys are. When I fish with my son and catch a fish like that, we really get excited.

My personal best was a 28" caught from the shore on Quetico Lake back in 2007. I've fallen about an inch short several times, never been able to match it since.

Hope to fish in Cirrus again this June. Probably won't make it to Soho.

zski wrote on Jan 25^th, 2016 at 1:46pm:

The excitement was pretty high when Kingfisher reeled up that pike on the 3rd day of the trip.  We had good luck pulling up numbers of walleyes in that area and KF had even commented the action would likely attract a good pike . . . sure enough.  Ranger, I think you were right regarding the bait (taildancer - brown).
The walleye came couple of days later.  We came into Soho in the afternoon, set camp, fished w/o much luck.  Next day fished Smudge early morning, picking up some bass and walleye.  Fished the east half of Soho the afternoon until dark, finding some structure along the north shore, but still not find much action.  Crossing the lake before dark to camp on south shore, the 12' flat dropped gradually into 50' toward the center of the lake, picked up a trout.  Next morning at daybreak we hoped to find some walleyes up on that same flat.  By 8 am, we gave up and paddled back for some breakfast.  The walleye then came in the same manner as the trout.  It was suspended in 40' of water in that main basin.  A great surprise and I'd add, a gift as well.
My previous record was a 29.5" fish taken also fishing with KF on the lower Menominee River in NE Wisconsin.  That fish is on my living room wall.  This Soho walleye was a heavier fish.
I guess by day 6, the excitement gave way to contentment.  On Soho, we began spending the mid-day hours shooting the breeze in camp and laying on the "beach".  By contrast on our past trips together, no time was ever allocated to hanging out in camp. 
The great action continued on Kasakakwog (all 4 species), spending a couple days there just down from the Cirrus portage, before heading back to Cirrus via Quetico Lake.
We both took a number of videos of the fishing. The video brings back a trip in ways the pictures cannot.  We ran the cameras only occasionally when a fish was on.  It was fortuitous that we happen to be filming when those 2 trophy fish were taken.  I'm working on uploading some of which I'll post a link to before the POD's run out.
Very memorable trip.  Loved the area.

ST, that site is on Soho, the north side mid lake.  It is evening hours so view is to the NE.  Terraced site, backed by pine forest and nice panorama from NE to SE, with a couple of tent pads up behind the kitchen.  Landing was poor, sloping boulder field (no garage whatsoever).  We claimed the nicer beach site on the opposite shore.  Up coming POD's to show it.

ST, it may have been down a foot or so from high water mark, but wouldn't have made difference.

Today's POD, KF poses a Smudge Lake smallie.  On a tip from Jimbo, we made an early morning side trip from our Soho camp and found the bass and walleyes cooperative.  A side bonus was no interruptions from "hammerhandles".
Posting a link to some more video.
Smudge bass take 1:  (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)
Smudge bass take 2: (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)
-YB