Comments on: Winter Walleye on Lake Winnipeg

By: Backwater Eddy

Backwater Eddy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:40:05 +0000

The “Hog Calling” technique your using Roger is very familiar to me as you know, except for many years I have been using the Salmo “Zipper” for this method. If they do not slam it right off, a quick bait and switch fallow up with a smaller Chubby in a #4 usually does the trick…THUD!

The Salmo Zippers have hung tons of sumo Greenbacks on the Red and on the Big Lake for us. There are several new key color patterns out this season that will certainly turn some sumo Greenbacks heads up the hole.

I’m very eager to get back to “Hog Call’n” once we see some safe ice.

By: shane miles

shane miles — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:18:16 +0000

Hello, my name is Shane Miles, about 12 years ago i worked as commercial ice fisherman on Lake Winnipeg, with the Olsen family from Gimli.
The strange part of this is i am an Australian.
I must admit the temp was a little colder than here but what an amazing experience and constantly review the photo’s.
It still amazes every person i try to explain.

Great to see your article.

Regards

By: Linda Adam

Linda Adam — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:22:47 +0000

Fantastic that you now have a Blog for us to read up on your adventures. What an interesting article. Also love Bob Miller’s tale from years ago.

By: Bob Miller

Bob Miller — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:12:37 +0000

Gord Pyzer has been seeking out giant winter pickerel for well over 40 years. I had the priviledge of accompanying him on several of his hard water “adventures” at university and during the immediate years following graduation. On one occasion in 1973 I flew into North Bay to spend New Years eve with Gord and his wife but the transparent objective of my trip was clearly a trip with Gord on Lake Temagami during opening day for lake trout. It was brutally cold as we arrived at Lake Temagami in the pre-dawn hours at a prescribed location. In the darkness we could hear a very loud single piston machine and soon appeared an antique Skidoo with a burned out headlight and a single ski under the nose. I had never seen a rig quite like it before. The driver was a real character and the machine was pulling a trailer, or rather what I would describe as an unpainted open wooden platform with no seats and a crude wooden hand rail along one edge. Fortunately we were dressed for fishing in the open as the old machine roared down Lake Temagami in the pre-dawn hours with us hunched our gear hanging on for dear life. We were dropped off at a single hut close to a vertical granite cliff in the middle of nowhere. The location was spectacular - dead quiet with not a hint of wind with a red pre-dawn sun glowing beneath the horizon of pines - in my mind its one of those rare superbly perfect memories. That day we hooked but failed to land two huge trout, one of which caught us both dozing and ripped our tackle, including a thermos of tea, down under the ice before we regained our composure. We both felt lucky not to have been hooked ourselves in the mayhem. Then Gord landed a beautiful eight pound pickerel. We took it outside and its fins bristled in the cold. Gord took one of his classic pictures and to this day it hangs on my sunroom wall. Most people assume I caught that fish but if they ask I’m proud to tell them “that’s a Gord Pyzer Temagami pickerel”.

By: craig stapon

craig stapon — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:50:37 +0000

The secret is out.Those hawg walleyes hammer those live target baits…..it is a must for the hard water fisherman’s tackle box…..great article Gord. I am glad Roger was able to show you around the big lake, no one knows it better!…………”the voice of Manitoba angling”….Craig Stapon

By: Steven Wintemute

Steven Wintemute — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:31:07 +0000

Awsome article and incredible walleye! Lake Winnipeg has produced some real hogs this winter. You sure chose the right guys to head out with Gord, Roger knows the lake inside out and Tom and Mike are well kown for catching some hog walleys! Wicked!

By: aaron

aaron — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:43:09 +0000

cool trip! the pic of roger and mike with the heavy snow is awesome!!