May long weekend 2008

Erik · #1 March 11th, 2008

Heading to Meadow Lake for the long weekend. My brother in law too probably. We can hit Little Strawberry (?) for some splake! Who's in?

Amphibious · #2 March 11th, 2008

what are these "weekends" you speak of?

dates?

Erik · #3 March 11th, 2008

May 17, 18, and the holiday Monday 19th.

IAM · #4 March 11th, 2008

I am in forsure... maybe some other locals too. I can see who is all intrested.

Erik · #5 March 11th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amphibious

what are these "weekends" you speak of?

dates?

I know you don't get many anymore... call in sick!

Amphibious · #6 March 12th, 2008

no sick days alowed

and I have a wedding to go to on the 20th!

Erik · #7 April 11th, 2008

Bump! Sis, brother-in-law, and Sherri(Pixie74) coming too

Can't wait to get in the water and fry up some fish!

feign · #8 April 22nd, 2008

Unfortunately I will be working all May long. I am interested in another weekend (possibly making it long with one day off) to head up to Whiteswan. Messey are you going to be up there this year again?

messey · #9 April 24th, 2008

I unfortunately will not be up there for months at a time anymore but I will hopefully make it for atleast 2 weekends this summer. I am going to try for the may long and sept. long. I start my new job on monday so I will find out if may long will work then. I get every third friday off so I am really hoping the friday of the may long is one of those fridays.

If you are thinking of going that far I would really suggest trying to make a 4 day weekend. It takes about 10 hours for me to get there from Calgary with a quick stop in Prince Albert for food and fuel so I travel one day fish 2 days then drive home.

feign · #10 April 25th, 2008

How is the fishing there is Sep? I will know my schedule better in the next month for the whole summer. We should head together as a group and split fuel for a 4 day weekend. Post your possible dates when you know. Like I said, May long won't work for me.

lee

Erik · #11 April 29th, 2008

Anyone know the road into Little Raspberry? I don't want to hike in again. I can ask at Kimball, but if you know....
Thanks,
Erik

messey · #12 May 2nd, 2008

I have never been up there in september but the fishing is never bad. I would be able to go up on the august long weekend forsure but it is kinda busy then. I can probably make any weekend work in august. Any time in september would probably be ok to but the lake closes for lake trout fishing after the long weekend and I would have to check when the lodge is closing for the season it might be the same time lake trout fishing closes.

My favorite time to go up is may and june and late august the water is clearer and less people are out.

Once you know your schedule we can narrow it down a bit more.

Paraaronoid · #13 May 7th, 2008

Believe it or not, there is a chance that the lakes will still have ice on them by May long. We have had an incredibly slow melt this year in Saskatchewan. A lot can happen in just a week, but you may want to bring an ice auger with you :-)

Reports right now for many lakes in the central region fishing zone are that they are completely locked up with not even any open water near the shore.

Locals that live up in these areas are also saying that when it is this slow, the ice will not come off the lake until the beginning of June.

Erik · #14 May 7th, 2008

Yeah our lakes are just starting to open this week, so we'll see. We're going in any case!

messey · #15 May 8th, 2008

We have been talking about going up 2 weeks after the long weekend now, I am going to call the lodges up there to see what they think. If we go up and there is ice over top of one of our spots we will just have to break out the ice saw. Last may when we went up there was still ice on whiteswan but it was so rotten you could break through, it was fun but a bit cold.

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