Davin Lake Lodge

The weather has been wonderful - a beautiful fall with above average temperatures.
We haven't had much of a report from Davin Lake for awhile. The last we heard was around the 15th of September and the trout were still down due to the warm weather, which is unusual for that time of the year.
Looking back over the year, it was fairly busy. We feel the fishing was the best it has ever been. There were a lot of trophy pike caught and released, also the biggest fish since we have been at Davin was caught and released this year.
Walleye fishing was by far the best we have ever seen but we have to admit that we have found more places to fish for walleye.
And as usual, trout fishing was awesome. Most trout were in the 4 to 5 pound range with the odd exception.
We are getting a lot of enquiries about next year so if things come together, we could have a very busy season. It seems like we have had more interest this fall than we have in the past. It would be a good idea for all our clients to get their dates in place.
We have completed our walkway at Wathaman, other than a few touchups. This will make it a lot easier for our guests and ourselves to transport gear across.
At this time we would like to congratulate all our fisherpersons for their cooperation in our catch and release program. There were a lot of trophy pike caught and released over the 40 inch range with the biggest topping 51.5 inches. WHAT A FISH!!! Must be a daughter of the 8 foot pike! We would like to congratulate Trent Johnston from Saskatoon for catching and releasing her, she will be there for someone to catch next year and will likely be 52.5 inches then. Trent has won a trip back to Davin in 2012. I just spoke to his group and they are getting their dates together as I write this.
We are starting our plans for next year. We will be doing a Hospitality night in Longmont, Co for all our past and present clients from that area. It will be hosted on the 6th of January at the Elks hall in Longmont. If you happen to read this blog, you are invited, please let us know if you plan to attend. Sometimes people get missed so this is an open invitation.
We will also be doing the Sports and Leisure Show in Saskatoon so hope to see all our Saskatchewan clients there.
Until next time.

First of all I would like to appologize for being so long between blogs. Things seemed to have gotten away on us.
August was a very exciting month. We had guests from Australia, Virgil Hill brought has close friends up to Davin and we showed them some good Canadian hospitality. Gave them a good tour of Davin Lake and had a lot of fun teaching them how to catch Northern Pike and Lake Trout. Virgil caught and released a 40 inch pike, his wife caught and released a 30 plus inch Pike and the Australian team caught and released a number of 30 plus inch pike.
Rose and Don Luft and boys, past guests of Davin, know the lake quite well and were able to catch a large number of pike over the 40 inch mark. They said Lake Trout fishing was awesome and they had a great time catching them.
Ed and Jeff and Janca made their annual trip to Davin. With their knowledge and good fishing tactics, they were able to catch and release the most pike over 40 inches that they have ever caught.
Our return guests have remarked on the August fishing claiming that this year was the best ever. We are very confident that our catch and released policy has paid off over the last several years. It is really starting to show up now.
Wayne and Joanie Strader drove up to Davin in their new mini motor home. Wayne has been flying his Sesna 180 up to Davin since 1994. He has always kept Davin a secret from his wife, this year she stowed away in the motor home and arrived at Davin Lake - the secret is now out. Joanie manged to out fish Wayne and now Wayne will never hear the end of it!!!! Way to go Joanie. All jokes aside, Wayne and Joanie are very good friends of ours and we truly enjoy their company. We had a wonderful time with them.
We have been very busy with harvest and haven't had a lot of time to sit down and give thought to our Davin Lake business. After harvest we will sum up our year and do a blog, at which time we will announce the Pike Master for 2011.
Harvest has been going quite well. Most of our neighbours have reported above average yealds, the quality is excellent and the weather has cooperated very well. Irvin has combined 4000 thousand acreas and has 2000 thousand left. The weather is to hold so he 'might' be finsihed by next weekend.
Irvin has eyed up all the geese. The fields are white with snow geese and the BIG Canadas are down. Thank goodness Irvin forgot the combination to the gun safe - I refuse to open the safe for him until the crop is off. Once Irvin starts to hunt geese he seems to loose interest in all the important things!!!
I will post pictures later as my internet is so slow tonight that I can not upload any right now.

August 11 - Man how time flys. We have been very busy here at Davin. Irvin had to slip out Friday to attend a two day family reunion at Pleasantdale. That was his first trip to civilization since May 25th. He visited with friends and relatives and celebrated his Mother's 90th AGAIN!!!
Now back to fishing. The fishing has been great. The fish are gaining weight rapidly this time of year and are on a feeding frenxy. Pike fishing is good, a large number of tropy pike have been caught and released. Daylene Wallington caught and released two pike, one 41 and 41 plus. This is the Wallington's annual fishing trip - they have been fishing here the first week of August for the past 5 years. Daylene says that as far as she is concerned the fishing gets better and better each year. Ruth Streeton caught and released a 38 inch pike. (pictures are posted to this blog)
The Straders are back from Oklahoma, this is their second trip this year. They brought another couple with them and they are all having a fabulous time. Joanie Strader is starting to show Wayne how to fish. Her first day out she caught and released a 32 inch pike.
Walleye fishing is still good. There have been quite a number of trophy size walleye caught and released.
Trout fishing is changing. Trout are in transititon so the fishing is hit and miss. People are still having some success.
Oscar Farris, from Denver caught and released a 41 inch pike while fishing for trout. He caught it in 55 feet of water. This is very unusual. Irvin says that the big pike must have been "lost" to have been in that deep of water. Or maybe that is where the 8 foot pike lives!!!!
We were watching the Discovery Chanel, "River Monsters", the other night and they were trying to catch a 12 foot pike. Maybe it is possible as there are 8 foot pike in Davin like the local Natives claim.
The weather has been wonderful and virtually no bugs. Water level has come up and is about average. The temperature of the water is 68F on the surface.

Ruth Streeton

Daylene Wallington

Time is running out, anyone interested in coming up - our season ends August 25th. Our holiday will be over - back to the real world.
We would welcome any of your input for our blog.