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.
These are the pictures that should have gone to my post from last night. This is Ed Janca and his son Jeff from Billings, Montana. Ed and Jeff have been coming to Davin for a number of years. They always fish in August and this year the fishing was fabulous. These are only a few pictures that they took. They caught many 40 inch plus pike.
