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.

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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.

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This is Daylene Wallington's second 41 plus fish.  It didn't post to my last blog.  Sorry Daylene.



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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.

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Thursday afternoon at 2:50pm, "a cloud of dust and in rolled the bus"!!!  A happy bunch of guests ready for fishing and socializing.  After soup and sandwiches, most of the guests went fishing.  As usual, the Getties team were the first to hit the lake.  The lake was calm, perfect for trout fishing, Mr and Mrs Getties had their limit of trout and were back in camp within one hour. 
The Brown team hit the lake with a contest between themselves, "who could catch the biggest fish".  Alex was in the lead, catching a 35 inch pike within one hour of fishing.  Rachelle kicked butt on day two showing her family how it was done.  She caught and released a 36 inch pike.  Way to go Rachelle!!  Then Alex caught another 36 inch so Rachelle and Alex tied for the Brown contest.
Marcy, our couragous bus driver, caught and released a 41 inch Pike.  Pictures included with the Blog. 
At the end of the tour there had been a lot of trophy fish caught and released with the largest caught by the Lloydminster team.  Braden Hall caught and released a 38 inch pike awarding him with the trip back in 2012.  His picture is posted with this blog.  CONGRATULATIONS BRADEN!!!!!!
It was a terrific weekend with wonderful weather, great fishing and super company.  Pike fishing was excellent, walleye fishing was good.  Most guests who wanted to fish walleye, were able to get their limit.  The biggest caught and released was 27 inches caught by on of the Brown group.  Trout fishing was good except it was a bit windy for "great" trout fishing.
We have set the dates for 2012 - they will be July 26, 27, 28 and 29th.  The bus left Davin Lake at 9:00 Sunday morning with happy guests who had made new friends and were able to tell all kinds of fish stories.  Everyone was making plans to return next year.

 Congratulations Bradon - |See you next year!!!!!!!

 You did good Marcy!!!!

Happy looking group!!!

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Another successful bus tour

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The real Davin Lake fish story - Is it fact or fiction????

We had a visitor here today, William Mckenzie.  Some of you will remember him, he guided here for many years.  He was showing us some of the hot spots on the map and was asking us if the spots had changed over the years.  During the conversation, he asked if we had ever seen an eight foot Pike in Davin Lake.  To our surprise, he said he has seen them here many times.  Wes, the owner of the camp back then, claims to have seen many from his airplane and believed there are a special breed of Pike only in Davin Lake.  Other locals have seen these huge pike as well, or so they claim.  Although there have been many stories of hugh fish that got away, could it have been an eight foot one??  We need your input, could there be 96 inch pike in Davin Lake????? 

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