"This is the biggest fish ive ever caught"-Ron
Ron with a 36'' pike

June 5-12 Keefer group

THE SKITTLE POP BONANZA

Tom, Jay and Jeff Keefer had pretty good week so far
They caught a 50 incher the first evening they arrived.
the picture doesn't do it justice but she is very very healthy.
Jeff is about 6 foot to give you an idea.
big fat well fed fish.

All of their big pike were caught on a Skittle Pop


So far this week all the big pike have been caught on artificials and all in less than 3 feet of water.
Including a 43 incher off the dock.


Jeff Keefer with a Huge Nungesser Pike















































June 5-12 Report

a good mixture of weather.
changing every day.

Everybody is catching lots of walleye and a lot in the 23-36 inch range.
a few 28 inchers have been reported.


Most of the pike this week are being caught in less than 3 feet of water
water temps have been falling down to about 55 by wednesday.
It was actually quite cool on wednesday

The baby ducks have been hatching
That is likey why the topwater baits have been very successful this week.

Most pike have been caught on artificials
In addition to topwater baits the johnson silver minnow has been pretty effective.


Tom Jeff and Jay Keeper have caught a 40 , 43 40 , 39 and a bunch of 30 somethings.
All in shallow water and all in

Philip Roede
had a good day tuesday with a 39 and 40 inch pike taken off eagle point.
topped it off with a 43 inch Monster pike off the dock after supper

Phil has been using all of the baits his kids bought for him and has caught fish on most of them
wednesday; night he caught a pike off the dock on the little ducky lure his daughter bought.



Captain sombrero, Steve, Bob and Zack had a good time Wednesday morning;
They had a 40 , 39 36 and severl other 30ish pike in middle narrows.
Bob got his personal best a 27inch walleye in Pike alley.


Mike and Herman Kathan
Had a good day Monday with a 40 and 39 inch pike in the back of north bay
Sunday they had a 28 inch walleye.in greens narrows.

Darin Lutz and Joel Dickie
have been "hammering the walleye everywhere we stop"
either I'm a really good fisherman or there are a lot of walleye in this lake
we've been using mostly 1/4 oz orange or chartruese jigs.
tipped with minnows.
the live minnows work well but he salted shiners have an edge
two years ago the gulp alive minnows worked great
this year I've been in spots catching walleye every 30 seconds on salted shiners and thought okay lets try the gulp and they wouldn't even touch it.
The narrows has been unbelievable for 22-25 inch walleye.
J-hook cove has produced hundreds and hundreds of nice eyes but no big ones.
biggest has been 27 but I'm looking for a giant walleye


Ev Anderson and group have been doing well.


Dick Schermetzer and group


Rob and Ron Williams have been doing well.
several 40 ish pike

Pics

“We’ve been catching some nice size walleye out here from one minute to the next we have gotten spoiled. If we don’t catch any within 10 minutes from a spot, we’re like, ‘what’s going on.’ -Andy





“We’ve never actually used or heard of salted minnows, but boy, I’ll tell you, they are hitting just as well as any other bait, the salt gives it a nice trail that the fish are attracted too. Its nice that we don’t have to worry about keeping them alive either, and we can use them the next day as well.” -Justin

Jerry and Warren havin' some fun under the sun.

"I'VE FISHED OVER 30 CAMPS IN CANADA AND THIS IS THE BEST CAMP I'VE SEEN THE EQUIPMENT, CABINS AND FISHING ARE ALL OUTSTANDING" Jerry






























“Im more of a bass fisherman, but man, I’ve grown more and more inclined to fishing for walleye, especially after catching these beauties here at AnglersKingdom, Nungessar lake. We don’t have to travel far from camp to catch these neither, which is always great.” Justin






“I’ve never caught so many trophy size walleye so close to camp, not to mention we did not even get to fish the entire lake, I can just imagine how many hundreds of other spots there might be out here on this vast lake. We would easily spend a month or even more up here trying to fish the whole thing”
Justin

Here's Herman with a 28'' walleye

Mike from Illinois with a walleye





















"I never caught so many good size walleye in one spot, and so close to camp." This was a clear day with water temp at about 60 F at the narrows close to camp on .















Zach catching a little baby walleye off the dock. Earlier on, he caught a nice 15" off the dock as well

MAY 29 TO JUNE 5

John Bachburger



June 1, 2010. Overcast near the virgin islands. Andy using a spinner to haul in this pike















As Justin was reeling in this walleye, A huge northern came up near the surface and took a swipe at it. It could of been a two for one.

Andy and Justin hauling in a 24 and 25"














Took an hour to take the kids fishing
It's almost getting old hat for them and they expect to catch big fish.
They got these two off of eagle nest.

We spent a few minutes in Greens Narrows and had an eagle come down for a snack. Then a 50 inche pike take walleye from us twice. We went back to camp and returned with some suckers. caught a 26,27,28 inch walleye consecutively, then had to go to get the kids back for school




We had the big cold front Thursday thru Monday so it wasn't looking great for the folks this week. The rain has brought the water up about 6inches.
Fishing was good Saturday and Sunday. Monday was a bit slower.
It was Sunny Tuesday thru Friday.
Wednesday with a strong west wind was non stop action from everyone I talked to.
Dead calm all day - Slower Thursday afternoon
Not a lot of big pike this week but that is expected after a cold front.
It seems like the fish locations are starting to "normalize"
The fish are for the most part in the same areas they are each year at this time.
The majority haven't made it out to the mid lake humps.
It almost seems like that cold front stopped them from migrating.
The good news is that they are hungry and concentrated.

On Wednesday morning the were on a tear in 10 -12 feet by afternoon they were being hammered in 5-6 feet of water and later we in 10-14 feet.
All the usual suspects in all the usual places.
Its business as usual for the Walleye of Nungesser lake.


The Caribou have started moving, have had about a dozen sighting this week.
Have a nice videio clip of one right near camp and missed a golden opportunity because I didn't have a camera. Had a Cow and her calf swimming between two of the "virgin islands"



















Andy Buffalo from Rockfordfighing.com and his group have been hammering big walleye pretty much everywhere they have fished this week.

Will post some nice photos and good video asap

One comment that stands out this week was something to the affect that "I'm 70 years old and I've been fishing Canada for most of my life and I've never fished a camp as good as this, the lake is outstanding, the equipment is excellent, the staff are friendly. I can't say enough."

It even made me stop and listen. I get so busy with all the stuff it takes to make this place run and it is very gratifying to hear something like that.
I believe we have a good staff in place this year. and they will continue to develop as the summer goes along.

Kevin,

Here are some pictures of the 45" Northern Pike Nate caught last Thursday morning. The 19" walleye is what he decided to latch on to. They netted them both. Great fishing trip!

Bret

Bret Hodne

Public Works Director

City of West Des Moines, IA

Bret, Ron and Wade Hodne and the guys from Iowa were back again for the fifth year in a row.
(they will be back up July 24th)
They caught lots of big walleye.
Bret was saying that jigs were catching more big walleye and spinner rigs more numbers.
Worms worked well so did shiners
"we caught fish everywhere we fished, as usual"
have a few pics to post
hopefully Bret will send more.

John Rhinas and Ken have done very well on the walleye, no big pike yet.
HERE IS AN EMAIL FROM JOHN
Kevin,
We had a great time. On Friday alone, I caught 6 walleyes on flies on a fly rod, 23" largest. Ken Nickel caught ( 2 ) 34" northerns on small minnows, with great fights on light tackle and we caught more walleyes and small pike in the afternoon.
We had great fishing, and saw 3 black bears, 2 moose - one in velvet, a porcupine and a female caribou along the way and during our week there.
See attached pics. We will be back. Shore lunch was fun. We will be doing more flyfishing too.

Thx.
. John C. Rinas























Terry Bedard and his group have returned and they have had excellent fishing. lots of big walleye. Should have plenty of pics to post.


I will be getting details and photos from everyone and hope to have them on here by sat pm.

MAY 22-29 CONTINUED GOOD WEATHER AND FISHING

TONY SCHAEFER AND HIS GROUP Caught SOME BIG PIKE
Sunday they had two 40 inch pike a 41 and a 43.
will post pics soon
oops the camera wnt in the lake
no pics
TONY NOVALONY AND HIS GROUP HAD A BUNCH OF 25-28 INCH WALLEYE OFF EAGLE POINT.

































JOHN BACHBURGER AND GROUP HAD AT LEAST ONE 40 INCH PIKE AND SOME BIG WALLEYE.

HAYDEN, SEANNA AND BRADY CAUGHT A BUNCH OF GIANT WALLEYE
EVEN SOME RIGHT OFF THE DOCK.
I took the kids out for a few hours.
Seanna had a 25 incher within the first 30 seconds.
She ended up and with a HUGE walleye
Hayden caught a 29 incher.
They've both caught several over 30 in the past but still get a thrill out of these big walleye.

Haydens friend Brady caught his largest pike ever.

Then after supper they caught a bunch off the dock.
It was a great day.

MAY 15-22 -HOT WEATHER HOT BITE

So far the walleye seem to be in all the typical spots.
Definitely ahead of past years but just think of what the fishing would be like a few weeks ahead and you won't have any problem. The Dragon flies came out Wednesday, the Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies (Yellow butterfly for short) are out.
So that means????___that the shiners will spawn in a few days.
Which means???____that the pike and walleye will be in the shallow reeds near creek mouths.
Have fun.
Any black flies will be quickly taken care of by the dragon flies.
Of course there are almost zero mosquitoes here on the island because it is all sand so there is no standing water which equals no mosquittoes. yahoo!!!










RON AND DAN CONTINUE TO HAMMER THEM
Greens narrows, Eagle nest and all over North bay are loaded with 24 -26 inch walleye in 3-10 feet of water. Of course there are plenty of littles one as well.
Thursday afternoon Ron landed a beautiful 40 inch pike, which he pulled out of the edge of the reed line.
Then in the evening Ron got a nice 38 inch pike.
Carl had a HUGE walleye follow his rapala just like a Pike he figures it was well over 30 inches.
The guys continue to catch lots of walleye right close to camp.






























































DIXIE CATCHES HER LARGEST PIKE EVER.
Dixie Moore caught a 43 inch Pike, her largest pike ever.
I wish we had it on video from the stories they told and the excitement still bubbling over when they returned for dinner I'm sure the video would have been fun to watch.
There were several good comments, apparently the fun started when they went for the net and realized it was hanging nicely in the cabin and then something about throwing the ___ needle nose pliers overboard. Then there was all that blood on the floor of the boat (and it wasn't the fishes).
See that great smile in the picture? It was still there when they left camp (without their rod case) and will most likely still be there when Dixie gets back to Iowa.
I wouldn't be surprised if she sends that photo to the nice lady at the DesMoines Register.









































































Cal Wicklander has been fishing Canada for 30 years and was amazed by the number of big walleye. His comment " where I used to fish I caught hundreds of 15 inch walleye. At Anglers Kingdom I can't remember catching ONE that small., What a walleye lake".