View Full Version : Sasky Girl does it again!!!
Hey Team,
Just got back from a lazy weekend of houseboating on Lake Diefenbaker. Six of us went up for some goodtimes on the water: skiing, wakeboarding, and beer-drinking (none of which I am very good at!!!). One afternoon, while watching the guys fail miserably at fishing, I thought I'd better practice my new skills at the sport. I searched through the tacklebox for the prettiest, most sparkly little lure and got my line set. The girls (who were busy suntanning), were looking at me like I was nuts. The guys were chuckling amongst themselves, "this is gonna be hilarious". But only THREE CASTS LATER, guess who had a fish on her line? That's right! The BEST new Fisherwoman in Saskatchewan: ME! ;) hahaha.
I think it's called a Pike?
http://gallery.menoutdoors.com/gallery/data/1087/Copy_of_PICT1311.JPG
Sure, it may not be a very BIG fish, but SINCE WHEN DOES SIZE MATTER anyway? Right boys?
Watch the rest of our adventures from the weekend:
http://gallery.menoutdoors.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2419&cat=500&ppuser=129
:p Nic
PS: You'll be happy to hear that I've ditched the Prada (for now)... no, not for a fanny-pack, a beautiful Italian leather bag instead. Come on people, BABY STEPS!!!
T-DAWG
07-17-2006, 07:34 PM
nice sand snake i like the eatin contest.;)
Timmy
07-17-2006, 08:04 PM
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:70:
:beauty:
:call:
jus kiddin'! kinda
Great post again!
almostevilboy
07-17-2006, 08:11 PM
looked like a much fun weekend, i could be wrong but that looked like you caught a mini musky...:thumbs_up
Bassbuster
07-17-2006, 09:03 PM
Yep, that would be a little musky. Thats a good thing, always a bonus to have one of them on your line. Nice looking fish. :thumbs_up
Choupiquer
07-17-2006, 09:27 PM
Since I've been posting on MOD and other boards, what I've learned is that what you are holding is The Holy Grail of the north.:o
Bearhunter
07-17-2006, 10:54 PM
Fellas....no musky in them waters, Diefenbaker lake ( named after one of Canadas finest politicians)....thats just a real tiny Northern Pike...Diefenbaker is one of Saskatchewan best fisheries. A few times over that last few years a trout farm nets broke and monster rainbows spilled into the lake. It was pure mayhem. But the lake is home to every fish you can imagine, sorry fellas, no bass. I dive in Diefenbaker every year, the water is crystal clear, and full of walleye, jack, trout, and burbot.
http://www.lakediefenbakertourism.com/gallery/images/15.jpg
Nicky...you had some nice weather this weekend hey! :hot:
So were you the only one that caught a fish?
Cool story, great pics. Thanks for sharing.
:wink:
Osprey
07-18-2006, 05:40 AM
Great post! Good job on the fish whatever it is.
Oh and the weather does look hot.;)
outdoorgirl
07-18-2006, 08:54 AM
Those housboats are awesome for the weekends! Looks like you guys had a great time!:thumbs_up Nice fish!:thumbs_up
I vote muskie on this one
http://gallery.menoutdoors.com/gallery/data/500/medium/PICT1312.JPG
Northern Pike
http://www.landbigfish.com/images/fish/LBF_Northern_Pike.jpg
Muskie
http://www.muskie411.com/fishid/muskiebarred.jpg
Muskies are light colored and usually have dark bars running up and down their long bodies. That's the opposite of northern pike, which have light markings on a dark body. Muskies are silver, light green, or light brown. The foolproof way to tell a muskie from a northern is to count the pores on the underside of the jaw: A muskie has six or more. A northern has five or fewer.
The muskie, unlike the northern pike, has six to nine pores (usually seven) on each side of the underside of the lower jaw. The lower half of the muskie's cheek is not scaled. The lobes of the muskie's tail are more pointed than those of the northern pike.
The muskie's coloration, too, is distinct from a northern pike's and takes three common forms that depend somewhat on the muskie's place of origin, but all have a light background.
Branvinboy
07-18-2006, 11:43 AM
Pikies I hate bloody Pikies, nice catch Nic. I am sure that those south end boys were squirming in their capris when you brought that monster up. Way to go! Show the 0 9ers how to do it.
halfdoc
07-18-2006, 01:44 PM
As much as we all would love to have muskies here in Sask.there are none.The closest place I know of and have caught, is in the Manitoba Duck mountain park at Line lake.It is a stocked lake with no tributaries.
T-DAWG
07-18-2006, 08:10 PM
i say pike
Johnny
07-18-2006, 08:35 PM
That is definitely,at least maybe, pretty sure I think could be possibly a Musky...unbelievable... 1 in 10,000 casts.... NIC job, no pun intended ..hehehe
either way, great catch!
Fabulous bikini pic, you are every bit as pretty (more pretty) than the fanciest Prada bag... :tan:
Check out these Musky Fingerlings. Look close at the second picture, the guy on the left looks to be growing up with that pattern?
http://www.muskiescanada.ca/Lake_Simcoe_Project_Summer_2005_Fingerling_Pics.ph p
Musky Fingerling
http://gallery.menoutdoors.com/gallery/data/557/Musky_Fingerling.jpg
Northern Pike Fingerling
http://gallery.menoutdoors.com/gallery/data/576/pike_fingerling.jpg
Ya know, i'm still not sure????:confused:
Thats great! Looked like some good times. :21:
I say pike, the fins are a dead giveaway. Regardless nice catch! :thumbs_up
DaGrizz
07-18-2006, 09:23 PM
There is not a musky to be had in Sask., to bad as it would be fun to spank a few of them. :)
Branvinboy
07-19-2006, 11:57 AM
Just to add my two cents, I would say that it does look like a musky but as far as I know there are no muskies in that lake. There is a wide variety of fish there but I am postitive that muskies are not one of them.
oilking
07-21-2006, 10:20 AM
Great post Nic! I've always wanted to go houseboating for a weekend. Looks like it was a good time.
I say Pike based on location.
DaGrizz
07-21-2006, 12:24 PM
Ok now guys I want an honest answer. How many times or how did you have to look before you actually saw that pike.. Heck I had to look at that picture a few times before I realized there was a fish in there and not just the young lady!
:spaz:
Brandyn Shepherd
07-24-2006, 11:45 PM
My vote goes with it being a Pike. When they are little they look a lot like Muskies. They grow out of the bars and get the spots in I think about 2 years?
(pictures from google)
Baby Pike
http://www.fishalberta.com/02Season/Jensen/CHNPK5.jpg
Baby Muskie (of course there is a variety of muskie patterns but most look like this)
http://www.michiganmuskiealliance.org/mukieinc/pics/2004pics/baby_ski.jpg
almostevilboy
07-25-2006, 05:39 PM
i say the fins have convinced me to change, but the pattern looked so like musky, i have sided with the pike answer......:thumbs_up
and yes, considering the pic of the fish, it took me a second to focus on what i was actualy looking at...lol
Bearhunter
07-28-2006, 11:57 PM
Rainbow record an easy catch for brothers
Zak Markan, Saskatchewan News Network
Published: Saturday, July 22, 2006
SASKATOON -- Sean and Adam Konrad thought they would one day break the provincial record for rainbow trout -- they just didn't expect to do it three times in three weeks.
"I guess we just know where the big fish are," says Sean.
While fishing on Lake Diefenbaker from June 17 to July 8, Sean and his brother caught, in succession, rainbow trout weighing 28.39 pounds, 30 lbs. and 33.3 lbs., all provincial records. The largest one, caught July 8, is being considered for the 10 lb. line class world-record currently held by Duane Farden, who caught a 30.6 lb. rainbow trout on Lake Diefenbaker in August 2004.
"It's because of what we know and where we know the fish are," says Sean of their success. "There's a select group of people who know where the spot is, and you actually have to be fairly talented to fish in the area."
The Konrad brothers have been fishing Lake Diefenbaker for the last five years and have become well-acquainted with the best spots to catch rainbow trout.
"It takes some time," says Sean. "We're pretty good at it. Every time we catch two or three fish and we always find out where they are."
Sean and Adam, 26-year-old identical twins who are both automotive mechanics, were taught to fish by their father, Otto Konrad. Both brothers consider fishing their true passion.
"We're hoping to someday open a store, a fishing show, even guiding or something," says Sean. "Even with the car stuff, we spend a lot of our time fishing."
Sean admits they have had success on Lake Diefenbaker because of the large number of rainbow trout that escaped from the CanGro Fish Farm back in 2000.
"The first two years (after the fish escaped) were awesome, and now it's been really slowing down a lot," says Sean. "Now it's actually getting hard to catch the rainbows."
And the number of rainbow trout on Lake Diefenbaker, especially the larger ones, will continue to decline over the long-term, says Kevin Fitzsimonds, a conservation officer with Saskatchewan Environment.
"These trout were all females, so there should be no natural reproduction of the trout," says Fitzsimonds. "Eventually they'll all die out. Therefore the lake should revert back to native species."
As many as half a million rainbow trout escaped from the CanGro farm --now called Wildwest Steelhead -- when ice on Lake Diefenbaker sliced through fish containment nets.
Fitzsimonds adds that the natural life-span of rainbow trout in Lake Diefenbaker is at most 20 years, therefore the size and weight of the fish will eventually start to decline.
"When they escaped, the fish grew tremendously fast, as much as several pounds a year," says Fitzsimonds. "I would suspect that that (33 lb. size) is going to be the upper limit. Fish tend to get to a certain size, and then they plateau at that level and begin dying off."
Though it is common for rainbow trout in larger bodies of water like Lake Superior to weigh 25 lbs., Fitzsimonds says people shouldn't expect these record-breaking catches on Lake Diefenbaker to be a long-term trend.
Despite the odds that the rainbow trout population will continue to decline in Lake Diefenbaker, Sean and his brother plan on a few more record-setting catches.
"Right now we're trying for a 40-pounder, which is almost unheard of," says Sean. "But with what we've been catching, that might be possible."
Sean and Adam are going on yet another fishing trip with their father on the weekend. Sean says the three of them, as usual, will be aiming large.
"Our dad wants us to give him a trip to catch some potential world-record rainbow again," says Sean.
http://gallery.menoutdoors.com/gallery/data/612/rainbow_2.jpg
http://gallery.menoutdoors.com/gallery/data/612/33_lb_rainbow.jpg
http://gallery.menoutdoors.com/gallery/data/612/28_lb_rainbow.jpg
http://gallery.menoutdoors.com/gallery/data/612/rainbow3.jpg
elkaholic
07-29-2006, 04:12 PM
A freind sent me some pics of those monster rainbows.
Talk about guru's of rainbow trout fishing!!!!!!
Timmy
07-29-2006, 11:30 PM
and yes, considering the pic of the fish, it took me a second to focus on what i was actualy looking at...lol
There was a fish in that pic?
almostevilboy
07-30-2006, 10:57 AM
wow.....nice trout....:thumbs_up
Osprey
07-30-2006, 11:16 AM
That's outstanding!
Johnny
07-30-2006, 01:19 PM
Best Trout I have ever seen....nice job guys!!!!
Bearhunter
07-30-2006, 02:26 PM
Half doc......try to find out who these guys are...they need to know about our site!!
saskcat
07-30-2006, 06:22 PM
www.myspace.com/fishinggeeks this is them, not sure why it says there from beverly hills though?
Bearhunter
07-31-2006, 09:04 PM
:lamp: Decided to head to Diefenbaker this weekend....see if I can't spear me one of those bad boys....
So much hype this days, I gotta dive into the deep blue to check it out..
Billybob
08-10-2006, 10:40 AM
Great post Nic, great to see girls enjoying the outdoors! Just wish there were a few more... anyway you gotta get your girlfriends off the tanning beds and fishing with you! A few more like that last fish you may even be able to have a decent fish fry!
cmohr
08-23-2006, 01:05 PM
i vote a cross breed between a pike and a muskie. if it shares the same characteristics of a pike and a muskie its a cros breeed. nice fish.
Getdanet1
08-24-2006, 12:33 AM
I vote muskie on this one
http://gallery.menoutdoors.com/gallery/data/500/medium/PICT1312.JPG
Northern Pike
http://www.landbigfish.com/images/fish/LBF_Northern_Pike.jpg
Muskie
http://www.muskie411.com/fishid/muskiebarred.jpg
Muskies are light colored and usually have dark bars running up and down their long bodies. That's the opposite of northern pike, which have light markings on a dark body. Muskies are silver, light green, or light brown. The foolproof way to tell a muskie from a northern is to count the pores on the underside of the jaw: A muskie has six or more. A northern has five or fewer.
The muskie, unlike the northern pike, has six to nine pores (usually seven) on each side of the underside of the lower jaw. The lower half of the muskie's cheek is not scaled. The lobes of the muskie's tail are more pointed than those of the northern pike.
The muskie's coloration, too, is distinct from a northern pike's and takes three common forms that depend somewhat on the muskie's place of origin, but all have a light background.
Ron, Take a close look at the pic. You can see the black spots on the rear fins and tail.
It does look somewhat like a Tiger Musky, but...
Here is some info from another site.
http://www.goldenpike.com/northern_pike.htm
Scroll down to the despcriptions. The last lines read....
On the sides are many bean-shaped yellow spots, but the fins are heavily dark-spotted. The young up to 6-7 inches have light vertical bars.
The fish that Sasky Girl is holding is the right size, has verticle lines and spotted Fins and tail.
fishking
09-29-2006, 06:04 PM
That is a PIKE for sure!
Ice Fisherman
09-30-2006, 04:13 AM
nice fish boys!!!!!!
rvsask
10-25-2006, 05:00 PM
It's Saskatchewan...it isn't a musky! I remember seeing those rainbows in the Star Phoenix, unbelievable. I grew up 15 miles from Sask Landing on Dief....what a fishery.
Bearhunter
10-29-2006, 03:10 PM
Diefenbaker is a great place...those guys catching the big trout are sending me some vids...
Should be a great addition to the Saskatchewan Outdoors DVD...
Johnny
01-26-2007, 08:30 PM
Had to check this one out again.
str8shtr
01-27-2007, 02:12 AM
Since I've been posting on MOD and other boards, what I've learned is that what you are holding is The Holy Grail of the north.:o
are you talking to the fish?
outdoors
01-27-2007, 10:55 PM
muskie or maybe pike-not sure, but sure looks like a tiger muskie
Holy! I can't believe this old post is still kicking around!
It sounds like I was RIGHT! It was a PIKE!
ttaylor99
01-29-2007, 09:30 AM
I can't believe this post made 5 pages for the pic of the pike...There should have been no debate about it. There are no musky in Saskatchewan...Pike for sure. Know lets talk about the house boat pics...LOL
moffdog32
01-29-2007, 04:07 PM
nice bikini, :thumbs_up
outdoors
01-31-2007, 07:36 AM
What fish? lmao
Bearhunter
04-29-2007, 10:12 PM
been awhile.....
joe m
04-29-2007, 10:49 PM
I can't believe this post made 5 pages for the pic of the pike...There should have been no debate about it. There are no musky in Saskatchewan...Pike for sure. Know lets talk about the house boat pics...LOL
I don't think they were looking at the fish ;)
Prairie_dog
04-29-2007, 10:49 PM
Some quick knowledge on Musky and Pike. Musky would not last long in Sask and here is why. Although a musky grows to be considerably larger than a pike the problem for them isn't at adulthood but from the time they hatch. Pike and muskie spawn in the same habitat, but pike spawn earlier, therefor the young hatch earlier than the muskie. These fish are predators from the get go and as the muskie hatch they are eaten by the little pike who have had some time to grow. This is a problem over in the central provinces, they are trying to keep pike numbers down and out of certain systems because they never use to be there in the first place and they are taking over the muskie fisheries. We have a healthy population of pikes in Sask and they are all eating machines.
longsaklew
04-30-2007, 09:22 PM
:thumbs_up :thumbs_up :thumbs_up :bounce: I don't think they were looking at the fish ;)
HAHA! I think you guys need a new bikini to look at already! Here, let me help you out:
;)
http://gallery.menoutdoors.com/gallery/data/500/n504722413_29384_7583.jpg
elkaholic
05-01-2007, 08:10 AM
Ah........ thanks Nic.......... appreciate that!
ttaylor99
05-01-2007, 09:33 AM
Thats nice!
PAPA BEAR
05-01-2007, 12:36 PM
Definatly a Pike Check our the dorsul fin rounded not square.
Bearhunter
05-30-2007, 01:49 PM
camo bikini gets bonus points on MOD...
http://photos-072.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v71/114/44/900545256/n900545256_461072_1845.jpg
lesnemeth
05-30-2007, 03:17 PM
It does look like it hac the vertical color bars of a muskie. Nice fish Nic! Good job!!
pikearoonie
06-16-2009, 11:39 PM
sorry guys but bearhunter is right there is absolutley nosuch thing as muskie in this lake. There are several different colors and patterns that pike can come in but our waters are too cool to support muskie. Kinda like saying that there would be small mouth bass here or crappies. i have caught sevral pike with those marks on them and they are still pike. RonG you are correct with pores but the pike in the picture has dark skin with light markings which supports the fish being a pike. Neway sasky girl nice fish and keep up the good work!
pikearoonie
06-16-2009, 11:49 PM
HAHA! I think you guys need a new bikini to look at already! Here, let me help you out:
;)
http://gallery.menoutdoors.com/gallery/data/500/n504722413_29384_7583.jpg
your right everyone is getting stupid about this. This is nice too!
greatwest82
06-17-2009, 11:39 AM
I'm with Bear Hunter on the fish being a Pike caught one about that size this year looked the same no musky in our lake.
smokechecker
06-18-2009, 01:25 AM
Who cares about the damn fish! Nicky is a better catch;)
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