Gordon Lake Fishing Trip

This was our first view of the lake, from the boat launch. This is the biggest lake I can remember ever being on! It went on and on for miles and miles and it had the most beautiful bays and coves with huge rocks and moss on the banks.

Roger paddling his boat over to the shore by our campsite.

Carol waiting on her husband . . . . you can see the boat on the far right almost out of the picture.

Shawn enjoying the sunshine, first day out on the lake.

Caught my first Lake trout! These are such BEAUTIFUL fish! Their skin is smooth and soft, not scaley and nasty like the pike around home. Trout is also yummy:) We enjoyed it at least 4 out of 6 nights we were there!

This trout had 2 minnows in its mouth when I pulled it in! It was feeding when it went after my hook. I wasn't using minnows but ended up with two large ones haha.

There are large rocks jutting out all over Gordon Lake, you have to be careful that you know where they are so you don't wreck your boat on them. When we first saw this rock it looked like a HUGE pelican sitting on it from the distance. Turns out it was 2 pelicans hanging out together. The one flew off before I had a chance to catpure it, but you will see the shy one a few frames down.

Best buddies:)

Our boat made a loud noise when the bottom scraped the shallows by this rock and I managed to capture the take off and flight which I thought was amazing!

Barely skimming the water on take off.

Dippin' it's toes! Hehehe

How cool is that....I can't imagine flying so close to the water. I love it!

I suspect these are mates, but not sure who is who!

I LOVE the texture of the water, I couldn't resist shooting it.

So pretty, it looks like molten metal!

We'll be celebrating 15 years on the 15th, and I still think he's the most fabulous man alive:)

Can you see Tyler and Deb's boat?? It's tiny......I'll give you a hint.....look to the right hand side of the water closer to the top:)

Sandy Lake. We heard the Pickrel fishing was amazing. The water was like glass.....so beautiful! Fish were jumping all around us the whole afternoon! We didn't catch much here though, but it was a beautiful day on the lake!

This guy was bothering us at the campsites. It wasn't afraid of people at all, we suspect some foolish person was feeding it. The DNR came out and trapped it so it could be relocated away from people. When I stepped up to take this picture it lunged at the bars and huffed REALLY loudly it's displeasure at the "paw-pa-ratzi" photographing it. HAHA! Glad it was behind bars is all I can say!

This is the sky above the Haultain Falls. It was so beautiful I had to photograph it.

The rockbed leading to the falls. It was a gorgeous place to spend the afternoon!

Can you see the sparkels? They were EVERYWHERE. Tiny gold sparkles and flakes of fools gold everywhere! It was so pretty I brought home a small vial to show the kids:)

Shawn climbed down to a rock above the falls to try his luck fishing. I overshot his spot and ended up above him, perfect place to photograph him from! The climb down to him was tooooo steep though, so I hiked back to the main area. I didn't really want to fall with 15 pounds of camera gear on my back!

Who knew there were such beautiful falls in Saskatchewan?!

Deb was the fisher-person of the day. She caught two pike and filleted them right there on the rocks. She was in her element! I would risk getting stranded with her anyday! We would never go hungry LOL:)

Shawn & I. So glad I had Deb take these for us! They are the only pictures we have together from the whole trip!

Shawn's first Trout. The first one was little, this one was at least 4 or 5 lbs! Put up a good fight too!

More molten water....at sunset the last night.

This big guy was along the shore with another large bear, the other took off into the bushes but this one was curious. It came right out onto the rock and watched us before wandering back into the forest. It was amazing to see it so close and feel so safe!