We woke up early for a 0600 plane pick up. It was raining and foggy, with slight breaks overhead. A Twin Otter droned overhead making multiple passes but unable to land. A sat phone call established that the plane would not be able to get in until 0800 next day. A rainy morning was spent, before things began to brighten and folks got enthusiastic again and started to fish.
I spent a hour or so on cantara without too much luck, a couple of small jackfish that I put back. As I was almost back in camp I hooked this monster, a 35lb northern pike that took nearly three quarters of an hour to land and gave a right royal feed. My biggest fish ever! At least thee or four other large pike were also caught at different times and all agreed that Cantara Lake was almost unique for the sheer number of large pike in such a small lake.
Filleted and rolled in flour, lemon pepper, garlic etc, the fish was delicious.
Keith and Lawrie hauled in a whole lot of pickerel, some of which were taken back to Saskatoon
All in all it was a beautiful end to our day on Cantara Lake and a fine evening suggested good weather for the next day's pick up by floatplane.
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