I had been on a fly-in fishing trip in 1992. I was invited most thankfully by a great friend of mine to attend this trip that he and his dad had been doing for many years. I didn’t have to do anything but pack my stuff. We went to Birch Lake with Northern Wilderness Outfitters. All the research, deposits and planning had been done. What a relief! But now I was about to plan and book my own vacation trip for 4 anglers. Me, my son Sam and our friends Todd and Lincoln. We had a few needs far as dates (early August) in and out of the outpost.

Like most, I began to search for destinations. We wanted to be remote, have excellent fishing opportunities and a flight about 2 hours. We also wanted an outpost lake with few others in attendance, a tidy little cabin with reliable boats and lots of water to fish for walleye. After contacting a few likely options we settled on Amik Outposts. I paid my deposit and we were booked! We were to drive to Red Lake Ontario then fly-in to Cobham Lake.

This is how it happened. Upon contacting Amik I communicated with Rena. She was excellent and answered all my questions. Rena handled all of my concerns quickly with solid information including what to bring, weight limits for the plane and the logistics of the trip we needed. Our main concern was weight. I like to cook. Food and drink was a big thing. I was concerned we maybe overweight with all the food and beverages to go with our clothes and fishing gear. We brought all the food and gear we needed and then some with no issues as far as weight. In fact we brought everything we needed. Including the one thing that helped us catch fish the most, fish finders. In our case flashers. That is Marcum LX3’s and Vexilars. We brought nightcrawlers but they were not necessary.

John was the pilot of the Otter plane that was to take us to Cobham Lake. The flight was 2 hours. We had to wait out some weather that morning for a bit but our flight was smooth and trouble free. We arrived.

Our cabin was comfortable. There were supplies already there including nightcrawlers and spices. We took a liking to the spice mixture Slap Your Momma. Seems anglers like this stuff. There were 3-4 containers of it in the cabin. All the things we needed were at our outpost, Cobham Daniel.

Now onto the fishing. We arrived, unpacked and hopped in our boats. We were provided a map by Amik and we had previously picked out and some likely haunts in addition to getting some tips from Rena and John.

Boats were comfortable and roomy.

We stared out slow. Meaning we caught around 30 walleye in about 4 hours of fishing on our arrival day. Over the next 4 days we encountered a multitude of weather conditions, Clear and no wind, rainy and some wind. The fish didn’t care.

Weather was 65 degrees, cloudy with winds of 10mph or so. Fishing was good and many times excellent. No bait was needed. We consistently caught fish in numerous areas. Steep drops offs with sandy bottom attached to shoreline fingers produced well the first full day of fishing. The using a flasher video below will depict this tactic using the flashers almost as if we were ice fishing.

Day two we did some exploring and found fish on reefs. Easy reefs to find. These reefs poked out of the water. One reef produced about 40 walleye up to 24 inches. This was the only day we saw another boat on this large lake.

Day 3 was a bonanza of walleye. We drifted a shoreline that started with the steep shoreline drop offs. We ended up jigging a large sand flat in about 20-24 feet of water. Walleye were everywhere. This was our best day. 75 degrees, no wind and blue bird skies. We caught over 140 walleyes in my boat on Culprit plastic worms, Kalin’s 5 inch grubs and swim baits. Fishing was fantastic.

Days 4 and 5 we hit the spots we knew and tried a few more including a stint at casting for big pike. We targeted pike in weed beds attached to deeper water and we caught walleyes. On big pike baits. This lead us to believe we could snap jig some of the large weed flats we had passed and we did so. Snap jigging the weeds produced great numbers of walleye. Most eating as the jig fell. And how fun is that! One weed bed had us catching walleyes at will in 6-10 feet of cabbage (see the accompanying snap jigging video below).

Food. We had great food and shore lunch everyday. Our favorite shore lunch spot was in a narrows. It produced lunch and more walleyes caught from shore. Lots of walleyes. Lots of blueberries.

The trip went too fast. Ryan picked us up at the prescribed time and flew us back to Red Lake. The fight was great, the scenery and company even better. Great friends, great fishing, great experience. You should try a fly-in with Amik Outposts.

Using a Flasher

Snap Jigging 

Shore Fishing

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