08/15/2026
Triple gold club? Ménage trios Temagami style? Or the dirty 30 gold membership? I’m not sure what to call what happened last night but probably the most fitting word is just simply “special” 🏆🎣
What my good friend John Robbin’s and his son in law Dan accomplished was nothing short of extraordinary. What started with an evening of ominous clouds 🌩️ rolling in, turned into a change of plans, playing it by ear, sticking close to home. Our first spot, looking for Lakers I overshot my mark coming off plane in 10-15ft of water, as I turned the boat around I see a big old banana 🍌on the 2D sitting right below John. With no walleye rods on deck yet I just grab the closest rod and tell him to drop it. Less then a miniute later as I’m scrambling to get some proper gear out for what I’ve stumbled upon I hear him say I got it! That 30.5” was one of the hardest fighting walleye ive seen! The day was made 5 minutes into the trip…. But wait there’s more 👀!!
We switch to lakers, and an aggressive bite yields a handful of trout, with Dan getting a dandy, and maybe a coincidence 30.5” lake trout. But I’m a walleye guy at heart, and Mother Nature was telling me, screw the trout, it’s a walleye day. And a day it was. We switch over, find a pod of fish and first thing Dan thinks he’s got bottom, but that’s bottom started to move with yet again another 30.5” gravel lizard 🪨🦎!!! A few more solid gold bars hit the deck, before John sets into the biggest of the evening at 31”🤯. You can’t script this stuff, and if you know Johns story it’s the definition of good things happening to good ppl🙂
We followed it up this evening with a beautiful shore lunch with 15 of his friends and family. It was an honour to be a part of and truly thankful for the opportunity to cook for them all 🙏 And don’t worry, all my trips are catch and release, for events like these we ask that folks purchase legal pickerel fillets, it’s not fair to put that type of pressure on our lake, or me lol! Because let’s be real, after 6years of living here now, call
me crazy, but it’s seems more realistic to catch a trophy walleye then catch a legal limit of fish that fit in the frying pan!