Several years ago i was fishing with my dad, brothers and a few friends in Singuish Lake up in Duck Mountain Provincial Park. It was our first time fishing in that area of Duck Mountain but it seemed like a really nice lake. The first day there we were fishing just off the shore since it was too dark to actually drive the boat in an unfamiliar lake, but we managed to catch several decent sized pike. The next day i was the first one up and i was already fishing before the sunrise and had some fun with a few really nice size pike. Finally when we got the boat in the water, i asked my dad to take us around a bend where it seemed like it would be nice for walleyes...my dad replied saying that there were no walleye in the lake, i felt somewhat dissapointed because i love fishing for them in the clear water. My dad still went around the bend that i was talking about, which looked really nice under the water with all the nice weed patches around. I took one of my personal favourite lures, a size 18 perch original floater lure, and threw it out for a few casts. After several casts of nothing, i felt a giant tug on my rod and already i was standing at the edge of the boat ready to bring in a nice pike...my dad told me that it was probably just a lot of weeds considering the size of my lure and when my line got near the top i could see a lot of weeds around my lure so i assumed that he was right. But then all of a sudden the water splashed all around it and i saw some pectoral fins flip over and they were HUGE FINS. My dad was already at the net because this fish we knew was going to be a monster sized fish, so when we pull it up to the boat, it rolled over about 5 feet under, and i could see it as clear as day. A walleye that made a trophy pike look tiny, my dad was motionless after looking at the size of this walleye, and he had his own 31 inch mounted on the wall. The thing that i found most horrible about it though, was my dad eventually put the net in to grab the giant yellowback, but it was too big for the net...and it was a big catfishing net, when the walleye got to the top though i was stunned to look at its dorsal fin which must have been at least 12 INCHES BIG!!! My dad eventually got the walleye in the net head first and he himself strainded to try and get the fish in the boat, but he lost grip on the net!!!! So in the end the fish got away sadly...i was so sad after that, my dad felt really bad too because we all knew that this was a true one in a lifetime walleye.
I'm hoping one day me and a few of my friends will travel back to singuish lake and maybe i can get hooked on the same monster.