Road trip to the far west of NORTHERN Ontario

 Traveling along the way from Toronto to Vermilion Bay ! OVER 20 HOURS DRIVING!
Overnight visit around Sault Ste . Marie.

Close-Up of traveling west from Thunder Bay along HIGHWAY 17 .
Destination for the first week is Eagle Lake , Vermilion Bay. For the second week it will back tracking a little East and South down HIGHWAY 522  be into the Lower Manitou Lake through the Esox lake Landing.

Hand Carved fish trophies for Vermilion Bay Lodge

 These are the wood carvings I recently carved for the Vermilion Bay Lodge Musky and Walleye Madness week contests. The Walleye contest in mid-July amd the Musky contest in mid-September.

Vermilion Bay lodge is located in Vermilion Bay on Eagle Lake . THE LAKE HAS AN AMAZING REPUTATION for large musky and walleye. The lake and lodge  are a drive-to-location.
Musky 60 pounds/ 26 kilos in weight have been caught. Walleye over 30 inches / 75 cm in length have also been caught! www.vermilionbaylodge.com

Ottawa River Muskie fishing with Muskies Canada June 22, 2013

 Gathering of Muskie fishing boats and in the background a group of singing kayak paddlers on the Ottawa River, Papinneauville Quebec

 High water on the north side of the river
Putting tarps over the eating area at Peter Levicks back yard

 Don Grahams 38 inches of finned fury muskie , caught on a spinner bait in the pink,purple pattern called the "Grinder".

D
ON RELEASING HIS MUSKIE BACK INTO THE RIVER!

New collection of muskie paintings

ARTWORK COPYRIGHT Charles Weiss 2013

THE NEW MUSKIE PAINTINGS are featured in a partnership with Rollie and Helens Musky Shop
IN A 2014 Musky  Shop Calendar are complete! See www.muskyshop.com / 2014 calendar
I've included several paintings of muskies chasing topwater lures, crankbaits, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits and even a giant jig!.
The Calendar will be available in September 2013,
$20. price includes shipping That's right only twenty bucks!
Printed full colour and each calender page measures 8.5 inches/ 22 cm by 11 inches/ 28 cm
GET YOUR SIGNED COPY TODAY FROM ME!!
Please, send order with cheque/check or money order:
Charles Weiss
34 Hughey Crescent
Scarborough, Ontario
M1K 2V4
CANADA

Old photo of Giant Bass as a Full Colour painting

ARTWORK COPYRIGHT Charles Weiss 2013

Recently I found an old black and white photo of a real giant bass (possible record size )
being held by a men in overalls and brimmed hat. It looks like a vintage 1930's or earlier scene.
The giant bass looks to over 24 inches / 60cm in length and likely weighing close to twenty pounds
/ 8.5 kilos. I painted acrylic on canvas .

June 2013 Musky Hunter features my illustrated story

This is my caricature portraits of seven muskie fishing guides featured in a story I wrote for June 2013 Musky Hunter Magazine. I wanted the story to be a little zany and have them all trying to hold up one Giant muskie. The art is similar to what "MAD" magazine would create for their art cartoon style.
If the fish was real it would likely weigh 400 pounds /180 kilos! It's unfortunate the binding of the magazine creased Graham Bristows face.I've included the original art as a way to compare the way the printing was fairly accurate in it's duplication of my image.

The fishing guides include. leftto right Keith Davison, Greg Videki, John Anderson, Graham Bistrow, Terry Van deWauwer, Gord Pyzer and Rodel Misa.

New Jerkbait design "the Dragon"

This my new jerkbait design. I call it "the Dragon".

This design has taken 10 years to be finally developed.

Underwater photo of lure. A fish eye view.

The lure measures 10.25 inches in length and 1.5inches in width.

weighs about 2 ounces. I have a large #7 spinner blade added to the tail

this causes the lure to create a gentle fish (pike or muskie) attracting wobble.

 

 

This photo shows the two different sizes. The large is 10 inches The smaller size is 8 inches.This lure design has a front diving lip similar to a Believer and the back tail design is like a Suick Thriller Jerkbait. It has a wide wobble and is a bit jerky in it's swimming motion.. I think it willlook like a vulnerable wounded prey fish to a muskie/pike

following  it's action in the water.