Or it could be a drive-to lake that's just a day's drive from the Northland along a Canadian highway riddled with logging trucks and boats being towed by pickup trucks from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Sure, there are lots of great places close to home to catch walleyes, and we do for most of the year. But often it's the trip itself that makes the trip to Canada special. The long drive or flight gives you time to unwind, time to anticipate what's ahead, time to go into vacation mode. Then there are the little extras.
Shore lunches on a rocky point.
Vast expanses of water without rafts of boats. The allure of undeveloped shoreline and unspoiled wilderness. But, of course, it's the walleyes tugging at the other end of our lines that we're really after. And the choices seem endless. Only time, and our budget, restrain us.