August 7, 2017

Another fun filled 30 minute adventure. We stayed at the Ness Lake Bible Camp this weekend in Prince George and had the BEST family weekend we have ever had together.

A big shout out to the staff at Ness Lake Bible Camp. We will be back next year for sure. Family camp was filled with many great activities such as zip lining, a jungle swing, knee boarding and tubing, swimming, the blob, a safari game, silly songs and much more. The food was excellent. We are sad to come home and have to cook 3 meals a day again.

I did really well all weekend and was able to keep the excitement of trying a new lake from coming out in conversation throughout most of the family camp weekend.

Finding the flat launch that everyone talked about was very difficult. We did not find it and had to launch at a very busy and poorly planned launch for the amount of traffic it supported.

After launching our boat we headed in the direction of the camp to show our boys where they stayed all weekend. We quickly discovered first hand what everyone keeps talking about what the busier lakes have to offer in the way of wake boarders and tubing boats. We were CLEARLY out numbered and what was supposed to be a pleasant family outing for kokanee turned into a “hold on or go swimming” educational experience. We even got to experience the “pyramid effect” of several larger wake boarding waves converging into a plateau of misery on the infamous “we are going to take on water” expression.

After clearly identifying the middle of the lake as an unpleasant location to wet a line, I brought us straight out in front of Ness Lake Bible Camp where I had calmly watched several fishing boats over the weekend in a bite my tongue observation. After all, we were first there for the family and not the kokanee.

What my fish finder showed us next was amazing. There were fish everywhere in the depths along the edges of the lake. They too were probably seeking solitude from the relentless wake boarding boats and their clearly identifiable tunes.

We started our second attempt troll and crept forward toward the school we found previously. Our starting line up was a pink hoochie with chartreuse smile blade combined with a Gibbs dog tail dodger and tipped with our now month old kokanee corn (we got one hit on this). We landed both our kokanee on a Mack’s kok-a-nut combined with a small Shasta sling blade.

A half hour had passed. Our time was up. We took a few photos to remember this lake by. (One can only take their lifejacket off for a brief second once you’ve timed the incoming army of waves to show off their new shirt from family camp). We were all starting to feel the affects of a long adventurous family camp weekend and the 30 degree sun. This, combined with what seemed to be a never ending supply of wake boarding boats was all we needed to pack it in and start our journey home.

We will be back one day to Ness Lake. Our timing will most likely be early in the morning or late at night when the lake is calm and the loons are singing.