A HOT day on Tippy

That is an understatement, it was a blistering 90 degrees and what felt like 90% humidity. I drank over a gallon of water and only peed twice from sunup to sundown. I did however get to stretch a line or two. I only caught one white bass (no fish fry) but I did hook up on many smallish largemouth bass. I had a pretty good day nothing broke, and I got to get that wonderful fish stink on my hands.

They sure do fight hard and taste..... dare I say just as good as walleye.

Here's a couple bass I caught busting pads with a froggy.

Yeah they're pretty tiny, but it takes a super duper seriously awesome fisherman to catch 'em this big.

Last Thursday

I made the 2 hour trip to Lake Michigan and then boated out 12 miles to try and get the skunk out of the cooler. No luck, I trolled for 10 hours without even a bump, the only good news was I wasn't the only one not catching. One of the Charter Captains I know only landed 1 steelhead and nothing else. So I have been a little leery about shooting back up there this week. I really want to go but don't want to waste the time or gas to not box a fish. I took 2 pics while fishing last week, the first one of where I put in at and the second of Chicago.

I know you can't see anything.... that's because I'm 12 MILES OUT. The water was rocky all day and never really laid down. If the reports from the Lake aren't going to get any better I'll probably just go to Tippy again. At least if I go there I'll catch fish.

The Wednesday before the 4th of July

That's when I had to go fishing last week, due to the wind and rain. The morning went good, I fished Tippy to try and get some white bass for dinner on the 4th. I caught 1 early and was unable to hookup another until at least 4 hours later. Fortunately all the largemouths kept me busy until I found the Silvers. The lake was pretty calm except for the wind until around 11. That's when everyone woke up and started tearing up the water. I caught a couple more silvers and hung it up for the day, I can only get bounced around for so many hours before I'm done.

These guys made a nice addition to the 4th grub and man where they good.

2013 vacation

I just got back from my working vacation. I call it a working vacation cause everyone wanted me to work this year.
I went up to Rick's cabin on Rainy Lake and spent three day's catching fish. I also got to help take out, and put in a window, and level the pontoon lift.
I was casting off the dock for pike and managed to get my lure hung up on the neighbors' crib. So since the wind had been blowing into the bay for a couple days I went in and got it, the water was great.
Here's some pics from Rainy:

Biggest walleye 24"

coolest woodpecker

Biggest Pike 37"

Biggest spider-HUGE

We had fish for every meal but one, it was another great trip up North.
Thanks Rick

Then I went back home and went fishing with my cousin Corey in a one fish weigh in tournament. We each caught one and they were 18" Corey's  and 16" mine. Unfortunately we missed being in the money by 8 places. Oh well there's always next year, I would've had a pic but you wouldn't be able to see anything anyway. It was wet, cold and foggy the whole day, here's some pics of the fog in Duluth just to give you an idea.

 So as you can see it gets pretty foggy. These are actually clear compared to what we where fishing in.

After that I got to mow the lawn and solder Dad's solar panel for charging the boat batteries. Then we went to the shack to cut the lawn and the second field. The first problem was all the trees were gone. Apparently the decision was reached to cut the pines and buy the 40 behind the shack. It sure was bare, but the deer don't care I guess, judging by this one.

 Here's the rest of the shack pics:

 






Here's some before the cut pics:

Work aside we had a pretty fun day, we got to go wheeling, had lunch and just enjoyed the day.

I've got some video that will go here when I have time to make it

I really need to put the new addition pictures in here, my cousin just got this little guy and his name is Kenji

sorry about the pic but I got took it with my phone 

 Yes it's a hedgehog... I think she should've named him Sonic.

These next two pics are on my way home I took them just as I got into Wis.

Foggy, cool, rainy, and windy was the order of the day for this vacation. I got scratched, burnt, cut and found 18 wood ticks on my body.
Best vacation ever.
I had a great time, Thanks to everyone.

Turkey season has long been over

Well turkey season ended last month, but it has taken me this long to get the video done for this blog. So without further ado I'll let'cha watch the vid.

I have been fishing a couple times the first was at Hamilton Lake were I caught a dozen or so bass and this was the largest.

The next week I went to Lake Michigan and caught 2 and lost one at the boat, which has led me to change out all my trebles for single hooks. I'll let'cha know how that goes.

These are some nice sized coho for this time of year. Hope to get back soon and fill the cooler.

Next week I'll be goin' on vacation and doin' some fishin' when I go home. Hopefully it won't take as long to get the vid made so I can keep ya'll updated.