Fish Catching Travel
We are here. After days of preparation, hundreds of bucks, the boat is in the water, it is 10 pm, and we are getting ready to eat. The drive ended up being 27 hours, tough. And of course when we got close it was over an hour to get across the border. Of course that is not surprising as it is Friday evening and the folks who work in the US were heading home, and hundreds, and I do mean hundreds of boats were waiting to cross. We finally crossed at International Falls and headed to Nestor Falls about 60 miles away.
Muskie Bay Resort is on Crow Lake. Crow Lake is known for muskie and smallmouth. and talking to a couple of guys who have been fishing it looks like the fishing is pretty good. Also the lake trout fishing is on, and that will be a real bonus. And right down the road, a couple of minutes away, is Lake of the Woods. 65,000 mile of shoreline and 15000 islands will give us all we can want for the next 2 weeks.
We are also planning on exploring other lakes in the area, and will just play it by ear. The water temp, 62 in the cove and 54 on the main lake, is about 10 degrees colder than last trip 2 years ago. We went out for about 45 minutes and just fished a small cove right around the corner, and Shoedog caught a nice smallmouth on a jerk bait. With the water temp like it is it should be the bait of choice, but as usual we will let the fish tell us what to do.
Clyde and John will be here from Arkansas around noon tomorrow, and the serious games will begin. Of course it gets light at 5:15 and stays that way until 9:30 so there will be all the fishing we could ever want.
The wireless is working great unlike last trip and I promise to post pictures and at least a little story every day. We are so excited with visions of big fish dancing in our head it will be tough to sleep no matter how tired we are. So please join us on this adventure, it has all the makings of an epic trip. Thanks for reading my stuff, I appreciate it.
Good Luck and Tight Lines
