Fish Catching Travel

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Today is the reason we stay two weeks, the fishing is really picking up.  Both boats scored today and the numbers were way up.

We headed up to Nestor Falls, the muskie capital of the world.  When we got ready to take off it was foggy, I mean ugly.  So what should have been a half hour ride turned into an hour.  Shoedog and I took it real slow as we worked our way up Lake of the Woods, into Yellowgirl Bay and to the entrance  to Bear Bay.

The entrance.  Just idle over a couple of 2 foot shoals and you are there.

They were already there and had caught some smallmouth and a few pike.  Clyde caught a real big smallmouth on a popper.  We started in the small lake on the way in and the pike and bass were smacking the snot out of spinner bait and buzzbait.

One of the 8 or so largemouth we caught today.

The pike and largemouth were in the grass, most of them in about 5 foot of water.  They were smacking those baits hard enough I actually had a big pike jerk the rods out of my hands.  Luckily I managed to catch it.  That bite lasted all morning.

I even got in on the action.

The rest of the day we hunted and pecked catching more pike and smallmouth.  Grub was the choice for the smallies but we never found that big one.

A nice Lake of the Woods smallmouth.

Clyde, John, and Jim went walleye fishing and laid the smack down on them.  They limited and John put one over 7lbs in the boat.  They were back trolling mightcrawlers on bottom bouncers and found them in most of the places they fished.  They are on Sunday nights menu.  We just point hopped and finally about 7 called it a day.

Shoedog with one toothy critter.

He was skinny but long, but boy did he knocked the stuffing out of it.

For our day it was an easy 40 fish, those guys easily topped that, probably 60 or more.  The fish have started to bite and it is looking big time up.  Shoedog and I just wanted to take a day off from muskie fishing and just go catch some fish.

John with a big walleye, the kind you come up here to catch.

Clyde continues to wear out the lake trout.

We are having a really good time.  It is up at 5 -6 and fishing until 7 or 8.  By time the fish are cleaned, supper made and eaten, it is 10:30.  As I type this the boys are whining like a bunch of girls.  (No offense to girls.)  Our hands ache, our backs ache, we are all wobbly and feel like we are still on the water.  It does no get any better than this.  And we have 6 more days to go and the fish are biting better everyday.  They will be leaving Tuesday so we will continue to fish the same areas with them.  Then the serious muskie hunt begins.  To my lovely understanding wife, I am coming home soon, really.  I am more than due.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines