Date: 7/24/2009
Time: 2:00-3:30pm
Body of water: Bearskin Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: strong wind from West, some clouds
Ken has an uncle that has a cabin on Bearskin Lake nearby. They have a lot of smallmouth bass there and his aunt catches nice size smallies right off their dock. Ken’s cousin was supposed to be at [...]
Date: 7/24/2009
Time: 9:30-11:30am
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: overcast and windy at first, but cleared out
Ken and I got a pass from working on the raised walkway to fulfill The Mission. We first needed to tour our bay for a line with a bobber that had broken off a cane pole that [...]
“Good morning, Minnestoa Angler,
“This is a picture of a 14″ smallmouth bass. It is needed for a dinner party at 4:30pm at a cabin on the Gunflint Trail. Earlier in the week, the family had secured three smallmouth bass, but consumed them in an event they called, “a fish fry,” so another one [...]
Species: Northern Pike
Size: 19″
Lure used: bubble gum super fluke
Date: 7/23/2009
Time: 8:00-10:00pm
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: overcast, no breeze
George had gone home earlier in the morning, so it was just Ken and I for the rest of the week. We decided it was time to go after the bass I missed the [...]
Date: 7/22/2009
Time: 8:30-10:00pm
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: clear
Later that night, as we were heading out, Ken asked if I wanted to go back for that bass I missed earlier in the evening. I thought it was too soon, so Ken, George, and I went around Young’s Island instead. That turned [...]
Species: Northern Pike
Size: 23″
Lure used: bubble gum super fluke
Date: 7/22/2009
Time: 5-6:15pm
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: clear with some clouds, thunderhead to the North
After a hard day’s work building a raised walkway for the cabin, we workers decided we deserved a pontoon ride. Ken, George, George’s wife, my kids, and I took [...]
Date: 7/22/2009
Time: 5:30-8:00am
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: some clouds, little bit of rain
Being as passionate about fishing as I am, I’ve never gotten up super early to go fishing. Mainly because I’m not a morning person. I’d much rather fish late into the night than at the break of dawn.
However, [...]
Species: Northern Pike
Size: 19″
Lure used: white pearl super fluke
Date: 7/21/2009
Time: 8:30-9:30pm
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: calm, slight breeze, clear with few clouds
Ken, George, and I hopped in the fishing boat and headed for the channel across the bay. We rounded an unnamed island and fished going West.
At West end of the [...]
Date: 7/21/2009
Time: 11:30am-2:00pm
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: overcast with light rain on and off
When Ken was out with the kids the night before, he stumbled upon a school of fish that numbered in the dozens. He said fish were appearing everywhere on the fishfinder. Ken, George, George’s wife, and I [...]
Date: 7/20/2009
Time: 8-10:00pm
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail
Weather Conditions: partly cloudy, wind from the South
The next night, Ken took my kids out on the pontoon and I took George and his wife out on the fishing boat. Since she was coming along, I thought I would get us some action and took them [...]
