After our crazy adventure in the afternoon, Ken, George, and I headed to the three bays near Liz Lake portage. We started at the Southern most bay and worked our way North.
George opted for a propeller topwater and got a hit on his first cast. It was a little bass that shook itself [...]

Instead of spending our usual week up on the Gunflint Trail, we decided to do two four-day weekends this year. The first was on July 4th and our second was this past weekend. We drove up late Friday night, but I was too tired to get up Saturday morning to go fishing. [...]

After an abysmal first day and second morning, Ken and I headed to Walleye Alley in the evening of day 2 to try our luck. I remembered a small bay with lily pads at the end of the alley that felt promising.
We started down Walleye Alley and it was very windy. It was [...]

When I started writing the drafts for my posts about my trip, I had intended to do a post for each day. As I was reading over them, I realized they were BOR-ing. They were uninteresting because there was no action. I  would be bored reading them, so you’d be snoring [...]

Date: 8/21/2010
Time: 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Body of water: Poplar Lake
Location: Gunflint Trail, MN
Weather Conditions: sunny
We drove up to my in-laws’ cabin late Friday night to avoid traffic. We didn’t get in until 2am Friday night, so Saturday morning, I decided not to get up early to hit the water. Besides, I didn’t know if [...]

Date: 7/31/2010
Time: 7:30am – 11:00am
Body of water: Tiger Cat Flowage
Location: Hayward, MN
Weather Conditions: partly cloudy
After my initial success from the night before, I had high hopes the next morning. I woke up at 7:30am and couldn’t go back to sleep, so I decided to get up. My brother repaired my scum frog before [...]

Date: 6/6/2010
Time: 8:00-11:00am
Body of water: White Bear Lake
Location: White Bear Lake, MN
Weather Conditions: overcast, windy
My phone rang at 7am Sunday morning.
“Hello, ” I said groggily, knowing full well who was on the other end.
“Let’s go!”
It was Mark. Saturday, after our outing, I asked him if he was going out Sunday. He said to [...]

I haven’t been able to get out on the ice in the past few weeks, so I haven’t had any ice fishing stories to tell. However, in talking with my buddy, Dan, he recalled an amazing story that happened to him and one of his friends while ice fishing in Northern Minnesota several years [...]

Welcome to 2010!
The beginning of each year brings New Year’s resolutions. I’m not much for resolutions as they tend to become broken promises. However, goals are more realistic and give you something to strive for. Here are mine for 2010:

Fish 40 days out of the year (28 in 2009)
Have patience to try [...]

Thanx to my diligence in using FishSwami this year, I have a summary of my fishing excursions for 2009. Here are the results:
Days Fished: 28
Fish Caught: 29
Locations Fished: 7
Patterns Fished: 6
Most fish caught in one day: 3 on June 14th
Northern Pike: 10
Smallmouth Bass: 9
Largemouth Bass: 7
Walleye: 1
Muskie: 0
These probably aren’t very impressive numbers to [...]