Great Day!!!
Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 02:39PM
Yesterday, my doorbell rang at 8:00 am! The plans that were made the evening before brought my father to my front door. A day of fishing with Dad was about to begin!! We started out by heading to the local bait shop for a variety of grubs that were going to be the attactant for the bluegills and crappies we were chasing. On lake one, we arrived on the ice about 9:00 am. The first few holes were nothing worth bragging about. We had produced a few small guys in the bucket for the start of our future delicious meal. We kept plugging away and kept drilling more and more holes. Finally we found an area that consistantly produced fish and at around 11:00 am, we were heading back to my house with 10 crappies and 13 sunfish!! We ended up with some real dandies also, with plenty of smaller ones to fill the gaps with action!!
We cleaned our harvest and ate a small lunch and were headed out to another lake farther away in search of some monsters that we heard were biting! On this particular lake, the bite wasn't supposed to start until 4:00 pm. We arrived around 2:30 pm. We fished and fished and between the stories and laughs caught just a few little guys as we anxiously waited for the magic hour. Well soon it was 4:30 and the fish apparently didn't receive the same email that was in my inbox about when to start biting!! Around 5:00 the screens on our vex's lit up like christmas trees!! We were catching them as fast as we could get our lines down there....unfortunately they were averaging about 5 inches a piece!! Not the monsters we were barginning for. After catching about 50 of these little guys, and just as God started painting the horizon, i had another routine bite that suddenly pulled about 10 times harder and the aftermath was a nice half pound sunnie on the ice next to me!!
We had about 10 minutes of this fast action with "the big guys" and managed to ice 10 nice crappies to complete out our crappie limit for the day and added about 10 dandy bluegills!!
Did we have a fishing trip of a lifetime???? When it comes to catching tons of big fish, NO, not at all!! But when it comes to the laughs, fun times, and just experiencing the outdoors with the best father in the world, it was a day I will never forget!! It isn't always about the catching when it comes to fishing. It is more about experiencing Gods amazing creation and spending great times with the best family and friends anyone could ask for!! Thanks for the fun day Dad and thanks to all my friends for the many fishing and hunting excursions we have been on that you made great!!!
Sorry for not updating that much lately. I have not been fishing at all this winter. I have been saving literally every penny. Fortunately I am getting a roommate this week and will be provided with some rent money so when the ice leaves, I will be back in action!! Next target...GIANT open water spring walleyes on the Mississippi river!!!





