Summer's Around the Corner... they say

It's been a long haul, but it appears (at least when you look at the calendar) that summer's just around the corner. This is a first for us since owning the land here where we are now that the garden is all in except for a few Watermelon plants we're looking for and a few more cabbage plants. The rest is in the ground. One year the garden was so wet that we didn't get it in until the 4th of July.

The last week has been like stuffing 8 hours of work a day into a 3 hour time span each day trying to get ready to go up north to the Hayward area for a week. I've been assured by Diane at the Chippewa Pines that I do not need to take my Ice Auger along to drill holes in the ice to fish, however, the fishing is about 2 weeks behind what it normally is when we go up there.

Keep tuned and if we're lucky we'll get some stuff up here relating to one of our most important weeks of the year if you care to share.

Happy Memorial Day and don't forget the meaning behind the Holiday - It's not all about grilling out with the family and friends and having a few drinks.

Opening of Our Fishing Season... May 3, 2009

This is the first time we've been fishing since October, 2008. A very long dry spell. Normally throughout the Winter we get out at least one time to try for some panfish.

Here Mona is taking the hook out of a Largemouth Bass that I had just netted for her. It was caught on my favorite Spinnerbait. When Fleet Farm gets the baits in I normally buy between 5 and 10 at a time. It seems to me that either Fleet is ordering a different model of that version or Northland Baits changed the way they make them. They seem to me to be made cheaper now and they don't provide the action I like.

As with all of the Bass we catch - this was a Catch and Release legal sized one caught on Shawano Lake. I'll try to catch 'em when he grows up more (Ha Ha). Actually, she caught three that day and I only had one miss.