Enjoying ourselves at the Pier at Santa Monica Beach.
The bus ride from the Hotel in downtown L.A. to the beach took just over an hour. (I got the “Senior Discount”) to get to the Pier. It took over two hours to get back to the Hotel because of the traffic. Don’t think I’d like to have to deal with the traffic every day.It’s bad enough to drive through Shawano sometimes.
(All photos left to right) Mona took this photo of John jigging with a round jighead and minnow on the Barber Pole Reef. This is the last fish we need to go home with our limit of Walleye. Now we had to switch over to try to catch Northern Pike or Perch.
Mona checks the boat line to make sure it is secured properly so we don’t loose it. You can’t tell by the water in this photo but the wind is blowing pretty strong that day. Once the boat is secured Mona comes to the center of this small island. We assume it has a name but we named it “Moose Island” because we ate lunch there with some friends we were traveling with back in 1996. We found some fresh signs of Moose that he left behind. We have yet to see a life Moose up there after 5 trips to Ontario.
Mona is taking a break from fishing as we slowly motor around the Bay where the Lodge is located. Temple Bay Lodge as seen from Eagle Lake.
On our last day of fishing we had a dock hand take this photo before we took all of our gear up to the cabin. One of the meals we had for supper one evening. We actually had steak two night we were there.
The waitress caught this picture. We shared our table for meals with the same guests all week. There was a couple from the Wisconsin Rapids area and a couple of guys that got picked up in Appleton.
View from the end of the Bar going toward the office, store, and dining area. One of the walleye we brought home.
Mona poses with one of the walleyes she caught. This one appears to be a keeper. Mona measuring another fish on the board which shows us the slot sizes to keep.
John checks out Facebook in the Lodge on our laptop. Mona didn’t forget her books as she’s caught here reading while sitting on the porch of our cabin.
Sunset photo taken from the porch of our cabin. The dock area as seen from the balcony on the Lodge. Naturally our boat was on the far left side about as far as you could walk out.
Inside the cabin. Two rooms (bathroom in the back) was plenty when all of the meals are included with the trip. John holds up one of the Northern Pike we brought back.
This Northern Pike that Mona caught was just in the slot size that had to be returned to the water. The next photo she holds a walleye that didn’t get so lucky.
Mona was bartender here as she makes up a couple of Whisky Old Fashion Sours. Great touch before heading to the dining room for supper. One of our neighbors from the Milwaukee area took this photo of us on our front porch. (Why is my drink darker than hers?)
John pulls in a Walleye as the guide looks on John caught and released a Musky. It’s the first Musky we caught in 5 trips to Canada. Little guy was only about 13 inches long though.
Our guide caught here cleaning fish for shore lunch. The rest of the meal is already being cooked as he takes time out to do this. He has his secret egg and breading mixture that he coats the fish with before it goes in the frying pan.
The fish being cooked to a golden brown and finally dinner is served. A nice slab of onion tops off the bread as we served this buffet of food. There are some things that I didn’t have room on my plate for.
Mona finds a chair along the shoreline to eat her dinner. This little squirrel even got his share of the left-overs as the guide was packing up all his cooking materials. This little guy is stranded on an Island probably from winter so I’ll bet he enjoys it when people stop to visit him. Everything was gone when Mona and I went back the next day to use the bathroom there.
John caught and released a small Northern Pike midway through the week. The weather hasn’t been cooperating this year like it normally has. Between the rain and thunderstorms and wind – we’ve been spending time watching TV.
Small Northern Pike-released.
Mona and Brew as we spend a little extra time in the cabin because of the weather – We are fare weather fishermen.
Fishing is going to be limited for Mona with her arm in a sling, but that doesn’t mean she can’t catch anything.
This one is too small for the frying pan but we did get more. We ended up with 14 crappies today. Our size limit was 10 inches so we think we got over 4 meals for the two of us.
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| First of 3 small northen caught in Scott Lake |
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| Number 2 of 3 in the same place. |
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This guy has some scuffs on his skin from something larger than him. |
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| Pictured here is Brew. He is a fairly neat dog. Notice the napkin he uses after his treats. |
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| Brew and Mona |
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| Brewster and Mona again. |
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| This is the side of the cabin that faces the Flowage. Cottages 5 & 6. We've been trying to rent number 6 for the last 5 or six years now. |
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| Inside Cabin 6. Two bedrooms and enough room for us and our stuff. Real nice and cozy. |
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| Saturday morning Mona puts the last couple of small items in the van before we check the cabin to make sure we didn't forget something. (Still can't find the battery charger for the camera so we hope we didn't leave it there somewhere.) |
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| Last view is from the van in the previous photo looking towards the cabin and the Flowage. We had a lot of fun again this year. |
