Saturday night

Everyone had a relatively quiet evening tonight -- griffin, Steve, and Jamie almost were skunked, save for Jamie's northern and griffins smallmouth. Gary, Danny, and Gary had luck with some smaller walleye, and Shaun and his friend Jeff reportedly boated a 23" northern. (confirmation pending) it was an overall quiet end to an otherwise great weekend of fishing and weather.

Saturday dinner: fish boil!

Fire's cracklin, and most of us took the afternoon off for a little R&R before the final push tonight.

Saturday morning...

All is quiet. Another beautiful day, but unfortunately the fishing has finally slowed down a bit. Roger and nick both left this morning, leaving our crew at 8 men now. Griff and Jamie slept in, and Gary/Shaun/Danny and nick/steve/Andy went out early, and we traded nick for JR mid-morning so nick could leave. We fished the humps just south of the north channel with only a few small walleye to brag about, and the Gary Romanowich family boat raked up perch in bass bay, but also had little else worth gloating over.

Winds have picked up and conditions are getting tougher. Shaun and I are getting ready to make a minnow run in preparation for tonight; Andy is planning on leaving this afternoon, and I'm planning on leaving after fishing tonight. Currently, we're all stuffed from JR's famous omelets for lunch.

Friday night leader board

Friday night

Rather slow night, but beautiful, perfect conditions. I fished in jeans and t-shirt, which was luckily comfortable enough since I forgot to take a sweatshirt out. Newcomer Danny was star of the night, with a decent northern, a 17" smallmouth bass that jumped completely out of the water, and a weekend-leading 19" walleye. Colemante added a 15" walleye and Shaun boated a 16"er.

We settled into a campfire to close out the evening. Although we're all sunburned, we're looking forward to another nice weather day on Saturday.

10 guys in one cabin

And everyone smells fishy except for Danny, who just got here. For the first time ever, we have 10 guys on the trip at one time. Tonight for venison dinner, we had to eat in two shifts. Shaun grilled the steaks, Andy and roger enjoyed a beer on the porch, and a few of us ate early so we could get a head start on tonight's fishing effort.

The weather has been perfect today, if not just a little too windy. 80s and sun! We're all rocking some sunburn.

Friday afternoon...perfect weather!

But not a whole lot doing as for fish. Anytime I can rock sandals in the boat in may, it's a good day.

Also, I found a 3-chambered peanut, which usually also makes for epic afternoons.

Friday morning

Most arose early today; nick took a boat out solo at 6:30 and returned from needle point with reports of nonstop northern action all morning, including a 24", 25", and 26" northern. Everyone else reported catching fish consistently, but none of too great a size.

We enjoyed a shore lunch of northern, walleye, and perch.

Thursday night

Evening fishing didn't produce as much as this afternoon, but every boat still brought in a few. Griffin and Jamie boated a few crappie and walleye; Roger boated a 23" musky; steve pulled in another "biggest walleye of the trip so far," upping the ante from 16" this afternoon to 18.5".

We had a delicious dinner of turkey, potatoes, stuffing and green beans...a great way to end the evening. The last boat (JR, Gary, and Shaun) didn't make it in until dark, close to 9!

The weather today was spotty, giving us rain during most of the afternoon (which we think may have made for the great fishing in the afternoon) and sporadic light showers through the early evening. Thank goodness I've finally got decent rain clothes! Most of us stayed dry.

By 10, most of us are feeling pretty tired and will head to bed soon to hit the lake again early tomorrow morning.

Thursday afternoon

Decent luck had by all Thursday afternoon. Jim, Gary, and Shaun had decent luck with a few nice walleye and northern, and nick, Andy, steve, and roger slayed walleye and northern for 2 hours in bass bay! It was a productive afternoon.

Polished up for the next sucker...