What a brief but memorable day. Had to work this morning, so we all three drove separately to meet to hitch up the boat. Half an hour later P and I are wondering where K is - a half hour late. We call and he says "I'm just sitting here being bored waiting for 11:45am." and we say, "No, we said 10:45am!". So a little late starting but the fish didn't care. We had a limit in 30 minutes.

Fished 11:30am-2:30pm. Mostly sunny skies, 70 degrees and light wind. A couple of kayak peddle fishing boats already on the lake and some folks fishing from shore. Took off on the trout troll and K had a fish in under ten minutes. Then there was a double header and the guys had fish on or fish lost every few minutes. Me, I was a slow start again this week.....but that's okay.

After an hour and a half of trout troll we decided to find some shore shade and each lunch. But not before I boated a 17" largemouth. What a beauty and did it ever fight. Good net job K and cheering from P. A few minutes later I boated a 16" bass. Wowza. That one inhaled the entire lure and took some effort to get the hooks out. Luckily the lure stopped short of its gullet, but had some blood so I hurried to put it back in the water without a picture. Dang. After my two big fish, I couldn't get P and K to agree to stop fishing for lunch break as they wanted a lunker, too. P almost had one as it swirled on his lure and we could see it a little.

Got some sustenance in us and was back to casting and then finished with trolling. The twin eagles followed us all around the lake as we enjoyed hearing and seeing Canadian geese today too. The two odd things were first, a guy was fishing from shore and he was controlling a little green remote control boat. I suspicioned it's one of those that take your line out for you. We stayed way away from the shore, but darned if he didn't purposely run the boat right out in front and beyond us. I asked if he had a line on that? His accent made it difficult to understand him, but I then said, "yes, or no?" He said, "Yes" so I had to hang a hard starboard to not run over the underwater line. Kinda rude. But shortly after he must have caught a tiny trout jumping all around behind his automated boat. It was kinda cool to see in person as I'd only seen online before.

Then when we decided we were tired after two more doubles on, we headed for the launch ramp. It was the busiest we've seen in years. Three boats coming off, and two going on. The folks decided to visit rather than expediently put their stuff away, so I spent a twenty minutes going in circles and trying to stay upwind to be able to trailer the boat when it finally opened up. The couple with the peddle boats probably thought we were tactless people literally standing on top of them at the water's edge as they casually got their gear organized. It finally dawned on them that we might be wanting to trailer the boat. LOL.

Made a nearly straight on load and was out of the water in under two minutes. Then we told fish tales. Final count of catch and release:
P- 7 trout, 12 bass, 3 redears
K. - 9 trout, 4 bass, 2 redears
Me - 3 trout, 6 bass , 2 redears - and the two biggest fish to boot.

Toasting the Fish Gods.

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