Tuesday 6-2-14, 445PM - 845PM
Fishing pool 8 with co-worker Nate
river stage 8.7 and steady, dirty, 66 degrees
Caught: variety of smallish fish (gar, turtle, bluegills, walleye, white bass, perch, rock bass, sauger,small mouth bass).
It was an after work outing with a co worker that I have never fished with before. I could tell that Nate has done quite a lot of fishing and is quite good at it. Fishing was very slow and the size of the fish that were caught was small. We fished from right below the dam to approximately one half mile downstream.
The water is quite high and dirty. The majority of the fish came from the area right below the fishing float.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Sun 5-31-15 5:30PM - 11:15PM
Mississippi R. pool 7
Scott and myself flat head fishing
Caught bait (bluegills), 8 lb channel cat
It was my second flat head outing of the year and it was pretty much a dud. We caught the one channel in the Black R. and missed two other bites right at the end of the night just down from the Black.
The bluegills are finally starting to spawn on the lake, but you still have to do some searching to find them. The Iris plants are now blooming.
Mississippi R. pool 7
Scott and myself flat head fishing
Caught bait (bluegills), 8 lb channel cat
It was my second flat head outing of the year and it was pretty much a dud. We caught the one channel in the Black R. and missed two other bites right at the end of the night just down from the Black.
The bluegills are finally starting to spawn on the lake, but you still have to do some searching to find them. The Iris plants are now blooming.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
5-30-15 Myself
H20: 11', 66 degrees
Where: Mississippi R. (Lake Pepin)
Today I was fishing the Mississippi River at Lake Pepin. The water has gone up significantly on account of all the rain and it is around 11' at this time. It is still fairly clear though. This was the second time I have fished this area and I really like it. I had planned to target mostly pike, but after half a day with limited success, except for the 38 incher, I switched to casting the rocks with crank baits for bass and eyes. The walleye fishing was quite good. I kept four under 20" and released four other legals including a 25 and a 23. I also caught drum, small mouth and a couple of white bass.
H20: 11', 66 degrees
Where: Mississippi R. (Lake Pepin)
Today I was fishing the Mississippi River at Lake Pepin. The water has gone up significantly on account of all the rain and it is around 11' at this time. It is still fairly clear though. This was the second time I have fished this area and I really like it. I had planned to target mostly pike, but after half a day with limited success, except for the 38 incher, I switched to casting the rocks with crank baits for bass and eyes. The walleye fishing was quite good. I kept four under 20" and released four other legals including a 25 and a 23. I also caught drum, small mouth and a couple of white bass.
Sept. 2014 through May 2015
It has been a long, long time since I have updated my blog. Sometimes you just need a break from things! Well here it goes I will try to update with pics and a few descripetive words. After bear hunting with the Panks the next big adventure was elk hunting with Jeremy. We hunted an area called the Fort Peck Resevoir. It took us two years to draw a tag for this area. The hunting was superb and the fishing was not too bad either. It was a rather remote area which consisted of a gravel road the last fifty miles and a four mile boat ride to our hunting area. The elk hunting was great, we saw lots of elk and Jeremy harvested a very nice 6X6. He had spotted the elk about 8 AM and watched it be down, then he sat beside lone pine out in the middle of a open patch until it got up around 6 PM. He then made his stalk and ambushed it. He made a perfect sixty yard shot and watched the animal fall over. Oh, the mosquitoes here were horrible, if you don't like them, if you can't tolerate them I would not suggest this hunt.
Next on my major items was a new addition to the family. I purchased a stared female beagle from a guy I know in Tomah. Her name was Echo, but we changed it to Zeta. She was a little over a year old and was started chasing rabbits. She is a very affectionate dog, and she does real well with the bunny hunting. I hunted a lot with her and Roxy and bagged 30 plus rabbits and hares. She does have a very hoarse voice and we call it her smokers voice.
Next on the list was bowhunting at the cabin for a week with Tupper. The deer were very scarce and neither of us even got a shot at a deer. I did do lots of exploring with my new trail motorcycle which was a lot of fun.
Next up was the gun deer season. I hunted with Jake, Mark Sr., Mark Jr., Cole Tupper, and also with Jakes' father in law Donny. I was able to bag a decent 8 pointer and a fork horn. The eight I tracked and stalked the first day in the newly fallen snow. The fork horn came on a drive we did during the week. Cole's deer came from the same area I shot mine. I had lost my hat earlier in the day while trailing the buck I shot so in the afternoon I decided to go look for it. Cole was back at the cabin looking bored, so I asked him to join me. we never did find the had, but about the last twenty minutes we sat on a fallen log overlooking and area that I had come across earlier in the day while tracking the buck. Just about closing time the six pointer walked into view and Cole made a good shot on it.
I hardly ice fished at all this year, I think I went out four times with very limited success. Two of those times were for walleyes and I never caught a walleye or sauger.
Finally we had the spring fishing season. It was an okay season, but nothing to spectacular. The water was extremely low for spring time. The bass and pike bite was not as good as it normally is. The Nelson bite in particular was rather disappointing as far as quantity and size of the fish.
Well that was a brief recap of the eight to nine months.
It has been a long, long time since I have updated my blog. Sometimes you just need a break from things! Well here it goes I will try to update with pics and a few descripetive words. After bear hunting with the Panks the next big adventure was elk hunting with Jeremy. We hunted an area called the Fort Peck Resevoir. It took us two years to draw a tag for this area. The hunting was superb and the fishing was not too bad either. It was a rather remote area which consisted of a gravel road the last fifty miles and a four mile boat ride to our hunting area. The elk hunting was great, we saw lots of elk and Jeremy harvested a very nice 6X6. He had spotted the elk about 8 AM and watched it be down, then he sat beside lone pine out in the middle of a open patch until it got up around 6 PM. He then made his stalk and ambushed it. He made a perfect sixty yard shot and watched the animal fall over. Oh, the mosquitoes here were horrible, if you don't like them, if you can't tolerate them I would not suggest this hunt.
Next on my major items was a new addition to the family. I purchased a stared female beagle from a guy I know in Tomah. Her name was Echo, but we changed it to Zeta. She was a little over a year old and was started chasing rabbits. She is a very affectionate dog, and she does real well with the bunny hunting. I hunted a lot with her and Roxy and bagged 30 plus rabbits and hares. She does have a very hoarse voice and we call it her smokers voice.
Next on the list was bowhunting at the cabin for a week with Tupper. The deer were very scarce and neither of us even got a shot at a deer. I did do lots of exploring with my new trail motorcycle which was a lot of fun.
Next up was the gun deer season. I hunted with Jake, Mark Sr., Mark Jr., Cole Tupper, and also with Jakes' father in law Donny. I was able to bag a decent 8 pointer and a fork horn. The eight I tracked and stalked the first day in the newly fallen snow. The fork horn came on a drive we did during the week. Cole's deer came from the same area I shot mine. I had lost my hat earlier in the day while trailing the buck I shot so in the afternoon I decided to go look for it. Cole was back at the cabin looking bored, so I asked him to join me. we never did find the had, but about the last twenty minutes we sat on a fallen log overlooking and area that I had come across earlier in the day while tracking the buck. Just about closing time the six pointer walked into view and Cole made a good shot on it.
I hardly ice fished at all this year, I think I went out four times with very limited success. Two of those times were for walleyes and I never caught a walleye or sauger.
Finally we had the spring fishing season. It was an okay season, but nothing to spectacular. The water was extremely low for spring time. The bass and pike bite was not as good as it normally is. The Nelson bite in particular was rather disappointing as far as quantity and size of the fish.
Well that was a brief recap of the eight to nine months.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
9-5-14 Fri
9-5-14 Fri. Fishing Bear lake with Jeremy, Colton, Eon and myself 6-8PM
Weather: 66°, calm, clear
Where: Bear lake
Caught: Colton: 21" pike
Comments:
I took Jeremy and his two boys out fishing tonight. The only reels and poles I had were bait casters, so lessons were in order before we hit the water. We started out with a few practice casts in the cabin yard, then we move to the lake.
We did have a few backlashes, but the boys did real well for their first experience with bait casters. Colton was the only one to catch a fish, but Eon and I had a strike or two.
Observations:
The lake water is dark and very high. The wild rice is completely around the lake but it is not ripe.
Weather: 66°, calm, clear
Where: Bear lake
Caught: Colton: 21" pike
Comments:
I took Jeremy and his two boys out fishing tonight. The only reels and poles I had were bait casters, so lessons were in order before we hit the water. We started out with a few practice casts in the cabin yard, then we move to the lake.
We did have a few backlashes, but the boys did real well for their first experience with bait casters. Colton was the only one to catch a fish, but Eon and I had a strike or two.
Observations:
The lake water is dark and very high. The wild rice is completely around the lake but it is not ripe.
9-4-14 Thr
9-4-14 Thr. myself, bear hunting Moose Junction 4-7PM
Weather: 70°, calm, humid
Where: About one mile in on Fall road
Bagged: 229 male black bear
Comments:
I could not decide where to hunt tonight, but I did finally settle on Fall road. The wind was out of the right direction or there was no wind most of the time. I was also afraid there would be more human activity in the vicinity to this bait tomorrow, so both of these factors were the overriding reason I hunted this spot tonight.
I was in the tree and ready to hunt shortly after 4PM. About 6:10PM I heard a bear behind me and saw it several minutes later. The bear was very nervous and came to the back side of the tree that I was perched in. It laid right below me for about a minute while trying to catch a scent of the intruder in the tree. The bear got up shortly after lying down and circled around to the front side of the bait and hung up about ten yards from the bait.
The bear finally got within a few feet of the bait, but still would not commit. It would sit down and then stand up. This happened several time, with it continuously trying to either catch a warning or an assurance scent.
Finally around 6:30PM the bear came to the bait and started eating. It took another few minutes for the bear to relax and give me the opportunity for a lethal shot. I was about twenty yards away and about fifteen feet up in a tree from the bear. I shot the bear perfectly in the chest as he was extending out his closest front leg to paw at the bait . The arrow passed completely through and I could actually see blood, fat and air escape through the two wounds.
The bear bolted off and I could hear it stop about fifteen yards away. I heard labored breathing and gurgling for about fifteen seconds. Then came the death moans, or I should say they were more like death wails. There was probably close to ten series of these wails. It was really quite sad. I was both elated and sad. Elated because I knew the bear was no longer alive and the recovery would be simple. But it was also quite sad to listen to this beautiful, majestic animal announce to all living things within hearing distance that its life was over!
Jeremy's son Eon also got his bear tonight. He got it behind the barn around 7PM and it weighed an impressive 269 lbs.
Observations:
The area is quite saturated with all the recent rains. The path back to the cabin is quite rutted and wet. All five of the baits have been getting cleaned out daily. I believe baiting for the past four consecutive days before the opening of the season really made a difference.
Weather: 70°, calm, humid
Where: About one mile in on Fall road
Bagged: 229 male black bear
Comments:
I could not decide where to hunt tonight, but I did finally settle on Fall road. The wind was out of the right direction or there was no wind most of the time. I was also afraid there would be more human activity in the vicinity to this bait tomorrow, so both of these factors were the overriding reason I hunted this spot tonight.
I was in the tree and ready to hunt shortly after 4PM. About 6:10PM I heard a bear behind me and saw it several minutes later. The bear was very nervous and came to the back side of the tree that I was perched in. It laid right below me for about a minute while trying to catch a scent of the intruder in the tree. The bear got up shortly after lying down and circled around to the front side of the bait and hung up about ten yards from the bait.
The bear finally got within a few feet of the bait, but still would not commit. It would sit down and then stand up. This happened several time, with it continuously trying to either catch a warning or an assurance scent.
Finally around 6:30PM the bear came to the bait and started eating. It took another few minutes for the bear to relax and give me the opportunity for a lethal shot. I was about twenty yards away and about fifteen feet up in a tree from the bear. I shot the bear perfectly in the chest as he was extending out his closest front leg to paw at the bait . The arrow passed completely through and I could actually see blood, fat and air escape through the two wounds.
The bear bolted off and I could hear it stop about fifteen yards away. I heard labored breathing and gurgling for about fifteen seconds. Then came the death moans, or I should say they were more like death wails. There was probably close to ten series of these wails. It was really quite sad. I was both elated and sad. Elated because I knew the bear was no longer alive and the recovery would be simple. But it was also quite sad to listen to this beautiful, majestic animal announce to all living things within hearing distance that its life was over!
Jeremy's son Eon also got his bear tonight. He got it behind the barn around 7PM and it weighed an impressive 269 lbs.
Observations:
The area is quite saturated with all the recent rains. The path back to the cabin is quite rutted and wet. All five of the baits have been getting cleaned out daily. I believe baiting for the past four consecutive days before the opening of the season really made a difference.
9-3-14 Wed
9-3-14 Wed myself, bear hunting Moose Junction about one mile south of cabin. 4-5PM.
Weather: 70°, calm, started raining hard about 5PM
Where: About one mile south of the cabin off the logging road
Bagged: nothing
Comments:
It was the first day of bear hunting and when I left for the woods and I was pretty certain I would not be getting a full evening hunt in. I was right; after about an hour the rain started falling quite hard and I left the stand for the comforts of the cabin and a mojito alcoholic drink.
Observations:
It is very wet in the woods. The mosquitoes are present but not unbearable.
Weather: 70°, calm, started raining hard about 5PM
Where: About one mile south of the cabin off the logging road
Bagged: nothing
Comments:
It was the first day of bear hunting and when I left for the woods and I was pretty certain I would not be getting a full evening hunt in. I was right; after about an hour the rain started falling quite hard and I left the stand for the comforts of the cabin and a mojito alcoholic drink.
Observations:
It is very wet in the woods. The mosquitoes are present but not unbearable.
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