Lots of snow

We've got a bunch of snow this year and by the time tonight (sunday the 23rd) ends we'll have about 12 more inches within 2 days. Hopefully I can get out and finally add some new photos to this blog... :) We'll see though, as I've been really busy since November.

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Box Elder Bugs

The Box Elder Bug seems to produce in the thousands, as in piles of them on the sidewalks much of the summer, I neglected to photograph those piles of young but I should have!

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I hate these damn bugs, though they dont' cause any problems other than the annoyance of them being there.

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A Few Fishing Pictures

The following are a few St. Louis River pictures from the past couple days. This is one of the best times to fish, as well as take fall pictures. The non fishing picture is an early fall colors picture, of the same area just farther back of a picture I took last fall.







This Northern Pike is the first Northern I've caught in a while, with the shallow water I'm not sure where they've all gone hiding to ;)

Finally new pictures! Fishing and Squirrel

It's been a while again since there have been any new pictures posted, but I've finally got some :) The first two are Smallmouth Bass caught today, and the other 3 are this freaky squirrel that's been screaming for a few days.. almost like it's in heat.

Short post

This is just a short post with 2 pictures of some clouds the other night before dark. This looked like it was going to open up and pour on us but it really didn't rain at all.




About 3 am we got a lot of lightning and thunder but still it really didn't do much in the way of rain.

Boredom on a Sunday afternoon

To prove just how really boring it's been this summer, I actually went out and took pictures of the bunny that's been coming into the yard just about every day.





This bunny actually got into the vegetable garden one day and when I went to let it out it was trying to run from me and kept bouncing off the fencing like a trampoline.

No posts lately

There haven't been any real fishing photos posts lately.. the river here is really shallow and the fish aren't biting so it's been hard to really catch anything at all, let alone take pictures of what yer not cathing ;)

This weekend the camera will go with me to the river so we'll see how it goes.

Fishing Pics June 23rd

Yes, I know it's been 2 weeks since I've posted any fishing pictures, but the fishing has STUNK since about June 5th, when I last posted to THIS blog.


This 13 inch smallmouth was caught on a Texas Rigged Gulp Floating Crawler. I really like the floating crawler with a 1/8 oz weight texas rigged. It falls slow and stands vertical in the water.



THIS one is caught on a 6 inch jerkbait, I don't remember the brand bait but it really hasn't caught any really large fish, just these 10-12 inch smallies



THIS guy fell off the Reed Runner spinner bait I threw soon as I lifted it out of the water. The camera was right there next to me so I just clicked then let the fish go back to hopefully grow larger.

I caught a couple other small smallmouth bass, but when I say small in THIS case, I mean around 7 inches.

Fish, storm, more June 7th

I went down to the river before the storm, it's one of my favorite times to fish, besides the fishing there's always some great pictures of the clouds/storm rolling in. There's also a couple pictures from the EVENING of June 5th, I went out again after the earlier June 5 post. This will be a LOT of pictures:





The first 3 pictures were 'leftover' from June 5th (Tuesday). The Trains are common in Northern Minnesota, BNSF comes through town a lot.



















The clouds came in on the storm from the previous post with the weather channel's storm warning.. you can see the marble size hail that we got int he first round about an hour at at 3:25 PM. They forecast golfball or baseball sized hail so I hope it stays farther south!

Weather Forecast Today the 7th

Holy crap.. this is the first time I've ever seen a forecast like this picture from the weather channel.

June 5th Fishing Pictures

I ended up sorta 'hiking' to a pool of the river, where this time of year you can catch a variety of fish.. today I caught 1 Northern, 2 Smallmouth Bass, and 1 Crappie. See them below








The last photo, of the sky.. I actually took before catching the 4 fish. I don't really know why but I like pictures of the clouds and stuff like that.

June 1st Fishing Pictures

I got out today for the first time in a few days.. and caught a a few smaller Northern Pike and one 24 inch Pike also. The GEESE have finally brought their young out onto the water so there's a few pictures of them also!

First the GEESE pictures:






The baby geese are already getting large and getting rid of the fuzz they're born with.




Both Pike were caught on Rapala Shad Rap after they were following but missing a gold colored "Silver Minnow" weedless spoon. I caught a couple other really small pike but they really weren't any bigger than the little tiny one in the first picture.

Memorial Day Weekend

It's Memorial Day and I got a few fish pictures from the Holiday.


The river was totally calm and glassy Sunday early evening.


This is one of the regular size Rock Bass from the river.




Smallmouth Bass from Sunday :)


This one's a 20 inch Northern Pike I caught this evening.

The Northern was the only thing I caught in 2 hours of fishing today (Memorial Day).

I went to the Duluth Memorial Day parade etc but forgot to charge my camera batteries ;) oooooooops! :)

Fishing Today, before the rain came

I got down to the river about 3:15 and it's 4:22 now.. so yes, it started raining, hard enough for me to stop and come home. Caught 4 fish, 2 with pictures below :) All caught from the shore of the St. Louis River.


The first is a 28-30 inch Northern Pike. This was following my spinner bait (see the next picture) to the shore twice so I crabbed my other rod/reel and threw a Rapala Shad Rap. After 5 or so casts (2 of which I saw the Pike follow) I hooked him on the 6th cast.


This other picture is a 15 inch Smallmouth Bass caught on a Strike King Pro Model with Indiana or Colorado blade (they always look the same really.)

While I was removing the lure from the Northern Pike, it decided to start raining so here I am.

WoW! people do read blogs

Just a short post thanking those who might come here every day and read.. I've now had at least 3 (i know that's not huge numbers) people read the entries every day since May 11th. The weather's been cold and rainy so I haven't been out with the camera or the fishing pole in a few days. Wednesday should be stormy so we'll see if I get to go fishing or not :) If the storm is large maybe I'll get some cloud shots

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No fishing today ;)

I was going to go fishing today but decided I'd just look around by the river as some storm clouds come in instead.




Trying out a few settings on Microsoft Digital Image Editor 2006 also so I want to see how the pictures look online.

Two additions.. no pictures though.. Duluth got some really large HAIL.. like golf and tennis ball size.. the clouds I took pictures of went AROUND us and hit north of Duluth and into Canal Park.. we got lucky..

The other addition is.. I ended up goin fishing tonight cause the weather here changed.. the wind changed to a lot less gusting so I went and caught 1 Northern Pike and 1 Smallmouth Bass.