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.

Fishing May 13th

After watching the NASCAR race I went fishing.. only for an hour:



Today I only caught one Smallmouth Bass.

The CLOUDS below are why I stopped fishing after only an hour today :)




Hopefully this becomes the first real rain of the spring for us.

Fishing Opener Pics

Last year, I got shut out on fishing opener, but it was pouring rain all day. Today was sunny and about 60 degrees.

I only caught 3 fish BUT it's still a fun day.



I've only caught a Crappie at the St. Louis River one other time, this one hit on a Rapala Shad Rap soon as it hit the water.



The third fish was a small rock bass, not worth of any pictures.

Pictures From Last Fall

I cant' find the original post in my other blog of Random Thoughts so below find some pictures I took last fall before winter came :)






All of the pictures are from Fall 2006





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