Gone Fishing!

Ok, I'm not really gone fishing, since it's now almost 11:30 pm but a couple pictures follow.. first up another Rock Bass photo that was taken a few days ago...then a real nice Smallmouth that I caught and released today.




The final picture of this post is an interesting one.. I've never seen a baby turtle like ya see on Animal Planet .. swimming to wherever it's going.. but today I did.. this thing wasn't any bigger than a 50 cent piece...I'm pretty sure it ended up as fish food being alone in the water, but when I saw it it was alive and swimming.

Three Hours of Fishing, 2 Fish, Definitely Worth it.

I spent 3 hours this afternoon/early-evening fishing... I had no luck until back-tracking to the car .....



We had a LOT of wind from the east today and I decided to cast a Strike King Spinner Bait white skirt, white willow leaf/Colorado blade combination along a bridge/overpass that people ride 4-wheelers on. The 30-inch or so Pike is the biggest one I've caught in probably three years.

I caught a much smaller pike near the car but that one wasn't worth a photograph.




This smallmouth I caught yesterday and quickly snapped the picture before releasing it since it wasn't much size and not the season yet.

Park Point Photo, Taken From Mesaba Avenue

I was coming down the Mesaba Avenue Hill, from Cental Entrance and got a red light, and couldn't pass up this photo op of Park Point, and Downtown Duluth, you see the Holiday Inn in the foreground and the Lift Bridge leading to the long Park Point strip.

Canadian Snowbirds in Duluth

Headed to Duluth to watch the Canadian Snowbirds give a 35 minute airshow, as advertisement for the Duluth Air Show in July. Without a good telephoto lens, I ended up with a few good pictures but someday I'll go the expensive route and get a really good camera capable of extraordinary pictures. For now my 12 Megapixel Kodak Easyshare is perfect for what I usually use it for.

The Canadian Snowbirds aren't nearly as loud as I expected, and incredible maneuverable having only seen the larger jets at the Air Show the one year I attended.







As always, CLICK on the photos to view them in larger size.

When in Duluth, with a camera, a person tends to take pictures of the Aerial Lift Bridge, even though I've taken enough of them in the past, here's 2 more:




One thing I'd never seen before, is a mini 'Statue of Liberty' which is hidden in a courtyard next to the DECC Auditorium. According to the plaque, it was placed there in 1976, the American Bi-Centennial.




On the way home I stopped at the river to fish for a bit....



I caught that small St. Louis River Northern Pike, and a nice Smallmouth Bass, but Bass season doesn't start for a week or two, so they have to be released immediately so no photos of that one.

And finally... the end up the day, the sunset....

Cloquet Water Tower

I haven't done much picture taking but today I got one picture I decided to post.. of the Cloquet city symbol/logo on the water tower:



It's not really an interesting picture or anything but there it is.