Flames shoot out the exhaust on an amazing run. |
Current water Levels behind the house. |
I did make it on the river on Sunday night however because of the rain the water was up another 18 inches. The high water makes for traveling anywhere you want to go pretty easy however it does scatter the fish. My neighbor Tom Olson went with me but it was pretty slow. He caught a medium sized smallmouth while I haven't been doing very well at all in that department. At 7:00 we decided to anchor and again all we could catch were 6 inch catfish in the high water. Oh well, hopefully the rain will settle down somewhat. Personally I like it when the gage height is between 4.0 and 5.0. Unfortunately both seats in my Jon Boat broke so I ordered new ones to replace them. They were pretty bad. I have one other project going on with my boat, on the Ranger I have an HDS 9 mounted on the dash above my panel mount HDS12. My original idea was to use a Johnny Ray so I could move it between my Ranger and the Jon boat however it proved to be too heavy for the Johnny Ray that I bought. After a few ideas am going to try to mount just an HDS9 gimble to my dash using a nice 1/2" thick plastic piece then fashion it into an adaptor plate so I use the existing holes that I have already made. Luckily the Johnny Ray still works good in the jon boat so I should be ok, it just takes a little thought process to make sure it looks good.
After a season of strictly catch and release fishing on Mille Lacs this year, the calculations for hooking mortality have now exceeded the allowable totals on the State fisherman's side. Our illustrious Governor announce that we would not stop fishing but the Indian tribes called foul so starting September 6th it will be illegal to fish for walleyes again until a new quota is announced for December 1st...........what an unbelievable mess for sure. I promised myself I won't get political but this whole situation on Mille Lacs is ridiculous for sure. Anyway I am hoping to get out this weekend for one last trip for what it's worth, maybe try some deep water trolling with lead line or deep diving reef runners. It's always fun and the MTT event on Mille Lacs, that strategy proved to be very successful.
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have you ever heard anybody say.... " boy we sure had a lot of fish until that catch and release came along "....yikes...now they even want to take the chase away.
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