I can’t believe I have not posted since the 4th of July! I’ve fished every day since then and have charters scheduled for the next 3 days! What fun!
Son Calvin, Terri and I fished Lac La Belle on Thursday afternoon, the day after the 4th and we ended up with 3 different species of fish… Terri caught a Walleye, I caught a small pike and Calvin caught a small mouth bass. Surprisingly the walleye was caught on a tube bait on the artificial reef.
The next day, Friday, I spent the morning on Lac La Belle again, this time with a dad from Madison and his two teen age boys. We had fair action, but landed only one small mouth bass and had several lost pike right at the boat. I also knocked off a second small mouth right at the boat as I tried to grab his lower lip… I should have taken out the net since he was one of very few fish near the boat.
Saturday brought us back on the Big Lake in pursuit of Lake Trout and Coho Salmon. Son Stanley had the honors of deck hand for the day with Tool and Die man Doug and nurse Carrie along with their two lovely daughters Amanda and Kaitlyn and son Dougie. I guess they lacked some sleep because all of the kids got a few zzzz’s on the water. It may have been the anti motion sickness meds that they didn’t need since it was so calm all morning.
At the first stop, we fished for about 1-1/2 hours with only one fish, even though we were marking a few… just couldn’t get them to bite.
After pulling lines we went out a few more miles and soon caught some fish, most in the smaller range of lbs, but dad, Doug had a bigger one on for a while before getting off on the way up. I wish we could have landed that one… the proverbial “BIG one that got away.”
I took quite a few pictures, but with an un-familiar camera, so I only ended up with a few picts.
Today, I went out in Lac La Belle myself for an hour or so and caught a pike, a crappie and a small mouth bass… 3 different species in a short time. The bass was under-size so I released right away, but took the other two home for pictures before releasing them at our dock.
More photos coming as soon as I get them off Darz’s camera.
This week’s weather looks good so I expect some good catches of lakers in the next 3 days at least. I’m still thinking about the young anglers tournament next Saturday with the boys.
Brian Helminen
