Stupid God $%#$ weather...

[RuKiddingMe]

I woke up this morning 4:00 am all pumped to get out fishing on a local lake, and all I see in the air is lightning and some slow and I mean slow moving t'storms hanging over the metro. Here it is 10 to 6 and I should be on the water making my first cast of the day. Doesn't look like it's going to let up anytime soon and I may as well go back to bed, only problem is the 6 cups of coffee I've had waiting for it to blow over... haha

RU

[Random guy]

Sounds familar, I actually cleaned house this morning...thats sad.

[buzzsaw]

I was up early for the same reason and I've done more of what Jon did, clean house! Projects... put up shelving in shed, threw out alot of items I've been pack ratting for some time. All in all some of us probably needed a day like today.

[Random guy]

Still home doing projects, come hell or high water I'm hitting the Big Pond tommorrow.

[RuKiddingMe]

I ended up spending the morningwith my little boy and let mom sleep in, man was she happy, and a happy mom makes for a happy dad... haha

Afternoon brought a fantasy football draft and visiting family.

Just as good a day if you ask me.

RU

[RuKiddingMe]

Round 2, looks like it's a go this morning.

RU

[Random guy]

Traveled North to Mille Lacs, left home at 2AM and put in on the South side and kept finding myself farther and farther North as the day went on.

MY Report: Seen some pretty birds, talked to the warden, got wet from the waves, seen some more pretty birds, burnt half a tank of gold I mean fuel,even tried trolling for about eight minutes before I got bored with that, seen some more pretty birds on the way back to the landing. I think the fish went on strike or not gonna strike.

[Steve Foss]

We were up on Beltrami north of Bemidji at the family cabin and the wind blew like a tornado almost the whole weekend.

And, though B's not a native musky lake, someone planted some a coupla years ago (I caught a 5 lber last summer, and the DNR has gotten reports of 40-inch plus fish there), and we had a musky encounter this weekend.

Mrs. Catfish was using spinning tackle and a small deep-diver after evening bass and walleyes on a spot where the reeds come to a point and big rocks crop up just before the steep break drops into deep water. Not much weed there, and it's not a well known spot because there's no indication from the shore that there's an underwater point.

It was after sunset but before dark, and the wind had finally dropped, so the water was pretty calm.

Her lure fouled, and wobbled back and forth enticingly as she cranked it in to unfoul it. Of course, a very large fish made a swipe at it, and the wallow was bathtub sized. She slowed it down and twitched it and the fish came back, missed, and then came back and missed again. There are big pike on this lake, but the back of this fish, which I saw the third time it tried, was a silvery bluish gray. Definitely a musky.

So I picked up the 7-foot musky rod spooled with 65-lb no-stretch and rigged with a small Reef Hawg (I keep one of these handy anytime we're on a big pike or musky lake), and proceeded to cast all over the place. Mrs. Catfish wraps the line around the deep-diver on purpose to foul it and keeps casting that way. Then I pick up a smaller baitcaster and start walking the dog with a bass lure.

You guessed it. Darn fish never showed its face again. Kind of glad it didn't hit on the 8-lb line spinning rig. Would have been an adventure, but probably would have broken the line and swam away with a lure hanging in its mouth. A good thing to avoid whenever possible, for lots of reasons.