Favorite time?

[Bobby Bass]

With fishing just around the corner do you have a favorite time? I was just sitting here thinking about my favorite time. Since I am the camp cook I am first one up when we do our fishing trips. I really enjoy restarting the camp fire, the first flicker of flames. Coffee pot off to the side, just starting to smell and looking out over the lake and the feel and smell of that heavy over night mist leaving the shore and disappearing over the water. The quiet noise of kids starting to stir in their sleeping bags, a morning Loon call echoing across the lake. The sound of the zipper on the tent being opened and then that quiet, deep Good Morning....only thing better is being the last one up at night, tending the campfire, looking at a sky filled with stars, peepers singing away in the marsh and the crackling of the fire as it sends up little sparkles to meet their big brothers. 35 days left, what does it for you?

[JoeTC]

I like going out real early in the morning. On opener and the first few weeks of the season I usually make it on the water an hour or more before sunrise and I'm usually the only one out there for at least a half hour. I always start catching fish right away too. Nothing like hooking into a walleye right as you can first see. I usually don't even start the motor, I just push off my dock and troll out the the break. I watch all the other cabins start to light up and people beginning to get there boats warmed up and by the time they get out I already have 3 or 4 fish. The best is when I go out through some thick fog and I don't know where I am, I just have to relay on my electronics to stay along the weed line.

Joe

[The Grebe]

Late ice!

[dfv87]

Long day of fishing, Long time in the cleaning house, long time over the fryer and camp stove, (quick clean up) then sitting around the fire roasting the guys that didn't carry their share in the catching dept. But the best is being the last guy around the fire with a Captain/Coke or whatever watching the fire burn all the way down, you're so tired but the wind burn/sun burn on your face is starting to tighten and your back is sore but you cannot help but smile.

[ewirz]

Amen dfv!!! For me its all about the whole experience. I love the sound and feel of being on the water. If I had to pick one time....I think I'd have to say evening, about an hour before the sun goes down to a few hours after dark. Sitting in the boat at 11:45 the friday of opener is fun too, so much anticipation.

ERW

[Ihateriversnags]

Hey Bobby,

Are you some kind of a novelist or something? Every time I read your posts I go off into a trance and think about what I've read. Then I spend the next few hours dreaming about fishing and campfires and such and long for summer vacations to start. I especially enjoy reading about Lake IWANTTOBETHERE. Man that place sounds wonderful.

[Bobby Bass]

Actually I am a pretty bad writer, thank god for spell checker I enjoy spinning a yarn or two. I have been lucky enough to have a few friends that learn how to stop and smell the roses so to speak and I have been lucky enough to listen to there advice and do the same thing. If I have made you stop and remember something that you enjoyed and you take the time to enjoy it again then in my little way I am part of Lake Iwanttobethere. I will let you in on a secret, every story, every place on Lake Iwanttobethere does have a string of the truth to it, you just have to decide what it is! Have a good day

[Northlander]

I also like getting up in the early morning and restarting the fire and having a shot of coffee before starting up the boat. Heavy rain or severe cold may keep me in the hay a bit longer though. I also like the dusk time when the eyes turn on the fead bag.

As for time of year I love spring and fall. The rest of the summer aint bad either.

[PERCHJR]

Spring time eye's!!! Fishing in waders and catchin those females is the best in my book!!! But I have to admit Minn. Bass opener has been up there lately, on my favorites list!!!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FISHING!!!

[lars0926]

My favorite time is late Fall when there are no bugs and everything is quiet and dying or ready for hybernation. Warming myself up in front of the stove and getting all my cold weather gear on over the long underwear. Loading up the john boat and pushing off of the shore and hopping in. Then climbing to the back of the boat and taking my seat in front of the trolling motor. Then swearing so loud everything wakes up just because I forgot to put the plug in again. The boat is filling. With. Cold. Water. And I'm now forty feet from shore.

[mplspug]

Sunrise in the summer. There's that window where it seems all the fish go crazy. Otherwise in the colder seasons it's sunset.

[snowgoose]

A nice cool morning on the grain fields of Saskatchewan. The decoys are all set and the blinds are brushed. The sun is just starting to show signs of life. You can hear the ducks and geese in the distance waking up in the ponds that surround you. There is 15 minutes before you can shot. You have one last chance to look over your spread that you put out in the headlights. Then it's time for a cup of coffee and watch that beautiful sunrise in anticipation of the hunt to come.

Come on Fall

I'm ready