July - Where the rubber meets the road

[Windy City Walleye Hunter]

This year I am going to change things up. Year after year we always tried to fill all our tickets and bring back a ton of fillets, mostly walleye and perch. This year I am not as interested in quantity, but going after quality. I am targeting a day of chasing big walleye, a day for chasing muskie and a day for chasing perch. The next two days will be whatever was hitting best the previous days. I still have a freezer full of vacuum sealed fillets from last year so I am not trying to fill the freezer though I am sure we will bring some home. I would rather bring back a full camera this year rather than a full freezer!

Windy

[Gary Crichton]

Hey did anyone give Windy permission to enter Minnesota. He is not allowed to wear any sox clothing while he is in the state.

Someone should give him a Twins jersey to wear while he is here.

CC to chicago, now that is funny.

[SledNeck]

This year I am going to change things up. Year after year we always tried to fill all our tickets and bring back a ton of fillets, mostly walleye and perch. This year I am not as interested in quantity, but going after quality. I am targeting a day of chasing big walleye, a day for chasing muskie and a day for chasing perch. The next two days will be whatever was hitting best the previous days. I still have a freezer full of vacuum sealed fillets from last year so I am not trying to fill the freezer though I am sure we will bring some home. I would rather bring back a full camera this year rather than a full freezer!

Windy

so youre gonna go to Mille Lacs or lake of the Woods for a day?

[genegodawa]

Sled, once you get Cass in your blood there ain't no way it is worth the drive to those other lakes.

Windy, the Cubs will win the all-star game. ("elect Yosh" - that was a good one. and don't forget the announcer: Pat Piper....."get your scorecards and pencils ready. Here's today's starting lineup for YOUR Chicago Cubs..."

[Mudcutter]

Cubs win the all-star game??/ Come on. The NL hasn't won in 10 years. The Cubs haven't been to back to back postseason in 100 years and haven't been to the WS since 1945.

Even if it weren't for the Cubs curse--- facing the relievers the AL throws at you this year-- Good Luck!!!

Riveria,K-Rod-NAthan-Paplebon-Soria-Sherril-- if your not ahead after 5,, it's over. Who do you think will close out the game if the AL is ahead in the 9th??? You got it--- Riveria in Yankee stadium.-- he ain't pulling a Hoffman if you get my drift.

[Windy City Walleye Hunter]

Sled,

I have seen 31+ walleye and 53" muskie come out of Cass and my daughter caught a 13.5" perch last year. Those numbers are plenty big for me, and like Geno said, once you get Cass in your blood you can't get it out. Our family has been going up there for 20 years and Geno is more than thirty, I think!

Oh and Gary, as for the Twins jersey, I would love to have one...my fish towel is getting a little worn out so I could use a replacement! Bleeding Black and Silver, baby!

Windy

Windy

[Gary Crichton]

I got a new fishing towel last year. Was at a Twins game last year with the cws and after we got done kicking butt, the cws fan took off his cws shirt and threw it up in the air. I keeped it. Funny thing though, underneath his cws shirt was a TWINS jersey. He wore that one pretty proudly as he left the stadium.

Funny he seemed to know better and came prepared.

G.C.

[SledNeck]

Sled, once you get Cass in your blood there ain't no way it is worth the drive to those other lakes.

Windy, the Cubs will win the all-star game. ("elect Yosh" - that was a good one. and don't forget the announcer: Pat Piper....."get your scorecards and pencils ready. Here's today's starting lineup for YOUR Chicago Cubs..."

[Windy City Walleye Hunter]

So Sled,

Are you inviting me and Geno to come up and let you show us how to catch the really big fish in Minnesota???

We will bring the beer and Chicago Style Hot Dogs and Italian Beef if you promise to put us on the big girls!!!

Windy

[Scott K]

We will bring the beer and Chicago Style Hot Dogs and Italian Beef if you promise to put us on the big girls!!!

Windy

I would be carefull of what you ask for in Northern MN

[SledNeck]

what did i get myself into

[Scott K]

what did i get myself into

Looks to me like they want you to set them up on a blind date with some overweight woman

[Windy City Walleye Hunter]

Wandering,

If we wanted that we would be talking to the guys in Wisconsin!!!

(insert rim shot here)

Try the veal, I'm here all week folks! Take my wife...PLEASE!

LOL

Windy

[basssmasher*]

You guys are a good fix for comedy on a bad day, thank you, yes even you Windy! P.S. if ur fishin Cass, you should do some icefishin with me in the winter on pike bay :-)

[genegodawa]

No need to get cold when you got a freezer full of Cass filets from warm weather fishin'! Thanks for the offer though. BTW, Pike Bay is indeed a great lake to fish.

Mud, the biggest two-letter word in the alphabet: IF (the AL is ahead after 5....)

Sled, unfortunately there is no time to expand my horizon. Why do you think I'm still a Cub fan after all these years?

[UdeLakeTom]

Geno...we were driving this weekend and I saw a sign saying Addison Avenue, my son said to far out of the way...then a little later down the road on the way to Indiana, we saw this really horrible looking stadium on our right...I thought it would be Comiskey, but the sign said something else, but I think there were sox hanging out to dry across the freeway.

[Windy City Walleye Hunter]

dude,

If you saw men walking in pairs with their arms around each other's waist then you were at Wrigley fo sho! They don't call it "boys town" for nothing.LOL

Windy

[genegodawa]

All I can say is I know which field draws more fans - yr in and yr out.

Basta now Windy!

[UdeLakeTom]

I thought that road construction here in Minny was bad, but that stretch by the Edens was crazy. If you ever get to Greyslake, stop in at the Vine and ask for my nephew Ralf.

[Windy City Walleye Hunter]

I knew that would get a response from Geno! And you know what my response is going to be. The Cubs would sell out that band box if they were fielding the Hadley School for the Blind as their starting lineup. And as for drawing more fans, I have to go back to the fact that the Ford Escort was the highest selling car back in it's day, was it the best car on the market just because everybody was buying it? Things that make you go hmmmmm!

Windy

[genegodawa]

Windy,

I know, I know....when you can't battle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bull. Hey, are your eyes as brown as mine?

dude,

We all know there are only 2 seasons: winter, and construction.

So what was the occassion and why didn't you tell us? We might have been able to hook up some....maybe next time.

[UdeLakeTom]

I met my relatives in near Chi-town to go to a funeral in Fort

Wayne Indiana....My son and nephew live close, so it was kinda a lay over bed and breakfast, pit stop deal.

Almost 3 days without the forum, lots of shakes and withdrawal symtems that I had to cure with a MHL

[Windy City Walleye Hunter]

Baby Blues here Geno, but I do tend to pontificate from time to time! LOL

dude, give us a shout if you ever have time up here. I know other FM'ers who have hooked up at Commanche Jim's place Stoney Point Grille out in Tinley Park/Frankfort area. Ice cold Blue Moon and fantastic food, plus a ton of Cass Lake memorabilia on the walls.

Windy

[genegodawa]

Sorry to hear of the reason for your visit. (I spent a month in Fort Wayne one weekend!) Better reason next time - maybe a Cub game at Wrigley?

[UdeLakeTom]

Is that an original or a WC Fields rip off???

Less then 1 year to retirement, so maybe I will be finding time to visit Chi-town with a son and nephew so close.