It's what i do

It feels so good to be back on open water in the boat!  I was joined by a few good friends today to hit the mighty Mississippi River out of a boat.  Yes, it is finally here; open water season.  It came in with a bang when I started this 55 degree March day with this dandy catfish.  I wasn't in the water for 5 minutes and I was doing battle with a giant fish.  What more could I ask for?! 

We went on to catch about 50 sauger and a few walleyes.  This is Chuck displaying a few fish.  As Gunner would say, "it's what I do!".  It really made for a great day on the water in a boat!  

As you can imagine the water is very cold this time of year.  Here is great proof, all day long we had ice sheets flowing past our boat.  It would come over the damn in huge sheets.  I happened to snap this pretty cool photo as some floated by right as the sun was going down behind the damn.  I am headed to Canada on Wednesday to do one last bit of ice fishing.  I should have lots of great photos and stories when I return.  We are going to be catching 20 plus pound trout, 10 plus pound walleyes, and 3 pound smallmouth.  Could it get much better for the final hurray on a great 08-09' ice fishing season.