Arrows are flying and deer are die'n-part 2!

With bow hunting right around the corner, figured it was time to drop a video of Big Buff (Dustin Byfuglien) of the Winnipeg Jets punching his doe tag last year in WI. The guy can shoot more than pucks!

Alaska!

For those of you that don't know, a couple weeks back I went on a epic trip to Alaska with my Dad, brothers, and a couple friends.  It is a trip I won't soon forget and one I recommend every one do at least once in their lives.  For a few of my family this was their 5th outing, and for one of my brothers; well he lives there.  

Alaska needs no introduction and therefore I am going to just tell you to take a look here at the photo's from my trip!  But before doing so, understand that this may cause great envy.  :) 

Alaska 2013

Muskie Fever

Hit the waters of Lake Waconia yesterday morning with Jack and Wayne with one goal, catch a muskie!  We knew the forecast called for a day time high close to 90, so we figured our best chance at catching one would be early in the day.  

That is exactly what we did!  On the very first spot of the day Jack was able to hook up with this nice 44" Lake Waconia specimen.  After a few nice jumps and a great fight by Jack, he turned to me and said, "well that only took 20 minutes"!  We all smiled and laughed, and with a smile I told him back, "that makes up for the day's when we don't catch one after 8 hours of throwing".  After a quick photo and getting her back in the lake we were in search of a fish for Wayne.  Don't fool yourself, Jack was looking for fish #2, and he had a few chances at fish much larger than the one he had boated at the first spot. 

After a few more close encounters with what looked like "jaws" but no hook ups it was starting to become "feverishly" hot outside.  But the only fever these guys had was "muskie fever".  We stuck with the pattern but were not successful at getting Wayne his fish as well.  It goes without saying, but he was pretty excited for his long time friend Jack for boating his biggest fish to date.  Thanks again guys for a great morning and until next time, Fish On!  

The bite and the fish seem to very active at this time.  I will try and keep everyone up to date on happenings as we continnue into this great time of year, Muskie Fever!  

Third Generation

Been meaning to post this story and picture for some time now.  Back on Fathers day I took out Scott(left), his son, and his father.  Scott had won his guide trip off a contest I ran on my facebook page.  

We met at Lake Mille Lacs that morning and headed out in pursuit of smallmouth and walleyes.  The smallmouth fishing was fantastic as always and we did manage to catch a few nice gravel lizards as well.  We had our best luck on 3.8 keitech fat swimbait rigged on a 1/2 oz head. We would throw it all around both shallow and deep rocks.  The nice thing about the keitech swimbait is it runs as deep as you let it sink before you start retrieving it.  I always throw it on 14lb sunline shooter flurocarbon; since the zebra musssles are so bad on the rocks you have to step your line up one or two times to keep it from breaking all the time.

It was a great day, and it was awesome to watch this 3 generations fish together.  Scott's son took a break for part of the day because he was scared that a smallmouth might pull the rod out of his hand and into the lake.  After I reminded that although the smallies are strong he wouldn't get the rod ripped out of his hand he was back to catching them on his "hair jig" set-up.  Between Scott and his son they must have boated 20 smallmouth bass in excess of 3lbs that day.  

Thanks guys for a great day and until next time, Fish On! (and always hold onto your rod so a fish doesn't snatch it from you)  Get out and stretch the string.