Friday night we drove up there and decided to go fishing. The opener wasn't technically till Saturday so all we could fish for were crappies and bluegill. The only problem we had was we forgot the leaches at the house. We didn't end up catching anything but we had fun going out on the lake. When we returned to the house we grilled ourselves some dinner and decided to try something different the next morning and thus we had to get the paddleboat and canoe ready.
My dad joined us for our trips on Saturday putting 2 in the paddleboat and 2 in the canoe. We dropped into Little Oscar lake where there is no public boat access (but public road side access where you can drop in a canoe/paddleboat). We had the lake to ourselves all day. Dan and I were in the canoe and Matt and my dad were in the padddleboat. That morning we brought home 4 nice northerns and 1 nice walleye. We also caught numerous bass (3-4 pounds each) as well but had to throw them back since the season is not open yet. Dan caught a 5 pound walleye and I caught a 10 pound northern.
We returned home, cleaned the fish, had lunch and then ventured out with the guns for some pigeon shooting. Note that these were not the clay variations but instead the real thing. I was ashamed of my shooting since I did so horrible but Matt and Dan cleaned up pretty well. This is a lot of fun and is a major part of the "fishing" trips we take.
Saturday evening we returned to the same lake in hopes of catching some more northern and walleye. We returned with 8 more northerns and another walleye, putting us at our limit of northern for the day. My dad caught a 5 pound walleye and a 10 pound northern. We cleaned the fish that night and then fried some of the fish from that morning up and had some great tasting fish at 10:30 at night.
Sunday we decided to change it up a bit and Matt, Dan, and I went out to a close lake to do some crappie/bluegill fishing. The motor didn't work for some reason so we just trolled around a small part of the lake. We returned with 11 Crappies and 3 Bluegill. We returned home, cleaned them, and then ate about half of them for lunch before packing up and returning to the cities.
We had a blast and brought home plenty of fish for all of us. Thanks to my parents for letting us crash their place and have a blast catching some fish. I think my dad should be thanking us as he wouldn't have caught his walleye had it not been for us being there :).
Total # of fish caught:
15 Northerns (2 of them were 31 inches long - approximately 10 pounds each)
2 Walleye (24 inches each - approximately 5 pounds each)
15 Bass (all 3-4 pounds each)
11 Crappies
3 Bluegills
1 Perch
1 Perch
Other Misc/Fun Facts:
# of lures lost - 1
# of trees snagged - lost count
# of Pigeons downed - 12
# of fish that jumped out of the boat/bucket/cooler - 0
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