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Archive for June, 2007

Well, it is June 29th today, only 1 day left in the fishing contest that I entered.

Man did I fish a lot this month.  I haven’t fished this much since I was a kid going to the Coon Rapids Dam every day.

I feel I faired all right.  My goal was 15 different species, I currently am at 14 with a VERY good chance of hitting my number.  I need to catch a Largemouth Bass and I’ll be there.  You think that wouldn’t be too hard, but without a boat, not as simple as it seems I guess.  About 85% of the fish I caught in the contest I landed from shore, that should be worth something.  Tomorrow I’ll be heading up north to the cabin, I’ll be fishing the lake hard in search of the bucket mouth.

The contest was great though. It is amazing how you can catch fish all the time, but when you need  to catch one you just can’t.  I had the hardest time with a Perch, Crappie and Northern, go figure.

Check out “My Photos” section if you haven’t for a while, I have posted all the pics of the fish that I have caught for the contest. 

Oh yeah, there is no chance I will win, the leader has 33!  Yeah, he crushed everyone.  If you want to see all the fish entered, click here .

Hopefully I am running to the nearest hot spot tomorrow to upload my last fish. 

Today a co-worker couldn’t remember her password for the life of her.  After digging around some old emails and files she came up empty handed.

 I remembered an old program that I used back in the day to get the password if you have it masked out by *********.

Snadboy to the rescue.  Well I googled it and it is still out there.  She installed it and got her password back.

 Not sure if this still works with many programs now a days, but it worked in her case, might want to give it a shot.

 http://www.snadboy.com/
 

I was to the point of reformatting my computer because it was taking forever to delete a stinking file.  It literally was taking up to 2 minutes to delete a file.

A co-worker suggested I clear my recycle bin.  Yep, that was the ticket. 

I never thought I would be so excited for this fishing contest.  If you haven’t read my earlier posts it is a contest to catch as many different fish as you can in the month of June.  Man, some of these guys are hardcore, after 2 days the leader has 13 different fish. Me, only 2 or 3.  Not sure if two of them are the same species or not.  Hopefully not, that would give me three.

 I went out on Island Lake to start where I only caught 1 sunfish.  I thought for sure I would be able to catch a Largemouth Bass and  Northern out there.  No luck, however Newman managed to catch both.  Oh well, it was a nice day out there and the west wind was perfect to push the canoe just fast enough so we didn’t have to paddle much and could just fish the shoreline.  I got a cool picture of a pair of loons carrying their baby on their back across the lake. Check out my photos section.

Then I got up this morning and went down to the SCSU dam to try and nab a carp and a catfish, only got the carp.

Plenty more fish to come.