Dahlin Family

Archive for July, 2007

We had a great day fishing the Mississippi today.  We took a day trip canoeing down the river from St.Cloud to Clearwater.  About a 14 mile stretch.  We left at about noon and finished up at about 6:00.

 We caught a ton of smallmouth bass.  Not sure on the exact count but I am guessing around 40.  Most of them were smaller, but we did catch a few nice ones and a couple of good ones got away too.  Man it was fun.

 I did have one nice catfish hit my Mepps #1, which turned out to be the biggest fish of the day.  We had to go ashore to land her.  She made some good runs, it was a lot of fun.

Next time we’re planning on camping one night.  There were a lot of islands we could just pitch a tent for a night.

For those of you who don’t know what a code camp is, it is basically just a bunch of developers getting together outside of work to discuss no things in the programming world.

Well our programming team actually went camping this weekend.  There wasn’t much talk of code, but we did have a lot of fun.  Friday night we headed to Fond Du Lac campground just outside of Duluth.  It was a decent site and we got to stay right on the St.Louis River.

Saturday morning we got up had breakfast and warmed up around the campfire after a cold night of sleep.  We then headed to the beach in Duluth.  Never thought I would be swimming in Lake Superior, but we dared it.  It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.  We all took naps on the beach since it was warm enough for us finally to sleep.

After that we headed north to Lutsen hitting Goosberry Falls State Park and Teteguchie State Park.  We stayed at Lamb’s Resort just south of Lutsen.  This site was pretty crowded but suited us well.  Did the campfire thing the rest of the night.  Sunday morning we went canoeing in a big canoe for all 6 of us on the Poppler River.  There was some nice scenery and no one got tossed overboard.

The trip was about over after that.  It was time to head back to the real world and get our fingers back on the keyboard.  I did make one final stop in the Superior National Forest, drove in few miles, had one last beer overlooking the forest and Lake Superior, it was nice.

I uploaded pics from the trip onto my Flickr account. [click here] 

Well I caught my first Bowfin the other day and what do you know?  NO CAMERA.  Man, these species really fight, I caught quite a dandy too, about 25″.  I didn’t bring the camera because I thought I would only be catching Largemouth. 

I was just going out on the lake for an evening fish with no real expectations of catching much.  I pulled something out of the bait box that I am not sure  if I have ever used, a bigger “Bass-O-Reno”.  It is a frog colored top water bait.  I was fishing at about 8:00 at night.  Yeah, this is my new favorite lure.  I reeled in 5 nice bass about 16″ and had a bigger one throw the hook when it jumped.  It was so much fun, but the highlight was when I had something hit it hard as soon as it hit the water on the cast.  I thought for sure it was a Pike, but this thing really fought!  Got it to the boat and there it was, my first Bowfin!  I am sold on these fish, I wanna catch more.