Fishing BWCA - Day 4

Saturday was a very pleasant day and we left camp to do some fishing.

Everyone caught fish, even Tonya.

Mike with his nice smallmouth and his sunfish.

Josh caught several walleyes.

What in the hell do they have on?  Longjohns under their shorts.

Makita really warmed up to this bass.

He even shared the bass with Josh.

Mr. Northern ended up in the fry pan.

Okay this is getting too weird.  Now we have green longjohns under our shorts.  Oh and lets not overlook the baking glove.  I believe it was a carmel browning that night.

We had a nice big fish fry.

BWCA - Windy Day - Day Three

Day three turned out to be a really windy day.  We tried to go out fishing but it was impossible.  So it ended up to be a camp day.

There was a lot of eating...

drinking........

campsite maintenance...

fashion show....

bathing....(looks like a man's body wash commercial)

wood cutting....

baking...(Tonya with her baking glove on)

wanging......

more eating......

dish washing.....

cooking.... this is before Makita threw my Gerber in the fire.....

Entering BWCA - Day Two

On Thursday we entered the BWCA at entry point #84 Snake River.

We were able to haul in a few brews in for break time.

Things were interesting.  No truer words have been spoken, as when Mike announced "I have bad news, we run out of river".  And indeed we had.  We worked our tails off dragging the boats over rocks and mucking through "loon crap" (Tonya, that's just an expression...you didn't really walk in loon crap).  And then there was miles of rice paddy.

A little wang reward was in order after our hard day of getting in to BWCA.

Off to the BWCA - day one

A couple weeks ago Tonya, Josh, Mike, Dave, Makita and myself headed north towards the BWCA.  Prior to our departure my Dad built us two large storage boxes for the trailer (I call them "the coffins") and Mike welded a bracket so we could carry canoes on the trailer.  Both worked excellent.

We camped the first night outside the BWCA in a campground near Ely. 

Nice hats.

Damn Near Died

Good golly molly I damn near died.  A week ago Monday I had an infected sebaceous cyst removed from my arm and was prescribed the antibiotic Sulfa.  I took it for a week.  Unbeknown to me, I am very allergic to Sulfa.  I damn near died from it.  I ended up in the ER with a temp of 103 that had been raging for days.  We had to come home from our 4 day trip from Effie after just one day.  What a messed up deal.

Forest Fire in Canada

While in Canada fishing on Lake of the Woods earlier this month we saw a plane putting out a forest fire.

In Memory of George Cox

May 2, 1947 - August 10, 2011

This morning the suffering ended for Dave's uncle George.  May he rest in peace.

Fishing on Lake of the Woods

Last Thursday we headed up to the Lake of the Woods in Canada, where we stayed with Ralph and Ellen Vonasek on their island.  They are fantastic hosts.  Ralph always put us on the fish. 

Bill shows off a smallmouth bass he hooked.

Makita brought in a five pound walleye.

Ralph caught and released a 14 pound Northern.

We brought in our limit of walleyes....

Ralph cleaned them up.....

And we had a heck of a fish fry.

Storm Passes Through

I think it was around 1am this morning that the storm rolled through.  The winds were incredible.  Knocked over a bunch of trees.  Gotta get out the Stihl.

Flag Pole's In

The new flag pole finally got installed this past weekend.  It's 25 feet high, telescoping and awesome!