mid July random stuff

Friday afternoon DeeDee and I went to the Mississippi river again to try for some more big pike.  The first fish I hooked was a pretty good one, but it didn’t really fight that hard at first so I didn’t ask for the net.  When the fish got closer I realized that he was fairly [...]

July 5th fishing on the Mississippi

DeeDee and I were able to get out fishing for a few hours Saturday afternoon to try for some pike.  Well,  mostly I tried for pike while DeeDee read and enjoyed the beautiful day.
I would say I had a great day.  DeeDee thinks catching less than a fish per hour isn’t really that great of [...]

July 3rd fishing on the Mississippi

The place I work at gave the people in my organization July 3rd off as an extra day this year.  Whoo hoo….. that means Barry and I got to spend the day fishing on the Mississippi river trying for Northern Pike. 
Barry had tried the previous 2 weekends with no luck at all.  We were hoping [...]