Good day and happy Fourth of July to you. We are now at Friday and essentially the last day of our vacation, at least for Leech Lake as we have to check out by 9:00 am on Saturday. I have a lot of images to share with you today but I’m going to break Friday up into 3 separate posts. Because it was so packed with events that helped define the vacation and there are just too many images and events that happened on Friday to try and do it in one post.
The first image and the image above is what greeted me when I arose on Friday morning to a beautiful sunrise and mild temperatures. The lake was almost placid and the gulls were busy hunting for food. This day had all the makings of a wonderful fishing day.
Our plan was to fill the thermos with coffee and pack a lunch and head for Boy Bay for a wonderful day of fishing. We told Jeanne we might not be back until dusk if the fishing was good. So we had a hearty breakfast, packed the gear and headed out for Boy Bay.
As we left the protected harbor of the resort this is the way the lake looked. I knew three things. The trip over to Boy Bay would be fast because of the lack of waves, that the bugs would be a problem from the lack of wind, and the fishing would be less than stellar as the lake was going to be too calm.
We arrived at Boy Bay and started fishing at the entrance of the bay. We had just rounded the corner when Angie caught a 25 inch Walleye and I thought to myself, okay “Fishmaster” you don’t know what you’re talking about. The fish are going to bite today.
This image is for Andreas. It is the only decent shot of a Pelican I got for the whole week. It was very frustrating. I didn’t have my long lens in the boat, only my 200 mm lens and the boat was not a stationary platform even on this calm day, it would move a lot.
There were 4 times during the last two days where awesome formations of Pelicans flew low and directly over the boat and I was unprepared for any of them. I got a lot of blurry ends of white fuzzy things but nothing else.
At one point I got a Pelican in flight skimming the water with its wings almost touching the water but try as I might it just wasn’t a sharp enough or worthy of posting. I tried but came up short.
After our initial success with the Walleye and a few Northerns that we threw back Angie did catch a nice Walleye that was borderline in size but we decided to keep it. It turned out to be the last fish we would catch for the day, other than a few pesky Perch. Each of the crew caught a Perch with each one being smaller than the first.
Finally the bugs and lack of activity convinced us to head over to Pelican Island to see if we could duplicate our success of the previous day. Not a single bite did we get so Angie and Ben wanted to ride their jet ski and we were tired of getting eaten by the bugs. Our plan was to take a few hours break and then hit it again later in the afternoon.
More tomorrow. Enjoy your Holiday and be careful.
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