love island
So we're back from the big fishing trip, which was quite successful. Lots of fish were caught, lots of beer was drank, lots of nachos were eaten, and way too much $$ was spent.
Sunday,Day 1:
Joe, Aubrey and I drive up there. Joe has a cool sprint wireless card, so we had internet access while driving. So Joe and I signed up for a cool promotion from the poker club website I have been on for about a year now. Although it took a good 3 days, it actually worked, and I'm playing party poker with a free $50!
We arrive at the cabin at our lake, nearly the same time as Dad, and we try to fish a little that nite, but only one fish is caught, and it's small.
The next day, we had the hot-rod fishing guide, Ross take us out.
We immediately didn't like him. We thought he was supposed to show us how to catch fish on the lake we were staying on, but he took us to another lake, and we caught a lot of walleye, but they're really kind of boring.
So we caught those before lunch, and it was kind of fun, but we wanted him to show us where to catch fish on our lake, so we spent the afternoon fishing our lake, which we caught fish on, but it was much less productive.
Joe develops a man-crush for Ross, mostly because he insisted he looked like Brad Pitt.
I agreed that his profile did when wearing glasses and a hat.
But when he took his hat off he looks more like Dwight Yokum.
Joe said he looks like Brad Pitt again when he's naked, but I wouldn't know for sure.
Monday, Day 2:
We're on our own, and it shows. We cannot catch the fish like we did with Ross.
We flounder around all day, and only catch a few small fish. Now we're looking forward to Ross the "meister" taking us out again the next morning.
Tuesday, Day 3:
The meister takes us to another different lake, where it's a bass-protected lake, you can't keep anything. But this means that it's got a lot of big bass in it.
We start catching 3-5 lb smallmouth bass, right away. I can't even get a drink in between hits. It was spectacular.
So catching these was very fun for the 2 hours they were frenzy feeding.
Then it slowed down, but we had a very productive morning with the meister.
We tried again in the afternoon, but didn't have nearly the luck.
We played poker every nite, and I got much enjoyment out of driving Joe nuts with my constant blabbering, typically causing him to lose $10 a nite.
Wednesday thru Friday
Still not as good fishing without the meister, but we catch some every day, usually better luck at evening.
We sometimes go out to eat, at a local pizza place. They have a plate of nachos they pile a large pizza plate full with nacho goodness, so we had to eat there a couple times.
We finally get to the point where we are fished out, so we only fish selective times the last two days, and play some games around the cabin.
All in all, it was a very successful, but costly trip, it was great to hang out with the family men, fart, burp and swear a lot.
And generally prove the theory that the worst day fishing is still better than the best day at work.