Glad to hear you found your wallet. It's amazing how dependent we are on
the information we carry in that little billfold. As for the weather, I
share your pain. I am a couple of hours northwest of you, and to say the
least, our lawns are well watered....:-)

I did get out yesterday for a few hours and the fish actually we
cooperative. They were holding tight to wood. Pitching a tube is one of my
favorites anyway, so I had a blast picking a fish off of most stumps and
laydowns.

June 1st and our water temp is still not quite 60 on the main parts of our
local lakes yet. The fish have to be wanting the water to warm as much as I
do by now.

Scott....
Chetek, WI

"Dan, danl, danny boy, Redbeard, actually Greybeard now"
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That was a good day Rich. My Friday was a bad day on and off the
water.

Went to the small lake on the edge of town with the intention of
looking it over some more and catching some Crappie for a fish fry
with my buddies. Caught 6 nice Crappies, many very small Largemouth
and a handfull of Bluegills. Cruised the lake slowly looking for
structure. Found a few drops and boulders, filed the info for later
and headed in. As I tied the boat down, I noticed my company cell
phone under water in the back of the boat. Went home, called work to
find out where to take it, much abuse was handed out and more will be
forthcoming, and by 11:30 I had a new phone. Went home and packed up
for the weekend with my buddies about an hour east of Merrill. Got to
the gas station about 12:45 and reached for my wallet to get a card to
stick in the pump and NO wallet. Frantically I searched the boat and
truck. Went to the launch and looked in the water to see if it was
there, nope. Went home and searched through out the house. NO luck
there either. I was so upset I had the shakes. Never in my life have
I so much as misplaced my wallet.

Went over, in my mind, every stop I had made and dicieded I had used
it last at Gander mountain in Wausau on Thursday night when I
purchased 2 Shimano Saharas(sp) a 1500 and a 4000. Called Gander.
Nope, no one had turned in a wallet. Called every place I had stopped
since Thursday night. No wallet. Called my and the company cards in
as missing, new ones in ten or so days. Went to the bank, withdrew
money and reported my check card missing. New one in ten or so days.

Go home and continue to be bumed out to the max. Put a hurting on a
bottle of Beam. Got up Sat. morning and went to Fleet Farm and got a
duplicate fishing permit.

What the heck, I'm almost to Gander I'll go check the parking lot and
ask again at the desk. Nothing in the lot. Go in and talk to the
cute little girl that took my phone call the day before. She double
checked the lost and found cuboard, nothing. She asked me to wait as
the safe was open in the cash room and she could check in there to see
if it had been locked up.

Well, she came out holding my wallet. Money and everything still in
it and no one knew how it got put in the safe so all I could do was
offer her a hug of thanks. She declined, by now I was noticing her
cute little bootie, I guess I am a dirty old man :}

BY the way, it has been raining here since Sat morn. I have to check
the radar once more. Maybe I can catch some more Crappie in between
fronts.

On Sun, 30 May 2004 00:29:36 EDT, RichZ sent into the
ether:

Went to Mudge today. The prediction was for 15 mph winds out of the
north.
Not ideal, but not all that bad.

On the other hand, the 35 mph winds we actually had for much of the day
were VERY bad.

Had a couple good fish roll on the salad spoon in the pads early, when it
was still in the 15mph range, but neither actually made contact. Guy with
me got a small one on a slug-go. Then the wind started to build. Caught a

surprising number of bass (20+) on jerkbaits (Ponters in assorted colors)
but all were small. Also caught 25 crappies on the same jerkbaits. Caught
another couple between the two of us (including both of our biggest
fish --
which ain't saying much) in the pads on Slug-Gos.

A friend of mine was out and he ended up doing very well, considering the
conditions, flipping and pitching a black & blue jig in the pads. They
had
20 fish including a few in the 4-1/2 range. Tough to do with the wind
blowing like it was. My hat's off to them.

RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing


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