A Week's Worth of TRs!!!

Spent last week in Ely MN, on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe
area Wilderness. The water was cold. Fishing poor.

g.c.

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 07:33:05 -0500, George Cleveland
wrote:

Spent last week in Ely MN, on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe
area Wilderness. The water was cold. Fishing poor.

Hmmm......Or is this just what GC wants us to believe? ;-)

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 17:18:04 GMT, daytripper
wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 07:33:05 -0500, George Cleveland
wrote:

Spent last week in Ely MN, on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe
area Wilderness. The water was cold. Fishing poor.

Hmmm......Or is this just what GC wants us to believe? ;-)


Yep.

Lots of 9"-10" male smallmouth in the shallows. The local "wisdom" was
that the cold spring (water temps in mid to high 50s) and high winds
were either:

a: Forcing the bigger, spawning fish into deeper water to do their
business.

or

belaying any spawning until the water warms enough. The real danger
being that smallmouth can only wait so long until they reabsorb the
eggs and make that year's age class a bust.The spawning was already 3
weeks late when we got there.

These conditions were only applying in the deep water lakes like
Burntside, which also contains lake trout and ciscos, both cold water
fish. In the shallower and warmer waters the fish were either actively
on their nests or already in post spawn. We did catch some nicer
smallies while drifting leeches for walleyes in the Kawishiwi River.

High points of vaction we

a: The way my cheap Gander Mountain ("Assembled in U.S.A.", whatever
that means) Frontier 6 wt. cast. For a $50 rod one couldn't ask for
more and could expect a lot less.

b: Seeing how many blueberries were on the bushes. Not ripe yet but by
the end of this month...mmm.

c: Witnessing my 6 year old roll a second Yahtzee in a single game.
More fun than catching a 20" bass.



g.c.


g.c.