My not so great adventure at Leech Lake
Well this week I will tell you about my trip to Leech Lake this past weekend. It was a trip filled great memories and not so good luck. But it was another outdoor adventure that was a lot of fun.
This trip started on thursday of last week and ended this morning. I packed up my gear and hooked up to my boat and headed out to Leech Lake in search of some walleye and some memories with one of my buddies. We both arrived at the Chippewa Lodge around six o clock that evening and unpacked our gear and got settled in. Our luck took a turn for the worst when we launched my boat and found out that my motor would not start for us. I had previously had some work done to make sure it would work but that did not happen for us. So frusturated with my boat we decided to rent a boat from the resort we were staying at and venture out the lake.
Our adventure started out Friday morning under some pretty rainy and windy conditions. We started out by trolling the shorlines hoping to hook up with a walleye or even a muskie. As our luck would have it we came up empty and so we decided to try some slip bobber fishing in one of the bays about a half mile out from our cabin. But once again we came up empty after about an hour or so of trying. So after a few hours we headed back in and ate some lunch before going back out to see if we would have any better luck in the evening. We went out and tried using every trolling technique we could think of to bring in a fish but it did not happen for us that day. So we headed back in and hoped that Saturday would bring us better luck.
On Saturday we awoke to windy , rainy and foggy conditions and decided it would be better to wait for the weather to clear a bit. So we headed to town and checked out the local shops before heading back out on the lake. So about one o clock we decide to give it another try and see if we could get on some perch that we had heard were biting. After getting our gear in the boat and some directions to the hot spot from some other fishermen we headed out and started doing some drifting for perch with a minnow. The first cast my buddy made he pulled in a monster perch and we thought this might finally be our break. It took a few minutes before our next catch but after that we could not keep the jumbo perch off our hooks. So after about three hours or so of consistent action we decided to give the trolling technique one last chance for walleye before we headed out. After trying for an hour or so of no luck we decided to call it a day and head back and clean our perch and fry them up.
After making some supper we hung out and shared stories about past fishing trips we made and new adventures that we want to try. So eventhough we did not have the best luck we still made a lot of memories and had a good time and will probably go back again sometime.
This trip started on thursday of last week and ended this morning. I packed up my gear and hooked up to my boat and headed out to Leech Lake in search of some walleye and some memories with one of my buddies. We both arrived at the Chippewa Lodge around six o clock that evening and unpacked our gear and got settled in. Our luck took a turn for the worst when we launched my boat and found out that my motor would not start for us. I had previously had some work done to make sure it would work but that did not happen for us. So frusturated with my boat we decided to rent a boat from the resort we were staying at and venture out the lake.
Our adventure started out Friday morning under some pretty rainy and windy conditions. We started out by trolling the shorlines hoping to hook up with a walleye or even a muskie. As our luck would have it we came up empty and so we decided to try some slip bobber fishing in one of the bays about a half mile out from our cabin. But once again we came up empty after about an hour or so of trying. So after a few hours we headed back in and ate some lunch before going back out to see if we would have any better luck in the evening. We went out and tried using every trolling technique we could think of to bring in a fish but it did not happen for us that day. So we headed back in and hoped that Saturday would bring us better luck.
On Saturday we awoke to windy , rainy and foggy conditions and decided it would be better to wait for the weather to clear a bit. So we headed to town and checked out the local shops before heading back out on the lake. So about one o clock we decide to give it another try and see if we could get on some perch that we had heard were biting. After getting our gear in the boat and some directions to the hot spot from some other fishermen we headed out and started doing some drifting for perch with a minnow. The first cast my buddy made he pulled in a monster perch and we thought this might finally be our break. It took a few minutes before our next catch but after that we could not keep the jumbo perch off our hooks. So after about three hours or so of consistent action we decided to give the trolling technique one last chance for walleye before we headed out. After trying for an hour or so of no luck we decided to call it a day and head back and clean our perch and fry them up.
After making some supper we hung out and shared stories about past fishing trips we made and new adventures that we want to try. So eventhough we did not have the best luck we still made a lot of memories and had a good time and will probably go back again sometime.
posted by Beerooks at 2:45 PM
2 Comments:
So is the moral here that I should never let you fix the motor on my boat? Heh.
As they say, "A bad day fishing is better than a good day at work." At least you had a good fish fry in the end.
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